The attack is the latest on Somali and AU forces by Al-Shabaab, a group that is fighting the government in hopes of turning Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic state.
MORE: http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/19/world/africa/somalia-violence/index.html
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