Somalia

Al Shabaab insurgents (formerly Islamic Courts) threatened to derail the peace conference. Three were killed and 13 wounded in a series of bombings in Mogadishu. An Ethiopian army truck was hit with an IED.

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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