While Hundreds of Somali's are "missing" in the US...

...we find some new connections to the same suspected terror group al Shabaab.

Two N.J. men arrested at JFK airport before boarding plane to join Islamist terrorist group, authorities say

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Authorities said the men planned to wage jihad as part of a Somalia-based Islamist terror group called al Shabaab, an organization of several thousand fighters spread through Somalia’s southern region. Al Shabaab, whose full Arabic name means "Mujahideen Youth Movement," has had ties to al Qaeda since 2007, according to national security experts.

Last year, federal authorities in Minnesota charged 14 men connected to a plot designed to entice young Americans to join up with al Shabaab. And, in February, the New York Times reported the group announced it was joining forces with the ‘’international jihad of Al Qaeda."

By now, the name al Shabaab is probably becoming familiar to the readers, as it has been mentioned many times in earlier commentaries.