A Mogadishu court has sentenced to life imprisonment the head of an al Shabaab terror cell comprised of bomb makers in Somalia. The 30-year old Mohamed Mohamud Mohamed was found guilty of heading some Al-Shabaab terrorist cell and training fellow fighters in the art of bombmaking.
Mohamud was arrested alongside several members of his cell last month following a crackdown of al Shabaab militants and sympathizers in Mogadishu. Investigations revealed that the cell Mohamud led was responsible for the making of most bombs used by the fighters against military and civilian targets.
The militant group has been waging deadly bomb attacks in Mogadishu and other towns since 2011 when its fighters lost the control of Mogadishu to African Union-backed Somali government forces.
