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Africa Horn
Shaboobs target Federals with mortar shells
2013-09-11
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Somalia's Al Shabaab militants reportedly targeted Somali Federal Government forces positioned at Yaqshid and Huriwa bases on Monday night, Garowe Online reports. Following the hit-and-run attacks on the bases in Mogadishu, local reports say that both sides exchanged heavy artillery fire but no casualties were reported.
They can't shoot straight with either rifles or artillery...
Residents confirmed to GO that Al Shabaab militiamen simultaneously fired shells at a building housing the commissioner of Mogadishu's Huriwa district Omar Abdulle Jacfan and former Mogadishu spaghetti factory in Yaqshid district.

"I could heard volleys of gunfire from an area close to my home and the fighting lasted for nearly 30 minutes," a resident said by telephone from Yaqshid district.

Government forces backed by AMISOM liberated former spaghetti factory from Al Shabaab in Oct 2011.
Spaghetti factory? Must have been left over from the Italian mandate...
Al Qaeda linked Al Shabaab group increased their presence in Mogadishu as it is capable of carrying out massive attacks mainly targeting important structures and government buildings. This month alone, Al Shabaab claimed the responsibility for terror attacks including string of explosions that rocked Mogadishu last Wednesday and car bomb explosion and suicide bombing in broad daylight.
Posted by:Steve White

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