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2017-08-14 Africa Horn
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Somali Insurgent Defects
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[All Africa] A senior Somali holy warrior who had been on the run for several years has surrendered to the government, intelligence official tells VOA Somali.
Mukhtar Robow Ali, known as "Abu Mansour," met with government representatives early Sunday morning at his hideout in Abal village in southwest Somalia, and was later taken to the main town of Huddur, a senior regional official told VOA Somali.
| Surrendered again? According to this, he surrendered in 2013 and was trying to surrender in 2015. |
Shine Moallim Nurow is the commander of Special Forces in the southwestern regional administration. He led government officials who reached Robow’s base in Abal on Saturday.
He said he met him last night in the battle field in Abal where Robow’s men and al-Shabaab
...  Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
have been fighting for the past few days.
"We have been tasked by the central government and the southwestern regional administration to go there, we met him there and then we agreed with him to come together to Huddur," he said.
"I can confirm to you that he is in Huddur, he is sitting with me now," he said.
According to a senior intelligence official Robow told government officials that he has defected from al-Shabaab and wants to work with the Somali government. 
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Posted by Fred 2017-08-14 00:00||
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