“Throughout his stay in Somalia, Abu Hafsa participated in most of the major battles and was known for his gallantry and steadfastness in the face of the crusaders and their apostate allies,” the Islamists said.
Al-Barjawi is the fourth senior al-Qaeda commander killed in Somalia since 2008. A Somali soldier killed Fazul Mohammed at a Mogadishu checkpoint last year and two others, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan and Aden Hashi Ayro, died in US strikes in 2009 and 2008.
But there are still believed to be dozens of foreign fighters in al-Shabaab’s ranks.
Several British citizens have been arrested in Kenya recently heading for Somalia with the alleged aim of joining the Islamists’ war to oust the weak Western-backed government there.
Kenya invaded its anarchic neighbour late last year in a bid to crush al-Shabaab after the group was accused of kidnapping Westerners from northern Kenya.
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