The reports said the man was taken to the Villa Somalia, where he told government officials that he had escaped after killing three of his captors.

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She was convicted Tuesday of violating the terms of her house arrest after American John Yettaw swam uninvited to her lakeside villa in May and stayed for two days.

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In initial reports, senior Somali military and police officials said a foreigner approached government soldiers near the Villa Somalia presidential palace in Mogadishu early Wednesday, identifying himself as one of the French men abducted by gunmen at the Sahafi Hotel last month.

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