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September 18, 2006
Somalia: Somali "President" Unhurt After Bombings
Consolidation of power, Islamic style: Somalia president escapes blasts
Two explosions have killed at least 11 people near the parliament in Baidoa, the seat of Somalia's largely powerless interim government.
One of the blasts on Monday afternoon occured outside a hall where Abdullahi Yusuf, the Somalia president, had given a speech ten minutes earlier, a local journalist said.Many politicians were still in the buillding where they had been discussing forming a new parliament to shore up the government which has been challenged by the rise of the Islamic Courts Union, a militia controlling much of the country.[...]
Posted by Ruy Diaz at September 18, 2006 9:48 PM
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