Al-Shabab continues to drain the Somali army

Somalia is
paying the price for its souls and the stability of its security, after Qatar’s
man, Fahd Al-Yassin, took control of the Somali National Intelligence and
Security Agency, in terms of security and political instability, and the
assassinations of security leaders and sheikhs.
As a result of Qatar's control, through Fahd Yassin,
director of the Somali Intelligence and National Security Agency, over security
services and accusations of infiltrating the Al-Shabaab terrorist movement, 5
soldiers, including the commander of the 8th Regiment of the 60th Division of
the Somali Army, Muhammad Ishaq, were killed in violent fighting that took
place today, Wednesday, between Somali government forces And al-Shabaab
fighters in the Denunay region, about 26 km from Baidoa, the capital of the
interim southwestern state of Somalia.
The reports received indicated that al-Shabaab
fighters who launched an attack on a base of Somali forces in the region were
able to control it for a short period after clashes with government forces that
were stationed at the base.
The Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Shabaab movement launches
attacks from time to time on the bases of Somali and African forces in the
state of southwestern Somalia, and sets up ambushes for them during the
movements of those forces between the cities of the different state.
The combat operations between the Somali army and
Al-Shabaab come on the one-year anniversary of Fahd Yassin's assumption of the
position of Director of the Somali Intelligence and National Security Agency,
as the Somali Cabinet announced, on Thursday, August 22, 2019, the appointment
of Fahd Yassin as Director of the National Intelligence and Security Agency.
According to press reports, Yassin has become the
link between Qatar and the terrorist armed groups in Somalia, on top of which
is the Al-Shabaab terrorist movement, but he has become the eye of the Qatari
regime on groups, forces and clans in Somalia.
Qatar also hosts the second man in the Mujahideen
Youth Movement, Muhammad Saeed Atm, who was listed by the Arab Quartet
countries (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE and Bahrain) calling for combating
terrorism in November 2017 on the terrorist lists, and which there are
similarities between him and Fahd Yassin, in the framework of cooperation
between Between them, and took information from him about the security
situation in Somalia.
Turkey and Qatar are allies whose relations were
strengthened after the Arab and Gulf boycott of Doha in June 2017, after it was
revealed that Doha was involved in supporting and financing terrorism.
Somalia constitutes a vital geographical space for
the two allies to expand and expand by investing in the weakness of the
existing government in Somalia and in light of the growing strength of
Al-Shabaab, the Somali branch of Al-Qaeda, which reports indicate close links
between it and Doha under more than a disguise cover to mislead the
international community and cover up suspicious links.
The anti-government Somali youth movement is also
considered one of the largest terrorist groups and organizations in Mogadishu,
as the existing governments and political regimes consider apostate regimes
that contradict Islam and are hostile to Sharia and the enemies of religion,
and that violence is the only means - according to their belief - to bring
about fundamental changes in the structure of political, social and cultural
systems. In addition to not recognizing the concepts of the homeland and the
citizen as concepts that reinforce Western values and
principles.
The Somali Al-Shabaab movement is considered a
faction of Al-Qaeda, as the organization found in Somalia a fertile environment
for deployment and presence due to the region’s geography and its strategic
location between the countries of the Horn of Africa, and the collapse of its
central government, which helped the organization’s elements to move easily
inside Somalia, and al-Qaeda succeeded in recruiting a number Of the young
Somalis who formed the basic structure of the militant Islamic groups that
emerged later, despite the strong spread of traditional Sufism there.
The movement controls a fifth of Somali territory,
especially the rural areas and small towns in the south and center of the
country.
Its presence has strengthened in the north,
especially in the Puntland region, where it is confronting the Islamic State
militants, "ISIS" in the heights of Jal Jala. The movement also takes
the city of "Jilib" in southern Somalia as its de facto capital. The
number of the movement’s members ranges between 3 and 9 thousand fighters,
according to estimates by the US Department of Defense, despite reports of
increasing defection rates within the movement’s ranks.
In December 2019, that is, three months after a
Qatari man took control of the security establishment in Somalia, the
Observatory of Takfiri Fatwas and Hardline Opinions, affiliated to the Egyptian
Dar Al Iftaa, warned of the escalation of terrorist acts in the Somali capital,
Mogadishu.
The Fatwa Observatory clarified that the terrorist
Al-Qaeda organization maintains its elements in Somalia, Afghanistan, Yemen and
West Africa, and that some terrorist ISIS elements fleeing Iraq and Syria may
join it, and some other elements may collide with it in a mixture of coalition
and confrontation.
The Fatwa Observatory called for the need to
intensify international efforts to confront terrorist groups and organizations
in various parts of the world, and work to develop a clear international
strategy to confront terrorist organizations that seek to spread their approach
and ideas by force of arms.
The terrorist operations of Al-Shabaab movement,
which was established in 2004 inside Somalia, have killed tens of thousands of
people. It has expanded its terrorist activities across borders to target Kenya
in particular, in addition to a number of neighboring countries.
During January and February 2020, Al-Shabaab carried
out about 106 terrorist operations, including 99 operations inside Somalia, and
7 operations inside Kenya. The operations inside Somali varied between 34
attacks on military bases belonging to the Somali government forces and African
forces in Somalia (AMISOM), 38 detonations between car bombs and planting
landmines and explosive devices against civilians and some institutions and
government officials, and 10 assassinations of a number of officials and army
officers. Somali soldiers and police, 12 offensive operations against some
government sites, and 3 executions and the end of apostasy for people accused
by the movement of spying for government forces and some neighboring countries.
In addition
to the downing of a US drone, and one kidnapping of a Somali local official.
Since January 2020, the movement has announced that it has taken control of 4
regions in Somalia, including two strategic areas, one of which is located on
the border with Ethiopia.
In addition,
it took control of the "Ali Adi" region in the Hiran region in the
state of Hershbili in central Somalia, and it took control of the
"Farlabah" area, 45 kilometers from Hiran region, after the
withdrawal of the Somali forces from it, which reflects the movement's
continuing expansion of the geographical area of its
areas of control. in the country.
The field development of Al-Shabaab movement was
monitored by the American agencies. A report from the US Department of Defense
(Pentagon) issued on February 11, 2020 revealed the inability of the Somali
federal government to stand alone against Al-Shabaab, and that the movement
still maintains control and leadership, which is highlighted by its activities
during the period The last few.