NOT one gun had been handed in by midday

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The government has told Mogadishu residents to hand over their weapons by Thursday or be forcibly disarmed. Aided by Ethiopian planes, tanks and troops, the government days ago drove the Islamists from the city they controlled since June.

"Everybody will be disarmed. There will be no sacred cows," Information Minister Ali Jama Jangali said. However, at a collection point seen by Reuters, not one gun had been handed in by midday.

The SICC completely pacified Mogadishu by enforcing sharia law.

Stabilizing the city again is the first priority of the interim government whose legitimacy hinges on installing itself in the capital and restoring central rule for the first time since the 1991 overthrown of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.

The task is complicated by the return of warlords hoping to restore fiefdoms they ran before the SICC chased them out.

Despite a U.N. arms embargo, a proliferation of weapons has made the war-scarred capital on the Indian Ocean one of the most gun-infested cities in the world.

SICC spokesman Abdirahim Ali Mudey, speaking from a hideout, poured scorn on the government's disarmament drive, saying it would be unable to unite Somalia's clan-based society.

"Somalis will not relinquish their arms voluntarily. Some clans will fight back because trust does not yet exist," Mudey said by telephone, without revealing his location.

Out priority is to destroy this kafir imposed "gov".