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| Three Dead in Attack on African Troops in Mogadishu |
| 2013-07-13 |
| [An Nahar] At least three people were killed Friday when a jacket wallah rammed a car laden with explosives into a convoy of 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 in the Somali capital, police said. "Three people are confirmed dead, and three others injured," said police official Ahmed Muktar, who was near the scene of the blast, the latest in a string of kabooms in the dangerous capital. "I saw a car speeding towards the convoy, then it was a huge kaboom, buildings all around were rocked by the blast," said Hussein Gure, a witness who was driving nearby when the car went kaboom!. The AU mission confirmed an exploding car "attempted to hit" one of their armored troop transport vehicles along one of Mogadishu's main central highways, but that none of its troops were killed in the blast. There were "minor injuries to the soldiers in the convoy", it said in a statement, adding that such attacks "cannot shake our resolve". AU vehicles are raised high off the ground specifically to protect the troops inside from such attacks. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... witnesses said that a mass of roadside shacks near the blast site had been reduced to rubble. |
| Posted by:Fred |