African Taliban Still Promotes Splodeydopes

al-Shabaab releases new Jihadi Porn Videos.

They listed the names of officials killed in the attacks, including close friends whom I wept for as I heard their names. Al-Shabaab has two objectives for releasing the two high quality videos: To justify attacks on hotels and also the countless innocent civilians who usually perish in these attacks, as well in other Al-Shabaab operations. They argue that, since the Somali government is an “apostate” administration, that the life of everyone working with it is forfeit. They claim that the reason they are killing us and themselves, is only to save us all in this life and in the hereafter. They alone are the arbitrators of this one-sided debate, and they vindicate themselves and give themselves high ground. Worse yet, the scholars they reference are Al-Shabaab members, among whom I recognized are Ahmed Godane and Mahad Karate, and foreign Al-Qaeda members such as Abu Yahya al-Libi and Ayman al- Zawahiri. They attempt to explain the deaths of civilians in their everyday attacks and explosions, saying that those civilians committed no crimes, but are only killed for their own good. They say, “Planned attacks and explosions targeting the government cannot be aborted simply because civilians might die. They will be killed not because they committed crimes, but because they live amongst criminals.” The second objective is to create fear

The second objective is terrorism.