This is a grim epilogue to Africa's joyful first World Cup. As a beaming Nelson Mandela was hailed by a Soccer City crowd ahead of Spain's victory, bombers were preparing to take scores of lives in Uganda. The co-ordinated explosions that ripped through a restaurant and a rugby club in the closing moments of the game hint at an al-Qaida role, reminiscent of the twin attacks on east African embassies in 1998 and the assault on a hotel and aeroplane in Mombasa four years later.
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