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3 arrested in Somali assassination try |
2006-09-29 |
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. Police in three armored vehicles raided a house after a tip that the car used by the suicide bomber in the Sept. 18 assassination attempt had been seen leaving the residence on the day of the attack, Baidoa Gov. Ahmed Madey Issaq told The Associated Press. One of the men seized was a prayer leader at a mosque in Baidoa, 150 miles northwest of the capital, Mogadishu. Baidoa is the only town held by Somalia's weak government. The government has been increasingly sidelined by the Islamic group, which controls Mogadishu. |
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