The Somali-ISIS faction has released a statement of admission revealing one of there senior figures Khalid Jama Mohamed, better known as Abu Osama Al-Muhajir was killed in a US drone strike in the Bari province of Northeast Somalia.
The statement by Somalia’s Islamic State faction stated that the now, deceased Abu Osama Al-Muhajir was key figure in the Somali-ISIS faction, prior to his death.
Abu Osama Al-Muhajir was said to be of Pakistani orgin and was a former member of Al Shabaab’s media branch prior to defecting to the Somali-ISIS faction.
He joined the ranks of Al Shabaab in 2010 and was reportedly trained at a series of Al Shabaab run training camps in the capital Mogadishu and the provinces of Bay and Bakool.
While fighting in the ranks of Al Shabaab, Abu Osama Al-Mujahir was wounded in clashes with TFG forces backed by AMISOM troops. However the severity of his injuries where never made public.
During the emergence of the Daesh (ISIS) faction in Somalia during 2015/2016, Abu Osama Al-Mujahir was put on trial at an Al Shabaab run Islamic court and given an 18 month jail sentence for attempting to join the Islamic State.
After serving his lengthy jail sentence an Al Shabaab run prison, Abu Osama Al-Muhajir fled to the autonomous Puntland region in Northeast Somalia, where he joined the ranks of Somalia’s Islamic State faction, which are based in Bari province.
This latest admission by the Islamic State faction comes just two weeks after the US military carried out a drone strike killing several ISIS militants in Somalia’s Bari province.
The ISIS terrorist group has been active in Somalia’s autonomous Puntland region for the past five years. The insurgents which are believed to be numbering in the low hundreds have carried a series of bombings and assassinations in the region.
Since the emergence of Daesh in Somalia, the group has been at logger heads with the more established terror group in Somalia – the Al Shabaab, which have waged war against the Islamic State branch in Somalia.
Halgan Media.
