Somalia Islamic militia after capturing the Sahafi Hotel in Mogadishu, May 25, 2006. (Shabele Media/Handout/Reuters)
Somalia Islamic militia guard Sahafi Hotel after it was captured from those of the counter terrorism alliance in Somalia capital Mogadishu, May 25, 2006. Fresh clashes between rival Somali militias spread across Mogadishu on Thursday, killing up to 30 more people in the anarchic Horn of Africa nation's worst violence for years, witnesses said. REUTE
Somalia fundamentalist leader Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys inside a mosque in northern Mogadishu Wednesday Oct. 12, 2005. A surge in the power of Islamic fundamentalist warlords in Somalia is raising fears that the Horn of Africa nation could follow the path of Taliban Afghanistan into the hands of al-Qaida, despite Western efforts to stop it. The U.S. government says Aweys has connections to al-Qaida. (AP Photo/Osman Hassan)
Gunmen keep guard as thousands of people gather to listen to the speaker of the Somali parliament, Shariif Hassan Sheikh Aden, unseen, in this Sunday, Feb. 6, 2005 picture in Mogadishu, Somalia. A surge in the power of Islamic fundamentalist warlords in Somalia is raising fears that the Horn of Africa nation could follow the path of Taliban Afghanistan into the hands of al-Qaida, despite Western efforts to stop it. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)