Report: Seattle Man Was Mogadishu Suicide-Bomber (KIRO 7 Seattle-Tacoma)
SEATTLE — A Web site says a Somali-American from Seattle was one of the suicide bombers who killed 21 peacekeepers in Somalia last week, CNN reported.
Eight Killed In Somali Clashes (INO News)
(RTTNews) – At least eight people were killed when Islamist fighters belonging to the al-Shabab militant group attacked an African Union peacekeeping base in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, said officials and witnesses on Wednesday.
INTERVIEW-Somalia risks being “new Afghanistan”-EU aid head (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters * EU aid chief fears al Qaeda gaining foothold in Somalia * At least 12 killed in fighting on Wednesday * More international aid needed to provide infrastructure By Darren Ennis UNITED NATIONS …
SOMALIA: Instead of a safe haven, fear and rape in Galkayo (AlertNet)
Source: IRIN Exhausted by the violence in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, Asha (not real name) fled to Galkayo in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, believing her family would be safer there.
AU envoy seeks greater mandate for Somalia (The Star)
Bujumbura – The African Union mission in Somalia needs a beefed-up mandate, the AU’s special representative for the country said on Sunday at the funeral of 12 Burundian troops killed in a suicide attack last week.
Somalia suicide bomber may be from Seattle (Seattle Times)
Federal investigators are looking into reports that one of the men who detonated a truck bomb in Mogadishu last week that killed 21 peacekeepers was a Somali refugee who had lived in Seattle as recently as 2007.
Fighting kills at least 12 in Somali capital (The Star)
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Fighting in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu killed at least 12 people and wounded 17 others after Islamist insurgents attacked government forces and African Union (AU) peacekeepers, witnesses said on Wednesday.
