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SOMALIA / QORYOOLEY AL SHABAAB
STORY: SOMALIA / QORYOOLEY AL SHABAAB
TRT: 2:33
SOURCE: AU UN IST
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/SOMALI /NATS
DATELINE: 23 MARCH, QORYOOLEY, SOMALIA
1. Wide shot, AMISOM troops walking on the road to Qoryooley
2. Close up, AMISOM boots
3. Med shot, AMISOM troops marching toward Qoryooley
4. Wide shot, AMISOM troops on the road to Qoryooley
5. Wide shot, AMISOM engaging Al Shabaab in gun battle
6. Med shot, soldiers on the ground fighting
7. Med shot, truck crossing bridge leading into Qoryooley town
8. SOUNDBITE (English), Brigadier Dick Olum, AMISOM Ugandan Contingent Commander:
“We are going to take all these areas sequentially, until we take them all. Just a simple message to Al Shabaab, you either give in or we are coming for you.”
9. Med shot, Somali National Army troops chatting outside shop
10. SOUNDBITE (Somali), General Abdirizaq Elmi, SNA Deputy Chief of Defense Forces:
“I would like to send a message to the people who are still in al Shabaab. The time of al Shabaab is over. We call on the Somali youth trapped in al Shabaab to go back to their communities and take the amnesty offered by the Somali president and the people”.
11. Med shot, convoy driving into ambush
12. Med shot, soldiers inside APC firing back
13. Med shot, soldiers continue firing
14. Wide shot, soldiers taking cover and engaging Al Shabaab
15. Wide shot, AMISOM soldiers and EOD (Explosives Ordnance Detection) team assess impact of IED explosion
16. Med shot, grassy field where IED detonator was placed
17. Wide shot, IED detonator on a wall
18. Close up, IED detonator on a wall
19. SOUNDBITE (English), Brigadier Dick Olum, AMISOM Ugandan Contingent Commander:
“I think the IED is going to be one of their weapons of preference at the moment.”
20. Wide shot, shrapnel from the IED
21. Close up, shrapnel from the IED
22. Wide shot, damaged Casspir (APC)
23. Med shot, damaged tire on the Casspir (APC)
24. Wide shot, Brig. Olum walking past the damaged Casspir (APC)
The Somali National Army (SNA) and AMISOM, the African Union Mission in Somalia captured and secured the strategic town of Qoryooley from Al Shabaab over the weekend.
The town, located 120 kilometres southwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu previously served as a training and logistical base for the insurgents.
The AMISOM commander-in-charge of the operation Brig. Dick Olum, said the capture of Qoryooley was just the beginning.
And the Somali National Army Deputy Chief of Defense Forces who was part of the operation, said the era of Al Shabaab has come to an end.
Meanwhile, a Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device (RCIED) went off near a convoy during a routine patrol to secure a main supply route used by the town’s residents.
Brig. General Dick Olum, the Uganda Contingent Commander said that the militants were now resorting to IEDs, adding that this would be their “weapons of preference for the moment.”
The explosion damaged one of the troops’ Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) but did not cause any deaths or injuries.
AMISOM and the SNA began renewed offensives against al Shabaab militants early this month and have so far captured eight towns across South Central Somalia.
On Sunday, eight elders from Lower Shabelle region were murdered - elders are considered the most trusted and respected people in their communities.
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