Al-Shabaab, meaning "youth," first formed in Somalia in 2006 with the aim of toppling the weak government and implementing a harsh brand of Islamic law.
"We suspect he's gearing up to implement a very harsh and radical deportation regime and he's going to deploy it under the pretext they are criminals, when they are not".
You see it at Australia's offshore detention centres, where young Australians implement an intentionally harsh policy with compassionate hearts.
Last Tuesday's bombing forced the government to implement a curfew, declare a state of emergency, and promise harsh measures to protect against jihadists returning from war zones.
The fact that Canada was even present at the conference marks a drastic shift from the previous Conservative government, which typically brushed off participation at such UN events, and implemented a number of harsh sentences for drug offences and vehemently opposed marijuana legalization.
But it fell short of a majority in the 300-seat body, meaning that it will have to govern in a coalition whose looming challenge will be to implement the harsh cuts and difficult reforms demanded by Greece's latest international bailout.
From the start of the convention system, American experts and diplomats played an outsized role in both drafting the treaties and pushing countries around the world to implement subsequent harsh drug laws.
Thirty-two members of Syriza voted against the measure and 11 lawmakers abstained, depriving the prime minister of a parliamentary majority and making it highly unlikely that the government would be able to implement the harsh austerity measures called for in the bailout agreement.
After harsh criticism from Ohio Democrats, Husted implemented a directive that created uniform voting hours across the state.
However, there are politicians and officials in the capitals of the P5+1 group – the five permanent UN Security Council members, plus Germany – who will push to implement even harsher measures if a diplomatic solution is not reached relatively soon.
