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 MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Hundreds of Islamic militiamen in heavily armed trucks headed Saturday to the strategic town of Kismayo in what appeared to be an imminent takeover attempt of one of the last seaports outside their control in Somalia, witnesses said.
Key leaders of the Islamic militia — which controls the capital, Mogadishu, along with much of southern Somalia — have been in Kismayo for several days in direct challenge to the warlords who are in control there.
Fearful residents of the town, some 260 miles southwest of Mogadishu, have been fleeing across the border to Kenya in case fighting breaks out.
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