Somalia: An Impetus for an Insurgent Alliance?

Two Somali warlords issued threats against the African Union (AU) Mission in Somalia on July 28, the day after the AU summit ended with a pledge to send 4,000 additional troops to the peacekeeping force. The warlords are not currently allied with al Shabaab, the jihadist group fighting against Somalia's Transitional Federal Government in Mogadishu, but a strengthened AU force as a common enemy could be the catalyst which brings these insurgent movements together.