Al-Qaeda’s Endless Jihad in East Africa
The Department of Justice recently charged a Shabaab operative with plotting a 9/11-style hijacking.
| Thomas Joscelyn | Dec 23, 2020 | 55 | 8 |
On December 16, the Department of Justice announced that Cholo Abdi Abdullah, a 30-year-old Kenyan national, had been charged with plotting a 9/11-style attack inside the U.S. Abdullah was a member of Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, and he began pursuing the hijacki…