| A roadside bomb targeted the Somali prime minister’s convoy in Mogadishu on Thursday but no one was hurt, a day after four Ugandan peacekeepers died in a similar attack by rebels vowing an Iraq-style insurgency. Thursday’s blast rocked a street near the former parliament building as Premier Ali Mohamed Gedi drove to the airport to see off a plane carrying the dead African Union (AU) soldiers home. “The bomb exploded away from the vehicle. One of two men suspected of planting the bomb was captured on the site,” said government spokesman Abdullahi Muhyidin Mohamed. Another suspect fled and was being hunted, he said. It was at least the third attempt to kill Gedi, a former veterinary lecturer with no previous political experience, since he took office in late 2004. The government blames rebels from a militant Islamist group who have threatened an Iraq-style insurgency in the capital and have increasingly copied Iraqi guerrilla tactics - including roadside bombs and targeted assassinations. |