Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya, killing at least 67 people.

Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, simply known as Al-Shabaab, is a transnational Wahhabi-Salafi Jihadist militant organization. It is involved in the ongoing Somali Civil War, controlling a non-contiguous network of primarily rural areas in Southern Somalia that some consider a quasi-state. The…