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 * Suicidal Bomber Kills Somalia Minister**

On December 3, there was a sucidal bomber who dressed up as a woman who attacked during a graduation ceremony for medical students from a local university. It was located near the capital of Somalia and based on the two articles at least 15 or 19 people died from the attack. The bomber blew himself up, killed another at least 15 or 19 people, and 3 or 4 government ministers. There was security at the entryway but they allowed the bomber in because he dressed up as a harmless women. The Information Minister, Dahir Mohamud Gelle said the male bomber had been dressed in women's clothing, "complete with a veil and a female's shoes." There was no report to who was responsible for this but all signs are pointing to the Shabbab, an extremist Islamist group in Somalia. The hotel that the bombing took place in was called the Shamo Hotel which was considered one of the safest hotels to go to. Another notable death was the dean of the medical school whose students where graduating that day. Also some of the government ministers that died were also allied with the Shabbab in 2006. The Somalian government is losing more and more control their country's land and now its going to become harder to regain some of the land due to the loss of some government ministers. The Shabbab and their allies are currently controlling about two-thirds of the country.

Sources: BBC: [] New York Times: []

Some notable differences between the articles is that they both have different titles, Somalia Ministers killed by hotel suicide bomb and Veiled Bomber Kills 3 Somalia Ministers. The first title I talked about was the BBC's title and the other was for the New York Times. The quotes in each article was different. Also they had different numbers on how many people died and how many government ministers died. The New York Times were more specific on the people that died and significance about the people that had died. BBC had 2 pictures and a video compared to the New York Times which had two photos.There wasn't much similar but they both talked about how much land the Somalian government controls. That was the only similarity that I could see.

My opinion on this is that its horrible how many people that were killed, innocent students, and the important government ministers. I think the security there should be more careful and search each person before letting them in because one mistake could leads to people dying. But to get to the source the government has to get rid of all these threatning groups which is hard since they are a big militant threat. Also their government is weak and probably couldn't get rid of them but only impact them a little. So this is my opinion on this issue.