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Monday, 27 September 2010
Who Attacked al-Shabab? The Rebel Leader Speaks
Who attacked Somalia's al-Shabab on Sunday? At about 12:30 p.m., a mysterious helicopter opened fire on a meeting of top leaders of the increasingly ambitious al-Shabab rebels, which the U.S. has designated as a terrorist group. The group's leader, Sheik Muktar Abdirahman Godane, told TIME in an interview on Monday that he was present at the meeting in the Somali town of Merca and watched as the helicopter, which he said was either gray or olive green, approached from the sea, circled and fired on the house where the meeting was under way. None of the foreign military powers with ships off the Somali coast have taken credit for the strike. "The helicopter was there for about 20 minutes in the air of Merca, and then it left," Godane told TIME. "We are now investigating the ammunition that it fired."Read More
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