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122 Die in Mogadishu Fighting In Past Week

HeadlineMay 11, 2006

In Somalia, the death toll from the last five days of fighting between warring groups in Mogadishu has risen to at least 122 people. The dead include a pregnant woman and her three children. On Wednesday, UN monitors raised new questions concerning the US role in supporting local warlords in their fight against Islamic militants. In a report to the Security Council, the monitors said they were investigating an unnamed country’s violation of an arms embargo through clandestine support for a local warlord group, the “Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism.” Several observers said that country is likely the United States.

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