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Islamists, Cornered in Somalia, Lose Local Support

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Dec. 31 � As fighting began to flare up today around Kismayo, the final redoubt for Somalia�s diminished Islamic movement, elders within the city demanded that the Islamists leave.

Mohammed Arab, a leader of the Ogaden sub-clan, said 36 elders of various clans and sub-clans met over the weekend with Islamist leaders and tried to persuade them that resisting the huge Ethiopian-backed force heading toward them would be futile.

�We told them that they were going to lose,� Mr. Arab said, �and that our city would get destroyed.�

Kismayo, a scenic harbor town along the Indian Ocean that was once part of the fabled East African spice empire, had been spared the fighting so far.

But the Islamists, according to Mr. Arab, did not care.

�These guys are bent on war,� he said.

[It is kind of funny how all these clansmen simply pulled the rug from under the Islamists. I never saw anything like it. It is almost comical.]

[jinju]

I hpe they kill all of those scum and send the to Allah

[cbclark4]

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