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Mogadishu Musical Chairs

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A fundamentalist Muslim whom the U.S. suspects of collaborating with Al Qaeda terrorists was named Saturday as the new leader of an Islamist militia that has seized control of [Mogadishu]. The militia … appointed Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys as its new leader. The Bush administration has alleged that Aweys was an associate of Osama bin Laden in the 1990s … Aweys replaces Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, who is considered a moderate in comparison … Ahmed also agreed last week to stop military action and recognize the largely powerless interim government, which is based in Baidoa, 140 miles northwest of Mogadishu. Aweys has condemned that government and any attempts to install a Western-style democracy.

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