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WASHINGTON — The senior U.S. military commander for Africa warned Wednesday that three violent extremist organizations on the continent were trying to forge an alliance to coordinate attacks on the United States and Western interests.
Gen. Carter Ham, the top officer at Africa Command, said terrorist organizations in East Africa, in the deserts of northern Africa and in Nigeria “have very explicitly and publicly voiced an intent to target Westerners, and the U.S. specifically.” Ham made clear that al-Shabab in Somalia, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in northern Africa, and Boko Haram in northern Nigeria had not yet shown the capability to mount significant attacks outside their homelands.
