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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - The U.N. said Thursday it has temporarily pulled international staff out of parts of Somalia controlled by Islamic radicals after receiving written threats.
The U.N. said the threats came shortly after the Sept. 17 shooting deaths of an Italian nun and her bodyguard in the capital, Mogadishu, which was seized by an Islamic militia in June. Somalia's president narrowly escaped a suicide car bombing a day later in Baidoa, the seat of the weak U.N.-backed government.
"Given the insecure environment and the subsequent direct written threats against U.N. staff, a decision was taken to temporarily relocate all U.N. international staff members from southern and central Somalia," the U.N. said in its monthly review of the situation in Somalia.
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