The US offers a reward for information on an Al Shabaab leader who attacked a hotel complex in Kenya

12 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The United States has reported this Thursday that it is offering up to ten million dollars (9.2 million euros) as a reward for information that allows the arrest of Mohamud Abdi Aden, leader of the cell of the terrorist group Al Shabaab that attacked a hotel complex and commercial 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 he is asking for said amount- against the Dusit D2 complex in January 2019, there are 16 Kenyans, one of them a policeman, and a 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 saying it was to commemorate the footsteps of 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 Dusit Hotel2,” the State Department said in a statement, adding that this group “is responsible for numerous terrorist attacks in Kenya, Somalia and neighboring countries”.