
Al-Shabab Attack Turkish Base In Somalia
By Elite News Reporter
A suicide
bomber's explosives were detonated outside a Turkish military training base in
Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, killing at least two people, police said on
Tuesday.
It was the
first time the Turkish base in Mogadishu, Turkey's largest overseas military
base, had been attacked by the al-Qaeda-linked rebel group al-Shabab.
The
Somalia-based group quickly claimed responsibility for the attack, according to
Radio al-Furqan, one of the group's radio affiliates.
Somali
government spokesman Ismail Mukhtar told Anadolu news agency that security
guards shot the bomber who was trying to enter the military facility.
"He
pretended to be a trainee at the Turkey-Somali military academy but was shot
and exploded outside the camp, killing himself and two civil...