Postby Kramer » Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:34 am
MOGADISHU (AFP) - At least 12 people were killed when two suicide car bomb blasts rocked the Somali town of Baidoa, seat of Somalia's weak government, police commander General Ali Hussein has told AFP.
"There were two suicide cars full of explosives," he said Thursday, adding the blasts had killed one of his officers, several people inside the two vehicles and the occupants of a third vehicle near the Boynunay checkpoint in eastern Baidoa.
The checkpoint is closely guarded by Somali authorities who keep close watch on those entering and leaving the town, the only one held by the government which is on the brink of war with powerful Islamists.
In Mogadishu, a senior Islamist security official said the bombing was an attack on an Ethiopian military post and an Islamist commander in Bay region where Baidoa is located said it was carried out by "Islamic suicide bombers."
--shyt! Iraqi Style --I guess 'em TGF and ethiopia get a whole lot of shyt in their hands now!