... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
grabbed credit for Wednesday's boom-mobile targeting a United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
convoy near Mogadishu's international airport that left at least three people dead.
"Our Mujahideen (fighters) based in Mogadishu have today targeted a convoy of foreign mercenaries and their apostate allies nearby the airport," Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al-Shabaab's military operations front man, said.
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[Ynet] A jacket wallah rammed his vehicle into a UN convoy near Mogadishu's airport on Wednesday, killing three people, Somali police said.
"The boom-mobile hit near the front gate of the Mogadishu airport. Several people, including an army officer, (were) killed after he tried to stop the vehicle," said police front man Kasim Ahmed Roble.