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...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...to bring them into the country’s security and military forces.
Abdisalam Guled, who served as the deputy head of Somali Intelligence Service NISA said al-Shabaab has infiltrated the organs of the Somali security agencies, under the watchful of the international community.
"A new al-Shabaab eggs are hatching every day in the security organs," said Guled who recently broke the news about hundreds of Somali soldiers killed in Tigray while fighting along ENDF and Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
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In the past few months, hundreds of youths who defected from al-Shabaab have been recruited from the Rehabilitation Centre and then trained and reintegrated into the Somali national army and the spy agency.
The commander of the former
This comes days after the outgoing president Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo has dispatched youthful soldiers from the Gorgor brigade to the Gedo region. Most of them are ex-
Al-Shabaab has largely infiltrated Somali security agencies since Fahad Yasin who maintains a close relation with Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
became the head of the National Intelligence and Security Agency [NISA] in August 2019.
The maximum number of former al-Shabaab members are in the police and NISA. For example, the commander of the
One of the most senior figures defected from al-Shabaab is Zakariya Ahmed Ismail Hersi - who once had $3m bounties from the U.S. on his head. He is now holding a higher rank in the Somali intelligence service.
Also, the U.S.-funded Somalia’s spy chief who worked with al-Jazeera Arabic as Mogadishu bureau chief has past ties to al Ittihad al Islamiya and a close relationship with al-Shabaab terrorists.
There is growing concern about the extent to which al-Shabaab has now infiltrated police and intelligence, as well as real fears of escalating threats that the Double Agents pose to the security.