Somali port city of Kismayu October 3, 2012

A soldier serving with the Kenyan Contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) looks out during a security sweep of a former police station by a team of AMISOM engineers for improvised explosive devices (IEDs), at the southern Somali port city of Kismayu October 3, 2012, in this handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team. African Union and Somali troops combed Kismayu on Wednesday for bombs hidden by al Qaeda-linked militants who fled their last urban bastion but warned of retaliatory strikes, the two militaries said. The retreat signalled the demise of al Shabaab as a quasi-conventional military force, say analysts who expect the militants to resort increasingly to suicide bombings and hit-and-run attacks similar to those that rocked the capital Mogadishu over the last year. The Islamist militants abandoned Kismayu, their primary redoubt in south Somalia, on Friday night following an assault on the city by air, sea, and land forces. *******/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team/Stuart Price/Handout

 

A soldier serving with the Kenyan Contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) walks past a soldier of the Somali National Army (SNA) in the southern Somali port city of Kismayu October 3, 2012, during a security sweep of a former police station by a team of AMISOM engineers for improvised explosive devices (IEDs), in this handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team. African Union and Somali troops combed the Somali port of Kismayu on Wednesday for bombs hidden by al Qaeda-linked militants who fled their last urban bastion but warned of retaliatory strikes, the two militaries said. The retreat signalled the demise of al Shabaab as a quasi-conventional military force, say analysts who expect the militants to resort increasingly to suicide bombings and hit-and-run attacks similar to those that rocked the capital Mogadishu over the last year. The Islamist militants abandoned Kismayu, their primary redoubt in south Somalia, on Friday night following an assault on the city by air, sea, and land forces. *******/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team/Stuart Price/Handout

 

A team of engineers serving with the Kenyan Contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) search a former police station for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the southern Somali port city of Kismayu October 3, 2012, in this handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team. African Union and Somali troops combed Kismayu on Wednesday for bombs hidden by al Qaeda-linked militants who fled their last urban bastion but warned of retaliatory strikes, the two militaries said. The retreat signalled the demise of al Shabaab as a quasi-conventional military force, say analysts who expect the militants to resort increasingly to suicide bombings and hit-and-run attacks similar to those that rocked the capital Mogadishu over the last year. The Islamist militants abandoned Kismayu, their primary redoubt in south Somalia, on Friday night following an assault on the city by air, sea, and land forces. *******/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team/Stuart Price/Handout

 

A team of engineers serving with the Kenyan Contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) search a former police station for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the southern Somali port city of Kismayu October 3, 2012, in this handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team. African Union and Somali troops combed Kismayu on Wednesday for bombs hidden by al Qaeda-linked militants who fled their last urban bastion but warned of retaliatory strikes, the two militaries said. The retreat signalled the demise of al Shabaab as a quasi-conventional military force, say analysts who expect the militants to resort increasingly to suicide bombings and hit-and-run attacks similar to those that rocked the capital Mogadishu over the last year. The Islamist militants abandoned Kismayu, their primary redoubt in south Somalia, on Friday night following an assault on the city by air, sea, and land forces. *******/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team/Stuart Price/Handout

 

Fighters of the Ras Kimboni Militia Brigade walk past a mosque while a team of engineers serving with the Kenyan Contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) search a former police station for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the southern Somali port city of Kismayu October 3, 2012, in this handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team. African Union and Somali troops combed Kismayu on Wednesday for bombs hidden by al Qaeda-linked militants who fled their last urban bastion but warned of retaliatory strikes, the two militaries said. The retreat signalled the demise of al Shabaab as a quasi-conventional military force, say analysts who expect the militants to resort increasingly to suicide bombings and hit-and-run attacks similar to those that rocked the capital Mogadishu over the last year. The Islamist militants abandoned Kismayu, their primary redoubt in south Somalia, on Friday night following an assault on the city by air, sea, and land forces. *******/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team/Stuart Price/Handout

 

Soldiers of the Somali National Army (SNA) stand at the entrance of a former police station while a team of engineers serving with the Kenyan Contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) search the premises for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the southern Somali port city of Kismayu October 3, 2012, in this handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team. African Union and Somali troops combed Kismayu on Wednesday for bombs hidden by al Qaeda-linked militants who fled their last urban bastion but warned of retaliatory strikes, the two militaries said. The retreat signalled the demise of al Shabaab as a quasi-conventional military force, say analysts who expect the militants to resort increasingly to suicide bombings and hit-and-run attacks similar to those that rocked the capital Mogadishu over the last year. The Islamist militants abandoned Kismayu, their primary redoubt in south Somalia, on Friday night following an assault on the city by air, sea, and land forces. *******/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team/Stuart Price/Handout

 

Soldiers of the Somali National Army (SNA) stand at the entrance of a former police station while a team of engineers serving with the Kenyan Contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) search the premises for improvised explosive devices (IEDs), in the southern Somali port city of Kismayu October 3, 2012, in this handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team. African Union and Somali troops combed Kismayu on Wednesday for bombs hidden by al Qaeda-linked militants who fled their last urban bastion but warned of retaliatory strikes, the two militaries said. The retreat signalled the demise of al Shabaab as a quasi-conventional military force, say analysts who expect the militants to resort increasingly to suicide bombings and hit-and-run attacks similar to those that rocked the capital Mogadishu over the last year. The Islamist militants abandoned Kismayu, their primary redoubt in south Somalia, on Friday night following an assault on the city by air, sea, and land forces. *******/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team/Stuart Price/Handout

 

Engineers serving with the Kenyan Contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) search a former police station for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the southern Somali port city of Kismayu October 3, 2012, in this handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team. African Union and Somali troops combed Kismayu on Wednesday for bombs hidden by al Qaeda-linked militants who fled their last urban bastion but warned of retaliatory strikes, the two militaries said. The retreat signalled the demise of al Shabaab as a quasi-conventional military force, say analysts who expect the militants to resort increasingly to suicide bombings and hit-and-run attacks similar to those that rocked the capital Mogadishu over the last year. The Islamist militants abandoned Kismayu, their primary redoubt in south Somalia, on Friday night following an assault on the city by air, sea, and land forces. *******/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team/Stuart Price/Handout

 

Engineers serving with the Kenyan Contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) search a former police station for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the southern Somali port city of Kismayu October 3, 2012, in this handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team. African Union and Somali troops combed Kismayu on Wednesday for bombs hidden by al Qaeda-linked militants who fled their last urban bastion but warned of retaliatory strikes, the two militaries said. The retreat signalled the demise of al Shabaab as a quasi-conventional military force, say analysts who expect the militants to resort increasingly to suicide bombings and hit-and-run attacks similar to those that rocked the capital Mogadishu over the last year. The Islamist militants abandoned Kismayu, their primary redoubt in south Somalia, on Friday night following an assault on the city by air, sea, and land forces. *******/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team/Stuart Price/Handout

 

A team of engineers serving with the Kenyan Contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) search a former police station for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the southern Somali port city of Kismayu October 3, 2012, in this handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team. African Union and Somali troops combed Kismayu on Wednesday for bombs hidden by al Qaeda-linked militants who fled their last urban bastion but warned of retaliatory strikes, the two militaries said. The retreat signalled the demise of al Shabaab as a quasi-conventional military force, say analysts who expect the militants to resort increasingly to suicide bombings and hit-and-run attacks similar to those that rocked the capital Mogadishu over the last year. The Islamist militants abandoned Kismayu, their primary redoubt in south Somalia, on Friday night following an assault on the city by air, sea, and land forces. *******/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team/Stuart Price/Handout

 

An engineer serving with the Kenyan Contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) searches a former police station for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the southern Somali port city of Kismayu October 3, 2012, in this handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team. African Union and Somali troops combed Kismayu on Wednesday for bombs hidden by al Qaeda-linked militants who fled their last urban bastion but warned of retaliatory strikes, the two militaries said. The retreat signalled the demise of al Shabaab as a quasi-conventional military force, say analysts who expect the militants to resort increasingly to suicide bombings and hit-and-run attacks similar to those that rocked the capital Mogadishu over the last year. The Islamist militants abandoned Kismayu, their primary redoubt in south Somalia, on Friday night following an assault on the city by air, sea, and land forces. *******/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team/Stuart Price/Handout

 

An improvised explosive device (IED) is destroyed by a controlled explosion after a team of engineers serving with the Kenyan Contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) found the device planted in the perimeter wall next to the entrance of a former police station, in the southern Somali port city of Kismayu October 3, 2012, in this handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team. African Union and Somali troops combed Kismayu on Wednesday for bombs hidden by al Qaeda-linked militants who fled their last urban bastion but warned of retaliatory strikes, the two militaries said. The retreat signalled the demise of al Shabaab as a quasi-conventional military force, say analysts who expect the militants to resort increasingly to suicide bombings and hit-and-run attacks similar to those that rocked the capital Mogadishu over the last year. The Islamist militants abandoned Kismayu, their primary redoubt in south Somalia, on Friday night following an assault on the city by air, sea, and land forces. *******/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team/Stuart Price/Handout

 

Troops serving with the Kenyan Contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) look out during a security sweep of a former police station by a team of AMISOM engineers for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the southern Somali port city of Kismayu October 3, 2012, in this handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team. African Union and Somali troops combed Kismayu on Wednesday for bombs hidden by al Qaeda-linked militants who fled their last urban bastion but warned of retaliatory strikes, the two militaries said. The retreat signalled the demise of al Shabaab as a quasi-conventional military force, say analysts who expect the militants to resort increasingly to suicide bombings and hit-and-run attacks similar to those that rocked the capital Mogadishu over the last year. The Islamist militants abandoned Kismayu, their primary redoubt in south Somalia, on Friday night following an assault on the city by air, sea, and land forces. *******/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team/Stuart Price/Handout

 

Men suspected to be from al Shabaab are led toward a former police station by soldiers of the Somali National Army (SNA), as a team of engineers serving with the Kenyan Contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) searched the premises for improvised explosive devices (IEDs), in the southern Somali port city of Kismayu October 3, 2012, in this handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team. African Union and Somali troops combed Kismayu on Wednesday for bombs hidden by al Qaeda-linked militants who fled their last urban bastion but warned of retaliatory strikes, the two militaries said. The retreat signalled the demise of al Shabaab as a quasi-conventional military force, say analysts who expect the militants to resort increasingly to suicide bombings and hit-and-run attacks similar to those that rocked the capital Mogadishu over the last year. The Islamist militants abandoned Kismayu, their primary redoubt in south Somalia, on Friday night following an assault on the city by air, sea, and land forces. *******/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team/Stuart Price/Handout

 

Men suspected to be from al Shabaab are guarded at a former police station by soldiers of the Somali National Army (SNA) as engineers serving with the Kenyan Contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) searched the premises for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the southern Somali port city of Kismayu October 3, 2012, in this handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team. African Union and Somali troops combed Kismayu on Wednesday for bombs hidden by al Qaeda-linked militants who fled their last urban bastion but warned of retaliatory strikes, the two militaries said. The retreat signalled the demise of al Shabaab as a quasi-conventional military force, say analysts who expect the militants to resort increasingly to suicide bombings and hit-and-run attacks similar to those that rocked the capital Mogadishu over the last year. The Islamist militants abandoned Kismayu, their primary redoubt in south Somalia, on Friday night following an assault on the city by air, sea, and land forces. *******/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team/Stuart Price/Handout

 

Men suspected to be from al Shabaab are guarded at a former police station by soldiers of the Somali National Army (SNA) as engineers serving with the Kenyan Contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) searched premises for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the southern Somali port city of Kismayu October 3, 2012, in this handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team. African Union and Somali troops combed Kismayu on Wednesday for bombs hidden by al Qaeda-linked militants who fled their last urban bastion but warned of retaliatory strikes, the two militaries said. The retreat signalled the demise of al Shabaab as a quasi-conventional military force, say analysts who expect the militants to resort increasingly to suicide bombings and hit-and-run attacks similar to those that rocked the capital Mogadishu over the last year. The Islamist militants abandoned Kismayu, their primary redoubt in south Somalia, on Friday night following an assault on the city by air, sea, and land forces. *******/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team/Stuart Price/Handout

 

A street is seen near to where a team of engineers serving with the Kenyan Contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) searched a former police station for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the southern Somali port city of Kismayu October 3, 2012, in this handout photograph released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team. African Union and Somali troops combed Kismayu on Wednesday for bombs hidden by al Qaeda-linked militants who fled their last urban bastion but warned of retaliatory strikes, the two militaries said. The retreat signalled the demise of al Shabaab as a quasi-conventional military force, say analysts who expect the militants to resort increasingly to suicide bombings and hit-and-run attacks similar to those that rocked the capital Mogadishu over the last year. The Islamist militants abandoned Kismayu, their primary redoubt in south Somalia, on Friday night following an assault on the city by air, sea, and land forces. *******/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team/Stuart Price/Handout

 

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