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Article: Somali cleric arrested after deadly suicide blasts
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- October 30, 2008
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Somali authorities have arrested an elderly Islamic cleric suspected of involvement in a wave of suicide attacks that killed more than 20 people, an official said Thursday.
Sheik Mohamed Ismail was arrested in connection with five apparently coordinated attacks Wednesday in the breakaway republic of Somaliland and in Somalia's Puntland region, said Muse Gelle Yusuf, a governor in Puntland.
He said several other people were being sought in connection with the attacks in the two areas, which have largely been spared the deadly violence of the country's south.
Ismail, believed to be in his 80s, was arrested Wednesday, Yusuf said.
No one immediately claimed ...