The United Nations Mission in Somalia, which supports the 19,000-strong African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia, Has condemned the attack And vowed to bring those responsible to justice.
Shabab was ousted from the capital, Mogadishu, in 2011, but it is flowing across the vast expanse of Somali, where it will also be affected by extortion and links to the business community, even in areas where it does not control the region.
Matt Bryden of Sahan Research, a research consulting firm that specializes in African horns, said the withdrawal of proximity to the U.S. military has given Shabab the impetus to carry out his attacks. “Of course Shabab is pushing him to show his existence,” he said.
Although American drone strikes and Special Operations Force raids inside Somalia are likely to continue even after the withdrawal, the biggest impact of the pullout is on Danab, a 1,000-strong Somali unit whose military usually operates with close American support.
“Without giving guidance, you can already see how they are used for counter-terrorism purposes, like standing in the Prime Minister’s line,” said Bride. “And now two of their commanders have been killed.”
Although Shabab fights mostly inside Somalia, it has carried out attacks in other parts of East Africa and harbored some ambitions to attack the United States. Prosecutors in Manhattan this week charged Kenya’s Shabab opera operative Cholo Abdi Abdullah with plotting a 9/11-style attack on an American city.
Prosecutors say Mr. Abdullah, who masterminded the attack on a Kenyan hotel in 2019, was arrested under the same Shabab commander’s orders while hijacking a plane in the Philippines and training him to fly over a building in the United States. Was.
Hussein Mohammed contributed to the report from Sogalia’s Mogadishu.
