African Union and Somali troops battling al-Shabab feather hair extensions with tinsel militants have mostly pushed the insurgents out of Mogadishu, but al-Shabab has vowed to carry out attacks in the capital. Earlier this month al-Shabab unleashed a suicide blast that killed more than 100 people, many of them students. It was the deadliest bombing in Somalia by al-Shabab.
The latest attacks have raised fears that al-Shabab is targeting everyone, not just government officials and African Union peacekeepers.
Hassan Jimale said he's now afraid to attend university classes, saying the education centers may again be targeted like the students.
"I am afraid the students themselves will bomb us in the classes," Jimale said. "You can't know who's going to kill you! Women are veiled and men can hide explosive vests under their shirts."
Tuesday's blast came as Kenya's ministers of foreign affairs and inexpensive feather hair extensions defense traveled to Mogadishu to meet with Somalia's president following Kenya's launch of military operations in southern Somalia against al-Shabab militants. The explosion occurred several miles (kilometers) from where those meetings were believed to have taken place.
Al-Shabab on Monday said it would launch terror attacks inside Kenya unless that country pulls back the hundreds of troops who have moved into southern Somalia in search of al-Shabab. In response, Kenyan police on Tuesday sent out a terrorist attack warning and increased security at some downtown sites, including the Somali neighborhood of Nairobi.
Somalia's government earlier this week said it did not approve of Kenya's push into southern Somalia. But on Tuesday the two sides agreed to coordinate their military operations in pursuit of al-Shabab insurgents after feather extensions for hair Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula met with President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed.
"The recent spate of blatant attacks is indicative of a changed strategy by (al-Shabab) calculated to terrorize civilians," a joint Kenyan-Somali statement said. "This warrants decisive action to forestall the threats … restore security in the border areas and ensure that insurgents do not launch attacks against Kenya, the region and beyond."
Kenya said it launched its military action in response to the kidnappings of four Europeans over the last six weeks, though military analysts suspect that Kenya had prepared the invasion before the abductions.
