al-Shabaab... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim
al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader...
fighters in the capital Mogadishu.
Five residents of the Waberi neighborhood in southern Mogadishu were killed on the spot on Wednesday, after the two sides exchanged heavy gunfire and barrages of mortar shells were fired, AFP reported.
Two more pegged out later in hospital, according to medical sources.
"With the first mortar shot, one person was killed and several others were maimed. When people came to help them, another kaboom killed four people," Mohamed Shegey, an eyewitness, said.
Nur Abdulahi, a police front man, said, "After losing a battle, violent elements began firing indiscriminately in a densely populated area."
Iran Press TV boilerplate spittle from this point on:
Somalia has been without a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.
Strategically located in the Horn of Africa, the lawless state has been embroiled in a bitter civil war for years.
Somalia remains one of the countries generating the highest number of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDP) in the world.
An estimated 1.4 million Somalis are displaced within the country while another 680,000 live as refugees in the neighboring countries, according to the United Nations
...Parkinson's Law on an international scale...
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
The UNHCR reported in April that the number of Somali refugees arriving to neighboring countries during the first quarter of 2011 has more than doubled in comparison to the same period in 2010.