Somali Militants Live-Tweet Their Deadly Attack on U.N. Compound

By artappraiser on Wed, 06/19/2013 - 11:29pm |

By Colum Lynch, Turtle Bay @ ForeignPolicy.com, June 19, 2013

The Somali militant movement al-Shabab today launched a deadly strike against a U.N. humanitarian compound in Mogadishu that killed one international staffer, three contractors, four Somali security guards, and an unknown number of Somali civilians.

Then the group gloated about it in a creepy series of Twitter posts.

The tweets seemed calculated to taunt the new U.N. representative, Nicholas Kay, who opened a political office in Mogadishu this month. "So Nicholas Kay, are you still planning to settle down in Mogadishu by the end of the month?" read one tweet.

U.N. officials dismissed al-Shabab's taunts, saying that they would not be deterred by the latest attack [.....]

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