Somali president calls for help in battling Islamist militiasSomalia facing 'foreign invasion' ,

(CNN) -- Somalia needs international help to fight Islamist extremists battling for power in the lawless Horn of Africa nation, the country's moderate Islamist president said Monday."I am calling on the international community to help Somalia defend against foreign militants who have invaded the country," President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed said. Speaking at a news conference in Somalia's capital city, Mogadishu, Ahmed called several times for international help in fighting foreign militants whom he claims are the same fighters who have fought the "international community" in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Wherever they come, they fuel violence," the president said. "The Somali people cannot and should not accept that their countries should be a launching pad for these militants to attack." Ahmed told local journalists that he feared these foreign fighters would turn Somalia into another Iraq or Afghanistan, where U.S.-led forces are fighting Islamic extremist groups...more..http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/05/25/somalia.president/
Somalia's president seeks foreign help to drive out insurgents
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/05/25/somalia-insurgents.html
Somalia facing 'foreign invasion'
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/05/2009525111722593813.html