The Somali Armed Forces Court has sentenced Fartun Abdirashid Hussein, the wife of Abdulqadir Mu’min, to eight years in military prison.
Fartun, who was arrested in Mogadishu, had a working relationship with Bilal al-Sudaani, one of the big shots of ISIS, who was recently killed in a US raid in the Bari region.
The Prosecutor’s Office also said that Fartun was in charge of ISIS’s financial affairs and regularly transferred money between $100-200 dollars to ISIS through her phone.
The pro-Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
faction in Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
is led by Sheikh Abdulkadir Mumin, a former al-Shabaab
...... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...holy man who pledged his allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2015.
The US Navy SEAL operation carried out on Wednesday targeted Bilal al-Sudani, who is thought to have played a key role in bankrolling the terror group’s activities in Africa and Afghanistan, as well as leading the organization in Somalia.
The Pentagon said US special forces have killed al-Sudani and 10 other
| Garowe describes her as a wife, has photos of each of the happy couple, and adds: |
Police reports indicate that she was arrested in Hilwaa District in the suburbs of the capital Mogadishu, and has since been battling to clear her tainted name. Her husband, Mumin, is a former UK-based theological leader according to court records, and was one of the pioneer members of IS-Somalia.