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Goals: Creating an Islamic state in Somalia by ridding the country of foreigners and outside influences. Since the group has declared its intention to target Western interests, it may also have ambitions outside Somalia’s borders. Techniques: Use of suicide bombings, assassinations, and explosives to incite fear and kill their enemies.
 * __Al-Shaabab__**
 *  Omar Hammami, a 25-year-old American citizen from Alabama, has issued written statements on behalf of Al Shabaab and has appeared in the terror group's videos and audio recordings. Hammami was charged with providing material support to Al Shabaab in an indictment unsealed in Alabama in August 2010.
 * In August 2010, federal authorities unsealed four separate indictments charging a total of 14 American citizens and U.S. residents with providing material support to terrorists for their various connections to Al Shabaab. All but two of the defendants – Amina Farah Ali and Hawo Mohamed Hassan – remain at large.
 * Four American men were arrested in the summer of 2010 for attempting to join Al Shabaab in Somalia. Two of the men – Mohamed Mahmood Alessa and Carlos Eduardo Almonte – were arrested in June 2010 for allegedly planning to kill American troops who they thought would soon be deployed to Somalia to help fight Al Shabaab. Zachary Chesser was arrested in July 2010 for attempting to travel to Somalia to train with Al Shabaab. In August 2010, Shaker Masri was arrested after he mapped various routes to Somalia to avoid detection by American federal authorities and stated his intentions to become a suicide bomber in Somalia

Goals: The LTTE seeks to seize control of Sri Lanka from the Sinhalese majority and create an independent Tamil state in the island’s north and east. Techniques: Uses claymores, truck bombs, and suicide bombs to inflict as much damage as possible.
 * __Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam__**
 * According to the FBI, the LTTE has established “branches” in at least 12 countries, including the United States. The American branch, which was headed by Karunakaran Kandasamy until his arrest in April 2007, raised millions of dollars for the LTTE, which were laundered to the terrorist group through charitable front organizations such as the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO). The U.S. Treasury Department declared the TRO a Specially Designated Global Terrorist in November 2007.
 * In June 2009, four supporters of the LTTE pleaded guilty in a New York federal court to terrorism charges, including funneling money and weapons to the LTTE and trying to bribe U.S. officials to remove the group from the terrorism list. Among those who pleaded guilty was Karunakaran Kandasamy, director of the LTTE’s American branch.
 * Four men pleaded guilty in New York in January 2009 to terrorism violations in connection with their efforts to acquire surface-to-air missiles, missile launchers and hundreds of assault rifles for the LTTE.