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An American Al Shabab militant surrendered to Somali security forces Monday after pledging allegiance to the Islamic State, highlighting infighting within Al Shabab over whether to remain loyal to Al Qaeda or switch its allegiance to the rival jihadist group.
The man, Abdilmalik Jones, told Somali forces that he chose to defect because his decision to align himself with the Islamic State (IS) is punishable by death, Al Jazeera reports. Mr. Jones, originally from San Diego, was picked up in the southern port of Barawe before being airlifted to Mogadishu.
The rivalry between the world’s two most powerful jihadist groups reached new heights in November with terror attacks in Paris and Mali’s capital of Bamako, with both groups competing for recruits, legitimacy, and dominance. When Al Qaeda broke with IS in 2014, The New York Times reported that the division would “probably spark competition for resources and fighters” and create “a civil war within a civil war.”
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