Global Security: Al Shabab was the militant component that kept on fighting: A concerted offensive by forces of the TFG along with Ethopian military between December 2006 and January 2007 effectively dispersed the ICU. A large militant component, known generally as al-Shabaab, continued to fight the TFG and foreign forces.
Al Shabab has appointed former ICU leaders as Sheikh Mukhtar Robow who was the deputy chief of security for the Islamic Courts was trained in Afghanistan and was recently named a commander for the Al-Shabab.[42]
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- Alex Jones: Ethiopia’s invasion of Somalia led to the complete breakdown of government, Somalia was mostly under the loose control of the Union of Islamic Courts, a relatively moderate Islamic group which was slowly bringing some semblance of stability and security
- Ian Welsh Destroying the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia Caused the Nairobi Mall Attack The Islamic Courts Union (ICU) destroyed the warlords who ran Somalia’s capital. ... The ICU were Islamic, to be sure, but they weren’t particularly radical as such folks go, and they brought law and order.
- Jeremy Scahill the [U.S. partnered with the ethiopian military and staged an invasion of somalia, dismantling the the islamic courts union, which was the only government that brought stability in somalia]
- Pan African News Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts had created a sense of stability in that nation after many years of war
Al Shabab
The group was formed in the middle of last decade as a small, armed militia for Somalia’s Islamic Courts Union, which had risen to power after driving a group of C.I.A.-financed Somali warlords from Mogadishu.
Then, the Shabab’s ranks swelled amid growing anger inside Somalia over the brutal urban tactics used by Ethiopian troops, who had invaded the country to dislodge the Islamic Courts Union from the capital. Shabab fighters waged a bloody insurgency campaign against the Ethiopians, carrying out hit-and-run attacks and planting roadside bombs....
But the group preserved its core fighting force — estimated by the United Nations Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea at 5,000 — and avoided direct confrontations. And since then, it has seemed to gather momentum in terms of terrorist attacks.
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