{"id":447427,"date":"2025-08-25T09:35:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=447427"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:35:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:35:57","slug":"somali-security-forces-execute-two-al-shabaab-militants-in-mogadishu-by-firing-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/somali-security-forces-execute-two-al-shabaab-militants-in-mogadishu-by-firing-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali Security Forces Execute Two Al-Shabaab Militants in Mogadishu by Firing Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2013 The Somali authorities on Monday executed Anas Abdulqadir Ali Mahmoud \u201cSalman\u201d and Aden Mursal Mohamed Iidow, members of the Al-Shabaab terrorist group, who were convicted of carrying out bombings and targeted killings.<\/p>\n<p>The convicts had been apprehended for their involvement in a series of security incidents across Somalia. The Military Court found them guilty of grave crimes, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Planned assassinations and bomb attacks targeting civilians and government officials.<\/li>\n<li>Direct involvement in the terrorist attack in Gaalkacyo, Puntland, which claimed the lives of prominent community leaders, including elders and traditional figures.<\/li>\n<li>Active participation in atrocities and intimidation against the civilian population.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After hearing compelling evidence and witness testimonies, the Military Court sentenced them to death by firing squad \u2014 a ruling that was today carried out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2013 The Somali authorities on Monday executed Anas Abdulqadir Ali Mahmoud \u201cSalman\u201d and Aden Mursal Mohamed Iidow, members of the Al-Shabaab terrorist group, who were convicted of carrying out bombings and targeted killings. The convicts had been apprehended for their involvement in a series of security incidents across Somalia. The Military Court found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":447428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-447427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447429,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447427\/revisions\/447429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}