Shabaab said the two French security officials kidnapped this week will be tried for spying and "conspiracy against Islam." Gunmen kidnapped three foreign aid workers in the Kenyan border town of Mandera, then slipped back across the border into Somalia. Four Somalis were killed during clashes in Beledweyn.
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