Somalia: Suicide Bomber Attacks at Presidential Gates

By REUTERS
Published: September 20, 2010

A suicide bomber linked to Al Qaeda blew himself up and wounded two soldiers at the gates of the presidential palace in Mogadishu on Monday, the police said. The bomber, armed with an automatic rifle, tried to jump onto an armored vehicle in a convoy of African Unionpeacekeepers driving onto the palace grounds, a police spokesman said. When the African Union troops fired at the bomber, he threw a grenade at them and detonated his explosive device. The attacker was later identified as a former Interior Ministry security guard who had defected to the Shabab, an Islamist rebel group linked to Al Qaeda. (new york times)
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