Somalia

Islamic Courts fighters took control of Jowhar without a fight but then abandoned it. Five Ethiopian soldiers were killed in an IED attack. A soldier from Burundi died from injuries sustained during a suicide attack.

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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