26/09/2013
Al-Shabab leader?s ambitions appear to be as complex as his personality
pThe alleged Somali mastermind of the assault on a posh mall that killed scores and jolted Kenya is a man of contradictions. /ppMukhtar Abu Zubeyr, known as Godane, is bookish, eloquent in both Arabic and Somali, recites poetry and is known to quote from obscure academic journals, analysts say. Yet he trained and fought in Afghanistan for the jihadist cause and has spanruthlessly /spankilled most of his rivals to seize control of al-Shabab, a Somali militia linked to al-Qaeda that has asserted responsibility for the mall attack./pa href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/investigators-search-rubble-of-kenyan-mall-for-bodies-clues-to-bloody-massacre/2013/09/25/b9b383e2-25e5-11e3-b75d-5b7f66349852_story.html?wprss=rss_world"Read full article #62;#62;/aimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636708/s/31ae9a45/sc/40/mf.gif' border='0'/br clear='all'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fafrica%2Finvestigators-search-rubble-of-kenyan-mall-for-bodies-clues-to-bloody-massacre%2F2013%2F09%2F25%2Fb9b383e2-25e5-11e3-b75d-5b7f66349852_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Al-Shabab+leader%E2%80%99s+ambitions+appear+to+be+as+complex+as+his+personality" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fafrica%2Finvestigators-search-rubble-of-kenyan-mall-for-bodies-clues-to-bloody-massacre%2F2013%2F09%2F25%2Fb9b383e2-25e5-11e3-b75d-5b7f66349852_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Al-Shabab+leader%E2%80%99s+ambitions+appear+to+be+as+complex+as+his+personality" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fafrica%2Finvestigators-search-rubble-of-kenyan-mall-for-bodies-clues-to-bloody-massacre%2F2013%2F09%2F25%2Fb9b383e2-25e5-11e3-b75d-5b7f66349852_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Al-Shabab+leader%E2%80%99s+ambitions+appear+to+be+as+complex+as+his+personality" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fafrica%2Finvestigators-search-rubble-of-kenyan-mall-for-bodies-clues-to-bloody-massacre%2F2013%2F09%2F25%2Fb9b383e2-25e5-11e3-b75d-5b7f66349852_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Al-Shabab+leader%E2%80%99s+ambitions+appear+to+be+as+complex+as+his+personality" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fafrica%2Finvestigators-search-rubble-of-kenyan-mall-for-bodies-clues-to-bloody-massacre%2F2013%2F09%2F25%2Fb9b383e2-25e5-11e3-b75d-5b7f66349852_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Al-Shabab+leader%E2%80%99s+ambitions+appear+to+be+as+complex+as+his+personality" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176964814036/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/31ae9a45/sc/40/rc/1/rc.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176964814036/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/31ae9a45/sc/40/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"//abr/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176964814036/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/31ae9a45/sc/40/rc/2/rc.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176964814036/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/31ae9a45/sc/40/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"//abr/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176964814036/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/31ae9a45/sc/40/rc/3/rc.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176964814036/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/31ae9a45/sc/40/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"//abr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176964814036/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/31ae9a45/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176964814036/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/31ae9a45/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/176964814036/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/31ae9a45/a2t.img" border="0"/
