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Published 4/13/2009 by rsinderbrand at CNN Political Ticker
(CNN) – The airport in Mogadishu, Somalia came under attack Monday as a member of the U.S. Congress visited the city, a journalist in Somalia reported.
The sound of mortar rounds and gunfire echoed around a community near the airport not long after Democratic Rep. Donald Payne of New Jersey concluded a news conference with [...]
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