Somali rebel group attacks capital for the third day

• Residents say four people were killed in the early morning fighting

The United States lists Robow as a terrorist.

Al Shabaab has pledged loyalty to al Qaeda and wants to impose its own harsh version of sharia law throughout the country.

Formal protest

Luway, the report says, is also believed to have been involved in the looting of the UN compound in Baidoa in July 2009, when UN vehicles were stolen and taken to Mogadishu.

“Luway has successfully exploited his social and political connections into an intermediary role between al Shabaab leadership in Baidoa and the United Nations — a situation that has evoked formal protest from clan elders,” it said.

The report, which was submitted to the UN Security Council’s Somalia sanctions committee and will be discussed by the council next week, says that as much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted to a network of corrupt contractors, radical Islamist militants and local UN staff. (Reuters)