Thursday October 27, 2022
Mogadishu (HOL) - A Somali military court executed two men in Mogadishu after they were convicted of being assassins on behalf of al Shabab and ISIS-Somalia.
A firing squad executed Adan Ali Mohamed Mohamud and Mohamed Ali Mohamed Farah at the General Kahiye Police Academy on Wednesday morning.
The two men had lost an appeal after a lower court upheld the death sentence.
Wednesday's execution marks the second time that Islamist militants have been put to death this week.
According to the military court, both men used aliases while members of militant groups.
Adan Ali, who went by Jabir and Said, was an active member of al Shabab and Daesh at different times since 2010. Mohamed Ali joined ISIS in 2018 and was known as Abu Hureyra.
The court said that Adan Mohamed participated in terror activities in Beledweyne, Bulaburde and was Haradheer. Most recently, he was active in the outskirts of the Deynunay district before being arrested by al Shabab for unknown reasons.
After being released by Al Shabab, he travelled to Bosaso, where he worked as a contract killer for the Islamic State in Somalia, a branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
On September 24, 2018, Adan Mohamed assassinated Ahmed Mohamed Jama Hurfe, a Puntland officer, in Bosasso.
A month later, he murdered a businessman named Abdirahman Aadan Ali in Bosasso.
The court said that ISIS-Somalia sent him to Mogadishu, where he proceeded to carry out killings to the benefit of the terror outfit.
On January 27, 2019, Adan Ali Mohamed Mohamud was apprehended by security forces in Mogadishu and handed over to the government.
The military tribunal found him guilty and sentenced him to death in August 2019.
Mohamed Ali Mohamed Farah was trained in the mountains of Galgala by Sheikh Abulkhadir Mumin after being radicalized by the group's propaganda on the popular encrypted messaging service Telegram.
He fought in battles against al-Shabaab before being sent to Mogadishu, where he killed a government soldier named Mohamed Abi Dhulow.
In early August 2019, Farah was shot and wounded by government forces as he attempted to evade arrest.
He was convicted of murder in March 2010.
A Somali military court executed Shuaib Abdullahi Mohamed and Sadaq Abdi Jabar Omar - both al Shabab members - on Monday for the murder of government soldiers.