As in southern Somalia, where Hassan Dahir Aweys’s faction threatens to break from Al-Shabaab proper, Atom’s departure would potentially signal a rupture between mainstream Somali Salafi Islamists and the hard core Salafi-jihadists of Al-Shabaab, depriving the extremists of much of their current base of support.
As in southern Somalia, where Hassan Dahir Aweys’s faction threatens to break from Al-Shabaab proper, Atom’s departure would potentially signal a rupture between mainstream Somali Salafi Islamists and the hard core Salafi-jihadists of Al-Shabaab, depriving the extremists of much of their current base of support.