| Hundreds of Muslims took to the streets of this key southern port yesterday, vowing to fight a holy war for Somalia's powerful Islamist movement against proposed foreign peacekeepers. A day after a militia allied with the country's weak government vowed to retake Kismayo from the Islamists who seized it last week, at least 400 people marched through the town to protest plans for a peacekeeping mission. And, as a UN envoy shuttled through the region to prevent Somalia's unrest from spreading through the greater Horn of Africa, the demonstrators also vowed to crush any forces sent by neighboring Ethiopia to support the government. "We will never allow any foreign soldier to set foot on Somali soil," Sheikh Adam Elmi, an official in the Supreme Islamic Council of Somalia (SICS), told the crowd in Kismayo, which was taken by the movement on September 24. |