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Somalia's opposition leaders predicted Monday that a further surge in Islamist-led insurgency in the capital, Mogadishu, could defeat Ethiopian troops supporting the government there within two months as renewed violence raged on. "The liberation forces are gaining strength day after day," said Zakariya Mahmoud Abdi.

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