The United States announced it would pay $10 million (about $10 million) for the arrest of an Al-Shebab leader responsible for a 2020 attack on a military base in Kenya that killed three Americans came.
This has been announced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will award the reward for any information leading to the arrest and convictionin any country, from Maalim Ayman, head of the Jaysh Ayman unit of that Islamic fundamentalist movement.
“Ayman is responsible for planning the January 2020 attack,” the US State Department said in a statement.
Al-Shebab, an al-Qaeda-affiliated group, has been fighting the Somali federal government since 2007, supported by the international community, and has been classified as a terrorist organization by the United States since 2008.
On January 5, 2020, an Al-Shebab commando carried out a daring attack on a US-Kenyan military base known as Camp Simba in Manda Bay, near the touristic and picturesque island of Lamu, in southeastern Kenya, not far from the Somali border.
The attack lasted several hours, and the operation killed three Americans, as well as four attackers.
According to a study last year from George Washington University, the Jaysh Ayman unit was set up by Al-Shebab to infiltrate Kenya.
It is increasingly autonomous and includes foreigners, Somalis who also hold Kenyan nationality, and Kenyans of Somali descent or not.
Al-Shebab is the common designation for ‘Harakat al-Shebab al-Mujahideen’ (Young Warrior Movement), and the organization is also known as Hizbul Shebab and Popular Resistance Movement in the Land of Two Migrations.
Source: DN
