{"id":456680,"date":"2010-03-21T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16711557.post-7970524454608393080"},"modified":"2010-03-21T22:52:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T02:52:22","slug":"somalia-senior-commander-of-al-shabaab-assassinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/456680","title":{"rendered":"Somalia Senior Commander of Al-Shabaab Assassinated"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Al-Shabab fighters have taken control of large sections of territory in the Horn of Africa nation of Somalia.<\/a>
Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

Somali Islamist commander killed<\/p>\n

A senior commander of the Somali Islamist group, al-Shabab, has been shot dead at close range as he left a mosque in the city of Kismayo.<\/p>\n

Unidentified gunmen shot Sheikh Daud Ali Hasan several times, inside an area of Somalia held by his own forces.<\/p>\n

Sheikh Hasan was in charge of front-line operations in the town of Dhobley, near the Kenyan border.<\/p>\n

Al-Shabab said it arrested several people and would bring them before a court, but did not identify them.<\/p>\n

# Al-Shabab – Alleged to have links with al-Qaeda – Has foreign fighters in its ranks – Well organised militarily and logistically
# Hizbul-Islam – Led by Hassan Dahir Aweys – Aweys led al-Itihad al-Islamiya, put on US terror list in 2001 – Home-grown Islamist movement<\/p>\n

Rival Islamist groups in the vicinity, including Hizbul-Islam, have not said whether they were behind the killing.<\/p>\n

A witness, Ahmed Daud, said: “At least three masked men armed with pistols shot Sheikh Daud Ali Hasan several times in the head and the chest as he was coming out of a mosque in Kismayo.”<\/p>\n

The BBC’s Mohamed Olad Hassan in Mogadishu says Hizbul-Islam fighters launched an attack in Dhobly hours after the assassination – and claimed they had killed number of al-Shabab militants.<\/p>\n

Al-Shabab and Hizbul-Islam are fighting against the UN-backed, weak Somali government and the African Union soldiers.<\/p>\n

They have fought together in the capital against government forces and the AU peacekeepers, but in the southern Jubba regions the groups continue to fight each other.<\/p>\n

The dispute began last year when al-Shabab forcibly took control of Kismayo from Hizbul-Islam.<\/p>\n

Story from BBC NEWS:
http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/pr\/fr\/-\/2\/hi\/africa\/8577986.stm
Published: 2010\/03\/20 15:25:14 GMT
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