[ April 19, 2024 ]
Love our President — he knows what’s what. Is jihad-Rep lhan Omar criticizing the Trump yet?
US airstrike kills senior ISIS Somalia official Abdulhakim Dhuqub, Africom says
U.S. Africa Command said on Monday, April 15 that it carried out an airstrike against the Islamic State affiliate in northeastern Somalia, killing a senior official identified as Abdulhakim Dhuqub.
“As second in command of ISIS-Somalia, Dhuqub was responsible for the daily operations of the extremist group, attack planning, and resource procurement,” Africom said in a statement confirming the Sunday, April 14 strike in the vicinity of Xiriiro in Somalia’s Bari Region.
Story continues below advertisement“At this time, it is assessed this airstrike killed only Dhuqub and destroyed one vehicle,” the command added.
The airstrike hit a vehicle in which Dhuqub, also known as Abdihakim Mohamed Ibrahim, was traveling, Voice of America reported on Sunday, placing the strike between the villages of Hol Anod and Hiriro.
A second man with Dhuqub was killed but has not been identified, VOA reported Puntland region security minister Abdisamad Mohamed Gallan as saying.
It is the latest in a handful of U.S. airstrikes against Abnaa ul-Calipha. Formed in October 2015, Abnaa ul-Calipha was recognized by ISIS central as an official wilayat, or province, in December 2017 and it was named Islamic State Somalia province.
The group operates in the semi-autonomous Puntland region of Somalia and is estimated to have around 300 active fighters. Abnaa ul-Calipha is a splinter group from al-Shabaab, and the latter has ordered the killing of defectors. U.S. Africa Command began carrying out airstrikes against the group in November 2017.
In the statement Monday, Africom said it assessed that no civilians were killed or injured as the result of the airstrike, following an admission on April 5 that it had inadvertently killed civilians in an aerial raid against al-Shabaab last year.
“We continue to work with our Somali partners to keep pressure on the al-Shabaab and ISIS-Somalia terror networks,” U.S. Africa Command director of operations Major General Gregg Olson said.
“When it supports the strategy, we use precision airstrikes to target those who plan and carry out the violent extremist activities that put Somalis at risk.”
U.S. forces partner with Somali national security forces in counterterrorism operations, and have conducted frequent raids and drone strikes on al-Shabaab training camps throughout Somalia.
American strikes in Somalia surged in April 2017 after President Donald Trump declared southern Somalia an “area of active hostilities,” the rights group Amnesty International said last month.
Africom has carried out 29 airstrikes in Somalia in 2019, compared to 47 in 2018 and 35 in 2017.
The Truth Must be Told
Your contribution supports independent journalism
Please take a moment to consider this. Now, more than ever, people are reading Geller Report for news they won't get anywhere else. But advertising revenues have all but disappeared. Google Adsense is the online advertising monopoly and they have banned us. Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have blocked and shadow-banned our accounts. But we won't put up a paywall. Because never has the free world needed independent journalism more.
Everyone who reads our reporting knows the Geller Report covers the news the media won't. We cannot do our ground-breaking report without your support. We must continue to report on the global jihad and the left's war on freedom. Our readers’ contributions make that possible.
Geller Report's independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our work is critical in the fight for freedom and because it is your fight, too.
Please contribute here.
or
Make a monthly commitment to support The Geller Report – choose the option that suits you best.
Quick note: We cannot do this without your support. Fact. Our work is made possible by you and only you. We receive no grants, government handouts, or major funding.Tech giants are shutting us down. You know this. Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Adsense, Pinterest permanently banned us. Facebook, Google search et al have shadow-banned, suspended and deleted us from your news feeds. They are disappearing us. But we are here.
Subscribe to Geller Report newsletter here— it’s free and it’s essential NOW when informed decision making and opinion is essential to America's survival. Share our posts on your social channels and with your email contacts. Fight the great fight.
Follow Pamela Geller on Gettr. I am there. click here.
Follow Pamela Geller on Trump's social media platform, Truth Social. It's open and free.
Remember, YOU make the work possible. If you can, please contribute to Geller Report.
Join The Conversation. Leave a Comment.
We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spammy or unhelpful, click the - symbol under the comment to let us know. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.
If you would like to join the conversation, but don't have an account, you can sign up for one right here.
If you are having problems leaving a comment, it's likely because you are using an ad blocker, something that break ads, of course, but also breaks the comments section of our site. If you are using an ad blocker, and would like to share your thoughts, please disable your ad blocker. We look forward to seeing your comments below.
17 Comments
5 years ago
Ask Ilhan Omar what she think about it.
With the cameras rolling!
5 years ago
made aware in an instant that mohammad & islam are of satan
5 years ago
Reply to
Kud Zu
That’s their history, beginning with the vision of an angel (we know to be a fallen angel or demon because of his testimony regarding Allah) named ‘Gabriel.’
The real Gabriel announced the birth of Messiah (the Lord Jesus Christ).
So, since Satan attempts to counterfeit the works of God, he did so through his demon (as he communicated to Mohammed) the word of Allah (who even identifies himself as Satan in the Quran).
5 years ago
Probably all her kin folk
5 years ago
Instead of wasting precious blood and treasure, in soomawwlia … Better to eradicate the soomawwlee presence in the United States of America. We have enough problems with them over here. Until we exterminate that scourge (soomawwlees), within our borders, leave Africa alone.
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Same in Australia with Somali street gangs, although the Govt denies them, of course.
5 years ago
Reply to
chris VN
Doesn’t Australia have a lot of soodaneeze, as well. Both have IQs in the low sixties. Not a good combination, moslem, negro, and ultra-stupid.
5 years ago
Good shootin’
5 years ago
He can meet his pedophile prophet in Hell much sooner. What do the Muslim twin terrorist congresswomen think?
Somebody did something.
5 years ago
Pls tell AOC that Dan Crenshaw organised it.
5 years ago
i like it! :)))
5 years ago
I hope all of Africa is free from Islam one day, it has only held them and their societies back!
5 years ago
I feel good. Don’t know why. Going to get me some coffee and doughnuts. Anybody else want some?? 😉
5 years ago
Good! Now that the Somalia threat is gone we can send all those Somalian refugees back to their homeland where they can be happy and safe , free from Jewish and Christian oppression and can pray six time a day to their pediphile prophet, and Omar can lead the way! Keep It up President Trump 2020!
5 years ago
Next on the hit list should be # one.
5 years ago
Surgical, I like that. Saves time, money, and personnel.
