After President Obama's inauguration, which al Shabaab threatened to attack with suicide bombers, the US quietly threatened to attack Eriteria over its support for al Shabaab. I understand that Eritrea supports al Shabaab but why not attack the terror groups main base of operation, Somalia.
I don't think we're getting the whole story here.
(H/T: SH) Telegraph
The Red Sea dictatorship has drawn the wrath of America by backing extremist Islamic groups in Somalia as part of a proxy war with Ethiopia, its former ruler.
It champions al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda-linked group that American intelligence believes has trained a dozen of its own citizens to carry out attacks in the US.
President Obama's January inauguration was hit by FBI warnings about a potential suicide threat from 12 American citizens that had left Africa to infiltrate the US and disappeared.
Subsequently Washington quietly warned Eritrea, a former Italian colony which was occupied by Britain during the Second World War, it could suffer the same fate as Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the wake of the September 11 attacks, if the plot was carried out.
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