When Qatar used Shabaab to bomb Bosaso so they could drive out UAE

[bidenkulaha]

With Guns, Cash and Terrorism, Gulf States Vie for Power in Somalia (Published 2019)

In a battle for influence, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have both sent money and weapons to Somalia. A secret recording suggests that militants may be working with the Qataris.

www.nytimes.com

In an audio recording obtained by The New York Times of a cellphone call with the Qatari ambassador to Somalia, a businessman close to the emir of Qatar said that the militants had carried out the bombing in Bosaso to advance Qatar’s interests by driving out its rival, the United Arab Emirates.

“The bombings and killings, we know who are behind them,” the businessman, Khalifa Kayed al-Muhanadi, said in the call on May 18, about a week after the bombing.

The violence was “intended to make Dubai people run away from there,” he said, referring to the Emirates’ financial capital. “Let them kick out the Emiratis, so they don’t renew the contracts with them and I will bring the contract here to Doha,” the capital of Qatar.

 

[bidenkulaha]

@abz1991 this is for you. Qatar is a terrorist state, it’s no surprise they and Fahad Yasin had a very close relationship with Shabaab, who bombed their political opponents. It also explains why there were no operations against Shabaab in Farmaajo’s years

 

[Dowlad]

Looks like Qatars sponsored terrorism has worked and chased out investors from Bosaso.