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| Africa Horn |
| Islamic Courts in talks with Somali government, poised to seize southern Somalia |
| 2006-06-10 |
| Islamic militia leaders who seized Somalia's capital this week started discussing the future of the lawless country Thursday with its largely powerless U.N.-backed government. A government spokesman, Abdirahman Nur Mohamed Dinari, said two ministers from the interim administration were meeting with "top leaders of the Islamic Courts Union" in Mogadishu. The Islamic militia captured the capital and surrounding areas Monday when it defeated an alliance of secular warlords widely believed to be backed by the United States. Weeks of bloody fighting between the two sides left at least 330 people dead, many of them civilians caught in the crossfire. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |