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Somali Islamists Al Shabaab Re-Open Key Airport in Kismayo: Explosions
5 August 2009
Kismayo — Sheikh Ahmed Hassan Tartib, the Al Shabaab head at Kismayo airport, announced to reporters and the public that the "airport is now open and can be used by commercial and aid planes." He stated that Al Shabaab "welcomes" airline companies to use the Kismayo airport, citing the landing of a plane delivering humanitarian aid. "Recently, an airplane transporting medicines landed at the airport [in Kismayo]," Sheikh Tartib said. Kismayo's international airport has been shut down since mid-2008, when Al Shabaab gunmen fired bullets at a small plane carrying khat, a leafy narcotic drug popular in Somalia. Al Shabaab and another group, Hizbul Islam, are fighting to topple Somalia's U.N.-recognized interim government, which is backed by African Union peacekeepers in Mogadsihu. Explosions Convulse Parts of Beledweyn Town Meanwhie, at least one civilian has been injured in Beledweyn town in Hiran region after unidentified group targeted explosions to a government military bases in the town, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Wednesday. Reports from the town say that the first explosion was targeted to a government military base in Lik-Likato Bridge neighborhood while the other one occurred at Suq Holaha neighborhood in the town as the troops were patrolling through the town injuring a civilian who was around where the second blast happened. Government officials' spokesman in Beledweyn town told reporters that they simplified the curfew that they had imposed the town earlier and changed its time saying that the new curfew will be started at 8:00 local time in the evening. To hear explosions are new thing to the ears of the people in Beledweyn town but seem that it is part the other consecutive explosions happen in the town in central Somalia.
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