Dhobley, (RBC Radio) Reports from Dhobley, Somalia’s southern border town say that newly foreign jihadists have been pouring into the border towns of Somalia in recent days, joining forces with local fighters to turn the country into an Al-Qaeda heaven.
Some of twenty western and African fighers had gathered into Dhobley, where Al Shabab insurgents have recently taken control from Hisbul Islam militia, an other rival group.
A local resident in the area who spoke to RBC Radio in a condition of anonymity said that nearly twenty new foreign jihadists had came the district as they begin to meet with Al Shabab militia leaders in Dhobley.
The Local residents described seeing foreigners, some with turbans wrapped around their faces, careering around the streets in pickup trucks bristling with weapons.
The reports also says that Al Shabab miliitia who recently seized most of the border towns in the southern part of the country would consider to use the foreign fighters as special forces if Kenya and Ethiopia, two neighbouring countries continue any military acts against Al Shabab, as foreign fighters know better war tactics.
There had been an nightly curfew over Dhobley district following the arrival of the foreing fighters.
Sources close to the Al Shabab’s led administration in Kismayo, the capital of Lower Jubba region has confirmed that the region is now full of foreing jihadists, mostly from United States, Saudi Arabia And Afghanistan.
Somalia now shelters an estimated 450 foreign fighters who are working with Al Shabab, a home-grown hardline Islamist group that has spearheaded a bloody insurgency since 2006.
Foreign fighters who wanted for links to Al-Qaeda have long used Somalia as a backyard, their numbers have swollen dramatically in 2009, experts say.
Source:raxanreeb.com/
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