Warlord threatens peace force in Somalia
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MOGADISHU -- A warlord urged Somalis yesterday to attack Ethiopian peacekeeping troops being sent to support the Somali government when it returns from Kenya this month, after last year's peace accord.
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Somalia's prime minister told The Associated Press that war in the Horn of Africa is unavoidable because radicals control the Islamic movement that in recent months has taken over much of his country.
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The Chechen warlord who is suspected by Russian officials of masterminding the hostage-taking at a school in southern Russia threatened earlier in the summer to launch new attacks to avenge the killing of a Chechen rebel leader.
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Somalia&#039;s nearly powerless interim government said Friday it would boycott weekend peace talks with the Islamic militia that has seized control of nearly all the nation&#039;s south, accusing the group of civilian massacres and ties to foreign terrorists.
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Somalis in Mogadishu have broadly welcomed calls for an Arab-African peacekeeping force to replace Ethiopians troops supporting their interim government, which is being battered by an insurgency.
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The body that controls much of Somalia reacts angrily to comments by Ethiopia that it is prepared for an attack.
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Somalia's Islamist movement warned arch-foe Ethiopia on Tuesday to withdraw troops from the Horn of Africa nation within a week or face war.
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Thousands of Islamic militants have surrounded the only town Somalia's internationally recognized government controls, the prime minister said Tuesday as a top Islamic official promised to attack within a week unless troops from neighboring Ethiopia leave.
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Somalia's newly elected president,  Abdullahi Yusuf, has asked the African Union to send 20,000  peacekeepers to disarm militias controlling his lawless Horn of  Africa country, an AU spokesman said on Saturday.
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The Islamic militia that controls much of southern Somalia dispatched thousands of troops Sunday to within nine miles of the border with Ethiopia, heightening fears that fighting would break out between the two sides.
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - The Ugandan vanguard of an African peacekeeping force intended to help Somalia's interim government tighten its tenuous grip on the anarchic nation flew into the country on Thursday, witnesses said.
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Somali government fighters and Ethiopian troops attack Islamist positions, an Islamist leader says.
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Somalia's government has ruled out peace talks with the country's powerful Islamic movement, citing truce violations, heightening fears of an all-out war in the shattered African nation.
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - Somalia's government on Monday said it was lining up peacekeeping forces as the interim administration and Islamist rivals sought a diplomatic way to avert a war that many fear could engulf the region.
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As Islamists take over Somalia, its Western-backed neighbor Ethiopia prepares for war.
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Somali Islamist fighters and Ethiopian troops are facing one another in two Somali villages on the border with Ethiopia, raising fears of clashes, an Islamist leader and residents said on Friday.
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Powerful Somali Islamists claimed to have fought Ethiopian troops in central Somalia and warned of importing foreign fighters to join their holy war if the United Nations authorizes peacekeepers.