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WARNING GRAPHIC PHOTO: Kenya Defence Forces Kill 26 Al shabaab in heavy gun battle

WARNING GRAPHIC PHOTO: Kenya Defence Forces Kill 26 Al shabaab in heavy gun battle

May 14, 2015 Leave a Comment

By Strategic Intelligence News

Somali based jihadists Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen militants attempted to ambush a Kenya Army Border Operations Special unit forward base.

The militants also staged an attack at the village of Haamey, a tiny frontier village 40 kilometres from the border with Somalia.

The militants torched 3 thatched huts.

Army personnel from the forward base at Liboi were called in and effectively stopped the cross-border incursion.

Military Intelligence reports show at least 26 militants from the Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen group were killed by Kenya Army during the operations. Dozens others escaped with gun injuries.

Assessment

The porous Kenya-Somalia border has factored increase in terrorism acts in the border regions of the republic of Kenya.

Kenya has commenced the construction of a wall that will separate the two countries and effectively neutralize the threat posed by militants.

The cross-border attack signals escalation of terrorists militant strategy. It further shows existence of elements of Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen militants mobile bases near the Somali border with Kenya.

Analysis shows that Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen militants may be trying to establish larger operating bases in areas 100 kilometres from the Kenyan border with the intent to conduct future  terror and militant attacks.

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