Nairobi Attack Prompts Debate Over Shabaab's Reach :: The Investigative Project on Terrorism

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In an interview with the Daily Beast's Josh Rogin, Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said al-Shabaab may be based in Somalia, but it has "an international agenda."

"It can happen here in the United States as it is now happening in Nairobi," Mohamud said.

The question of al-Shabaab's ability to strike American interests is not new. A House Homeland Security Committee staff report in 2011 said the group poses "a direct threat."

But not everyone buys that. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Cal., said there's no evidence indicating that al-Shabaab could attack within the United States despite the presence of Americans inside the group