KDF Extracting Al-Shabaab

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NAIROBI, Kenya- Militant terrorist group Al-Shabaab has recently been under attack by the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF). Colonel Cyrus Oguna, in charge of information and operation at the Department of Defense said, “Al Shabaab only has three options; to defect; surrender or leave Somalia as they have limited options. Their resistance is crumbling, their logistics are getting disabled day by day.” Recently, the KDF in collaboration with the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) forces destroyed many of the camps and weapons used by the Al-Shabaab. Nine Al-Shabaab fighters were seriously injured by air raids at militant training camps in El Adde Township, and top leader of the militant group was recently captured by KDF and is being interviewed and interrogated for details about the militia and its networks in the country. Col. Oguna stated that the KDF has achieved their primary initial objectives against Al-Shabaab and has eliminated confidence that they would emerge as successful. Col. Oguna also stated that they are making the local Somali’s aware that they should not be “intimidated by the Al-Shabaab because they can see what is happening in areas where the Al-Shabaab has been evicted from,” adding that normalcy was returning to such areas. In response the local Somalis have assisted KDF on information about the militia Al-Shabaab men.


Source: http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2011/12/kdf-warns-the-al-shabaab-that-they-risk-annihilation/


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