Suspected Al-Shabaab’s intelligence agent arrested

[Deeq A.]

MOGADISHU (Caasimada Online) – Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) says its forces have arrested a suspected Al-Shabaab’s intelligence agent in an operation in the capital of Mogadishu.

The operation was carried out on Saturday at the main road linking Mogadishu to southwestern town of Afgoye, about 40 kilometers away from Somali capital.

Somali Intelligence’s Twitter feed said its security forces captured a man whom it says was an Al-Shabaab’s elite force member tasked with intelligence gathering.

Maanta ciidanka amniga ayaa kasoo qabtay nawaaxiga Afgooye, shakhsi sahan u ahaa AS, tabinayayna xogaha dhaq dhaqaaqa ciidanka si ay wadada ugu galaan. Howlgalkan cidi wax kuma noqon. Qabashadan waxay qayb ka tahay nabad kusoo dabaalida caasimadda.

— NISA (@HSNQ_NISA) October 20, 2018

Last month, Somalia’s Intelligence says its security forces arrested an Al-Shabaab bomb expert, following security operation in the capital of Mogadishu

Somali capital Mogadishu has witnessed numerous targeted assassinations against security force members, civil servants and elders carried out by unknown gunmen.

But some of those attacks were claimed by Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group in Somalia.

The group also carried out similar suicide bomb attacks at key areas in the capital of Mogadishu, leaving dozens, including children dead.

The Al-Qaeda linked Shabaab was pushed out of the Somali capital in 2011 — and subsequently other towns and cities — by soldiers from the African Union Mission in Somalia.

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