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2023-05-25 Africa Horn
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Senior Al-Shabaab leader injured in Jilib airstrike named
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[Goobjoog] A Senior al-Shabaab
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
leader was injured during a joint operation by the Somali National Army and its international allies in Jilib, middle Jubba region.
According to an official statement released by the Federal Government of Somalia’s Ministry of Information, Osman Mohammed Abdi was the head of external operations responsible for recruiting and smuggling imported muscle to Somalia to help al-Shabaab and spreading propaganda.
AFRICOM front man Lieutenant Commander Timothy S. Pietrack said the US Army targeted a locating where Abdi was hiding but he is believed to have survived the Arclight airstrike
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"Following a comprehensive battle damage assessment, U.S.-AFRICOM has determined that one al-Shabaab leader was injured as a result of the operation," the front man told journalists Tuesday.
Government officials said the targeting of top al-Shabaab leaders was an indication that the Death Eaters will not find a safe place to hide in the country as the National Army steps up efforts to completely push the snuffies out of the country.
Somalia's Ministry of Information confirmed that the injured leader was Osman Mohammed Abdi, known as Moallim Osman who was the target. The government accused him of being in charge of recruitment of imported muscle to the group.
"Osman Mohammed Abdi, a big shot of the terrorist group al-Shabaab
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
, was maimed in a joint operation carried out by the National Army and international allies in Jilib. Abdi was responsible for smuggling foreign turbans into the country and spreading propaganda to recruit fighters," state media noted.
Also, former al-Shabaab official Omar Mohammed Abu Ayan told VOA that veteran military commander Osman Mohammed Abdi was injured in the strike, adding that he is the head of external operations. He has also been authorizing attacks in foreign nations, the statement read.
On Saturday, the US activated the Arclight airstrike
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in Jilib town, the headquarters of al-Shabaab holy warriors, which is located about 385 kilometers Southwest of Mogadishu. "The command's initial assessment is that no civilians were maimed or killed," an AFRICOM statement said.
Before being appointed as al-Shabaab's head of external operations, Abdi served as defense chief of the group according to several sources. He has been on the target for a number of months, the US Africa Command said.
Somali officials also say he was involved in planning the group's January 2016 attack against an African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
military base manned by Kenyan forces in El Adde. It remains the deadliest holy warrior attack on peacekeepers in Somalia and is the hometown of Moallim Osman, according to Somali security sources.
The El-Adde attack left at least 200 Kenya Defense Forces [KDF] soldiers serving in Sector II of ATMIS, then known as AMISOM, dead. The attack in 2016 would later be followed by another attack at Kulbiyow which left at least 90 KDF soldiers dead.
Somali officials say Moallim Osman's current role includes supervising al-Shabaab attacks in Kenya, where for years the group has carried out strikes against security forces, and he directed al-Shabaab's opportunistic incursion into eastern Æthiopia last July.
Kenya recently signed a pact with Somalia which will see KDF carry joint operations against al-Shabaab along the border. For a long time, Kenya has been the target of the Death Eaters since the activation of Operation Linda Nchi in 2011, leading to al-Shabaab's frequent retaliatory attacks.
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