Somalia

Sheikh Mukhtar Abdurahman Abu Zubayr, the leader of Shabaab, called for an uprising against the semi-autonomous Somaliland government. Islamist terrorists attacked an African Union base in Mogadishu; five people were killed during the fighting.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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