SOMALIA: Al Shabaab officials begin to flee from Kismayo- sources
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Kismayo (RBC) Senior Al Shabaab leaders in Jubba region begun to flee from Kismayo town after the government forces with the backing of Kenyan troops and local militia approached the strategic town of Kismayo, sources told RBC Radio.
Reliable sources in the region confirmed that Sheikh Mukhtar Robow abu Mansur who was Al Shabaab’s former spokesperson, Ibrahim Haji Me’ad (better known Ibrahim Afghan) who is Al Shabaab’s deputy commander and Sheikh Hassan Yacqub, the commander of Kismayo were among the officials departed from Kismayo.
The Kenyan army- under African Union and Somali government forces have captured the town of Afmadow, the second largest town in the south and only 115km (71 miles) from Kismayo. Kismayo is still a strategic militant base in the south of the country and important Al-Shabaab’s headquarters.
Officials of Somalia National Security Agency in Mogadishu have earlier said that they obtained credible information claiming that families of some of Al Shabaab’s senior leaders moved to Bur’o town in the breakaway region of Somaliland and some parts of the Galmudug region in the central of the country.
The security officials mentioned also that after taking over Afgoye town in the Lower Shabelle most of Al Shabaab’s foreign fighters have fled to Merka town and some have crossed into Yemen through the red sea between Somalia and Yemen.
Sheikh Hassan Yacqub, Al-Shabaab's Kismayo commander
The group has also announced in February that they were moving to Galgala mlountains in semi-autonomous region of Puntland where other islamist militias were already battling against the Puntland administration.
Al Shabaab which is waging heavy offensive inside Somalia is now preparing to counter the operations by the AMISOM forces and the Somali Transitional Federal Government troops.
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Why are they fleeing? Why can’t they stand to fight? How does ‘mujahideen’ flee from the ‘infidels’? What has happened to the spirit of jihad? This is really laughable. Hopefully they can be caught alive to answer for their crimes.
They were just paper tigers, only good at swearing inshallah with nothing to show. What the AMISOM operation proves is that the myth of invincibility these militants have relied on has now collapsed.
It also shows that given the resources and support African forces are more adaptable to situations like the Somalia conflict.
The so called mujahideen are nothing but illiterate bandits that must be destroyed militarily.
Alshabab is gone but the tribal warlords are here.. Be careful, the road is thorny.
A stable Somalia with freedoms and liberties will be good for its people and visitors alike. It is a big country to accommodate all Somalis wherever they are. It will require a lot of commitment and patriotism to rebuild this country which has the potential of being an economic giant in the world.
God is Great….ALLAAAAAAAHU AKBAR, ALLAAAAAAAHU AKBAR……ALLAAAAAAAHU AKBAR.
Kenya airstike is targeting the alshabaab. Wait and be killed run and we shall get you