In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) -- An Al Qaeda-linked militant group waging war against Somalia's fragile government is becoming an increasing threat to Western ally Kenya and could potentially destabilize the region with dire consequences for global security, officials and analysts warn. Al-Shabab fighters count their bullets in neighborhood of Mogadishu. Al-Shabaab, one of the strongest Islamic militias battling for control of Mogadishu, has gained ground in recent weeks, according to officials, and has started to flex its muscles beyond Somalia's border with terror strikes, kidnappings and recruitment drives. They warn that unless the world takes action the group, which wants to impose an extreme type of Islamic sharia law, could extend its grip across parts of East Africa to gain control of a region that flanks busy shipping routes already plagued by Somali piratesExperts, officials warn of growing threat from Somali militant groupAl-Shabaab is one of strongest Islamic militias battling for MogadishuKenya says danger is to region and world despite threats on Nairobi 
 Question:We know that _ are not able to do it without foreign intervention in terms of money and weapons that they are getting from other countries."
Al-Shabab

Britain campaigned to get the jihadi preacher who inspired the Tunisian beach massacre off the United Nations's al-Qaida watch list, and may have attempted to recruit him as a spy, it has been reported. Hani al-Sibai, 54, who is living on £50,000-a-year state hand outs, described the London 7/7 terror attacks as a 'great victory', and is one of the 'key influencers' of the Islamic fanatics believed to have recruited beach gunman Seifeddine Rezgui. But now High Court documents have reportedly shown that in 2009, when David Miliband was foreign secretary, the Labour government had pushed for al-Sibai, who lives in London, to be taken off the UN's list of terror suspects.Hani al-Sibai, 54, described 7/7 attacks as a 'great victory' and is 'key influencer' of fanatics believed to have recruited beach gunmanHe has taken legal action to be taken off UN's list of terror suspectsHigh Court documents show government lobbied to have him removed from list in 2009Egyptian authorities claimed British intelligence services may have been trying to recruit al-Sibai 
 Question:Al-_ and his wife are estimated to be on benefits of more than £48,000 a year – almost double the cap of £26,000.
Sibai

A convicted child molester claimed he abducted a young boy who looked like Etan Patz the same day in 1979 that the 6-year-old went missing, a former federal prosecutor told a jury Monday at the trial of another man accused of murder. Key defense witness Stuart GraBois recounted how, once ruling out family members as suspects, he located Jose Ramos in prison in the late 1980s after learning the Ramos had ties to a woman who was once used by the family to walk Etan home from school during a bus driver strike. The former assistant to then-US Attorney Rudy Giuliani described soothing Ramos with small talk before suddenly asking him, 'How many times did you have sex with Etan Patz?'Key defense witness Stuart GraBois, a former prosecutor, testified Jose Ramos told him in 1988 he lured Etan Patz to his home May 25, 1979Ramos, a convicted child molester, claimed he put Etan on subway train after he rejected his advancesRamos, 71, has threatened to plead the 5th if called to testify in murder trial of Pedro HernandezHernandez, 54, confessed he choked Etan after luring him with the promise of a soda and then dumped his bagged bodyRamos served 27 years in Pennsylvania for rape and molestation of three young boys in the 1980s 
 Question:But with testimony about Ramos' alleged confession and by highlighting his history of molesting children, the defense has sought to portray him as a more plausible suspect than the 54-year-old _.

Pedro Hernandez

