‘Al-Shabab Doesn’t Want a Truce With Infidel Powers’

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The violent campaign between Kenya's government and Somali militants is escalating. On Sunday, a day after members of the al-Shabab group executed 28 passengers on a Kenyan bus, Kenya's Vice President William Ruto announced that the country's military had crossed into Somalia and attacked al-Shabab camps where the bus attack was planned. The combined air and ground attack killed over 115 militants and, according to Ruto, “identified, followed and struck the perpetrators of these heinous crimes.” A spokesman for al-Shabab denied Ruto's claim, and the attack could not be independently verified.
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How will the conflict end? Al-Shabaab is so extreme that the group once expelled aid workers working to combat famine. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, an analyst with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, is not confident that the Kenyan government will reach a political compromise with the militant .

“Al-Shabab doesn't want a truce with infidel powers,” he said.
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