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Al-Qaida New Plan in Horn of Africa and Red Sea Revealed
2026-01-04

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🚨#Thread Al-Qaida New Plan in Horn of Africa and Red Sea Revealed.
Over the past 2 years, my HUMINT and open-source assessments identified leadership-level coordination between Al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda,
…Al Shabaab is an Al Qaeda franchise. Organizationally speaking, they should be consulting with the home office from time to time….
including convening linked to Yemen, and a clear shift from insurgency toward emirate-style governance. These warnings were repeatedly dismissed by self-described security and regional experts who mistook the absence of publicly disclosed dates or locations for the absence of coordination itself.

Al-Qaeda and Al-Shabaab’s own media have now openly confirmed this strategic direction: cross-border convening, Yemen–Horn of Africa integration, and plans for allied Islamic emirates with governing capacity. This development aligns with the broader rise of a Red Sea–Indian Ocean axis of armed actors—overseen or enabled by Iran and Al-Qaida aligned jihadist networks. The failure to recognize and take seriously these signals is not a minor analytical laps

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