... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban...
bases in southern Somalia as the military operation to defeat the gunnies entered its fourth month.
The bases targeted in the Sunday attacks are in Jilib town, the cut-thoats' last defensive position before the port city of Kismayu.
Somalia media reports, which were corroborated by the Kenya military, said Kenyan warplanes dropped bombs in an Al-Shabaab camp called Sakhawedin, which is used to store food and ammunition.
A public radio station quoted residents recounting how they saw a huge smoke billowing from the Al-Shabaab camp late on Sunday.
"Sunday 15, January, at about 1.30pm Kenya Air Force jets bombed an Al-Shabaab Command Centre in Jilib, middle Juba, destroying the facility and injuring multiple Al-Shabaab cut-thoats. However,
the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits...
the number of casualties is yet to be established," said the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) front man, Major Emmnuel Chirchir (above), in a statement.
"On the same day, at about 1400hrs, the jets bombed Al-Shabaab defensive positions at Bibi, south of Afmadow, destroying eight vehicles, among them four technicals. Several Al-Shabaab fighters are likely to have died," he said.
It was the second time KDF attacked Al-Shabaab bases in the town since the operation started on October 16, last year.
On October 30, last year, Kenyan jet fighters attacked the cut-thoats' positions in Jilib and killed 14 fighters but aid agencies said the raid claimed the lives of civilians.