By Washington Post
They have lost their leader, their ports, their checkpoints and their territory.
They have lost thousands of men and much of their money.
They have no fleet of armored personnel carriers like Boko Haram’s. Or poppy fields like the Taliban’s. Or oil fields like the Islamic State’s.
In the pecking order of the world’s leading terrorist groups, the
Shabab militants, based in
Somalia, operate on a shoestring budget. But as the
attack on a Kenyan university last week showed, they have become proficient in something terrible: mass murder on the cheap.