This organization coordinated an offensive in support of one of its chief financial backers, Abukar Omar Adani against Bashir Raghe, which captured the port of El-Ma'an, marking the beginning of its territorial expansion phase, which also saw this organization defeat a US-backed loose confederacy of warlords, the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism.
This organization coordinated an offensive in support of one of its chief financial backers, Abukar Omar Adani against Bashir Raghe, which captured the port of El-Ma'an, marking the beginning of its territorial expansion phase, which also saw this organization defeat a US-backed loose confederacy of warlords, the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism. This organization's recapture of the hijacked ship MV Veesham I has been cited as evidence of its opposition to regional piracy.  Some of this organization's leaders had been part of the AIAI, like Hassan Dahir Aweys, who led its militant youth wing. Both Hizbul Islam and al-Shabaab are militant groups which grew from this organization's defeat following a 2007 intervention by Ethiopia on behalf of the Transitional Federal Government, which this organization's leader, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed headed from 2009-12. For 10 points, name this Somali government, which controlled Mogadishu throughout 2006 and developed from a coalition of sharia jurists. 
This organization coordinated an offensive in support of one of its chief financial backers, Abukar Omar Adani against Bashir Raghe, which captured the port of El-Ma'an, marking the beginning of its territorial expansion phase, which also saw this organization defeat a US-backed loose confederacy of warlords, the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism.
Islamic Courts Union [or ICU or Supreme Islamic Courts Council or SICC or Supreme Council of Islamic Courts or SCIC or Union of Islamic Courts or UIC or Joint Islamic Courts or Midowga Maxkamadaha Islaamiga or al-Ittihād al-mahākim al-islāmiyya; prompt on "al-Shabaab" or "Ḥarakat ash-Shabāb al-Mujāhidīn" or "Xarakada Mujaahidiinta Alshabaab" before "al-Shabaab" is said] 