MOGADISHU, Somalia – The Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) has renewed the recruitment of members who jumped from the terrorist group Al-Shabaab to bring them into the country’s security and military forces.
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Abdisalam Guled, who served as deputy head of the Somali intelligence service NISA, said Al-Shabaab had infiltrated the bodies of the Somali security agencies under the attention of the international community.
“A new Al-Shabaab egg is hatched every day in the security forces,” said Guled, who recently brought the news of hundreds of Somali soldiers killed in Tigray as they fought along the ENDF and Eritreans.
In the last few months, hundreds of young people who left Al-Shabaab have been recruited from the Rehabilitation Center and then trained and reintegrated into the Somali National Army and Spy Agency.
The commander of the former terrorists, who now became a member of the army, has been assigned a high rank and a diplomatic passport to ensure he can leave the country if he commits a crime, according to Guled.
This comes days after outgoing President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo sent youth soldiers from the Gorgor Brigade to the Gedo region. Most of them are former terrorists and fought for Al-Shabaab.
Al-Shabaab has largely infiltrated Somali security agencies since Fahad Yasin, who maintains a close relationship with Qatar, became head of the National Intelligence and Security Agency [NISA] in August 2019.
The maximum number of former Al-Shabaab members is in the police and NISA. For example, the head of the Turkish-trained special police unit is known as Haram’ad Farhan Qarole ex-terrorist.
One of the oldest figures neglected by Al-Shabab is Zakariya Ahmed Ismail Hersi – who once had $ 3 million in rewards from the United States on his head. He now holds a higher rank in the Somali intelligence service.
Also, the US-funded Somalia spy chief, who worked with Al-Jazeera Arabic as Mogadishu office chief, has previous ties to al Ittihad al Islamiya and a close relationship with al-Shabaab terrorists.
There is growing concern about the extent to which Al-Shabaab has now infiltrated police and intelligence services, as well as real fears of escalating threats posed by the double agents to security.
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