Ibrahim al-Afghani, also known as Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, was a prominent member of Somalia's Al-Shabaab, an insurgent group fighting

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. Afghani formerly held positions as the first deputy leader of Al-Shabaab and in charge of finance, and head of al-Shabaab's

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administration. He was rumored to have been killed in a

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drone attack on an al-Shabaab training camp south of

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on 25 June 2011, but he survived and was reported to have resigned from Al-Shabaab in December 2011. In April 2013, a letter was circulated on extremist websites reportedly penned by Afghani to

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leader

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, criticising Godane's leadership. On 29 June 2013, al-Shabaab announced that they had killed Afghani during a gun battle on 20 June 2013 when he resisted arrest, but family members, including Afghani's sister, said that he had been arrested and then executed.

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