Shabaab plans to launch suicide attacks using small planes against Somali government and AU bases in Mogadishu. The group has withdrawn from the seaport city of Kismayo after Hizbul Islam and the Ras Kamboni Brigade poured in with armed trucks and after Hizbul™s deputy leader Sheikh Hassan Turki went to Mogadishu to discuss the situation with senior Shabaab commanders. Somalia’s deputy police chief died from last week’s bomb wounds. Foreign military helicopters are flying low over Northern Somalia.
