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BAIDOA, Somalia (AP) - Islamic militia leaders dispatched scores of fighters in jeeps mounted with machine guns Monday, witnesses said, describing apparent preparations for a battle to push U.S.-backed secular warlords from their last stronghold in southern Somalia.
The fundamentalists who control the capital, Mogadishu, sent the militiamen to Jowhar, 56 miles to the northeast, witnesses said.
The Islamic militiamen took control of Mogadishu last week after months of fighting that left more than 330 people dead, many of them civilians.
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