The comment was an apparent reference to the 2008 attack in which 10 Pakistani men associated with the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba stormed several buildings in Mumbai , India , killing 164 people over a three-day period . Al-Shabaab is an al Qaeda-linked militant group based in Somalia . It was once allied with sharia courts , which tried to impose order on the lawless country . The U.S. government designated it as a foreign terrorist organization in 2008 . TL;DR A Somali man who had been held captive for nearly two years by al-Shabab militants has escaped from their compound and fled into Kenya, officials said.
Al-Shabaab is an al Qaeda-linked militant group based in Somalia . It was once allied with sharia courts , which tried to impose order on the lawless country . The U.S. government designated it as a foreign terrorist organization in 2008 . TL;DR A Somali man who had been held captive for nearly two years by al-Shabab militants has escaped from their compound and fled into Kenya, officials said.