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- US Secretly Backing Warlords in Somalia
  Posted by Billbar from Truth Out
  "The U.S. government funded the warlords in the recent battle in Mogadishu, there is no doubt about that," Somali transitional government spokesman Abdirahman Dinari told journalists by telephone from Baidoa. "This cooperation . . . only fuels further civil war." U.S. officials have refused repeated requests to provide details about the nature and extent of their support for the coalition of warlords.
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- Alliance of Somali Warlords Battles Islamists in Capital
  Posted by Billbar from New York Times
  In six days of some of the worst street combat since the central government collapsed in 1991, nearly 150 people have been killed, most of them noncombatants caught in machine-gun and artillery fire. The United States government has been accused of backing the warlords, who have fashioned themselves into an antiterrorism alliance, rooting out elements of Al Qaeda in their midst.
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- Death toll soars as Mogadishu battles rage
  Posted by Billbar from Yahoo News!
  Islamic militia and gunmen loyal to a US-backed warlord alliance have fought pitched battles in the streets of the lawless Somali capital as the death toll from five days of clashes soared. "Seventeen people were killed overnight, mostly by heavy mortar shells," Ahmed Idriss, a Somali peace activist, told AFP, adding that another 36 had been wounded and taken to hospitals.
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- Somali militia declares ceasefire
  Posted by Billbar from BBC News
  Fighting has subsided following a ceasefire declared by an Islamic militia in Somali's capital after three days of clashes and at least 75 deaths.
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- Khat Trade Rules in Somalia
  Posted by Billbar from Washington Post
  Educated Somali women dominate the khat trade, a profession that is both admired and scorned here, and that offers one of the few remaining job opportunities in the country's moribund economy.
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- S Korean ship seized off Somalia
  Posted by Billbar from BBC News
  Pirates have seized a South Korean fishing boat off the coast of Somalia in international waters. US and Dutch naval ships gave chase, but held off when they saw the South Korean crew threatened with guns.
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- Somali militia 'agrees ceasefire'
  Posted by Billbar from BBC News
  An Islamic militia fighting for control of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, has agreed to a ceasefire, local clan elders have said. A rival alliance of warlords and businessmen, who have held the city for 15 years, say they will respond to the proposal on M
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Somalia

US Secretly Backing Warlords in Somalia

Alliance of Somali Warlords Battles Islamists in Capital

Death toll soars as Mogadishu battles rage

Somali militia declares ceasefire

Khat Trade Rules in Somalia

S Korean ship seized off Somalia

Somali militia 'agrees ceasefire'

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