Somali Islamists vow not to strike government
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Somalia's top Islamist leader said on Friday his fighters did not plan to attack the Horn of Africa nation's interim government but only its "invading" Ethiopian allies.
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Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal said Thursday that fugitives in his Palestinian group would not sign pledges to halt attacks because that would negate the legitimacy of their right to fight the Israeli occupation.
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Somalia's PM warns Islamists that Ethiopia and Kenya will help his government in case of attack.
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MOGADISHU -- The president of a semiautonomous region in northeastern Somalia said yesterday he will rule according to Islamic law, a surprising announcement in an area that has resisted the spread of Islamic militants who control much of the country's south. Puntland President General Addeh Museh did not cite a reason for his decision, but it comes amid increasing fears ...
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Islamic militia that had moved near the base of Somalia's weak interim government will pull back, a senior official said Thursday.
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A top official from Sudan&#39;s ruling party said on Thursday that the government would not disarm &quot;Arab rebels&quot; in the troubled Darfur region, saying they were not all members of the feared Janjaweed militia.
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A new government is named for Somalia but it remains too dangerous for them to be based in the capital.
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Islamists vowed on Sunday to resist Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf&#39;s plans to stay on as the chief of army staff, breaking his pledge to quit the post on or after December 31, 2004.
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The African Union vowed Wednesday it would not be deterred from sending troops to Somalia, despite a call by a firebrand Somali Islamist commander for an uprising against them.
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THE leader of Hamas in its Gaza Strip stronghold, Mahmud Zahar, has rejected any suggestion that the hardline group could soon call a halt to its campaign of attacks against Israel.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Dozens of Islamist   battlewagons advanced on the strategic Somali port of Kismayo   on Friday in what the interim government termed a violation of   a pact to stop military expansion in Horn of Africa nation.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist fighters in the   Somali port city of Kismayo opened fire on Monday toward   residents burning tires, throwing stones and chanting to   protest against the Islamist takeover of the city hours before.
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NAIROBI, June 19 -- Far from being defeated, Somalia's opposition groups are politically uniting, strengthening, and planning a conference next month to hone their strategy for ousting the Somali government and the Ethiopian troops backing  it, according to a recent statement issued by the groups...
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Troops stepped up security across the Somali capital Saturday after Islamists threatened to disrupt a peace conference, saying anyone who takes part "is sentenced to death."
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist fighters opened fire   in the Somali port city of Kismayo on Monday toward residents   burning tires, throwing stones and chanting to protest against   the Islamist takeover of their city hours before.
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Islamic militiamen struggled to keep up with a flow of former rivals ready to surrender prized weapons Thursday, further cementing the radical Muslims&#039; position as the undisputed power in the Somali capital.
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The transitional government in Somalia signs an agreement in Jeddah aimed at uniting clans, but Islamists reject it.