"Mom, I’m in Somalia” or It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again

Written by Dr. Bruce Hoffman, prepared exclusively for SITE
Articles and Analysis
Created: March 1, 2009

The inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States on 20 January 2009, and attendant celebrations, fortunately passed without incident.  Interestingly, the most credible terrorist threat that had surfaced in connection with these events came not from al-Qaeda or its leader, Usama bin Laden, or indeed his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, as might have been expected, but from a largely unknown, radical Somalia organization, called al-Shabaab (Arabic: “the youth” or more accurately, the “young guys”).

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