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].

[EX Q]: 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."
[EX A]: Al-Shabab

[EX Q]: (CNN) As House Speaker Paul Ryan pulled the Republican health care bill from voting, I could almost hear the giant sigh of relief from Atlanta and across the nation's health care establishment. Hidden in the nooks and crannies of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) was a provision to eliminate $1 billion in disease prevention funds from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Those cheers I imagine I hear right now in Atlanta are huzzahs from the CDC headquarters. According to the GOP plan, "Our Step-by-Step Approach," the first of three steps towards reshaping the American health care market was thwarted on Friday when the White House, recognizing that splits within the Republican Party could not be resolved to allow passage of the AHCA, instructed Ryan to pull the bill. Step two, led by Secretary Tom Price and his team at the Department of Health and Human Services, may still proceed: "going through every page of regulations and guidance related to the Affordable Care Act to determine whether or not they work for patients," with an eye to eliminating the rules laid out by the Obama administration.Laurie Garrett: The life expectancy of Americans is lower than those living in some third-world countriesThe GOP health care bill would have decreased it even more by cutting funding to life-saving preventative care, she writes 
 Question:In 1999 drug overdoses claimed the lives of 6.1 of every 100,000 _, and that soared to 16.3 per 100,000 in 2015.
[EX A]: American

[EX Q]: If losing Luis Suarez was a misfortune, the exit of Raheem Sterling looks like carelessness from Liverpool's point of view. And when you take into account Pepe Reina, Xabi Alonso, Fernando Torres and Javier Mascherano, the conclusion is hard to ignore. How can Liverpool convince anyone they are not a selling club? Make no mistake, Liverpool did not want to lose Sterling. Following Steven Gerrard's decision to quit Anfield, the winger was earmarked as the new face of the club. Still only 20, his progress was Rooneyesque - already 127 first-team games under his belt and the best England player at last year's World Cup.Raheem Sterling is on the brink of joining Manchester City in a £49m dealLiverpool have also lost Steven Gerrard, while Luis Suarez left last summerFernando Torres and Xabi Alonso among other big names sold by the RedsClub has a special history but they could be left behind by current top fourTalented players now tend to leave Anfield in order to win trophies 
 Question:Even on the final weekend of last season, less than two months ago, Brendan Rodgers proclaimed: '_ has two years left and I expect him to see that two years through and continue to behave as immaculately as he has done.'
[EX A]:
Raheem Sterling