...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
in Somalia, designating members of the group and others it accused of being involved in a "terrorist weapons trafficking network" in Eastern Africa.
The U.S. Treasury Department in a statement said several of the people designated in Tuesday's action have sold weapons to or were active al-Shabaab
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
members.
The al Qaeda-linked Islamist group grabbed credit for two boom-mobiles that went
kaboom!outside the education ministry in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Saturday, killing at least 120 people in the deadliest blasts since a truck bomb killed more than 500 people at the same location five years ago.
Tuesday's action comes as Washington seeks to increase focus on exposing and disrupting terrorist financing networks in Africa, a senior Treasury official told news hounds.
While Tuesday's move is the first from Treasury targeting Islamic State in Somalia, the official said additional action is expected in the coming weeks and months as the United States seeks to expose and disrupt terrorist financing in Africa.
The U.S. State Department in 2018 designated Islamic State in Somalia a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
Those designated on Tuesday include Abdirahman Mohammed Omar, whom the Treasury accused of being an ISIS-Somalia member and, as of 2020, considered the most active illicit arms importer in Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
state in Somalia.
Also targeted was Isse Mohamoud Yusuf, who Treasury said is an ISIS-Somalia weapons and logistics controller in Bari in Puntland and an arms smuggler; Abdirahman Fahiye Isse Mohamud, who it said is an ISIS-Somalia emir; and Mohammed Ahmed Qahiye, who Treasury said is the head of the Amniyat, ISIS-Somalia’s intelligence wing, among others.