onsdag 4 maj 2011

Jubel och konfetti: Svensk Al-Shabaab ledare dödad i strid

AL SHABAAB Fler goda nyheter. Bin Ladin är död, och nu kan vi addera ytterligare en mordisk galning till listan. Den här mannen dog nyligen i strider i Somalia. Det är Fuad Mohamed Qalaf, född 1965, också känd som Fuad Shangole, med högt uppsatt position inom mordiska terrororganisationen Al-Shabaab.

1992 sökte han asyl i Sverige, fick svenskt medborgarskap och bodde sedan i Rinkeby i 12 års tid. Där är han välkänd bland de andra extremisterna, både imam och rekryterare till jihad. 2004 åkte han tillbaka till Somalia för att ingå i terrororganisationen. Shangole har varit terroriststämplad av USA och FN.

Fuad Mohamed Qalaf stenade den 13-åriga flickan Asho Duhalow till döds i mars 2009 för att hon inte hade råd med heltäckande klädsel. Samma dag ska han också ha skurit av handen på en man inför tusentals människor på en fotbollsplan. Offret anklagades för att ha stulit motsvarande 800 kronor.

Ett aktuellt offer är den 17-årige Ismael Khalif Abdulle som fick sin hand och fot kapad utan bedövning av islamisterna i Al-Shabab-milisen på order av Fuad Shangole. Detta efter att han vägrat gå med dem. Ismael finns nu i Norge som FN-flykting.

Intervju med Abdulle

Shangole död i strid

Swedish-Somali Al-Shabaab Leader Reported Dead

TFG Says Fuad Shangole Killed in Garbaharey Clashes

A senior al-Shabaab commander, Swedish-Somali Fuad Mohmaed Qalaf (Shangole), has reportedly been killed in fierce fighting between pro-government forces and the insurgent group in Garbaharey, Gedo Region. The Transitional Federal Government's Gedo Governor, Mohamed Kalil, told the UN-funded Radio Bar Kulan that Shangole was among the dead as al-Shabaab launched a fierce counter-attack on Garbaharey, which the government seized control of without a fight last week.

Local sources told Somalia Report at least 28 combatants were killed when hundreds of al-Shabaab fighters launched mortar attacks and waves of ground troops against the forces of the TFG and moderate Islamist militia Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa (ASWJ) after morning prayers. Sources close to al-Shabaab in Bardera, south of Garbaharey, confirmed some senior officials were among the dead – one of them al-Shabaab regional head of public awareness, Sheikh Mohamed Mohamoud. An AWSJ senior commander who spoke to Somalia Report could not confirm the names of those killed, but said the identities of four senior al-Shabaab leaders and foreign Jihadists would be disclosed to the media Tuesday. Kalil said that passports and photographs of the dead would also be revealed.

Shangole spent 12 years in Sweden as an asylum seeker, working as an Imam, before returning to join the Islamic Court Union. When Ethiopian forces ousted the Islamist regime in 2006, Shangole joined the al-Shabaab insurgency. According to Swedish media, he was personally involved in stoning to death a 13-year-old girl and cutting off the hand of a man accused of theft.

Pro-government forces in Garbaharey claimed victory in the fighting, but the situation was still tense late Monday and TFG and ASWJ forces could be seen in and around the town. Reports from Dolow, a border town near Ethiopia, said TFG and ASWJ fighters were sent to Garbaharey to reinforce to the troops.

Residents in Garbaharey had been expecting a fight since Saturday, when al-Shabaab began to dig in around 3 kilometers outside the town.
The government has been making gains in Gedo, a region that borders Kenya and Ethiopia, seizing key towns from al-Shabaab. The militants have shifted to ambushes, laying landmines and launching hit-and-run attacks in an attempt to halt the advance.

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