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Thousands of women and children cheered, clapped and chanted from the rooftops of shell-pocked downtown Mogadishu on Saturday as the first relief convoy to move with a U.S. Marine escort crossed the divided city's so-called Green Line, carrying a supply of desperately needed food from the port to a food depot on the other side of town. Across town from the peaceful Green Line, though, just two miles from the U.S.

Thousands of women and children cheered, clapped and chanted from the rooftops of shell-pocked downtown Mogadishu on Saturday as the first relief convoy to move with a U.S. Marine escort crossed the divided city's so-called Green Line, carrying a supply of desperately needed food from the port to a food depot on the other side of town. Across town from the peaceful Green Line, though, just two miles from the U.S.