“Holy cow, they still have airliner service in Somalia? They don’t even have a formal government over there!”

That’s pretty much what I thought too.

Apparently, at some point in November, a Somali man tried to board a Daalo Airlines plane that was flying from Mogasdishu to Dubai with a couple of stops along the way.

According to an Associated Press article published on Yahoo news, people in the know are saying that there are many similarities between the modus operandi of this Somali guy and that of the Nigerian guy that tried to blow up the Delta, I mean Northwest flight 253 on Christmas day.

The similarities are that both men had dry powder based explosives, syringes with liquids and wanted to blow up a plane.

It makes me think that this run in Somalia was a test for the eventual run in Detroit.

I wonder why the African Union military force stationed at the Mogadishu airport were able to get the guy before he boarded the plane while the Dutch and Nigerians couldn’t or wouldn’t.

Here’s the best, and most recent, picture I could find of the Mogadishu airport:

I wonder how the guys in Mogadishu figured out what was going on…

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