Behind Somalia's Islamist Rivalry -- BBC News
The fighting in Kismayo between rival Islamist groups could be the beginning of the end of their national alliance - and good news for the embattled interim government.
It is not unexpected that the two Islamist groups - Hizbul-Islam and al-Shabab - would fall out.
But what is surprising is the timing.
It was thought that their alliance would last until after they had unseated the UN-backed government, which now controls only a few key areas of the capital, Mogadishu.
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