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Exclusive to Goobjoog News: Son of Ali Waraabe, an ISIS member killed in Syria

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Hussein Faisal Ali Waraabe, a Somali ISIS member allegedly killed by an airstrike in Syria in 2017. Photo credit: Al Jazsera News.

An exclusive report received by Goobjoog News indicates the son of Faisal Ali Warabe, a prominent Somaliland opposition leader and a presidential contender of UCID party has been killed by an airstrike in Syria on 29th December 2017.

Hussein Faisal Ali Waraabe, the deceased Somali ISIS member who holds Finnish citizenship is believed to have left Hargeysa, Somaliland in 2013 and joined the Islamic group fighting in Syria and Iraq.

Ali Faisal Ali, a brother of the departed Somalilander informed Goobjoog News that they assume his brother died in an airstrike.

Faisal Ali Waraabe, the father has vied for the presidency in Somaliland in the last presidential elections held on mid November 2017 in the self breakaway region, the 3rd election exercise held since 2003.

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