August 31, 2014-Reuters reports that al-Shabaab blew up a car booms on Sunday at a national intelligence site in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. Seven al-Shabaab fighters were killed in the attack and fighting that followed. According to a Somali policeman quoted by Reuters, “It seems their target was to cause a mess where and thus free their militant colleagues held in the underground cells, but that will not happen.” The site has jail cells underground.
This attack was the latest this month in Mogadishu. UMISOM and the Somalia military have launched a new offensive against al-Shabaab to drive the militants out of the areas under heir control.
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