Kenyan Al-shabaab returnee disclose shocking details

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A former Al Shabaab fighter has revealed that a majority of Kenyans who join the terrorist group are used as sacrificial lambs.

The fighter, who came back into the country in 2013, says this has contributed a lot to discrimination against foreign fighters within the group.

The returnee has since reformed after being taken through a rehabilitation program by the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC).

According to The Star, the returnee revealed that the gang’s explosives unit, Istishadi and foot soldiers unit known as Jabha are the most notorious.

Members of the hard line al Shabaab terrorist group prepare artillery gunfire near Haliwa district, Mogadishu, July 21, 2010. /FILE

“They use Kenyans and other regional foreign fighters for suicide missions or on the frontline against enemies,” stated the returnee.

The former militant has since reformed after being taken through a rehabilitation program by the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC).

Intelligence reports indicate that the gunmen executed five of their counterparts over suspicion of spying for their enemies in a recent implosion within the group due to suspicions of spies planted among them.

The mistrust has reportedly led to a large number of Kenyan fighters sneaking back into the country, and a few remaining ones operating, almost semi-independently, within the densely forested Lacta area that cuts across the Kenya-Somalia border.

The increased movement of the militants towards the Kenya-Somali border led the  Kenya Police to issue a terror alert in October.

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The police called upon members of the public, particularly those living along the border, to remain vigilant and report any suspicious movement by individuals or groups to the nearest security personnel.

In another case of internal wrangles with foreign fighters, two Kenyan Al-Shabaab fighters, Ahmed Yusuf Hassan and Ahmed Nur Abdi Osoble, were on April 2, 2017, killed in Buq Aqable, Hiraan region, over spying suspicions.

The two Kenyans were accused of collaborating with the Somali government and AMISOM forces.

Police say other Kenyans executed by Al Shabaab recently include former Moi University student Jared Omambia, Mombasa-born Faraj Abdulmajid, and Ramadhan Abdallah Manman a former resident of Majengo slums in Nairobi.

According to police, the latest high profile case of foreign fighters’ mistrust was the sidelining of the once influential Kenyan Al-Shabaab commander Ahmed Iman Ali in late 2017.

 

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