From the AP:

A court run by an extremist Islamic group sentenced four Somali men on Monday to each have a hand and a leg cut off for allegedly stealing mobile phones and guns…. The court that handed down the sentence in Somalia’s capital is run by al-Shabab, one of the nation’s most powerful insurgent groups. The U.S. considers al-Shabab a terrorist group with links to al-Qaida, which al-Shabab denies. The group, which controls much of Somalia, is trying to drive out the government and install a strict form of Islam. ”We have convicted them of theft, so they deserve to have their arms and legs amputated,” said Sheik Abdul Haq, the al-Shabab judge in the capital, Mogadishu. Al-Shabab has carried out amputations and other punishments elsewhere in Somalia, but they are rare in the capital…. No date was set for the sentences to be carried out. Al-Sabab has been known to carry out stonings, executions and amputations in public outside Mogadishu.