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The outfit has been designated a terrorist organization by several western governments and security services. It is linked to Al Qaeda, an association which the group's leaders denied until early 2010. Al-Shabaab is designated as a terrorist group by Australia, Canada, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. On the 29th of February 2008 the US government designated al-Shabaab as a Foreign Terrorist Organization under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224.