Al Qaeda-Linked Terrorists Strike Beachfront Hotel in Somalia

Islamic terrorism has struck again. This time it's the terrorists of al-Shabab, unleashing death and destruction on Somalia's capital city of Mogadishu in East Africa.

Al-Shabab's latest attack targeted The Beach View, a popular beachfront hotel, and the Lido restaurant.

At least 20 people were feared killed when the terrorists attacked with a car bomb followed by gunfire.

Eyewitness Abdullah Biid said he was with his friends when the first explosion was detonated.

"Luckily I survived but my friends died on the spot. I saw windows being smashed and people began to run here and there," he said. "What a world we live in. There is almost no place safe anymore."

The al Qaeda-linked terrorists are waging an insurgency against the Somali government and spreading terror to anyone who opposes them. Some Somali Americans have reportedly joined the group.

Kenyan troops have intervened in recent years to support Somalia's unstable government. They want to defeat al-Shabab and keep the group from spreading its radical Islamic ideology to their country.

But al-Shabab has retaliated, killing scores of Kenyans in terrorist attacks inside Kenya -- including in 2013 at Nairobi's Westgate Shopping Mall.

Most recently, al-Shabab claimed to have killed about 100 Kenyan peacekeeping troops in southwestern Somalia earlier this week.

Kenya has yet to confirm that death toll, but Al-Shabab's wave of terror isn't expected to end anytime soon.