Somalia

Two civilians were killed and three policemen wounded in a grenade attack in Mogadishu. Somali and Ethiopian forces launched an operation to prevent rocket and mortar attacks against the reconciliation conference. The violent Bakara market in Mogadishu will be reopened.

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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