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Men armed with pistols shot and killed Imam Sheikh Mukhtar Abdi Hamud outside a mosque and expeditiously departed at a goodly pace before the security forces arrived.
Wadajir District Administration and security officials have not yet spoken about the killing of Sheikh Mukhtar Abdi in that district.
The Imam participated in the recently wrapped up govrnmnt-organiz Conference of Islami Scholars in Mogadishu, which was widely supported in the fight against al-Shabaab
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...No one has grabbed credit for this murder, but it is coming at a time when murders have been increasing in the capital of Mogadishu in recent days.
The coming together of Somali holy mans from different ideological persuasions is one of the Somali government’s most ambitious attempts to pull religious leaders into the war against terrorism.
The Somali government has been waging a military campaign against al-Shabaab since July last year. In central regions, government forces working with clan militia have captured a series of towns and villages and say they have killed more than 2,000 al-Shabaab fighters.
Last year, Prime Minister Hamza Barre picked former al-Shabaab number two Mukhtar Robow as religious affairs minister, as part of attempts to deflate al-Shabaab ideology.
As the government campaign enters its eighth month in February, the Somali government is preparing to open new battle fronts in southern parts of the country.