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Somalia's Shabaab vows more attacks on African troops
Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:44am EST
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's hardline Islamist insurgent group al Shabaab pledged Monday to launch more attacks on African Union peacekeepers after the deadliest strike yet killed at least 11 soldiers from Burundi.
"This is our land and you are non-believers," said a statement on a website used by the militants, who are fighting the Somali government and a 3,500-strong AU peacekeeping force.
"Leave us for your safety or we shall never tire of increasing your death toll."
The site, www.kataaib.info, posted pictures of two young men it said were suicide bombers who blew up explosives in a jacket and a car next to an AU base at a former university in the coastal capital Mogadishu.
The militants' Internet statement said 52 people died and 34 were wounded in Sunday's attack.
The AU said its compound had been targeted by mortar bombs, not suicide bombers. It said 11 were killed and 15 injured.
Witnesses described a car speeding toward the gate before hearing at least one blast and seeing thick plumes of smoke.
Somalia's new President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, a moderate Islamist, arrived in the rubble-strewn city on Monday and condemned the latest bloodshed.
"AU troops will not leave through fighting and explosions, but through peaceful negotiation among the Somalis," he said.
His new prime minister, Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, the Western-educated son of a slain former president, was also due in Mogadishu later Monday.
Both men have been in neighboring Djibouti picking a cabinet under U.N.-brokered efforts to form a unity government to end 18 years of conflict in the failed Horn of Africa state.
BURUNDI VOWS REINFORCEMENTS
Their biggest threat is from al Shabaab which, together with allied militia, controls large swathes of southern Somalia including the strategic towns of Baidoa and Kismayu.
The government controls only parts of Mogadishu.
Since the start of an Islamist insurgency that broke out at the beginning of 2007, at least 16,000 civilians have been killed and a million more driven from their homes. Continued...
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