...... Somalia's version of the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
has executed seven men in Somalia’s southwestern region of Bay.
The execution that was conducted publicly took place in the vicinity of Buula-Fulay in Somalia’s Bay region late Saturday.
Six of the executed men were accused of spying for the Somali government and the U.S.
Three of them were also accused of providing intelligence that led to the killing of senior al-Shabaab leaders, Yusuf Jiis and Abdulkadir Commandos, who were targeted in U.S.
...KABOOM!...
s in 2020.
An al-Shabaab judge told local spectators that the six men have confessed, without providing evidence. al-Shabaab courts don’t allow lawyers who can defend the accused.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch started the buffalo stampeding......
Æthiopia’s Somali state president Mustafe Omar said that the region’s special forces operations against al-Shabaab holy warriors inflicted the group heavy casualties.
He said they believe that the troops killed 600 al-Shabaab fighters during their operations against the bully boy group who a week ago infiltrated Æthiopia, sparking new confrontations near the Æthiopian border with Somalia.