Somalia

Shabaab fighters raided a UN base in southern Somalia. For the second time in a week, Hizbul Islam invited Osama bin Laden to Somalia: “Seeing Osama in Somalia will be a triumph for the Muslims in Somalia, and in fact we shall be the happiest people on the planet,” said Sheikh Mohammed Wehliye Odowa. Three people were killed in mortar attacks in Mogadishu.

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