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Mogadishu 12 March 2009 Waagacusub Media

Somalia’s Islamist hardliners Al-Shabab on Wednesday has claimed the responsibility of today’s roadside bomb attack which killed a senior government security official and three others in Mogadishu– this comes day after the new cabinet declared it moved to the implementation of the Sharia law.
 
As posted on the internet, Al-Shabab said their rocket brigade planted a roadside bomb which detonated on the car of a senior official killing himself, two of his brothers who were serving as his security guards.

The explosion which took place in north of Mogadishu destroyed the car as witnesses told Waagacusub Media.

This the first attack on the government led by Sharif Sheik Ahmed since it relocated in the capital a month ago.

Al-Shabab, which is the most radical and powerful group that controls much of the country, dismissed the decision in which the cabinet ministers of the new government endorsed the implementation of the Sharia law as drama performed the people.

In a statement issued today, Al-Shabab officials in Mogadishu said the practice of the Sharia law is not something needed to be voted but it is an obligation rule by the Muslims. The cabinet’s vote for the adoption of the Islamic religion means that the new government is not based on un-Islamic constitution.