Unlearned Lessons of Al-shabaab Attacks in Mogadishu
Mogadishu (PP Commentary) Since 2014 Al-shabaab launched more than ten attacks on Mogadishu hotels. Its operatives collect intelligence on the targets before catching security forces off guard. What makes Hotel Afrik attack different from other attacks is how Al-shabaab justified the loss of lives to target General Mohammed Nur Galal. Al-shabaab issued a statement on the massacre at the hotel. A newly married couple was among the victims.
General Galal knew he was on Al-shabaab’s hit-list since he had joined forces with the former Ahlu Sunna Wal Jama’ paramilitaries in Dhuusamareeb back in 2011. Asked why he backs a paramilitary group supported by Ethiopia, General Galal said that the common goal shared with Ethiopia to defeat Al-shabaab had mattered more than his opposition to Ethiopia’s intervention in Somalia in 2006 to protect the former Transitional Federal Government of Somalia. “During the World War II the US