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 MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - A suicide car bomber drove through a roadblock guarding the home of the Somali prime minister on Sunday and rammed the vehicle into a wall. Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi was whisked to safety, officials said, but at least five people were killed in the explosion.
A top government official blamed the assassination attempt — the third against Gedi since he returned to Somalia in May 2005 — on "terrorists linked to al-Qaida."
"They planned to kill the prime minister," Salad Ali Jelle told The Associated Press. "He is alive. And now he is in safe place."
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