The 2006 Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed assassination attempt was an attempt by a suicide bomber to assassinate the transitional President of Somalia, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed. A suicide bombing is a bomb attack on people or property, committed by a person who knows the explosion will cause his or her own death in addition to the attacks primary purpose (see suicide, suicide weapons). ... This article or section may be confusing or unclear for some readers, and should be edited to rectify this. ... Transitional President of Somalia Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed Abdullahi Yusuf Yey (Somali: Cabdulaahi Yuusuf Axmed) was born December 15, 1934 in the town of Galkacyo, Mudug Region. ...

Background

Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, was selected by the country's Parliament to lead the country as head of a transitional government in Nairobi, Kenya,in an attempt to end a decade of anarchy. States currently utilizing parliamentary systems are denoted in orange and red—the former being constitutional monarchies where authority is vested in a parliament, and the latter being parliamentary republics whose parliaments are effectively supreme over a separate head of state. ... Nairobi is the capital of Kenya, lying on the Nairobi River in the south of the nation. ... from, pak wan punk bkt mertajam penang Anarchy (Greek: αναρχία) is the anarchist society, the stateless society of free people. ...

The Attempted Assassination

A suicide car bomber smashed his vehicle into the President's convoy outside the National Parliament, killing four of the President's bodyguards and his brother, six attackers were also killed in the subsiquent gun battle. The President's life was almost certainly saved by the fact that he travelled in the second vehicle in the convoy rather than the front one which was used as a decoy. A suicide bombing is an attack using a bomb in which the individual(s) carrying the explosive materials composing the bomb intend(s) and expect(s) to die upon detonation (see suicide). ... A car bomb is an improvised explosive device that is placed in a car or other vehicle and then exploded. ... The Transitional Federal Parliament is the parliament of Somalia. ...

Suspected Culprits

The Islamic Court's militia which had recently taken control of much of the country were suspect as were other Islamic extremist groups possibly including al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda (Arabic: القاعدة, the foundation or the base) is the name given to a worldwide network of militant Islamist organizations under the leadership of Osama bin Laden. ...