Soldiers Killed in Somalia Attack

Mogadisho -Four Somali soldiers and a civilian have been killed after Islamist insurgents attacked a check-point just outside the capital, Mogadishu.
The Islamists briefly took control of the site, burned military vehicles and seized weapons and money, a police officer said.The Siinka Dheer check-point is on the road to Afgooye, where thousands of Mogadishu residents have fled.The Islamists have recently staged several attacks outside the capital.Earlier this week, the US bombed an Islamist-held town in southern Somalia, saying that an al-Qaeda operative was sheltering there."Our aim is to cripple both the military and the economic sources of the enemy and that is why we raided the post," Islamist spokesman Abdi-rahin Isse Adow told the BBC.The Islamists were ousted from the capital, Mogadishu in December 2006 by government forces, backed up by Ethiopia, with some intelligence from the US.