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MOGADISHU: Militiamen allegedly hired by a Somali businessman stormed a radio and TV station in Mogadishu on Friday night and shut it down after it reported the trader had been mentioned in a book on a group linked to terrorism, station officials said on Saturday. The privately-owned Hornafrik Radio and Television station quoted a book by an Ethiopian author in which it is alleged that Mohamed Daylaf, a wealthy Mogadishu trader, has business relations with a militant Somali Islamic group known as Al-Ittihad al-Islamia. The United States has charged the group has links to al-Qaeda, blamed for the attacks in...