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Somalia
Six were wounded, including 5 police, after a grenade attack in Mogadishu. Ugandan troops have been cleared to deploy to Mogadishu. A US warship is moving to intercept a UN WFP vessel hijacked off the coast of Puntland.
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Somalia
Mortar attacks and fighting killed 8 and wounded 20 in Mogadishu. Shabelle reports 78 have been hospitalized due to mortar attacks in the past 24 hours. Ugandan officials are in Mogadishu to plan for the peacekeeping deployment.
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Somalia
Ethiopian Adviser Says Times ‘Fabricated™ Report
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Somalia
US Used Base in Ethiopia to Hunt Al Qaeda in Africa
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Somalia
Islamists threaten suicide attacks. Two government officials have been assassinated in Mogadishu. Mortars have hit the Mogadishu airport.
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Somalia
Judge backs case against American “jihadist”
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Somalia
Somalia’s Islamist Leadership: Where Are They Now?
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Somalia
Thirteen were killed and 42 wounded in mortar attacks in Mogadishu. Ethiopian troops are taking over military camps in Kismayo. Four Swedes have been detained for fighting alongside the Islamic Courts.
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Somalia
UN authorises AU deployment in Somalia
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Somalia
16 killed in Somalian bombing
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Somalia
A car bomb in northern Mogadishu killed 4 and wounded 1. The ICU linked businessman released from Kenya calls for the withdrawal of Ethiopia. Somali-Britons believe the BBC Somali Service is siding with the Islamic Courts based on its coverage. Further details emerge on Eritrean and Iranian involvement in transporting al Qaeda and weapons into Somalia.
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Somalia
Islamists attacked the Ethiopian Army in Mogadishu. Police in Kismayo seized weapons and are preparing to deploy 1,500 officers inside the city. A gunman attacked Medicine Sans Frontier personnel attempting to open a hospital in Bardhere. Over 1,500 Ugandan troops will deploy to Mogadishu.
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Somalia
Mortar and rocket attacks killed 1 and wounded 10 in Mogadishu. The interior minister blamed the Islamic Courts for the rash of attacks. Kenya released two ICU linked businessmen.
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Somalia
Mortars hit Mogadishu camp, residential area
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Somalia
The US has indicted an American for training and fighting along side al Qaeda and the islamic Courts in Somalia, and conspiring to use WMD [full indictment here]. In his latest speech Zawahiri supported terrorist attacks in Somalia and the continuation of the jihad.
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Somalia
Somali Islamists seek refuge in Yemen
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Somalia
Several Somalis were killed an wounded after the presidential compound was mortared, and stray rounds hit civilian neighborhoods. Islamists attacked the home of the commerce minister. A curfew has been put in place in Kismayo after a bomb atack yesterday. The parliament passed a new ant-terrorism law.
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Somalia
A grenade attack killed 4 and wounded 5, including senior military officers, during a celebration in Kismayo. Islamists bombed a police station in Mogadishu, wounding a policeman and several others. Twenty Somali Islamists, and 4 Britons have been deported from Kenya to Somalia, and have been charged with fighting besides the ICU.
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Somalia
The “Somali People™s Insurgence Movement,™ which supports the Islamic Courts, has claimed the responsibility for attacks in Mogadishu. Seven were killed and dozens wounded in mortar attacks in Mogadishu.
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Somalia
Friends of Somalia Brigades Reports Attacks on American and Ethiopian Targets, Somali Presidential Quarters
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Somalia
Somalia deported 39 Islamists, including the wife of Fazul Mohammed, to Ethiopia for interrogation. Yemeni newspapers claim the US is negotiating for the release of 15 US prisoners. Three Islamist insurgents were captured in Mogadishu, along with a huge cache of explosives, while 3 civilians were killed and 10 wounded during a wave of bombings in the capital.
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Somalia
President Yusuf refuses to negotiate with the Islamic Courts. ICU leader Sharif Ahmed’s asylum in Yemen has been delayed. Islamists launched a mortar attack on the president’s home a daylight RPG attack on the Ambassador Hotel in Mogadishu.
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Somalia
No al Qaeda have been found in the aftermath of US airstrikes. Ayro is believed to have survived, and Aweys and Turki are believed to be operating along the Kenyan border. Yemen has granted Sharif Ahmed asylum. Government forces were ambushed in central Somalia. A reconciliation meeting was held in Mogadishu.
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Somalia
Our World: The waning of American will
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Somalia’s Islamist Courts regroup
The insurgency is taking shape, Sharif Ahmed is released, a new Islamic Courts video, and financing in Saudi Arabia established ICU fighters in propaganda video. Click photo to view. The Ethiopian and Somalia government’s rout of the Islamic Courts last December has been quickly countered by the Islamists with a deadly insurgency. In the latest violence in Mogadishu, an Islamist mortar attack killed 7 and wounded 20. A police colonel was murdered just south of the capital. The latest attacks follow a string of attacks on Somalia and Ethiopian military and police units. Roadside bombs have also been employed in…
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Somalia
Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, the ICU leader, has been released from Kenyan custody and is heading to Yemen. The Islamic Courts are believed to be regrouping in Saudi Arabia, Eritrea and Yemen. Islamists mortared the Mogadishu seaport. Three battalions of peacekeepers from Uganda and Nigeria will deploy shortly.
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Somalia
Stateless in Mogadishu
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Somalia
Somali Islamists threaten AU peacekeepers
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Somalia
Will the African Union help Somalia?
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Somalia
Somali police convoy attacked
