Al-Shabab recruiting Kenyan youths to fight

Al Jazeera has spoken to the parents of Kenyan youth recruited by the Islamist group al-Shabab to fight in Somalia.<br /><br />Nobody is sure how many Kenyans al-Shabab have recruited, many coming from slums in the capital Nairobi.<br /><br />But people who have been watching the process believe it runs into the hundreds, with only a handful of them are from ethnic Somali communities. <br /><br />The vast majority of the recruits are from other tribes across Kenya, and that makes it much harder for the authorities to spot.<br /><br />Kenya's military has been battling the fighters inside Somalia, and now the families of the youths recruited by al-Shabab say they fear retaliation.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Peter Greste reports from Nairobi.