Two al Shabaab assassins have been sentenced to death while another two for life in prison for killing three soldiers and at least one civilian. The sentences were delivered by a military court in Mogadishu.
The court found Shuheb Abdullahi Mohamed and Sadiq Abdijab Hussein guilty of killing five people among them three soldiers and a civilian. Sadiq was found guilty of belonging to the Al-Shabaab assassination unit and for killing an ex-policeman named Mohamud Hassan Ibrahim in March 2019. Shuheb was found guilty of killing three soldiers and a civilian in Mogadishu.
Al Shabaab has continuously used assassination as a mode of attack especially against security personnel in the country’s capital Mogadishu. The terrorists use shooters embedded within the civilian populace and conduct the targeted killing and more often than not they strip the soldiers of their weapons and uniform used later by the terrorists to infiltrate other targets.
