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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/world/middleeast/15nations.html
UN Says Somalis Helped Hizballah Fighters
[New York Times] Robert F. Worth - More than 700 Islamic militants from Somalia traveled to Lebanon in July to fight alongside Hizballah in its war against Israel, a UN report says. Hizballah provided training and - through its patrons Iran and Syria - weapons to the Islamic alliance struggling for control of Somalia, according to the report issued by four experts monitoring violations of a 1992 UN arms embargo on Somalia.