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Shabaab claims several al-Qaeda leaders present during infamous ‘Black Hawk Down’ incident
Mahad Karate, a senior official and a deputy emir of Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s branch for East Africa, again named several al-Qaeda leaders present in Mogadishu during the infamous ‘Black Hawk Down’ incident in 1993.