{UAH} HOW ACTIVE IS THE THE NRA IN SOMALIA?

Somalia Al-Shabab bomber targeting security forces kills seven Updated Thursday, February 27th 2014 at 18:15 GMT +3 A man stands guard at the site where a car bomb exploded in Mogadishu on February 27, 2014. Photo: AFP By AFP Mogadishu, Somalia: Somalia's Al-Shabab said it had carried out a car bombing that killed at least seven people Thursday in the capital Mogadishu, targeting security forces at a cafe close to the intelligence headquarters. Police said seven people had been killed, but some witnesses said they had counted eight corpses among the charred wreckage of the tea shop. The blast is part of a surge of attacks in the dangerous capital, where the Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab is fighting to topple the internationally backed government. Recent Al-Shabab attacks have targeted key areas of government or the security forces, in an apparent bid to discredit claims by the authorities that they are winning the war against the Islamist fighters. "We carried out the bombing against officers of the national security," Al-Shabab spokesman Abdiaziz Abu Musab told AFP, boasting of having killed 11 people, including senior officers. See also: Presidential palace in Somalia hit by car bomb, gun attack However, police official Ahmed Mumin told AFP that officers had "counted seven civilians killed in the car bomb," although adding that the "toll could be higher as many people were also wounded". Some witnesses suggested the blast had been detonated by a suicide bomber driving the car, which they said swerved into the cafe reportedly popular with security officials, near the city's Lido beach. Soldiers fired into the air after the blast to keep crowds back, as some civilians rushed in to pick up the wounded using sheets as makeshift stretchers, said an AFP photographer at the scene. Ambulances later arrived to pick up the wounded. Al-Shabab still powerful force The blast comes just a week after Al-Shabab militants carried out a major attack against the heavily fortified presidential palace, killing officials and guards in heavy gun battles
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