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Feisal Omar / Reuters
Somali soldiers inspect the scene of an explosion at a restaurant on Mogadishu's beachfront Friday.
A beach-front restaurant in Somali capital Mogadishu was hit by a twin suicide bomber attack Friday, an official and a witness said.
The attack took place near the famous Lido beach, which is often crowded with people from the war-ravaged city playing soccer, swimming and simply having fun.
“There was a big explosion from a car, then as people rushed towards the area after the blast, a suicide bomber with a vest exploded himself,” Mohammed Abdullahi, a businessman who was inside the restaurant when the attack took place, told the AFP news agency.
Abdiqadir Mohamed, a senior police officer, gave a similar account of the attack to Reuters.
Abdullahi told AFP that he saw two dead security guards and at least nine other people who were wounded. Reuters said one person was killed along with the two bombers. It was not immediately possible to confirm how many people died.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, Reuters said, but it added that the al-Shabaab rebel group had vowed a campaign of guerrilla-style attacks against the new government, which is supported by Western powers and regional states.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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This has been going on in Okinawa for decades. I spent hours Googling the Okinawa rapes by US Service men. Guess what?? 98% of the rapists are black, and the only one I found that was not black was one Hispanic rapist. There has been an epidemic of black rape on Okinawa going on for decades but nobody has the balls to tell the truth. Now watch all the hate filled WHITE Liberals call me a racist.
Wrong story. This is about suicide bombers.
And, as a side note, your post does come off as a little bit racist. Mainly because one of the rapists (Christopher Browning) recently convicted on Okinawa is white.
Source: http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/01/17145149-2-us-sailors-sentenced-to-prison-for-rape-of-woman-in-okinawa-japan?lite
Yup, the crackers are feeling feisty here today.
Where's Waldo???, I mean Jesse......
Hell, that is what I thought they did for "pleasure" in Somalia. Ka-Boom!, now bring in the virgins.
Islam, the religion of peace. GO!
Islam, start as the religion of peace, and end up tearing anything coming near to pieces.
"“There was a big explosion from a car, then as people rushed towards the area after the blast, a suicide bomber with a vest exploded himself,” Mohammed Abdullahi"
Always followers of Islamic cult have been improving styles of killing.
These days many Mohammeds mean shredding to pieces.
Shouldn't be too hard to spot a guy spaced out on drugs walking around in an oversized trench coat on a warm summer day. And on the bright side, it's a windfall profit for the bait shops up and down the beach. When he gets to the gates of Heaven they'll ask why are you here? You blew up a kid's sand castle and four lawn chairs!
Terrorist really aren't smart are they? First they think they will have 72 virgins waiting for them if they blow themselves up killing as many people as they can. Then they pick a day and place that is not crowded (thankfully). Then not one, but two bombs only took out 3 and wounded 9 others. Not smart at all. But I guess that's why they agreed to blow themselves up anyway.
So what they are really saying is it takes 72 of their women to make ONE American Woman.
OOPS! I commented on the wrong post!!
Yes you did, but it was a good post. You are spot on.
It probably needs to be said twice, thanks for you investigative work.......
Yes, spewing crackers should certainly post multiples times. Thanks!
Crackers was coined to describe southern democrats.Just figured you being a Democrat are unaware of that little bit of history.
No problemo. You just proved what most people already know about racists. They're stupid!
Suicide Shark!!! Everyone out of the water.........
Don't you people understand? You are not suppose to go to the beach and have fun> Your not suppose to have any joy in your life. Islam is going to be your only reality as long as we (the Islamic righteous) live.
This is the choice oppression cruelty and subjugation or kill Islams vicious killers. Some choice.
Just like the liberals in the USA.
Most of the so called liberals posting socialist agendas on the vine are not Americans and many are Muslims. However both the Dems and Reps in our govt need to go. They have framed the choices for the benefit of their global agenda and that agenda has little to do with what is best for the American middle class.
"The attack took place near the famous Lido beach, which is often crowded with people from the war-ravaged city playing soccer, swimming and simply having fun."
1. Somalia is a Muslim majority nation. Still it is war-ravaged!
2. Though it was a Friday there was a twin suicide bomber attack.
Don't these prove that Islamic religious madness has crossed all limits and is badly hurting Islam's followers?
The words 'Mogadishu' and 'pleasure-seekers' in the same headline... something I never expected to see.
Al-Shabaab shows its true nature once again. These people are not Muslim. They are murderers. That's all they do is kill people, and this time it was because they were having fun. Terrorists have only one goal and that is to murder as many people as possible. As a sideline, they torture, rape, maim and extort the same people in the name of Allah. If Allah was real, don't you think he would do something about these terrorists?
Most of the radical Islamic outfit followers like al Qaida, MB, Salafi, Boko Haram, Taliban, al-Shabaab and other label ones consider themselves as pure Islamic holy warriors.
It is driven into their head (by mullahs/imams/clerics esepcially Sunni ones) that they are cleaning Islam of impure people/infidels.
How can we say that they are not Muslims?
Jonathan is right; they are the purest Muslims of all, these killers.
Adam44: Thanks a lot!
This sounds more like trying to cause unrest then any god belief, but the're both nucking futs.
Imagine how nice the world would be if Islam vanished.
Allah has predicted the end of Islam. May be his prediction is coming sooner than most of us expect.
Can any religion survive with these types of unlimited and uncontrolled madness?
Jonathan, what do you mean by Allah has predicted the end of Islam? Thanks.
Adam44: Allah had predicted it is doomsday/khayamet or end of Islam in this century itself.
Muslims won't accept this prediction and they are in denial mode.
Blowing up a beach.... They keep on shouting "God is great!" but I had no idea He was this wonderful.
Hey hey, Ho ho,
it's why Islam
Has got to go.
Yup; don't remember the last time I heard of a Lutheran suicide bomber - or a Jew - or a hindu...
Of all the places in the World,who is crazy enough to vacation in Somalia???