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British Jihadi Killed By U.S. Drone In Somalia
At around 2 p.m., a U.S. drone targeted our Mujahidin. One foreigner, a Lebanese with a British passport died, the chief spokesman for Al-Shabaab, Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage, told news agency Reuters, Bilal Al-Barjawi, a great Mujahid brother who was in Somalia for a long time was killed today. He was in a car in Elasha. This foreigner is a martyr.The British-Lebanese is Bilal Al-Barjawi known as Abu Hafsa, a Islamist who came to Somalia in 2006 and served as the deputy to Fazul Abdallah, Al-Qaida´s most senior commander in Somalia killed in June 2011 by Somali troops in a Mogadishu shoot-out. When a U.S. airstrike targeted Lower Jubba region in Southern Somalia in July 2011 Bilal Al-Barjawi was injured on his head and later received treatment in Kenya according to Al-Shabaab. British intelligence officials have warned about the emerging threat of Western Jihadi militants trained as terrorists in Somalia especially those holding Western passports. Numerous of these foreigners have died in Somalia, most of them during gun-battles, others became suicide bombers. If the news of Bilal Al-Barjawi is confirmed, this shows: a Western Jihadi was for some years Al-Qaida´s No.2 man in the country. Posted by: tipper 2012-01-22 |
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