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 MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Scores of residents fled their homes Thursday during a second day of fighting between Islamic insurgents and Somali and Ethiopian troops that killed four people and wounded six.
Deputy Defense Minister Salad Ali Jelle told The Associated Press that the Somali government had gathered intelligence showing that a top leader of the ousted insurgents, Aden Hashi Ayro, was recently named the head of the al-Qaida cell in Somalia, and has been directing the fighting.
Jelle said that the government had reports that Ayro was in Mogadishu.
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