When word came from the interrogation room that a captured Isis fighter had divulged the location of Abdul Qadir Mumin’s hideout in a cave high in the arid mountains of northern Somalia, it was only a matter of hours before US jets were in the sky and raining down missiles.
The soldiers who went to inspect the wreckage found a number of charred corpses, but none of them were Mumin’s. Once again, the man believed to be Islamic State’s global leader, had slipped through their fingers.
Captain Omar Yusuf Mohamed, 40, is an officer in the Puntland Maritime Police Force (PMPF), which has been fighting an international cadre of militants in a brutal war to decapitate the terror group. “The day we kill Mumin will be the happiest day of my life,” he said. “He’s like a virus that has come here and infected our land with his ideology of hatred, and brought death and suffering to our people.”
