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tants, and that many of the at- The attack followed tackers’ corpses lay at the scene • while others were captured. last week’s recapture “After the blasts they tried by government to attack the army defences forces of most of but were defeated. We are still Awdheegle district. pursuing them. Some soldiers sustained minor injuries from blast shrapnel but nothing ma- The attack has jor,” he said. renewed• the focus Capt. Hussein Ali, a military on the militants’ officer from a nearby town, said links with Qatar. soldiers behind sandbags had stopped the car bombs from reaching the base by firing to Mogadishu Qatar is accused of supporting Al Shabab, which has been targeting the assets of detonate them. British-Iranian academic held other Gulf states in Somalia. “There are casualties from Tehran he Islamist militant Al-Shabab and government Sunday from his home in west- group Al Shabab claimed resident Aden Abdullahi said. forces, but we have no exact ran has arrested a Brit - ern without any reason, his Tto have killed at least 50 Halima Farah, a shopkeeper, figure,” he said. ish-Iranian dual national, wife told BBC Persian. soldiers in a double car-bomb said government troops were Wednesday’s attack followed Ifurther threatening tensions Shafaq Rahmani claimed and gun attack on Wednesday in control of the town after Soldiers behind last week’s recapture by gov- between the UK and Tehran fol- security agents came to their on a military base in Somalia. the attack. “We believe both sandbags had ernment forces of most of Awd- lowing the seizure of a British house and confiscated docu- Civilians were also killed in the militants and government stopped the car heegle district. Al-Shabab was tanker last month. ments, including his ID card. the crossfire in an hour-long suffered great loss of life, but bombs from reaching forced out of Mogadishu in 2011 Kameel Ahmady, a social an- She said he had not been of- gunbattle at the base in Awd- we cannot see their casualties. the base by firing to and has since lost most of its thropologist, was arrested on ficially charged, but officials at heegle, 70 km southwest of the Stray bullets killed people in detonate them. other strongholds. Evin prison say he faces several capital, Mogadishu. their homes.” However, the attack has re- 210 fils (includes VAT) charges related to his activities. “We heard two huge blasts Al-Shabab, which is linked CAPT HUSSEIN ALI newed the focus on the mil - “They have not provided any and gunfire from the direction to Al-Qaeda, said it had killed itants’ links with Qatar. Evi - information about the reason of the military base. I saw sever- 50 soldiers and lost only two of However, the Somali army’s dence emerged this month that for the arrest or the charg - al soldiers running away to es- its members who drove the car operations commander Gen. Doha colluded in Al-Shabab es against Kameel,” Rahmani cape but we cannot know how bombs. Army vehicles were also Yusuf Rageh Odowa said his attacks in Somalia targeting the wrote on Instagram. many were killed,” Awdheegle burned, it said. forces had repelled the mili - assets of other Gulf states.

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