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Somalia: Senior rebel leader killed in Mogadishu
[IndependentOnline: 2010-03-09]
Unidentified gunmen shot dead a senior official of the Somali rebel group Hizbul Islam in Mogadishu"s main market on Tuesday, sparking several revenge killings, officials and witnesses said. Hizbul Islam has often fought side-by-side with the more hardline al Shabaab rebels against government forces in a drive to topple Somalia"s Western-backed administration. But a battle for control of the lucrative southern port of Kismayu has pitted the two groups against each other. "One of o. . .
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