Somalia’s Islamist militant group al-Shabaab has claimed that a suicide bomber who blew himself up at a hotel in the east African country was an elderly Norwegian national. By Umberto Bacchi – IB Times.
Accoding to Amisom in Bole-burte, Six soldiers, including a top Somali National army commander, were killed when a hotel frequented by Somali and African Union officials in Bulo-Burte, central Somalia, was hit by a suicide car bomb and subsequently attacked by al-Shabaab gunmen.
“The attacker of Bulo-Burte was a 60-year-old man who came from Norway to fight the enemies of Allah,” al-Shabaab military spokesman Sheikh Abdul Aziz Abu Musab told AFP. “He paid the sacrifice in order to be close to Allah by killing his enemies. The event is showing us that there is no age limit for jihad.” Abu Musab named the attacker as Abdullahi Ahmed Abdulle, saying he was a Norwegian citizen of Somali origin.
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