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Somalia

Al-Shaabab claims for plane bomb

Somalia's extremist rebels, al-Shabab, said on Saturday they carried out the bombing of a commercial passenger jet earlier this month that blew a hole in the fuselage, sucking out the suspected bomber and forcing the plane to make an emergency landing. The explosion targeted Western and Turkish intelligence agents aboard the Daallo Airlines flight to Djibouti on Feb 2, al-Shabab said. It said the bombing had been planned to destroy the Airbus 321 plane but it failed.