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Militia leader calls for foreign military intervention

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    Somali faction leader Osman Hassan Ali 'Atto' on Sunday called for foreign military intervention in order to disarm militias, facilitate a peace process and save the country from additional bloodshed, AFP reported. Claiming that Eritrea had sent weapons to Somalia and was training hundreds of rebel Ethiopian OLF fighters in order to destabilise the government in Addis Ababa, 'Atto' called for foreign intervention to save Somalia "from more bloodshed as a result of involvement in the military affairs of warring Ethiopia and Eritrea".

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