A former Somali MP Salah Nur Ismail (Salah Badbado) who turned militant was among two suicide bombers carried out attack on African Union forces' base in Mogadishu on Tuesday.
Salah Badbado, 57, defected from the government and joined Al Shabaab in 2010. He became a Islamic preacher and waged war on AU and SNA forces for years.
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