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Somali al Shabaab militants said their fighters rammed a suicide car bomb into a base of Ethiopian troops serving with the African Unions AMISOM force, stormed inside and killed 43 soldiers on Thursday. AMISOM soldiers hold belts of ammunition during a joint operation against al Shabaab militants. The militant group has said it has killed 43 armymen in an attack at a military base in Haglan. Reuters File Photo Residents near the base in the central town of Haglan said they heard a huge e stanley cup xplosion and then heavy exchanges of gunfire shortly before dawn. Shots ran out at least an hour after the initial blast, they added. There was no immediate comment from AMISOM, which is made up of troops from African nations supporting Somalias Western-backed government in its fight against the al Qaeda-linked mili stanley cup tants. AMISOM usually says it is up to troop-contributing countries to announce casualties. In the past, casualty figures cited by al Shabaab have been much higher than offic stanley cup ial numbers. Our fighters stormed the Halgan base of AMISOM, al Shabaabs military operations spokesperson Abdiasis Abu Musab told Reuters. Musab said several al Shabaab fighters died, but did not give a number. It was a huge blast. It destroyed the gate and parts of the base, the he said, adding al Shabaab fighters overran the base and drove out the Ethiopian troops before withdrawing. Al Shabaab fighters also repelled a counter attack by Djibouti troops deployed from another base in the area Kzpr US warns Pakistan about ISI-Haqqani link
stanley cup The US military has said it can t find its copy of a video that shows two employees of the Reuters news agency being killed by Army helicopters in 2007, after a leaked version circulated the Internet and renewed questions about the attack. HT Image Capt Jack Henzlik, a spokesman for US Central Command, said that forces in Iraq have not been able to locate the video within its files. We re attempting to retrieve the video at this time, Henzlik said. It s the latest twist in a three-year saga that raises questions about the rules of engagement in battle and the safety of journalists sent to cover wars. Advocates for increased government transparency also have questioned why adidas campus the military withheld the video from the public, even though Reuters requested a copy through the Freedom of Information Act after watching it in an off-the-record meeting with the military in 2007. The video includes audio of troops calling to light em up! and referring to the men as dead bastards. salomon An internal investigation concluded that the troops had acted appropriately, despite having mistaken the camera equipment for weapons. Clearly, it is unflattering to the military, but that is not justification for withholding it, said Steven Aftergood, an expert on government secrecy with the Federation of American Scientists. The July 12, 2007, attack has been reported before. But Web site Wikileaks.Org on Monday posted the video shot from one of the Apache helicopters, putting it on collat |
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