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MOGADISHU-Islamist insurgents cut off the heads of three Somali soldiers south of the capital on Thursday and the U.N. special envoy said he would try to set up peace talks between the opposition and government.It was the first case of beheadings since the government and its Ethiopian military allies ousted the Islamists from power in late 2006, sparking a bloody insurgency characterized by roadside bombs and hit-and-run attacks."This morning the mujahideen attacked the so-called government troops guarding the roads for the Ethiopian forces.We killed three of them," said Muktar Ali Robow, a senior commander of the Islamists' Shabab youth wing."We did what we promised to them. People traveling in that road can be asked how we killed them," he told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location.Witnesses in the area said they saw three headless corpses near Lego town, 130 km (81 miles) south of Mogadishu."We were terrified because we have never seen a human slaughtered like an animal," truck driver Hassan Mohamed Amin told Reuters.At least 7,000 people have died, and hundreds of thousands been displaced in the 15-month insurgency, creating what aid workers call one of the world's worst yet most ignored humanitarian crises.In a separate attack, gunmen killed a police official and two body guards, also wounding two local employees of Medecins Sans Frontieres-Spain, some 30 km (19 miles) north of Mogadishu.To read more go to:
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