Di Mogadishu, Wakil Perdana Menteri Hussein Aidid, mantan gembong perang Mogadishu, mendesak para pemimpin Islam agar menyerah, melucuti senjata dan menghindari pertempuran lebih lanjut yang telah menewaskan ratusan, dan mungkin ribuan, orang di negara tanpa hukum di Afrika itu.
In Mogadishu, Deputy Prime Minister Hussein Aidid, a former Mogadishu warlord, urged Islamist leaders to surrender, disarm and avoid more of the fighting that has killed hundreds, and possibly thousands, in the lawless African nation.