-PHOTO TAKEN 25SEP03- A Somali telecom worker repairs cables in the streets of the capital...

-PHOTO TAKEN 25SEP03- A Somali telecom worker repairs cables in the streets of the capital Mogadishu. The chaotic capital of the failed Horn of Africa state is much more peaceful now but remains extremely lawless and is home to thousands of gunmen. Ruined Somalia needs the big powers to push it towards peace but major nations are repelled by its image as a quagmire in which U.S. forces floundered a decade ago. [The U.N. Secretary -General's special representative for Somalia said on September 4, 2003, one of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security -- China, Britain, France, the United States and Russia -- could make a difference in a country which collapsed in chaos in 1991 after the ousting of former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.] Picture taken September 25, 2003.