Zawahiri praises Shabaab's takeover of southern Somalia

Al Qaeda's second in command released a videotape urging Somalis to oppose the government of former Islamic Courts leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, just one day after African Union soldiers were killed in a dual suicide attack in Mogadishu. The deadly strikes on an African Union base killed 11 Burundi soldiers and seriously wounded 15 more. Shabaab spokesman Muktar Robow took credit for the bombings and named the two attackers, claiming that "they inflicted heavy damage on soldiers at a church." Shabaab, the al Qaeda-linked Islamist terror group, has vowed to attack African Union troops who are in the country attempting to restore order in the war-torn country. "We will attack the bases of the occupying forces in K4 and the airport until the last foreign forces leave our country," Robow said at a news conference at the end of January as Ethiopian forces pulled out of . The last major suicide attack took place outside an African Union base in Mogadishu on Jan. 24. A suicide bomber killed one police officer and 12 civilians after the bomb destroyed a bus. More than 20 civilians were wounded during subsequent clashes that took place between African Union troops and Shabaab fighters...more..http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/02/zawahiri_praises_sha.php
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