Al Shabab, who control much of Somalia are looking to extend their operations and carry out attacks abroad.
"The threat from Al-Sahbab to the US and Western intrests in the Horn of Africa and to the US homeland is significant and on the rise," CIA chief Leon Panetta says in written resonses to the Senate Armed Services committee.
Panetta warns that Somalia, which has had no effective government since dicatator Siad Barre was desposed in 1991, could become a new haven for al Qaeda, whose leader Osama bin Laden was killed on May 2.
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