Al-Shabaab has taken over much of Mogadishu and southern Somalia, and is on a U.S.government list of international terrorist groups.

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It is on the U.S.list of terrorist organizations, and on Friday, Australia put the group on its terrorism list following the discovery of a suicide attack plot linked to the group.

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In addition, the groups' directors were added to the terrorist list, according to the Treasury Department's Web site.

CNN: Two groups added to U.S. terror freeze list

This party is led by Abdul Haq, who threatened attacks on the 2008 Olympics Games in Beijing and was recently added to the Treasury Department's terrorist list.

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How can any senator stand up and tell the American people that before deciding whether America goes to war against a rogue state such as Iraq, it needs to hear the "final recommendation" of Syria, a regime on the State Department's official terrorist list?

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