Al-Shabaab's military command has confirmed that the peacekeeper recently killed by the US in the Badhan area, named Omar Abdi, was not part of the group, and that the accusation that he was buying weapons for the jihadists is a baseless and fabricated lie.

The group said that the accusation was aimed at the US to avenge the blood of peacekeepers and the blood of Somali intellectuals in general. The full statement reads as follows:

"There is no god but Allah
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
For urgent release
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HARAKAT AL-SHABAAB AL MUJAHIDEEN
AL-SHABAB MUJAHIDI MOVEMENT
Refutation of Statements from AFRICOM Crusaders
25 Rabiul Awal 1447 H (17 September 2025) The Al-Shabaab Mujahideen Movement denies a statement from the US AFRICOM command stating that they targeted a member of the Al-Shabaab Mujahideen Movement in the Badhan area on 13 September 2025.
The Al-Shabaab Mujahideen movement confirms that the individual who was bombed by the Crusaders in the Badhan area is not a member of the movement, and the accusation they made that he used to sell weapons to the Mujahideen is a baseless and baseless lie aimed at avenging his blood and the blood of Somali intellectuals.
The United States has a dark history of massacres of intellectuals and the Somali people, and since the 1990s until today, it has massacred thousands of Somali civilians, including women, children, and the elderly, including intellectuals who were of special value to the Somali community. In addition to lying about the massacres they have committed against innocent Muslims, it is noteworthy that the United States describes everyone it bombs as Mujahideen, even if they serve the Crusaders. In September 2016, the United States bombed apostate militias on the outskirts of Galkayo, killing 13 of them, claiming that they were members of the Mujahideen, but it later turned out that they were apostates from the so-called Galmudug militia, which exposed the falsity of the US claims and the excuse it uses for the massacres it is waging in Somalia.
The Al-Shabaab Mujahideen movement will not shy away from its fight to defend religion, people and country from the evil desires of the US-led crusaders, but it will not accept that its name be used to justify the massacre of the Somali Muslim people and their intellectuals, as happened in the Badhan area. We send our condolences to all the relatives of Muslims who were massacred by the US in its brutal bombings in Somalia.
Al-Kataib
(And to Allah belongs [all] honor, and to His Messenger, and to the believers, but the hypocrites do not know.)
" But honour belongs to Allah and His Messenger, and to the Believers; but the Hypocrites know not" "

Taliska millateriga Al-Shabaab ayaa xaqiijiyey in nabad-doonkii dhawaan uu Maraykanku ku dilay deggaanka Badhan ee lagu magacaabi jiray Cumar Cabdi uusan ka tirsanayn Xarakada, isla markaana eedaynta ah inuu hubka u soo iibin jiray jihaadiyiinta ay tahay been-abuur aan sal iyo raad toona lahayn.

Xarkada ayaa sheegtay in eeddaasi uu Maraykanku uga golleeyahay inuu ku bannaysto dhiigga nabad-doonka iyo guud ahaan dhiigga wax-garadka Soomaaliyeed. Waxaanu bayaankaasi oo dhamaystiran u qornaa sidan: