Capt. Mohammed Hussein said Osman Elmi Boqore, the country's oldest politician estimated to be over 80, was rubbed out by button men who pulled up near his car as he was being driven through Karan district.
Somalia's Islamic bully boy rebels, al-Shabaab
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Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda..., which is allied with al-Qaeda, grabbed credit for the murder of Boqore, an outspoken politician and one of the country's longest-serving members of parliament.
President Mohammed Abdullahi Mohammed and his prime minister Hassan Ali Khaire condemned the liquidation, instructing security services to investigate.
Al-Shabaab has previously carried out attacks against government officials, African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
peacekeepers and United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
staff in a deadly campaign of suicide kabooms and gun attacks. Militant attacks have continued despite al-Shabaab being ousted from its bases in Mogadishu in 2011.