MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Insurgents detonated two suicide car bombs at an African Union (AU) peacekeeping base in Mogadishu on Thursday, witnesses said, days after the rebels vowed to avenge the U.S. killing of a top al Qaeda suspect.
A Reuters reporter saw six wounded soldiers being carried away from the site of the explosions, some bleeding heavily, while thick smoke poured into the sky over Somalia's capital.
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