MOGADISHU (Reuters) - My road to Mogadishu started with a four-word text message: "Lucky you -- Baidoa tomorrow!"
I had just landed in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on an assignment to get into Somalia and report on the fighting there between Islamists and the Ethiopian-backed Somali government.
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