Kenya: Al-Shabab confirm death of Garissa attack leader

By Andrew Wasike

NAIROBI (AA) – The Somali-based al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabab militant group has acknowledged the death of the man who orchestrated the April 2015 attack on Kenya’s Garissa University College, which killed 148 people.

An obituary released by the terror group confirmed that Mohamed Mohamud Ali, aka Dulyadin, was killed by Somali security forces.

"Congratulations and condolences to the Islamic nation for the martyrdom of our knight Sheikh Mohamed Mahmoud Ali, we console ourselves and our nation for the martyrdom of Muslim knight Commando commander Sheikh Mohamed Mahmoud Ali, may Allah accept him and lift him to paradise,” a section of the obituary read.

Authorities in Somalia had announced on June 1 that they had killed the Garissa University attack mastermind but were waiting for DNA lab tests to confirm whether it was indeed him. They said that the Kenyan Muslim cleric was killed near Kismayo in Somalia by a joint United States-Somalia military operation.