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Al-Shabaab Kicks off 2014 Terrorism Campaign, Claims Hotel Bombing

Al-Shabaab Kicks off 2014 Terrorism Campaign, Claims Hotel Bombing

From News24

Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab said Thursday it carried out a twin bombing of a hotel in Mogadishu that killed 11, boasting it was the start of its campaign for the new year.

“This is the beginning of 2014,” al-Shabaab spokesperson Ali Mohamud Rage said in a New Year message, a day after the hotel attacks.

“The fate of foreigners and local mercenaries will remain the same until they leave the country… they will have no safe haven in Somalia.”

The first car bomb exploded outside the Jazeera hotel, near the international airport. It is one of the seaside capital’s most upmarket and its clientele includes Somali politicians and visiting foreign officials.

The second car bomb ripped through the blast scene as ambulances rushed in and Somali soldiers were helping the wounded.

The al-Shabaab “takes full responsibility for last night’s attack that targeted a meeting of senior apostate intelligence officials in Mogadishu,” Rage added.

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