On Wednesday, Australian regulators added the following person to its Consolidated List, under its Somalia/Eritrea sanctions program:
(14) Maalim Salman
AKA: Mu’alim Salman
AKA: Mualem Suleiman
AKA: Ameer Salman
AKA: Ma’alim Suleiman
AKA: Maalim Salman Ali
AKA: Maalim Selman Ali
AKA: Ma’alim Selman
AKA: Ma’alin Sulayman
DOB: circa 1979
POB: Nairobi, Kenya
Location: Somalia
along with the following narrative:
Maalim Salman was chosen by al-Shabaab leader Ahmed Abdi aw-Mohamed aka
Godane to be the head of African foreign fighters for al-Shabaab. He has trained
foreign nationals who were seeking to join al-Shabaab as African foreign fighters,
and has been involved in operations in Africa targeting tourists, entertainment
establishments, and churches.
Although focused mainly on operations outside of Somalia, Salman is known to reside
in Somalia and train foreign fighters in Somalia before dispatching them elsewhere.
Some of al-Shabaab’s foreign fighters also have a presence in Somalia. For example,
Salman ordered al-Shabaab foreign fighters to southern Somalia in response to an
African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) offensive.
Among other terrorist attacks, al-Shabaab was responsible for the attack on the
Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya in September 2013, which resulted in the
deaths of at least 67 people. More recently, al-Shabaab claimed the August 31, 2014
attack on the National Intelligence and Security Agency prison in Mogadishu, killing
three security guards and two civilians, and injuring 15 others.
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