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| Somali Shebab Claim Killing of Senior Police Chief |
| 2014-08-05 |
| [An Nahar] Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab said they had carried out a boom-mobileing that killed a senior police chief in the north of the war-torn country Monday, the latest in a string of attacks. "With the blessing of Allah, the mujahedeen have carried out a successful operation targeting senior apostate officials," Shabaab front man Abdulaziz Abu Musab said in a statement, boasting that three other coppers also died in the blast. Government officials in Mogadishu confirmed the death of Adirahman Abbas, police chief in the Bari region of Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... region, on the northern Gulf of Aden coastline. Abbas headed the police in Puntland's key port of Bosaso, the Bari region's main city. A jacket wallah is reported to have driven a car loaded with explosives at Abbas' car. Officials confirmed that other coppers died in the blast, without giving an exact number. Musab claimed the police chief was "targeted due to his crimes against Mohammedans... having imprisoned, tortured and killed many, thereby fulfilling the orders of the Crusaders." Recent Shabaab attacks in Somalia have targeted key areas of government and security forces in an apparent bid to discredit claims the gunnies have been weakened. "God willing, everyone who treads his path will face a similar fate," Musab added. |
| Posted by:Fred |