Auto bomb kills 4 outside police academy in Somali capital

Mar 10, 2016, 13:29

Peter Cook, another Pentagon spokesman, said Saturday's attack was carried out to safeguard "our African Union Mission" in Somalia and that "the fighters who were scheduled to depart the camp posed an imminent threat" to the mission.

In the past month, al-Shabab carried out a failed suicide attack on an Emrati airliner and claimed responsibility for ambushing and killing more than 100 Kenyan troops stationed in Somalia.

Mogadishu: Special forces operatives in two helicopters staged an overnight raid on Somalia's Shebab insurgents, government officials and the Al-Qaeda-linked gunmen said on Wednesday.

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The source identified the slain Al-Shabaab leaders as Yusuf Ali Ugas, a regional commander, recruiter and influential preacher, and Mohamed Mire, Al-Shabaab's governor for Somalia's Hiran region and a key member of the group's finance wing.

"The government of Somalia welcomes working with the United States and other forces to defeat terror group Al-Shabaab", Aato said.

He said the USA forces did not fire their weapons during the mission.

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More than 10 militants were killed, said other USA officials Wednesday who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an operation that has not been announced publicly. "Armed forces on two military helicopters raided Awdhegele town last night, but they have lost and returned without achieving their objective", Shebab spokesman Sheik Abduasiz Abu Musab said in a speech broadcast on the group's Radio Andalus.

These are some of the most aggressive military actions in Somalia since a US military intervention in the early 1990s during a starvation culminated in the so-called Black Hawk Down battle, with heavy USA losses. It appeared that their training was ending and the operational phase of a suspected attack against African or US personnel was about to start, he said.

A Somali police official says three police officers and one civilian have been killed in a vehicle bombing outside a police academy in the Somali capital.

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Further U.S. airstrikes alone are unlikely to thwart al-Shabab's attacks around Mogadishu, said Robert Besseling, an analyst with EXX Africa.