Somali Commando raid on Al Shabab hideout continues

Hiiraan Online
Thursday, August 11, 2016

Galkayo (HOL) - The elite Somali commando unit, Danab, apprehended five Al Shabaab members in a surprise operation including a high-ranking Sudanese bomb maker. The raid took place in the city of Galkayo and is said to be still ongoing.

The government owned news agency SONNA reported the arrest on its news site yesterday while interviewing the commander of the Somali armed forces, General Ali Bashi Haji Mohamed.

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General Ali Bashi confirmed that notorious Sudanese bomb maker, Said Abdullahi Abukar (Al-Sudan) was among those captured in the raid. Al-Sudan was a key figure in the Al-Qaeda's linked militia's IED wing.

The army general reiterated that the commandos did the operation in both north and south of Galkayo town and that it was successful.

Al Shabaab regularly deploys suicide bombers and roadside IEDs as a part of their strategy to topple Somalia's internationally backed government.

Al-Shabaab has yet to publicly comment on the operation. There are no independent reports confirming the incident.

Danab, which means lightning in Somali, is a US trained commando unit that conducted the raid. Members of the group obscure their face from the public because they regularly perform anti-terror operations.

According to military officials and witnesses on the ground, the operation is still ongoing as they comb through Al Shabaab hideouts.

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