Mogadishu.

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Read this too from the BBC.

Fighting again has broken out in the capital of Somalia. Mogadishu. A reprise from "Black Hawk Down" and what seems to be just endless warfare and violence.

"The death toll continues to mount even as people cowered inside from what they say is the worst fighting in 15 years."

"Ethiopian troops, in support of the Somali government, began an offensive against Islamist rebels three days ago."

Islamic fundamentalist jihadists have re-grouped, bided their time, and have begun attacks on the forces of Ethiopia and the Somalian "central government forces"?

The nation-state model is not appropriate for a place like Somalia? Let the Somali live out his clan life with all that goes with it unmolested by concepts such as a "central government", etc? Is this the answer? Some mad, bad, and dangerously armed folks in that part of the world. With AK-47, PKM, and RPG, even "irregulars" can do a lot of damage.

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