abakar,
Nimankaan they operate in mysterious ways. Just when you think you figured them out and think they are only fighting armed foreigners and FG troops, they do something so heartless and wrong like Killing students which Al shabab spokesman Cali dheere admitted. I have no shadow of doubt, Al shabab are behind the killings of Sheeks, because their only escape is to use Jihaad to recruit, but if there are prominent and well known sheeks speaking out against them, they won't be as effective. They see these sheeks as threat that needs to be eliminated.
