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Suicide car bomb targets Somalian hotel

The attack was claimed by Shabaab jihadists.

Somalia Restaurant Attack wreckage of a car PA PA

A SUICIDE CAR bomb has exploded outside a popular hotel close to the presidential palace in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, in an attack claimed by Shabaab jihadists.

“There was a blast close to the SYL hotel area, near the main checkpoint of the presidential palace,” said security officer Ibrahim Mohamed.

A witness described seeing a huge blast. “I saw a car speeding towards the area and huge smoke and fire went up in the sky,” said Elmi Ahmed.

Somalia Restaurant Attack Somalis gathered near the wreckage of car used during car bomb PA Images PA Images

An AFP journalist at the scene saw two bodies in the street and described widespread damage to buildings in the area, but reported no gunfire immediately after the explosion.

The Al-Qaeda aligned Shabaab jihadists claimed responsibility for the attack saying it targeted SYL hotel because it “is close to the presidential palace, and also home to apostates and unbelievers.”

The hotel was previously attacked in both February this year and January last year.

- © AFP, 2016

Read: Iraqi forces arrest would-be teenage bomber days after Kurdish wedding attack>

Read: Over 150 killed in drone strike in Somalia – US officials>

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    Mute Obi Wan
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    Aug 30th 2016, 12:26 PM

    Ahh, it’s the daily attack by “the religion of peace”.

    Never mind folks, the Irish naval service is in the process of ferrying boatloads of them over here as we speak.

    So this sort of event will be coming soon to a town near you.

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    Mute Peter Fechter
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    Aug 30th 2016, 12:47 PM

    These savages would rather their people continue to live in stone age squalor (Sharia) or migrate to Europe than contemplate even a modicum of modernity and safety for Somalia, a failed state for nigh on 30 years.

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    Mute prouesse f
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    Aug 30th 2016, 5:06 PM

    Here comes another moron calling anybody that’s like him/her a terrorist, only because they are foreigners.

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    Mute Peter Fechter
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    Aug 30th 2016, 12:09 PM

    “apostates and unbelievers”……considered as concrete grounds for mass murder by Wahabbi Sunni’s.

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    Mute thejynxeffect
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    Aug 30th 2016, 12:40 PM

    For it is written!

    Quran 4:89

    “They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they). But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (from what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks.”

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    Mute OnTheOutside
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    Aug 30th 2016, 12:45 PM

    Wonder how many cans of Dutch Gold that lad had in him when he wrote that shite.

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    Mute prouesse f
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    Aug 30th 2016, 5:11 PM

    “Allah loves Al-Muhsinun (the good-doers).” (Surah 3:134)

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    Mute prouesse f
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    Aug 30th 2016, 5:12 PM

    Anybody can find random quotes to support their non-sense.

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    Mute Teene Nyantoon
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    Aug 30th 2016, 5:33 PM

    Let me try and understand this Prouesse, god/allah, who we have no proof for apart from what some desert dwellers wrote down…loves people. OKAY!

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    Mute prouesse f
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    Aug 30th 2016, 5:49 PM

    The point is that you can find any quote you want… Then you believe it or not.

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    Mute prouesse f
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    Aug 30th 2016, 5:51 PM

    Actually, I think you can find every thing and its opposite. For believers, it’s ok, because their belief relies on faith, not on reason.
    Does it make sense?

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    Mute prouesse f
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    Aug 30th 2016, 5:53 PM

    Since this is quotation day, I like the following quotation:

    “It’s easy to kill
    With god
    On your side”

    Matt Elliott ‘Good Pawn’

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    Mute Teene Nyantoon
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    Aug 31st 2016, 11:17 AM

    Reason over faith… How often must that be said? Education not religious indoctrination.

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    Mute Padraic Jihadi
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    Aug 30th 2016, 12:59 PM

    Another peaceful demonstration by the religion of blowing people to pieces. I mean, the religion of peace.

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    Mute Fiona Fitzgerald
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    Aug 30th 2016, 12:37 PM

    Right, I’ve gone off the idea of driverless cars now.

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    Mute whereisspace
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    Aug 30th 2016, 1:47 PM

    Religious idiots.

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