Somali Islamists vow to fight peacekeepers

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Islamist gunmen patrolled Kismayo, a key southern port, on Monday, vowing to impose strict sharia law just hours after they seized the town in a new threat to Somalia's weak government. Hundreds of turbaned, heavily armed fighters on "battlewagons" -- machine-gun mounted pick-ups -- took up positions in and around Kismayo as the country's powerful Islamist movement hailed the overnight takeover, witnesses said.

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