Somalia: Al-Shabaab hotel attack demonstrates continued resilience
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Bottom Line Up Front
A deadly weekend-long siege by al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Somalia, at an upscale Mogadishu hotel resulted in 21 dead and more than 100 people injured.
Despite the airstrikes and increased U.S. troop presence in Somalia, al-Shabaab clearly remains capable of conducting high-profile terrorist attacks directly in Somalia’s capit…
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