""[5] Medical staff in Bosaso said October 30 that two more soldiers wounded in the intelligence headquarters blasts died overnight, bringing to at least five the victims of that strike.

A relative of the sheik, Abdishakur Mire, said: "Soldiers attacked our house and opened fire on us.

[4][9] Suspicion fell, by at large, on Islamist insurgents in general who were fighting the Somali government and its Ethiopian military allies.

Al-Shabaab posted a video of a suicide bomber on the Internet but did not explicitly link this to the attacks.

The United States, however, blamed al-Qaeda, which it says works through Shabaab, for the attacks which overshadowed a summit in Kenya to discuss the 17-year-long conflict in Somalia.