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Al-Shabaab beheads a DC in Southern Somalia
2012-04-20
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Armed men belonging to Al-Shabaab
... successor to the Islamic Courts...
, the radical Islamist movement in Somalia captured the District Commissioner of Eel Adde, about 400 km southwest of Mogadishu, Mr Yahie Hussein Isaq on Tuesday night.

The beheaded body of DC Isaq was found on Wednesday around noon on the outskirts of Eel Adde town.

TFG officials in the district accused Al-Shabaab of perpetrating the beheading.

Colonel Aden Ahmed Hersi alias Rufle, the Spokesman of the TFG in Gedo region, stated that the fanatical snuffies got the DC of Eel Adee off guard.

He added that the Mr Isaq was in a village to deliver humanitarian items offered by the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC).

The colonel added that DC Isaq had earlier instructed his bodyguards to leave the village and go back to eel Adde town.

"He (DC Isaq) had told the guards that he would be fine," Col Hersi told the media. "Unfortunately, we found the DC's headless body lying at an isolated area with his head put on his back," added the officer.
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