Somalia

Sheikh Mukhtar Robow Ali “Abu-Mansoor,” an Afghan trained Islamic Courts fighter, has been named the spokesman for al Shabaab, the al Qaeda-backed Islamist terror front in Somalia. A district official for the Somali National Security Agency was killed and four civilians were wounded in separate attacks in Mogadishu.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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