** ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, AUG. 22, 2010 AND THEREAFTER** This combination picture shows Taliban militia soldiers in a pickup truck heading towards the frontline north of Surobi, Afghanistan near Kabul on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 1996, left, and at right, hard-line Islamist Al Shabab fighters riding a truck during a military exercise in the Suqaholaha neighborhood of in northern Mogadishu, Somalia on Friday, Jan.1. 2010. More than ever, the two groups' tactics mirror each other, and what has worked for the Taliban for over a decade now seems to be allowing al-Shabab to maintain control over large swaths of this arid country in the Horn of Africa. (AP Photo/John Moore, Farah Abdi Warsameh)