Somali General: Kenyans Were Warned of Al-Shabab Attack

A Kenyan army unit reportedly decimated in an attack by al-Shabab militants last Friday had received warning of the assault, according to a Somali general. The commander of Somali troops in the Gedo region, General Abbas Ibrahim Gurey, tells VOA's Somali service that the unit's commander was given word of a possible attack hours before the first bullet was fired. "It was information we knew, the information was received, and they were ready for it," Gurey said in a...

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