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State places $10 million bounty on Kenyan Shabaab commander

Bill Roggio and Caleb Weiss | January 12, 2023

Mohamoud Abdi Aden is the second Kenyan-Somali the U.S. State Department has placed a $10 million bounty on in the last week. Shabaab now has five leaders with $10 million bounties, the most for any Sunni jihadist group.

Shabaab says Nairobi attack carried out in accordance with Zawahiri’s guidelines

Thomas Joscelyn | January 16, 2019

Shabaab released a two-page statement saying the Jan. 15 attack at a hotel in Nairobi was conducted in accordance with Ayman al Zawahiri’s “guidelines.” The al Qaeda arm has other reasons for striking inside Kenya as well, including the government’s role in the guerrilla war in Somalia.

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