An Ex-Shabab Leader Surrenders in Somalia, Officials Say<br />After Ethiopia invaded Somalia in December 2006, the Islamist group<br />that briefly controlled Somalia went underground, and Mr. Robow with it, orchestrating hit-and-run attacks on Ethiopian forces and Somalia’s weak government.<br />13, 2017<br />Abu Mansoor Mukhtar Robow, an elusive, charismatic militant who was once a senior commander of the Shabab in Somalia,<br />surrendered to government forces on Sunday in a surprise move that could weaken the country’s Islamist militants.<br />According to Somali security officials, hard-line elements within the Shabab — in which Mr. Robow had been a stalwart<br />before falling out in 2013 with its leader at the time — had turned against him, wiping out many of his soldiers.<br />For the past several months, Mr. Robow — who once had an American bounty on his head — had essentially<br />been on the run from his own group, setting up a base in Abal Village, in southwest Somalia.<br />Insurgent fighters banded together under the name Shabab, which was one of the Islamist factions in Somalia at the time.<br />Somalia said that We don’t have a problem with Americans,
