The United States said a regional peacekeeping force was needed to protect Somalia’s weak transitional government from the powerful Islamist movement controlling the capital. One day before the UN Security Council was expected to debate the proposed peacekeepers, the US State Department said the force was needed to help restore dialogue between the interim government, the Transitional Federal Institutions (TFIs), and the Islamic movement, the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC). Full Story
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