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The son of the deputy chairman of the Islamic Courts and leader of the insurgency was killed by police in Mogadishu. Islamic Courts fighters attacked a police checkpoint in the capital. A female suicide bomber was captured in Baidoa.

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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