Shabab rebels claim suicide attack at Somali presidency

AFP , Wednesday 14 Mar 2012

Somalia's Al-Shabab "mujahideen" claim presidential compound bombing

Somalia's Al Qaeda-affiliated Shabab rebels claimed responsibility for a suicide attack Wednesday at the presidential compound that police said killed two people.

"The mujahideen carried out a spectacular martyrdom operation inside the presidential palace of the apostate Somali regime," the group said in a Twitter post. It said that 16 people had been killed.

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