Peacekeepers' base in Somalia rocked by suicide bomb blasts

Belfast Telegraph Friday 18th September, 2009

Islamic insurgents posing as UN personnel detonated suicide car bombs in an African Union (AU) peacekeeping base in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. The attack came as revenge for a US commando ra...

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