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BAIDOA, Somalia (AP) - Police fired into the air and arrested several people demonstrating Friday in support of an Islamic group that is vying for authority in Somalia and against calls for the deployment of peacekeepers here.
Around 100 people had gathered in Baidoa, the seat of the almost powerless transitional government that has appealed for help from foreign peacekeepers. Six people were arrested.
Several large demonstrations have been staged in the capital, Mogadishu, by Islamic leaders who have challenged the government and who oppose foreign peacekeepers. But this was the first in the government's stronghold of Baidoa, 150 miles from the capital.
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