Category: Al-Katāi’b Media

Mogadishu (20/11/2011) – Divisions from Harakat Al-Shabaab Al Mujahideen’s Naval Forces stormed and burned military ships patrolling the waters along the Somali Coast , marking the first encounter between the Mujahideen and the invading Kenyan forces at sea.
Using high-powered speed boats and operating stealthily under the cover of darkness, two divisions from the Naval Forces launched a carefully calculated attack on two Kenyan navy ships travelling between the islands of Kudhaa and Madhawo, near Kismayo, at around 0300 hours Sunday morning. In the exchange of gunfire, one of the ships was set ablaze when hit by rocket-propelled grenades, while the other ship escaped unhurt.
The Kenyan ships were reported to have been patrolling the waters for weeks and persistently prohibiting local fishermen from fishing near the islands. In a series of recorded incidents, the Kenyan forces have previously sank at least 1 Somali-owned merchant ship and killed nearly 20 fishermen, thus prompting the Mujahideen Naval Forces to act with fierce force to stop the perpetrators.
On land, a dispatch of the Mujahideen military forces has successfully ambushed a convoy of 6 vehicles transporting Kenyan troops between the towns of Taabta and Dhoobley this morning. Two of the vehicles, including a white Toyota Land-cruiser carrying senior army officials, were burned down in the fire fight that lasted approximately 1 hour, before the Kenyan army fled the scene of the battle. 8 Kenyan soldiers were also killed in the ambush.
With the increased manoeuvres of the invading forces, Harakat Al-Shabaab Al Mujahideen pledges to defend the Muslim people of Somalia from all forms of invasion, ideological as well as physical, which intends to subjugate the population, occupy their territory, plunder their resources and infect the teachings of Islam with the degrading values of democracy.
Press Office
Harakat Al-Shabaab Al Mujahideen 
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The statement by the Kenyan government that two planes carrying weapons for Al-Shabaab have landed in Baidoa is a mere propaganda that is intended to sanction the mass murder of innocent civilians in Somalia.
At a time when the people of Somalia are recuperating from the severe droughts that have hit the regions of Southern Somalia and began sowing the seeds of their future, the Kenyan government declared war against them, conducting well-coordinated disinformation campaigns and disseminating propaganda in an attempt to legitimize the invasion of their country.
Kenyan fighter jets have already bombed several Somali cities and killed dozens of innocent civilians in the process. The latest strafing of Khaybar Refugee camp in Jilib by the Kenyan military claimed the lives of more than 10 innocent refugees and injured 53 all of them women and children. The systematic killing of innocent civilians and the plan to arbitrarily bomb 10 cities in Southern Somalia not only highlights the barbarity of the Kenyan invasion but also further illustrates the vicious nature of the Kenyan war against the entire people of Somalia.
And as the much-hyped ‘Operation Linda Nchi’ gains momentum, it becomes apparent that the operation is not simply an attempt to defend Kenya’s territorial boundary as they claimed but rather a clever camouflage for the full-scale invasion of Somalia. This is a war not against Al-Shabaab, but against the people of Somalia.
Harakat Al-Shabaab Al Mujahideen has already warned both the Kenyan government as well as its public against the aggressive incursion into Somali territory and hereby emphasizes, once more, that the continued Kenyan invasion and the callous disregard for civilian lives will have some cataclysmic consequences.
Press Office
Harakat Al-Shabaab Al Mujahideen
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