1,Puntland
2,Jubbland
3 Al Shabab
4, 6 gobol state
5, U.N
6, Somalia Parliament
7,Igad
8,corruption accusation
9,Clan Leaders
10,Galmugud
11,Somalia Diasporas
Etc......
Somalia's president sacked his police and intelligence chiefs Wednesday after Islamist Shebab fighters launched a major assault against his palace for the second time this year.
"Both the police and intelligence chiefs were replaced, and the minister for the national security was named," Information Minister Mustafa Duhulow said.
Recent Shebab attacks have targeted key areas of Somalia's government or the security forces, apparently to discredit claims the authorities are winning the war against the Islamists.
A Shebab spokesman confirmed that the group was behind the attack late on Tuesday, and claimed their commandos had managed to seize President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's office inside the compound known as Villa Somalia.
However, government dismissed their claims, saying the Al-Qaeda-linked gunmen had been killed near the entrance of the compound.
"Of the four attackers, three were killed in the car park and one was captured," Duhulow said.
A security official had told AFP earlier that at least nine attackers were involved, and had all been killed. They had been dressed in government army uniforms.
Bomb disposal experts detonated several explosive devices, "including a suicide vest that one attacker was wearing that had failed to detonate," Duhulow added.
Mohamud, who was not in the complex at the time of the attack, later delivered a defiant message close to the charred wreckage of the car bomb that gunmen used in their attempt to storm the compound.
"I am here to stay, with Allah's will... I say to them, you will not kill us, and nor will you demolish our spirit," Mohamud said, also thanking the 22,000-strong African Union force who helped battle the attackers and guard the president.
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Do you somalia is ungovernable or hassan sheikh is incompetent?
