Mogadishu (TerrorFreeSomalia )—Somali security
officials say they have arrested over twenty suspected Al shabab
affiliates with their guns during a crackdown in Mogadishu on Thursday,
November 22, 2012.
Khalif Ahmed Eric, chief of Somali
security forces in Banadir region, told journalists in the capital that a
tip-off has led the forces to the arrest of 20 Al shabab jihadists gents who have been hiding in Suqa-Holaha vicinity, north of Mogadishu.
Mr. Eric noted that the detained Al
shabab members were seized in a dawn sweep in parts of northern
Mogadishu, where insecurity acts reported over the past few weeks.
Witnesses said several fighters have been
killed during armed clashes between the Government troops and Al shabab
in the area on Wednesday night as locals were sleeping.
The move followed after the killings and
attacks against civilians, media workers and government soldiers and
officials happened in the capital. H\T RADIO MOGADISHU
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