TY  - SER
AU  - Muibu, Daisy
AU  - Nickels, Benjamin P.
TI  - Foreign Technology or Local Expertise? Al-Shabaab’s IED Capability
PY  - 2017///
PB  - CTCSentinel
KW  - Al-Shabaab
KW  - Tecnología
KW  - Artefactos explosivos improvisados
N2  - Al-Shabaab has become one of Africa’s deadliest terrorist
groups in recent years through its use of improvised explosive
devices, or IEDs. Technological sophistication from
abroad, especially from al-Qa`ida in the Arabian Peninsula
(AQAP) in Yemen, may explain some exceptional
recent attacks. However, al-Shabaab’s purge of external
influences, reliance on local materials, and refinement of
bomb deployment all indicate the importance of local expertise
in its current IED campaign. Responses focused
primarily on breaking international ties or taking out
tech-savvy foreign-born or foreign-trained bomb makers
are therefore unlikely to be sufcient or to succeed
UR  - https://ctc.usma.edu/foreign-technology-or-local-expertise-al-shabaabs-ied-capability/
ER  -