Thousands of Somalis took to the streets of their capital and burned American and Israeli flags to protest U.S. policy in the Middle East. Hard-line Islamic leaders who addressed the crowd in Mogadishu said the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States were the “curse of Allah on America” and that “one man in Afghanistan cannot be blamed for that.”
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