...... the personification of Somali state failure...jihadists, came after a rival militia executed a group of civilians.
At least eight people were killed when a boom-mobile went
kaboom!near the Somali parliament in the capital of Mogadishu on Saturday. Another 16 were maimed, according to doctor Abdiqadir Aden from the private Aamin ambulance service.
Elsewhere in Mogadishu, security services at a checkpoint managed to spot another boom-mobile and open fire at it, killing a man in the car, which then went
kaboom!. No other casualties were reported in that incident.
Another blast targeted a vehicle transporting coppers in Kenya, near the Somalian border. Kenyan forces fight al-Shabaab jihadists in the region, including on Somali territory with the aid of a local Somali militia.
The transport was carrying 11 officers when it was "hit by an improvised bomb," said police inspector general Hilary Mutyambai. He did not say how many people were killed or injured. However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
a regional police source told the AFP news agency that eight coppers bit the dust in the attack.
REVENGE AGAINST AL-SHABAAB
The al Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab terrorist group grabbed credit for all three attacks.
The incidents came after a Somali militia executed nine civilian members of the Rahanweyn clan, which is suspected of having links to al-Shabaab, as retribution for the killing of a policeman by al-Shabaab. Witnesses outside the central city of Galkayo said militia button men picked up their victims from the streets or their homes before executing them.
"This was a horrible incident, a gruesome killing against nine unarmed innocent civilians in southern Galkayo," local police official Mohammed Abdirahman said.
"All of the civilians belong to one clan and the button men shot them dead in one location a few minutes after suspected Shabaab button men killed a policeman," he added.
"This is an unacceptable act and we will bring those perpetrators to justice," said Hussein Dini, a traditional elder.
"Their killing cannot be justified. It seems that the merciless button men were retaliating for the security official who they believe was killed by al-Shabaab button men belonging to the clan of the victims."