Islamists on the Run in Somalia

Things are going from bad to worse for these vermin. I won't be shedding any tears.

KISMAYO, Somalia - Islamic fighters abandoned the last major town they held early today and were heading south toward the Kenyan border.

Government forces were approaching the town of Kismayo slowly because of land mines.

The Islamic forces began to disintegrate after a night of artillery attacks at the front line and a mutiny within their ranks, witnesses said.

"The Islamists have fled Kismayo and our troops are on the way," a government spokesman said.

Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi said three al Qaeda suspects wanted in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa that killed more than 250 people were hiding in Kismayo.

"If we capture them alive, we will hand them over to the United States," Gedi said. "We know they are in Kismayo."

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