Mogadishu retaken as Somali Islamists flee

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Somali government forces, supported by Ethiopian soldiers, entered Mogadishu unopposed today after the leaders of Islamist militias that have controlled the city since June fled last night.

"We are in Mogadishu," said Mohamed Ali Gedi, the Prime Minister of Somalia's interim Government, after talks with the clan elders who are the ultimate powerbrokers in the ravaged capital. "We are coordinating our forces to take control of Mogadishu."

A spokesman for the interim Government said that Somali soldiers backed by Ethiopian tanks and aircraft started moving into the outskirts of the city after seizing the main roads in Mogadishu early today.

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The Prime Minister of Ethiopia, whose military support has enabled Somalia's official, but weak, government to roll back the Islamist militias that have taken over much of the country since gaining control of Mogadishu six months ago, said the capture of the capital would lead to the final defeat of the Islamists "in days, if not in a few weeks".

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... around 3,000 hardliners, including young, foreign-trained fundamentalists are expected to continue fighting and could launch a prolonged guerrilla war.

Some leaders have also threatened to send suicide bombers to Addis Ababa, the capital of mainly-Christian Ethiopia, while a statement purportedly from al Qaeda in Iraq was posted on a militants' website last night, asking fellow extremists to support their Somali counterparts with "weapons and men and with prayers".

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2521387,00.html

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they cannot be worse....well, maybe they can..

.that place needs to be nuked from outer space..just to be sure...

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i wonder if they will have pig races too.

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... around 3,000 hardliners, including young, foreign-trained fundamentalists are expected to continue fighting and could launch a prolonged guerrilla war.

Some leaders have also threatened to send suicide bombers to Addis Ababa, the capital of mainly-Christian Ethiopia, while a statement purportedly from al Qaeda in Iraq was posted on a militants' website last night, asking fellow extremists to support their Somali counterparts with "weapons and men and with prayers".

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2521387,00.html

Imagine that....

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they cannot be worse....well, maybe they can..

.that place needs to be nuked from outer space..just to be sure...

Still the best line evah!

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

they cannot be worse....well, maybe they can..

.that place needs to be nuked from outer space..just to be sure...

i wonder if they will have pig races too.

Its a pork deficiency thing. Send 3,000,000 pigs over to roam the streets that will do it.