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Suicide attacks continue in Somalia

June 17, 2012 · 304907 CommentsSuicide+attacks+continue+in+Somalia2012-06-17+10%3A49%3A46Sahra+Farah

Commanders serving AMISOM discuss in front of their armoured personnel carrier during a operation against Al-Shabaab militants in Dayniile May 22, 2012. (Photo: Reuters)

MOGADISHU — A suicide bomber in Somalia wounded five soldiers by detonating an explosives-laden car at an army base in a town recently wrested from insurgent control, a policeman said Saturday.

Mohammad Farah said the bomber was killed in the blast in the town of Afgoye. He said the bomber detonated the car after soldiers intercepted it and started to fire at him when he attempted to drive into a base for intelligence officers.

Witnesses said they heard a large explosion and saw smoke billowing.

Afgoye town was recently liberated from the control of an Al Qaida-linked militant group.

African Union and Somali troops seized the town on the outskirts of Mogadishu from Al Shabab militants after three days of fighting last month, marking the biggest victory over Al Shabab since the pro-government forces took control of the capital last August.

Somalia has not had an effective central government since 1991.

More than 300,000 internally displaced Somalis live in and around Afgoye, some 30 kilometres north of Mogadishu, the capital.

Al Shabab militants ambushed a convoy of vehicles carrying Somalia’s president late last month according to the AU, but the attack was repelled.

The Associated Press

June 17, 2012

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By Sahra Farah

Tags: Afgoye, Al shabab, Mogadish, Somalia, Suicide bombing

wanlaweyn says:

this has been reported already why again? kkkk

yesterday: suicide in afgoye
today: suicide continue
tomorrow: there will be suicides in future
the day after: terrorists will continue suicide

the progress in Somalia is all over the headlines in the world except this hateful website
stadium KONIS is got artificial-turf the only one in somali speaking city

5:06 am on June 17, 2012

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Allemagan says:

Alshabab has massacred so many innocent Somalis in the name of their fake Wahhabi fundamentalist Islam. If your religion teaches you to maim and kill people senselessly, you are to be eradicated not only from Somali soil but from the face of the earth. You have become a plight that is more harmful than the recurring famines in the Somali peninsula The Qur'an teaches "who he gives live to one individual is like he has given life to everyone on earth. And who destroyed one life is as has destroyed every life on earth".

Now that the terrorists are are in the back foot, they are resorting to wanton killing and indiscriminate suicide bombing desperately. The criminal leadership of this an nihilistic outfit and its foot soldiers must be brought to justice and very soon. Somali people must unite to liberate our country from the unending nightmare and terror of Alshabab.

9:18 am on June 17, 2012

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- Allemagan says:
  
  who he gives life to one individual that is
  
  9:20 am on June 17, 2012
  
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- never again says:
  
  well This sort of suicide will continue for while because can’t get rid of That quickly put defenitly They will leave.
  Other issue here is most somalis don’t understand who is fueling al-shabab foreign powers specaily neighbour country.
  
  12:44 am on June 18, 2012
  
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Noor says:

ITs not our culture to commit a suicide, its the culture of the Arabs, Wahabis. I feel sorry for this boys that has been brainwashed, first of all one must question why kill himself in order to kill others? If your wife has been rapped kidz killed then you might have some scores to settle and suicide destruction might be permissable depending on the targets, when a man poils to the poit of no return then anything is possible even then you must ask Is it permissable to self destruct in order to seek revenge? the answer is no, our religion does not permitt one to kill himself and kill others, i know its a very sensitive topic' but in Somalia Shabaab is fighting for no cause.

12:45 pm on June 17, 2012

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osman5 says:

I guest "the chickens come home to roost"
The lawless frontier society that Somalis had created for themselves is here now to haunt them.

Osman Qaal

3:00 pm on June 17, 2012

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mohamed cheers says:

There's a lot of confusion in Somalia. The failed state since 1991 has become a battle ground
for the lawless. The SPLF(alshabab) are probably closely monitoring the Muslim brotherhood
of Egypt and depending on the successes of taking over the power control in Egypt, It's my
impression that Alshabab would be courting the New Islamic-secular Egypt like the new
Islamic-secular Turkey. This AL/OIC new World order would be just fine to correspond with the
progressive western industrialized democracies of Civic governance controlling the military
powers.
Cheers.

5:50 am on June 18, 2012

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