Somalia

Fighting between Shabaab and Somali and Eithiopian troops north of Mogadishu killed 10 people. Hassan Dahir Aweys rejected the idea of talks to patch up rifts in the Islamic Courts. Pirates seized a Danish cargo ship with a crew of 13.

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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