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| Africa Horn |
| Suicide car bombs hit Somalia peacekeeper base |
| 2009-09-17 |
| Suicide bombers in explosives-laden cars with U.N. logos drove into the main base of African Union peacekeepers Thursday, detonating the devices in two massive blasts that blew out nearby windows and shrouded the sky in black smoke. There was no immediate word on casualties in the attack at Mogadishu's airport. An Islamist insurgent group claimed responsibility and said the targets were senior African Union peacekeeping officials and Somali government officials who were meeting at the airport. A security officer at the airport said the explosions were caused by two white Land Cruisers with United Nations logos. "The soldiers at the gate assumed they were U.N. cars and opened the gate for them," the security official said, asking that his name not be used because he is not authorized to speak to the media. "When the cars entered one of them sped toward a petrol depot and exploded. The other one exploded in a nearby area." |
| Posted by:ed |