“Saturday’s attack came just three weeks after another assault quickly claimed by the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group on the city’s Ambassador hotel left 10 dead including two lawmakers when a huge car bomb ripped the front off the six-storey building.”
Soon there will be no more hotels for the throngs of tourists in lovely Mogadishu.
“The Naasa Hablood hotel in southern Mogadishu is often used by politicians…” That’s why it was targeted.
“‘Massive explosion’, attack under way at Mogadishu hotel,” AFP, June 25, 2016 (thanks to Steve):
A huge blast followed by heavy gunfire rocked a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday, a resident and AFP reporters said, the latest in a string of attacks targeting hotels and restaurants.
“There is heavy fire going on inside the hotel, it started after the massive explosion but we cannot know what is going on,” resident Abdihafid Mudey, who lives near the hotel, told AFP.
There were no immediate reports of casualties but several security sources confirmed to AFP that an attack was under way.
AFP journalists in Mogadishu said a powerful explosion was heard at around 16:30 pm (1330 GMT), followed by two other blasts.
The Naasa Hablood hotel in southern Mogadishu is often used by politicians and members of the Somali diaspora visiting the city.
Somali security forces cordoned off access to the neighbourhood in which the hotel is located, an AFP photographer said.
Saturday’s attack came just three weeks after another assault quickly claimed by the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group on the city’s Ambassador hotel left 10 dead including two lawmakers when a huge car bomb ripped the front off the six-storey building.
Shabaab gunmen besieged the Ambassador hotel for more than 12 hours….

Walter Sieruk says
In Somalia that jihad bomb blast as well as the heavy gunfire carried out by Muslims who are also militant jihadists ,once again ,does reflect the terrible violence and killing that the Quran inspires. So ,all this ,leads to a very important question: “Is the Quran the Word of God or is it a fabrication of a man. Thus, is the Quran the truth or a fiction and a hoax ?” The jihadists use many verses from the Quran as the main source of justification for their violence, mayhem and murders. As found in For example, 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4. The answer is clearly given on pages 145 through 157 in THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey in which he wrote a section on the Quran with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Quran differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143]? The above is inconsistent and illogical. Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Quran to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Quran is right.” Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Quran, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Quran. Furthermore, the Muslims claim that “the Quran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.” Nevertheless, in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet and Eethi Caner has shown that the Quran was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses. For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah b. Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’ Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.” In conclusion, the Quran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.
Zeke Zick says
The Cold War never ended, it just went underground. The Marxists have been trying to control the horn of Africa since the early 1960’s. They have already succeeded in taking South Africa.
The Russians learned that are no people willing to be”Communist” suicide bombers, but Islamic one seem to be everywhere. Islam is a tool and Jihadists are useful idiots poised to destroy the West and Israel. Which is why the Left in Europe and North America are importing these savages.
The Plan is that once “Things” become worse, people will turn to “Big Government/The U.N.” to stop things like this from happening.
Angemon says
It’s a shame al-Shabaab doesn’t have Obama there to explain them how they’re misunderstanding islam… /sarc. off
abad says
Pretty scary to think we have Somali jihadis right here in the USA – specifically, Missouri
gravenimage says
There are even more of them in Minnesota, abad.
gravenimage says
Ramadan in Somalia: Huge blast, heavy gunfire inside Mogadishu hotel
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I just heard about this Jihad atrocity.
Mubarak Ramadan, everybody!
Alexander the Grape says
It’s not related to anything but, just as a matter of interest, I found when searching that the name of the hotel, “Naasa Hablood” means “girl’s breasts”, also the name of two landmark hills near Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland.
Alexander the Grape says
The relationship between the name of the venue and its close association to Somaliland does not seem to have been noticed by anyone yet.
There is no love lost between al-Shabaab and Somaliland which tries its best to control Islamic fundamentalism. Just noticing.