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Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...bully boy in an operation conducted in Beledweyne town in Somalia’s central region of Hiran, officials said on Thursday evening.
Farah Ali Wasuge, commander of unit five, section 27 told the journalists that an offensive launched by Somali national forces in Beledweyne killed a senior al-Shabaab official who was the criminal mastermind of kabooms in the town.
"Our forces shot the official as he was preparing explosives in a road, and escaped with bullet wounds to a house in Howl-wadag village in Beledweyne. He later died in an exchange of gunfire with the security forces," the commander said.
He noted that the troops stormed into the house and found weapons and many kabooms, arresting the bully boy’s wife who denied that she was aware of the weapons and the explosives that her husband kept in his special room in the house.
Somali national forces backed by African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
Mission in Somalia have intensified the operations on al-Qaeda affiliated group in central and southern Somalia, conducting major operations to drive the holy warriors out of those regions.
Al-Shabaab was ousted from the capital Mogadishu in August 2011, but the terror group is still in control of several areas in southern Somalia and capable of conducting attacks.