Agence France Presse: Slain Ethiopian troops paraded in Mogadishu streets

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(Agence France Presse) - Masked Islamist insurgents on pick-up trucks paraded what they said were the bodies of three Ethiopian soldiers in the streets of Mogadishu Friday, an AFP correspondent reported.

The show of defiance by the Shabab, the radical armed wing of the main Somali Islamist movement, came as a four-day lull was shattered by renewed fighting in the capital's southern neighbourhoods.(MORE...)

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-Heavy battles in Somali capital (BBC)

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