This is not a picture we're likely to see in our local newspapers: Sheikh Sharif Sheik Ahmed, the Head of the Executive Council of the Somali Supreme Council of the Islamic Courts and his cabinet, or whatever, having a meeting with a UN delegation and drinking Coke.

In other news, a plane has landed in Mogadishu reportedly bringing either weapons from Eritrea for the Islamic courts or small sewing machines from a "friendly nation." The plane has the flag of Kazakhstan on its tail.