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Intelligence reports have confirmed that in the morning of Thursday 27th of June, violent skirmishes broke in Jiliib pitting core Harakat Shabaab Mujahideen commanders against each other.
According to the report Strategic Intelligence, the violence, though actual incident reports are yet to be reviewed, confirms that the infighting between the groups ranks and file forced the group’s leadership to worry, possibly call for a shura council meeting.
The fighting is largely blamed on successful airstrikes targeting top intelligence and military commanders in the groups’ bastions, specifically Central Somalia.
The Amniyaat, the intelligence wing of the group claimed that moderate members of the governing council covertly met representatives of the government of Somalia in what could have been the onset of negotiating a political truce and subsequent de-escalation by the terror group.
https://www.radiodalsan.com/en/2019/06/27/violent-infighting-breaks-out-among-al-shabab-ranks/