Somali blast characteristic of al Qaeda-minister
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The assassination attempt on Somali   President Abdullahi Yusuf, which killed at least six people on   Monday, bore the hallmarks of an al Qaeda attack, the Somali   foreign minister told Reuters.
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Somalia's trade minister and former defense minister escaped assassination attempts, but two others were killed in the latest Iraq-style guerrilla attacks on government targets, witnesses said on Wednesday.
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A blast near the home of a former Pakistani interior minister on Friday killed eight people and wounded 40 others, police said.
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At least one car bomb explodes in Baidoa, where Somalia's fragile interim government is based.
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BOSSASSO, Somalia  - A U.S. warship attacked a suspected al Qaeda target in northern Somalia, CNN reported, and residents said on Saturday missiles had pounded hills where foreign jihadists fled after clashing with locals.
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The Somali Shabeelle web site today reported under its "Breaking news" strapline that "two explosions have taken place near the SOS hospital in Mogadishu". It says it currently has no details concerning any damage or casualties.  (c) 2007 BBC Monitoring Newsfile.
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A blast is heard near the Saudi interior ministry, in the centre of the capital Riyadh, reports say.
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A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the blast at a mosque that killed a deputy governor and five other people.
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Somali Islamists are under the growing control of an al Qaeda cell in East Africa, a U.S. diplomat said on Thursday, as Washington condemned their threat to attack Ethiopian troops backing Somalia's interim government.
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KISMAYU, Somalia  - An explosion wounded at least 20 people at a ceremony in Somalia on Sunday to welcome senior military commanders to the southern port of Kismayu, a  witness said.
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RIYADH - Insurgents bombed Saudi Arabia&#39;s Interior Ministry office and a security unit in Riyadh on Wednesday, injuring at least 17 people in what appeared to be the latest strike by al-Qaeda.
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Mortars were fired at Somali government troops and Ethiopian soldiers in the chaotic capital Mogadishu on Friday, Deputy Defense Minister Salad Ali Jelle said.
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Somalian Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi survived a suicide vehicle bomb blast that heavily damaged his home Sunday, his spokesman said.
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A senior al Qaeda terrorist active in operational planning and training has been killed, a Western official said Thursday.
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BOSASSO, Somalia  -- An explosion killed at least 20 people and wounded a hundred more on Tuesday in a northern Somali port where Somali and Ethiopian immigrants begin the dangerous crossing to Yemen, a regional official said.
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KISMAYU, Somalia  - A roadside bomb killed two Somalis and two foreign aid workers working for the Dutch arm of Medecins Sans Frontieres near the southern Somali port of Kismayu on Monday, witnesses said.
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Somali police investigating a car bomb assassination attempt on the president arrested three suspected members of a fundamentalist Islamic group Thursday and recovered explosives, an official said.