World IN BRIEF : SOMALIA : U.N. Releases 9 Aidid Supporters

The United Nations released nine Somali detainees in Mogadishu, the first freed since a Security Council resolution suggested that all the detainees would be freed. The nine were “low-level” members of Somali strongman Gen. Mohammed Farah Aidid’s Somali National Alliance faction, and were released for lack of evidence, said Dave Stockwell, the U.N. military spokesman. The Security Council voted Tuesday to lift an arrest warrant against Aidid and to set up a committee to investigate a June 5 attack in which 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed. Until now, the attack had been blamed on Aidid.