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- The UN gives green light to Ethiopia's invasion of Somalia
  Posted by Damianmann
  For the average American, the current Ethiopian invasion of Somalia is just another military operation taking place in a distant land in the war against Islamic terror. For many Somalis, this invasion is nothing short of a humiliating catastrophe.
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- Navy ship fires at al-Qaida suspects in Somalia
  Posted by Damianmann from MSNBC
  The destroyer USS Chafee fired her deck guns at two or three suspected "high-value terrorist targets" in the Puntland area along the northern coast of Somalia on Saturday, U.S. officials told NBC News.
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- NBC: U.S. strike targets al-Qaida in Somalia
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  The operatives are believed to be responsible for the 1998 bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, which left 241 people dead, as well as 2002 attacks on Israeli tourists in Kenya and the attempted downing of an Israeli aircraft the same day.
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- More ministers quit Somali government as talks postponed
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  Four more ministers resigned from Somalia's Western-backed government on Tuesday, in a move that may ultimately clear the way for rival Islamists to take ministerial posts. "This is our decision because this cabinet has failed the reason for which it was established. It has failed to reconcile the Somali people," said Sayeed Hassan Shire, an assistant minister who resigned.
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- Stay out of Somalia, US tells Eritrea and Ethiopia
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  "There are many foreign elements in Somalia right now," U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer said, speaking to reporters on a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo to monitor elections there. "Neither the Union of Islamic Courts nor the Transitional Federal Government can take the high ground by saying the other is violating Somali sovereignty...they've all invited in foreigners, all been backed by foreign forces," she added. "You want to keep Ethiopians and Eritreans out of Somalia, that they don't take their border conflict and move it into the Somalia venue," she said.
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- Somalia inches towards war
  Posted by Billbar from Guardian UK
  Somalia was edging closer to full-scale war last night as Ethiopian troops moved into a second Somali town, potentially bringing them into conflict with an Islamic militia that has taken over the capital, Mogadishu, and is seeking to spread its influence over the rest of the country. The move of fresh Ethiopian troops into the anarchic country raises the prospect of renewed war in Somalia. Ethiopia strongly backs the UN-supported government of President Abdullahi Yusuf and has vowed to prevent the country from slipping into the hands of Islamic extremists.
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- Fighting flares in Mogadishu, at least 60 dead
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  The battles broke out on Sunday when the Islamists set a daybreak ambush in Mogadishu's Kilometre Four for fighters loyal to Hussein Aideed, an interior minister in the interim government, and another warlord, Abdi Awale Qaybdiid. "The hospital is under very heavy mortar and artillery attack and stray bullets are hitting. Chaos is everywhere in the hospital and staff are running away," Abdikadir Sheikh, a medical official at Mogadishu's Madina Hospital said.
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Somalia

The UN gives green light to Ethiopia's invasion of Somalia

Navy ship fires at al-Qaida suspects in Somalia

NBC: U.S. strike targets al-Qaida in Somalia

More ministers quit Somali government as talks postponed

Stay out of Somalia, US tells Eritrea and Ethiopia

Somalia inches towards war

Fighting flares in Mogadishu, at least 60 dead

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