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Boston Globe
Reporter in the Boston Globe's Washington Bureau, formerly its Africa Correspondent
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John M. Donnelly
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FROM John M. Donnelly
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US in Fractured Somalia on the Hunt for al Qaeda Eight years after al Qaeda's bombing attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, Somali officials say the ringleader may have been killed by recent air strikes. So far, US officials have not confirmed neither that nor US involvement in the attacks, though it does appear that Somalia has become a new front in the war on terror, as we hear from John Donnelly of the Boston Globe .
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