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Al-Shabaab militants have released for the first time the names and photos of the men who attacked the DusitD2 hotel in Kenya.
A seven-minute video showed the five men eating and watching Osama Bin Laden’s video days before breaking into the DusitD2 hotel.
Of the five attackers, three were Kenyans and two were Somali nationals.
The men were identified as Osman Ahmed Hassan, Ali Salim, Abdi Qani Arab Yusuf, Mohamed Adam Nur and Mahir Khalid.
Al-Shabaab militants carried out the terrorist attack at the Dusit D2 hotel in the Kenyan capital on 15, 2019, killing another 21 people, including an American and a South African.
The video’s release comes days after US President Donald Trump ordered the US Department of Defense and AFRICOM to withdraw troops from Somalia early next year.
US troops will be withdrawn from Somalia all US troops will be relocated to other parts of Africa, as well as to other regional bases where they will still be able to conduct targeted counterterrorism operations in Somalia, collect preliminary warnings and potential threats to the United States. State.
About 700 US soldiers are in Somalia fighting the Al-Shabaab group that is affiliated with Alqaeda and is fighting in Somalia to overthrow the central government.
