Somali militia battle enters seventh day
Mortars, machine guns and rockets pounded Mogadishu on Saturday in a seventh day of fierce militia fighting that has killed at least 138 people so far and which looks set to intensify. As the street battles dragged on in rundown areas of the Somali capital, the interim government — powerless to stop the shooting and unable to enter Mogadishu — called for foreign intervention to end the worst fighting there in years.Full Story