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Africa Horn
2 men sentenced to life terms for bombing Somali airliner
2016-05-31
[Al Ahram] A military court in the Somali capital has given life terms to two men convicted of criminal masterminding the bombing in February of an airliner which made an emergency landing despite a gaping hole in its fuselage.

The kaboom happened aboard a Daallo Airlines Airbus A321-111 shortly after the jet, with 75 passengers, took off from Mogadishu airport.

Abdiweli Mohammed Maow, a former senior security officer at the Mogadishu airport, was convicted of making the bomb that appeared to be a laptop computer. Areys Hashi Abdi was convicted in absentia.

The kaboom, claimed by the Islamic holy warrior group al-Shabaab
... the personification of Somali state failure...
, killed one passenger, Abdullahi Abdisalam Borle, who is suspected to have carried the bomb onto the plane. A body believed to be Borle's was found in a town north of Mogadishu.
Posted by:Fred

#1  A body believed to be Borle's was found in a town north of Mogadishu

I bet he didn't get frequent flier miles either.
Posted by: Pappy   2016-05-31 15:53  

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