Pro-Government Troops Enter Southern Town
From Times Wire Reports
Ethiopian troops and Somalian government forces made a foray into a southern town in Somalia, residents said, in a move likely to worsen tensions with Islamist militiamen tightening their grip on the war-ravaged country.
The troops, aboard seven trucks mounted with machine guns, stayed only briefly in the agricultural town of Dinsor, witnesses said.
Rebels from the Islamic Courts Union have been asserting control over much of southern Somalia, challenging an Ethiopian-backed government formed in 2004.
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