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  • May 2008

    • US Airstrike Kills al-Qaeda Boss in Somalia

      Reuters  |  May 1, 08 7:14 AM CDT

      US Airstrike Kills al-Qaeda Boss in Somalia

      (Newser) - American war planes killed more than a dozen people in a town in the west of Somalia today, including one said to be the leader of that country's branch of al-Qaeda. Reuters reports that the airstrike on a band of Somali insurgents killed Aden Hashi Ayro, whose militants are blamed for an Iraq-style insurgency, complete with unprecedented suicide bombings, against the Somali military and its Ethiopian allies. More »

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      al-Qaeda  • Africa  • Somalia  • Ethiopia  • Horn of Africa  • Council of Islamic Courts

  • December 2007

    • 6,000 Killed in Mogadishu in 2007

      Associated Press  |  Dec 2, 07 11:19 AM CST

      6,000 Killed in Mogadishu in 2007

      (Newser) - Somalia's bloody civil war between the Ethiopian-backed provisional government and Islamic insurgents has killed 5,960 people this year in Mogadishu alone, according to the country's oldest human rights group. And more than 700,000 Somalians have been displaced, the AP reports, though data gathering has become more difficult since the government banned the organization, Elman Human Rights. More »

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      Condoleezza Rice  • Somalia  • Mogadishu  • Council of Islamic Courts

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