A senior Al-Shabaab intelligence commander who has been responsible for planning and seeing to the executing of several attacks in Somalia and neighboring countries surrendered to government Monday.
According to Somalia military authorites, Mohamed Ali Hassan first made contact with government authorities in Hudur town of Bakol region before ultimately giving himself in.
Hassan who is said to have been on the run from Somali forces took advantage of the government amnesty offer for Al-Shabaab militants to surrender which began late last year.
Hassan was quoted to have admitted to having been responsible for several attacks in Somalia which killed many people.
Asking for forgiveness from the Somali government and the citizens of Somalia Hassan also confessed to being the senior Al-Shabaab intelligence commander in the course of which he was responsible for the planning of several attacks which have killed many people in Somalia.
Hassan surrenders a few days after Al-Shabaab’s deadly attack on Somalia’s Maka Al Mukarama Hotel that left close to 30 people killed and scores injured.
