The First Suicide Bombing in Somalia?

The AP reports:

The president of Somalia's interim government narrowly escaped a suicide bomber yesterday - a new tactic in a troubled land where an Islamic militia is vying for power. The leader's brother and 10 others died in the blast and a subsequent gun battle. The foreign minister said the attack, along with the slaying of an Italian nun in the capital Sunday, had "the hallmarks of Al Qaeda." …An increasingly powerful hardline Islamic movement - accused by the U.S. of having links with Al Qaeda - seized the capital, Mogadishu, in June and now controls much of the south. "This is the first suicide bomber in Somalia," Foreign Minister Ismail Mohamed Hurre told the Associated Press in neighbouring Kenya. "This has the fingerprints of Al Qaeda all over it."