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Posted on September 23, 2009 at 05:35:08 PM by mb
Salah Nabhan captured alive along with Abu Mansur Al Amriiki Accoring to Il Corriere della Sera
September 23, 2009
Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera has some interesting news on the covert raid conducted by US Special Forces, dubbed Celestial Balance, that targeted an al Qaeda leader in Southern Somalia on Sept. 14th. According to a local stringer for the newspaper, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan was not killed but captured alive. Along with Nabhan, American commandos apprehended Abu Mansur al Amriki, the American convert to Islam who has become a commander in charge of military training for Shabaab.
Amriki can be seen in Shabaab’s latest propaganda videotape, released on Sunday, leading the training of Shabaab fighters at the Abu Suleim camp.
Witnesses in the village of Roboow told the Il Corriere della Sera stringer that both al Qaeda commanders were boarded on helicopters, then they were probably transferred onto US Navy ships stationing at large off the Somali coast. “Capturing the man sent by Osama to set up the Somali insurgency would be a huge success” for the Americans, says the Italian newspaper. But, as Il Corriere repeatedly points out, this news has not been confirmed.
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Source: The Long War
Shabaab training camps and military movements
By Bill RoggioSeptember 22, 2009 3:32 PM
A segment of Shabaab's latest video that is dedicated to Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar. The tape appears to be Shabaab's signal that it has joined al Qaeda.
This clip shows Shabaab fighters at the Abu Suleim training camp. The fighters are practicing marksmanship, assaults in urban environments, and dismounted operations from the "technicals" - the modified gun trucks. Abu Mansour al Amriki, an American citizen in charge of military training for Shabaab, is seen during the urban training.
A company of Shabaab forces in heavy and light technicals is also shown, followed by what appears to be real fighting between Shabaab and either Somali or African Union forces in what appears to be Mogadishu.
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/videos/2009/09/shabaab_training_camps_and_mil.php#ixzz0Ry2z0xBJ
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