(Sh. M. Network)-Military commanders in Somalia government are claiming the upper hand of a heavy combat against Al shabab faceless myrmidons tied to Al Qaeda near Baidoa, situated 256 kilometers (159 mi) northwest of the capital Mogadishu.Aden Doodshe, the police commissioner of Bay region for Somali government, told Shabelle Media by phone that TFG forces have killed many Al shabab combatants while several others captured in a live during a fighting took place on Tuesday on the outskirts of Baidoa town, the third largest city in Somalia.
"Our troops carried out coordinated military operations at rebel-held villages close Baidoa on Tuesday, to wipe out Al-Shabaab
... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban...
in the entire region of Bay, and had left fighters of the Al-Qaeda linked hard boy group in disarray after losing ground and military equipment," he added.
He stressed that the operation would continue until Al-Shabaab was wiped out or too weakened to launch any significant attack in the government controlled territories in South Somalia.
Last December, Æthiopian forces, fighting alongside pro-TFG militias in Somalia managed to remove Al-Shabaab fighters from Baledweyne town in Hiran region, then Baidoa in south-central Somalia.