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US al-Shabab militant held in Somalia
[BBC] An American member of Somali Islamist krazed killer group al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... has been incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... in Somalia, an official has told the BBC. He said the man had been stopped while he was trying to escape from al-Shabaab after some of his friends were killed following an internal rift. The cause of the dispute is not clear. The group has experienced some splits in recent months over whether to switch allegiance from al-Qaeda to the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... . The man's position within al-Shabaab is not clear but Barawe District Commissioner Hussein Barre Mohammed told the BBC Somali service that the US krazed killer has been in the krazed killer group for "a very long time". The captured krazed killer admitted that he had been involved in the al-Shabaab attack on Garissa University college in north-eastern Kenya, in which 148 people were killed earlier this year, according to the commissioner. He added that the man does not speak Somali. He was intercepted by the Somali army on his way to Barawe, 220km (135 miles) south-west of the capital Mogadishu on Sunday, the commissioner told the BBC. He is being investigated by the police who are working with the army and Amisom, the Africa Union force in Somalia. Hundreds of foreigners are believed to have gone to join al-Shabaab, including American Omar Hammami, known as al-Amriki, who was killed in 2013 Somalia after falling out with the group. Posted by: Fred 2015-12-08 |
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