The United States said Thursday that it is offering up to $10 million (€9.2 million) in reward money for information leading to the arrest of Mohamud Abdi Aden, leader of the Al Shabaab terrorist group cell that bombed a hotel and shopping complex in the capital, Nairobi, in 2019.
Among the victims of the attack, perpetrated according to Washington by Abdi Aden, as well as by his accomplices – for whom it is asking for that amount – against the Dusit D2 complex in January 2019, are 16 Kenyans, one of them a policeman, and an American who survived the attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as a British aid worker.
Al Shabaab, which claimed responsibility for the attack, posted live updates of the assault and issued a press release stating that it was to commemorate the footsteps followed by the late Al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri.
«Mohamud Abdi Aden, also known as Mohamud Abdirahman, a leader of Al Shabaab, was part of the cell that planned the attack on the Dusit2 Hotel,» the State Department said in a statement, adding that this group «is responsible for numerous terrorist attacks in Kenya, Somalia and neighboring countries.»
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
