United States

A federal court indicted three Muslims from San Diego for conspiring to aid Shabaab. One of the men, Saeed Moalin, was in direct contact with Aden Hashi Ayro, the former military commander of Shabaab who was killed in a US airstrike in 2008.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.