1. In its July 2011 report, the Monitoring Group observed that the militia headed by Mohamed Sa’iid Atom’s in eastern Sanaag region had “effectively merged with Al-Shabaab.”[308] This process was formalized in February 2012, when Yaasiin Khalid Osman (a.k.a. Yaasiin ‘Kilwe’), a close associate of Al-Shabaab Amiir Ahmed Abdi Godane and a member of the Warsengeli clan, like Atom, officially declared himself ‘Amir’ of the ‘Mujaahidiin of the Golis Mountains’.
1. In its July 2011 report, the Monitoring Group observed that the militia headed by Mohamed Sa’iid Atom’s in eastern Sanaag region had “effectively merged with Al-Shabaab.”[308] This process was formalized in February 2012, when Yaasiin Khalid Osman (a.k.a. Yaasiin ‘Kilwe’), a close associate of Al-Shabaab Amiir Ahmed Abdi Godane and a member of the Warsengeli clan, like Atom, officially declared himself ‘Amir’ of the ‘Mujaahidiin of the Golis Mountains’.