article_snippet.sent: AIAI, which the U.S. State Department designated as a terrorist group, strengthened after the fall in 1991 of Siad Barre's military regime and during the years of lawlessness that ensued.
article_snippet.sent: In 2003, a rift erupted between AIAI's old guard -- which was seeking to establish a new political front -- and AIAI younger members, who wanted to impose fundamental Islamic rule.
article_snippet.sent: That strife led the younger members to ally with a group of Sharia courts -- the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) -- that was seeking to impose order over a landscape marked by feuding warlords in the capital city.