Somalia

The Islamic Courts has taken the strategic port city of Kismayo. UN relief agencies have fled the Wajid district in the southern Bakol region, fearing fighting. Thirty inmates escaped from a jail run by the Islamic Courts.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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