Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
24 February 2008
Al-Shabab Islamic group has claimed the responsibility of the attack that fighters linked to ousted Islamic courts union have seized from the government troops Dinsor district of Somalia's southwestern Bay region on sunday.
Speaking to Shabelle Radio the spokesman of the movement sheikh Moqtar Robow Abu-Mansur has affirmed that his group was responsible the attack to Dinsor district that reasoned that the government forces to vacate from the district as the fighting was continuing to erupt.
Mr.Robow has also claimed that his fighters killed more soldiers of the TFG and confiscated from the soldiers supplementary ammunition and armed vehicles.
"our fighters have won that fighting, Glory to god in the highest, our fighters are at present in the district and PuntLanders fled " Robow said.
He also declared that his fighters captured most of the armed vehicles of the TFG troops were in the locale except one gunship vehicle escaped as he put it
Another hand the transitional government official has refuted Robow's remarks of UIC's fighters in Dinsor and he stated that the TFG troops have pulled out from the district as military ploys.
No independent news sources could be available except the two side's claims.
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