Somalia aid widens net
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The Xinhua news agency reporter was wounded in the legs and his Somali driver killed when unidentified attackers fired at their car in the capital, Mogadishu, on Wednesday, a US army spokesman said.
Several exchanges of fire were reported between foreign troops and Somali gunmen overnight. In one incident, US marines fired at a car that tried to force its way through a checkpoint, injuring a Somali.
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