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DOVER, DE - JUNE 22: U.S. Air Force Colonel David Hafer (R) and U.S. Army Brigadier General Richard Longo (2nd-R) salute as members of a U.S. Army carry team carries the flag-draped transfer case containing the remains of U.S. Army Sergeant Ricky Jones of Plantersville, Alabama, during a dignified transfer on the tarmac at Dover Air Force Base June 22, 2009 in Dover, Delaware. Jones, assigned to the 1st Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, Fort Polk, Louisiana, died June 21 of wounds suffered when his unit was attacked by indirect fire in Afghanistan. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)[/QOUTE]
DOVER, DE - JUNE 22: Members of a U.S. Army carry team carries the flag-draped transfer case containing the remains of U.S. Army Specialist Rodrigo Munguia Rivas of Germantown, Maryland, from a C-17 to a transfer vehicle during a dignified transfer on the tarmac at Dover Air Force Base June 22, 2009 in Dover, Delaware. Munguia Rivas was killed in Afghanistan while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)[/QOUTE]
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This photo taken on June 21, 2009 shows a Somalia government soldier near the frontline where government forces are fighting to gain ground against hardline islamist insurgents. Somalian President, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, clinging to power by his fingerrnails has declared a state of emergency in a bid to contain a deadly six-week-old insurgency. The insurgency was speraheaded by the supposedly Al-Qaeda backed militant Islamist group Al-Shebab against the weak government that is now appealing to emergency military assistance from neighbouring countries to rout insurgents entrenched in the embattled capital, keen on deposing Ahmed. Atleast 300 have been killed and some 130,000 displaced since an unprecedented anti-government offensive launched by the Shebab. AFP PHOTO/Mohamed DAHIR (Photo credit should read MOHAMED DAHIR/AFP/Getty Images) [/QOUTE]
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Hardline Islamist insurgents patrol a Mogadishu neighbourhood on June 22, 2009. Somalian President, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, clinging to power by his fingerrnails has declared a state of emergency in a bid to contain a deadly six-week-old insurgency. The insurgency was speraheaded by the supposedly Al-Qaeda backed militant Islamist group Al-Shebab against the weak government that is now appealing to emergency military assistance from neighbouring countries to rout insurgents entrenched in the embattled capital, keen on deposing Ahmed. Atleast 300 have been killed and some 130,000 displaced since an unprecedented anti-government offensive launched by the Shebab. AFP PHOTO/Abdirashid ABDULLE ABIKAR (Photo credit should read ABDIRASHID ABDULLE ABIKAR/AFP/Getty Images)[/QOUTE]
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Hardline Islamist insurgents patrol a Mogadishu neighbourhood on June 22, 2009. Somalian President, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, clinging to power by his fingerrnails has declared a state of emergency in a bid to contain a deadly six-week-old insurgency. The insurgency was speraheaded by the supposedly Al-Qaeda backed militant Islamist group Al-Shebab against the weak government that is now appealing to emergency military assistance from neighbouring countries to rout insurgents entrenched in the embattled capital, keen on deposing Ahmed. Atleast 300 have been killed and some 130,000 displaced since an unprecedented anti-government offensive launched by the Shebab. AFP PHOTO/Abdirashid ABDULLE ABIKAR (Photo credit should read ABDIRASHID ABDULLE ABIKAR/AFP/Getty Images)[/QOUTE]
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Somali government soldiers ride on the back of an armed pickup truck next to the frontline where government troops are still fighting with hardline Islamist insurgents for the capital Mogadishu on June 21, 2009. Somalia's radical Islamist Shebab armed group warned on June 21 against any foreign military intervention after the government pleaded for help. Somalia's Parliament Speaker Sheikh Aden Mohamed Nur on June 20 urged neighboring countries to send troops to his country within 24 hours to prop up the government. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED DAHIR (Photo credit should read MOHAMED DAHIR/AFP/Getty Images) [/QOUTE]