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| Africa Horn |
| Somalia's Shebab Assassinate ex-Lawmaker, Wound Another |
| 2014-12-05 |
| [AnNahar] Somalia's Shabaab murderous Moslems said they had assassinated a former politician and his bodyguard and maimed another MP in a drive-by shooting in Mogadishu on Thursday to show the government they remained a threat. Gunmen in a moving car opened fire as the politician drove through the center of the city, before racing off, witnesses said. MP Mustafa Mayow was maimed in the attack. "The government say they have eradicated the Shabaab from Mogadishu, but this is to show that we are here and active," Shabaab front man Abdiaziz Abu Musab told Agence La Belle France Presse. The al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab rebels are fighting to overthrow the country's internationally-backed government. At least five politicians have been killed in Mogadishu this year. The forces of Evil say they are targeting MPs as they allowed the deployment of foreign troops on Somali soil. Recent Shabaab attacks in Somalia have targeted key government and security sites in an apparent bid to discredit claims by the authorities and 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... troops that they are winning the war. On Wednesday a Shabaab jacket wallah killed four security guards and bystanders when they rammed an exploding car into a United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... convoy. The Shabaab have also stepped up operations in neighboring Kenya, and on Tuesday massacred 36 non-Moslem quarry workers in a Kenyan border town. |
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