{"id":27283,"date":"2016-07-28T00:21:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T00:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/somalia-attack-mogadishu-suicide-bomber-was-ex-mp\/"},"modified":"2016-07-28T00:21:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T00:21:04","slug":"somalia-attack-mogadishu-suicide-bomber-was-ex-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/somalia-attack-mogadishu-suicide-bomber-was-ex-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia attack: Mogadishu suicide bomber ‘was ex-MP’"},"content":{"rendered":"

{A former MP was one of two suicide car bombers who carried out Tuesday’s deadly attacks in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, militants have said.}<\/p>\n

Salah Nuh Ismail was among those who killed 13 people in the suicide attacks near the city’s main airport, the al-Shabab group said.<\/p>\n

Also known as Salah Badbado, he quit the Somali parliament in 2010 after denouncing lawmakers as “infidels”.<\/p>\n

Al-Shabab is fighting to oust Somalia’s weak internationally-backed government.
\nThe large airport area in Mogadishu is a secure “green zone” for UN operations, the 22,000-strong African Union peace force and foreign embassies.<\/p>\n

The militant group, which is affiliated to al-Qaeda, were forced out of Mogadishu five years ago by African Union (AU) and government troops, but they have continued to carry out bombings in the city.<\/p>\n

It has been increasing its attacks ahead of planned elections in Somalia.
\nHotels have been attacked by car bombs and armed assault teams over the past few weeks.<\/p>\n

The former MP’s involvement in the latest attack marks a new trend, as up to now al-Shabab’s suicide bombers have tended to be young and uneducated, says the BBC Somali Service’s Mohammud Ali Mohamed.<\/p>\n

The surname by which Ismail was popularly known, Badbado, means safety in the Somali language, our correspondent adds.<\/p>\n

There are conflicting reports about whether he was aged 53 or 57.<\/p>\n

Somalia’s government has not yet commented on al-Shabab’s statement that he was one of the bombers.<\/p>\n

Ismail was an MP from 2004 to 2010, when he declared allegiance to al-Shabab at a press conference in Mogadishu and then went missing, our reporter says.<\/p>\n

Until then, he was not known to have leanings towards al-Shabab and had been chosen by clan elders to represent the northern Burao region in the Somali parliament, our correspondent adds.<\/p>\n

Somalia has been hit by continued religious and clan conflict since the fall of the Siad Barre regime in 1991.<\/p>\n

{{Attacks on Amisom troops }} <\/p>\n

{{2016}}<\/p>\n

9 June: Al-Shabab said they killed 60 Ethiopian soldiers in Halgan – Ethiopia denied any soldiers were killed<\/p>\n

21 April: Six Ethiopian troops killed in blast in Bay Region<\/p>\n

22 February: 15 Ethiopian troops dead in clashes in Lower Shabelle<\/p>\n

15 January: Scores of Kenyan troops killed in an attack on base in el-Ade
\n2015<\/p>\n

1 September: More than 20 killed in suicide attack on base in Janale, including at least 12 Ugandan troops<\/p>\n

26 June: At least 50 Burundian troops killed in attack on base near Mogadishu
\n2011<\/p>\n

20 October: 70 Amisom and Somali troops killed in clashes in Mogadishu.<\/p>\n

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