Somalia’s new president survives al-Qaeda linked suicide bombers

Just days after his election on Monday, Somalia’s new president, Hassan Sheik Mohamud, survived an attack by three suicide bombers at a hotel that was his temporary residence.  The three were part of al-Shabaab, which claimed responsibility for the attack on micro-blogging site, Twitter: “HSM successfully targets a hotel near the airport in Mogadishu where a high profile meeting was being held.  HSM is the acronym for the al-Qaeda linked group’s full name, Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujaheddin. Several tweets followed with the last one saying, “HSM will continue fighting until the very last invader is eliminated from our land.”

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