...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...bully boys, even as the country continues to ask members of the terror group to surrender to the army, amid an ongoing crackdown against the al-Qaeda-linked group, which the country plans to eliminate completely by next year.
According to the state media, the military paraded the turbans to showcase milestones made in the fight against the group which still controls large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia. The group has been in operation for the last two decades, necessitating military operations.
Those paraded were Abdirahman Fodey Kulmiye, Abdullahi Ibrahim Hassan, and Adan Ibrahim Abshi, with the military accusing them of terrorizing innocent civilians and security officers within Owswayn town which was recently seized from the turbans during the operation.
"The Somali National Army which recently seized control of the Owswayn, has presented the capture of al-Shabaab leaders to the public. Abdirahman Fodey Kulmiye, Abdullahi Ibrahim Hassan, and Adan Ibrahim Abshir have been accused of terrorizing the local population for an extended period," state media confirmed.