Nigeria

Security officials said Shabaab and al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb were involved in the suicide attack on the UN headquarters in Abua. Officials said Mamman Nur, the tactical commander who is linked to al Qaeda, was in Somalia before the attack.

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

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