Ethiopians parade captured Islamist cleric in Somalia
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KISMAYU, Somalia  - Ethiopian soldiers paraded on Tuesday a wounded senior cleric captured in south Somalia during the pursuit of remnants of an Islamist movement ousted from Mogadishu in a war over the New Year.
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British anti-terrorism police arrested Thursday Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri who was already jailed in London under a U.S. arrest warrant.
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Hundreds of militiamen were arrested today when police entered the Imam Ali Mosque, but rebel Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr was not found, Iraqi officials said.
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The Somali government on Tuesday released a U.N. food official held for nearly a week after dozens of intelligence officers stormed the world body's compound in Mogadishu, a witness said.
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KISMAYO, Somalia  - Islamist forces took over   Somalia's strategic southern port city of Kismayo on Monday   after the warlord in charge of the region fled, an Islamist   source told Reuters.
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Police arrested a radical Muslim cleric Thursday on suspicion of preparing or instigating "acts of terrorism," a move that could delay U.S. attempts to extradite the suspect for allegedly trying to establish a terrorist training camp in Oregon and on other charges.
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BAIDOA, Somalia -- Thousands of Islamic militants have surrounded the only town that Somalia's internationally recognized government controls, the prime minister said yesterday as a top Islamic official promised to attack within a week unless Ethiopian troops leave.
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BUUR HAKABA, Somalia  - Ethiopia on Wednesday brushed off an Islamist ultimatum to leave Somalia in a week, as troops dug in on a slim frontline separating the powerful religious movement and the Ethiopian-backed government.
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Somali gunmen seized the acting Libyan ambassador and a colleague while they shopped in Mogadishu's busy Bakara market on Saturday but freed them hours later, embassy staff said.
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Top Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed -- seen by Washington as a potential key to reconciliation in post-war Somalia -- was out of custody in Kenya on Thursday and reported to be leaving soon for Yemen.
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Ethiopia on Thursday welcomed the recent deployment of Burundian peacekeepers to Somalia and asked for more help from the African Union in its struggle with Islamist insurgents there.
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Government forces backed by Ethiopian troops reportedly clash with Islamists for a second day in Somalia.
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Dozens of people protested Saturday against an Islamic militia that has seized much of southern Somalia, a day after the group appointed a new administration in the country's third largest city.
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Somalia's senior Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys said on Friday his movement did not plan to attack the Horn of Africa's interim government but only "invading" Ethiopian troops.
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Somalia's top Islamist leader said on Friday his fighters did not plan to attack the Horn of Africa nation's interim government but only its "invading" Ethiopian allies.
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About 500 Ethiopian troops were spotted in Somalia on Wednesday along a main supply route to the government stronghold in Baidoa, as rains and floods stalled a feared march to war in other parts of the country.
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Somalia's powerful Islamist group give Ethiopian troops a week to leave the country or be forced out.