... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
, one day after the same group of hard boyz killed a dozen people in an attack in the capital, a military official said Monday.
[Ynet] The ambush happened late Monday near Walaweyn, a town in the Lower Shabelle region, about 93 kilometers (57.79 miles)south of Mogadishu, said Col. Ahmed Muse of the Somali military.
The rebels seized three military vehicles during the attack, he told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named by phone from Walaeyn.
Al-Shabaab grabbed credit for the attack, according to the group's online radio known as Andalus, saying 30 soldiers had been killed. It wasn't possible to independently verify the group's claims.