Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad

Ibrahim al-Afghani also known as Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad was a prominent member of Somalia's Al-Shabaab, an insurgent group fighting Somalia's Transitional Federal Government. He hailed from the Sacad Muse sub-clan of Isaaq. Like former emir Moktar Ali Zubeyr (Abdi "Godane"), Al-Afghani hailed from Somalia's North-Western separatist region of Somaliland and belonged to Somaliland's Northern Isaaq clan.

Ibrahim al-Afghani
Personal details
Died20 June 2013
Barawa, Somalia
Political partyAl-Shabaab

Afghani formerly held positions as the first deputy leader of Al-Shabaab and in charge of finance,[1] and headed of al-Shabaab's Kisimayo administration.[2]

He was rumored to have been killed in a Predator drone attack on an al-Shabaab training camp south of Kismayo, Somalia on 25 June 2011,[3] but he survived and was reported to have resigned from Al-Shabaab in December 2011.[4] In April 2013, a letter was circulated on extremist websites reportedly penned by Afghani to Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, criticising Godane's leadership. On 29 June 2013, al-Shabab announced that they had killed Afghani during a gun battle on 20 June 2013 when he resisted arrest, but family members, including Afghani's sister, said that he had been arrested and then executed.[5]

References
  1. http://sunatimes.com/view.php?id=392
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-01-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Senior Shabaab commander rumored to have been killed in Somalia" Archived 2011-09-30 at the Wayback Machine Long War Journal July 9, 2011, accessed July 9, 2011
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-03-29. Retrieved 2012-03-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) accessed 6 March 2012
  5. "Somali Shebab extremists kill two of their own chiefs: spokesman". AFP. 29 June 2013. Retrieved 29 June 2013.


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