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allAfrica.com: Somalia: Ethiopia Lost Soldiers in Fighting in Mogadishu. (Page 1 of 1)

Al Jazeera English - News : "Violence has continued in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, for a third day, in what the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has called 'the worst fighting in more than 15 years'."

Bush's Private Army : "Coming to a city near you? Produced by the US magazine The Nation. No one knows for sure, but it's believed that as much as 40% of the military budget goes to private contractors including private armies. There are thousands of private mercenaries operating on behalf of the US in Iraq and elsewhere around the world. Nearly 1,000 have been killed in Iraq alone, but their casualties are not counted. Nor has Congress been able to discover exactly how many mercenaries the US employs there. One of these firms, Blackwater USA, a big supporter of George Bush, is now deploying in the US. They were present in New Orleans after the levee collapses. "

Middle East Online Hard-pressed staff daily confronts horrors of local bloodletting, tries to cope with shocking corps’ sites. By Yasmin Ahmed - MOSUL After twenty years of service at the Mosul morgue, Abdul-Kareem Ahmed has become inured to death.

A sacred right : "Why should I, a Jew from north London, be permitted to take up Israeli citizenship, when that right is denied to a Palestinian who languishes in a refugee camp in Lebanon? Especially when I acknowledge that a large majority of those that left in 1948 were ethnically cleansed by Israeli forces."

Jeremy Scahill on Soldiers of Fortune :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - it : "The writer speaks with Truthdig about his new book, 'Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army,' privatization in America and abroad, and our dysfunctional democracy. "