Posted on Sunday 22 January 2012 - 15:09
A senior foreign Islamist was on Saturday afternoon killed in an indentified aerial attack near Somalia’s capital city, Mogadishu, an official from the insurgent group al-shabab confirmed.
Al-shabab spokesperson Sheikh Ali Mahamud Rage alias Ali Dhere said that they lost one of the country’s top spiritual al-Qaeda leaders Bilal Al-Birwaawi (also known Abuu Hafsa) in the incident.
At a press conference in south Somalia Sheikh Ali Dhere said Al-Birwaawi died at the scene after an alleged American drone bombed three times on a small car in which he was travelling through Kilometer13 area, near Mogadishu in the west.
“One of our brothers, Jihadists [martyrs] died today in an air-attack at around 2.00pm local time. He was a man who scarified his time and intellect and came to us in Somalia to fight alongside jihad, Said Sheikh Ali Dhere, making a vow to revenge on their fighter’s death.
He did not touch whether there were other casualties besides this.
Praying to the Almighty to rest the deceased’s soul in eternal paradise Ali Dhere said that his loyalist fighters will be not disappointed to fight against what he described as an enemy of Islam.
This is a concurrent incident when Somali Transitional Federal forces (TFG) with help of hundreds of soldiers from African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) are going forward outside Mogadishu against rebel fighters.
These final seizure sections of Mogadishu from al-shabab made Somalia’s President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed this week to express his gratitude to TFG forces and AMISOM battalion.
Tuesday’s two attacks in a heavily populated refugee camp in Mogadishu that killed at least six people and wounded dozens of others include security officers put a question mark in many people’s mind on issues related with security. The UN officials and international journalists who paid a visit there and heard the explosions might be frightened. But Mogadishu is healing slowly.
According to local media reports Al-Shabab said Al-Birwaawi had ancestral origin in Lebanon but had a British citizenship, describing that he was a young nerve commander of age between 20 and 30 in the Somali Islamist insurgency.
It is also believed that Al-Birwaawi was a deputy of the late former Al-Qaeda representative, in the Horn of Africa, Fazul Abdalla who TFG security officers killed in Mogadishu mid last year.
Since the year 2012 kicked off, the war on al-shabab has been intensified. Kenya’s defence forces are in south Somalia, Ethiopia in central while Djibouti, Uganda and Burundi are in Mogadishu all shooting fire against insurgents.
This is kind of incident is not new to Islamists. Al-Shabab’s former leader Malim Adan Ayrow was killed in Somali central air attack in 2008 .But they still are holding much of south and central Somalia with a tight hand.
Al-shabab spokesperson Sheikh Ali Mahamud Rage alias Ali Dhere said that they lost one of the country’s top spiritual al-Qaeda leaders Bilal Al-Birwaawi (also known Abuu Hafsa) in the incident.
At a press conference in south Somalia Sheikh Ali Dhere said Al-Birwaawi died at the scene after an alleged American drone bombed three times on a small car in which he was travelling through Kilometer13 area, near Mogadishu in the west.
“One of our brothers, Jihadists [martyrs] died today in an air-attack at around 2.00pm local time. He was a man who scarified his time and intellect and came to us in Somalia to fight alongside jihad, Said Sheikh Ali Dhere, making a vow to revenge on their fighter’s death.
He did not touch whether there were other casualties besides this.
Praying to the Almighty to rest the deceased’s soul in eternal paradise Ali Dhere said that his loyalist fighters will be not disappointed to fight against what he described as an enemy of Islam.
This is a concurrent incident when Somali Transitional Federal forces (TFG) with help of hundreds of soldiers from African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) are going forward outside Mogadishu against rebel fighters.
These final seizure sections of Mogadishu from al-shabab made Somalia’s President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed this week to express his gratitude to TFG forces and AMISOM battalion.
Tuesday’s two attacks in a heavily populated refugee camp in Mogadishu that killed at least six people and wounded dozens of others include security officers put a question mark in many people’s mind on issues related with security. The UN officials and international journalists who paid a visit there and heard the explosions might be frightened. But Mogadishu is healing slowly.
According to local media reports Al-Shabab said Al-Birwaawi had ancestral origin in Lebanon but had a British citizenship, describing that he was a young nerve commander of age between 20 and 30 in the Somali Islamist insurgency.
It is also believed that Al-Birwaawi was a deputy of the late former Al-Qaeda representative, in the Horn of Africa, Fazul Abdalla who TFG security officers killed in Mogadishu mid last year.
Since the year 2012 kicked off, the war on al-shabab has been intensified. Kenya’s defence forces are in south Somalia, Ethiopia in central while Djibouti, Uganda and Burundi are in Mogadishu all shooting fire against insurgents.
This is kind of incident is not new to Islamists. Al-Shabab’s former leader Malim Adan Ayrow was killed in Somali central air attack in 2008 .But they still are holding much of south and central Somalia with a tight hand.
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