Friday, June 3, 2011

Al-Shabab militants: Somali-American of Minnesota carried out suicide attack at Mogadishu base

ASSOCIATEDPRESS

The militant group al-Shabab says a man who carried out a suicide bomb attack at a base in Mogadishu this week was a Somali-American from Minnesota.

Al-Shabab says 25-year-old Abdullahi Ahmed attacked the African Union peacekeeping base in Somalia's capital on Monday, killing two AU troops and one government soldier. The group says on its website that Ahmed moved to Somalia from Minnesota two years ago.

The Internet report purported to quote Ahmed before his death saying that he wanted to carry out the attack because of abuses by Christians in Muslim countries.
If the report is confirmed, Ahmed will become at least the third Somali-American to have carried out a suicide bombing in Somalia.

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