Monday, May 30, 2011

AU: Suicide attack on peacekeeping base in Somalia (AP)

NAIROBI, Kenya – A Nairobi-based authorised says fivesome simultaneous slayer attacks hit targeted African Union bases in the African capital of Mogadishu.

The functionary says exclusive some of Monday's attacks had been stopped in time.

The diplomat, who crosspiece on information of anonymity because he was not commissioned to speak to the press, could not yet give casualty figures.

Al-Qaida-linked Islamists are battling the anaemic U.N.-backed polity for curb of the capital of Mogadishu. Around 9,000 AU personnel are stationed in the municipality to prevent the polity from existence occupy by militants.

The insurrection has ofttimes launched slayer attacks against both polity and AU soldiers. A slayer attack in 2009 on the important AU humble in port killed 21 people.


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