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| Africa Horn | |
| Bomber hits peacekeepers in Mog, two civvies dead | |
| 2013-07-14 | |
| MUGADISHU -- A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into an African peacekeeping convoy in the Somali capital on Friday, killing two civilians in the latest attack to expose the fragility of recent security gains. The blast was claimed by Islamist al Shabaab rebels who carried out a deadly assault on a nearby United Nations base last month and another bombing in a Mogadishu market this week. "We are behind the martyrdom explosion ... The Americans were our main target," he added. The blast flattened makeshift shops on Maka Al Mukarama road in central Mogadishu and ripped the wheels off one vehicle belonging to the country's African Union peacekeeping force. The bodies of two civilians were pulled out of the wreckage, a Reuters witness said. No peacekeepers died but a number of people were wounded, said an official from the Mogadishu mayor's office. "We shall not bury the remains of the bomber. We shall throw them into the rubbish pit," the mayor's secretary, Abdikafi Hilowle, told reporters at the scene. "If al Shabaab are Muslims, they would not kill Muslims during Ramadan."
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 "We shall not bury the remains of the bomber. We shall throw them into the rubbish pit" More, please |
| Posted by: Barbara 2013-07-14 10:05 |
| #1 "We shall not bury the remains of the bomber. We shall throw them into the rubbish pit," the mayor's secretary, Abdikafi Hilowle, told reporters at the scene. let the pigs feed on them |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-07-14 09:08 |