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Gunmen attack beachfront restaurant in Mogadishu
[CNN] A suicide boom-mobileer and gunnies on Thursday attacked a beachside restaurant in the capital of Somalia, a country that's no stranger to such bloody attacks.Gunfire was also heard at a nearby hotel, according to Col. Abdulkadir Ahmed, a police brass hat. Ahmed said that a car rammed the gate of the Beach View restaurant and banquet hall overlooking Mogadishu's Lido Beach. Militants then entered the building. It was not immediately clear how many people were killed and injured in the attack. Nor was it known for certain who is responsible. In the past, such attacks have been linked to Al-Shabaab  ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... , an al Qaeda-linked murderous Moslem organization based in the East African nation. The group's aim is to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic state, according to the Council on Foreign Relations, but it has seemingly gone beyond that goal -- and beyond Somalia -- with a host of horrific attacks, like last year's massacre at Kenya's Garissa University College and a 2013 siege of Nairobi's upscale Westgate Mall. Posted by: Fred 2016-01-22 |
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