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Al-Shabab Executes Foreign Fighter In Southern Somalia
2018-11-14
[RADIOSHABELLE] Residents in Jilib district in Middle Jubba region say al-Shabaab
... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
has executed a foreign jihadist on suspicion of having links with the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
branch in the Horn of Africa country.

The foreign fighter identified as Abu Anas al-Misri from Egypt was killed in kaboom on a mosque in the rebel-held town on Monday night, according to sources.

The myrmidon group has also placed in durance vile
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
several Somali and foreign al-Shabaab members during an operation which is part of a clampdown on elements trying to join ISIS affiliate.

Reports from the region suggest that a tension is brewing between fighters within the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab group fighting to topple the UN-backed Somali Federal Government in Mogadishu.

Al-Shabaab has been driven out of key areas in southern Somalia, including Mogadishu in 2011, but, the group still capable of staging attacks in the country’s capital.

Posted by:Fred

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