Interesting "Guest" on BBC's "Hardtalk" programme a few days ago, a Somali local Government Official, Mohamed Nur, who was appointed as the Mayor of Mogadishu and served in that capacity between 2010 and early 2014.

A Muslim his views on the radical Islamic jihadist group are extremely uncompromising, paraphrased, they are simply this:

Kill them, wherever and whenever you encounter them. Do not try to capture them or put them on trial, kill them. Their leadership including it's "middle tier will not fight, they have grown too rich to risk either their lives or their comforts, let their "foot soldiers" know that there is only death, and the "leadership" will then have to negotiate if they wish to keep what they have gained.