Radio Kulmis — SSDF station (in Somali) 1800 GMT

The day before yesterday (words unclear) the Somalia Salvation Front set off a bomb in a major hotel in Mogadishu. The hotel, Al-Uruba, is one of the biggest hotels in the Somali capital. No one was injured in the explosion.

The purpose of the blast was to warn the terror gang regime in Mogadishu and the world at large that the Somali Salvation Front is a force to be reckoned with.

On 4 July a similar explosion took place at the Equator Cinema in Mogadishu, but a news blackout was enforced by the Siad Barre regime.

Commenting on the blast, a Somali Salvation Front spokesman said that similar bombs will be set off in all major centers in the country.

The spokesman added that the purpose of the blast is to warn the Mogadishu terror gang regime headed by Siad Barre, the Somali people and the world at large that the Somali Salvation Front means business and that the days of the faltering regime in Mogadishu are numbered.

A Somali Salvation Front Communique on this subject calls on diplomats, other foreigners and the Somali masses in general to be on the lookout and avoid all gatherings addressed or attended by the so-called officials of the terror gang in Mogadishu.

_{FBIS-MEA-81-148, 3 Aug. 1981, p. R4}