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Four of the five Somali athletes chosen to attend the London Olympic Games, from left, runner Mohamud Ali, 5,000 meter runner Mohamed Hassan Mohamed, 5,000 meter runner Ayan Samow, and runner Amal Ahmed, mourn the deaths of two top Somali sports officials in Mogadishu, Somalia Thursday, April 5, 2012. Somalia's Olympic athletes are training for the London Games, a day after the President of Somalia's Olympic committee Aden Yabarow Wiish and Somali Football Federation chief Said Mohamed Nur were killed in a Mogadishu bomb blast. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)

Somali athletes keep training despite bombing

Last updated Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 9:44am

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Somalia's Olympic athletes are training for the London Games, a day after the national Olympic committee president and another top sports official were killed in a bomb blast.

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Somalis help a man wounded in a blast at the Somali National Theater in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, April 4, 2012. An explosion Wednesday at a ceremony at Somalia's national theater killed at least 10 people including two top sports officials in an attack by an Islamist group on a site that symbolized the city's attempt to rise from two decades of war. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

2 Somalia sport officials among 10 killed in blast

Last updated Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 10:27am

MOGADISHU, Somalia — An explosion Wednesday at a ceremony at Somalia’s national theater killed at least 10 people including two top sports officials in an attack by an Islamist group on a site that symbolized the city’s attempt to rise from two decades of war.

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This undated photo taken at an unknown location and released by the Danish Refugee Council on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012 shows American Jessica Buchanan from the Danish Refugee Council's de-mining unit. U.S. military forces helicoptered into Somalia in a nighttime raid Wednesday and freed two hostages, American Jessica Buchanan, 32, and Dane Poul Hagen Thisted, 60, while killing nine pirates, officials and a pirate source said. (AP Photo/Danish Refugee Council)

US military raid in Somalia frees 2 from kidnappers

Last updated Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 10:28am

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- The same U.S. Navy SEAL unit that killed Osama bin Laden parachuted into Somalia under cover of darkness early Wednesday and crept up to an outdoor camp where an American woman and Danish man were being held hostage. Soon, nine kidnappers were dead and both hostages were freed.

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