Islamists claim suicide attack on Somali premier
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A militant Islamist group on Monday claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb that killed seven people at the home of Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi, vowing to continue attacks until "occupiers" left Somalia.
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Three suicide car bombs exploded outside Somalia's government base of Baidoa, killing at least six people, including the drivers, a senior official said Thursday.
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A suspected suicide car bomb killed at least four people near the Somali government seat of Baidoa on Thursday, witnesses said, pushing up tensions in the chaotic Horn of Africa nation some fear is sliding to war.
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Suspected Islamist militants  attacked the house of a senior government official in a village  in northwestern Pakistan and killed 13 people, police said on  Thursday.
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Somali presidential candidate Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed, left, stands next to an unidentified election official, just after he had taken an oath on the Quran to abide by the election results, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2004
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Suspected Islamist rebels fired mortar bombs at Somalia's presidential palace in Mogadishu on Wednesday, witnesses said, increasing tension ahead of a major peace meeting at the weekend.
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Extremists in Somalia threatened to carry out suicide attacks against African Union peacekeepers who are to begin deploying in the coming days, and the capital's international airport came under mortar fire Thursday.
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Somali Islamists on Monday dismissed as fake two letters purportedly signed by their most influential leader and which led to a U.S. warning of possible suicide attacks in Kenya and Ethiopia.
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Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf escaped unharmed on Sunday when suspected Islamist insurgents hit his presidential compound in Mogadishu with mortar bombs for a second day, one of his aides said.
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Fighting killed at least four people in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday as Islamist-led rebels attacked government troops and their Ethiopian allies.
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - Somalian President Abdullahi   Yusuf escaped a bomb on Monday that killed five people and   wounded several others outside parliament in the provincial   capital Baidoa.
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Attackers fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a pickup truck in Mogadishu on Thursday, wounding four people, in a reminder of the challenges facing the interim government trying to rule lawless Somalia.
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Officials say Islamist militants behind assassination attempt on Benazir Bhutto.
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The interim President of Somalia, Abdullahi Yusuf, tells the BBC how he escaped an assassination attempt.
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Gunmen fired mortars at the Somali president's house on Sunday, hours after the country's new prime minister arrived in Mogadishu for the first time since he was sworn in last November, a presidential aide said.
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A wave of pre-dawn mortar attacks pounded Mogadishu and killed at least 16 people on Tuesday in one of the most brutal bombardments since an Islamist movement was forced out of the Somali capital last month.
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Islamic insurgents in Somalia have created a video showing a man reciting prayers from the Koran before apparently blowing himself up in a suicide blast, the latest sign the extremists are adopting tactics used in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Middle East.