Photo Gallery Allah's Cleaning Crew
City in dust: Mogadishu is still reeling from a decade and a half of chaos.
More than 1,800 Islamic women have volunteered in the effort to clean up Mogadishu, which still remains an apocalyptic landscape. Every morning they march past burned-out buildings, mountains of debris the size of soccer fields, remains of bullet-riddled walls and patches of giant weeds.
A checkpoint in Mogadishu: Islamists pose as peacemakers in Mogadishu while the government in Baidoa steadily falls apart.
On the march: Many members of Mogadishu's work brigades are covered from head to toe.
Women celebrate the new Islamic government at Mogadishu's airport. Somali Muslims don't trust their Christian neighbors in Ethiopia.
Militia members at the airport: The reopening of Somalia's harbors and airports all but guarantees the Islamists' ability to receive fresh supplies and troops.
