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Somalia: Ethio-Som Joint Operations in Mogadishu, Blast Kills One
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Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
26 February 2008
Posted to the web 26 February 2008
Mogadishu
The Ethiopian and Somali government troops have arrested several people in Deynile district following they arrived there on Tuesday daybreak residents said.
The soldiers have put a ceiling on the people and vehicle's activities in the areas close to Deynile district such Gubta neighborhood where the troops have initially arrived there. " There is a soldier every labyrinth road this morning no one can walk off" resident Sadaq Ali told Shabelle English service.
Some residents said that the soldiers have started house-to-house search operations in the locality. In addition Hawiye clan elders have accused the government and Ethiopian troops of yearning for to carry out harmful acts in Deynile district as the soldiers were deeply entering in there. The chairman of Hawiye clan elders Mohamed Hassan Had who contacted to Shabelle has declared that the arrival of the Ethio-Som soldiers in Deynile is parts of detrimental actions they want do in that neighborhood as he put it. Else where one civilian died while two others wounded in a blast occurred in Bulo-hubey village of Wadajir district following a hand grenade was thrown into a soldiers stayed one of Bulo hubey's roads in the capital witnesses said. Some eyewitnesses said that the death and injure of the civilians comes after the attacked soldiers opened a fire into a place they suspected that the bomb has been thrown from.
Islamist rebels have been carrying out near-daily attacks, mainly in the lawless capital, since Ethiopia-backed government forces at the start of 2006 ousted their movement. The embattled Somali government is struggling to exert its authority.
Wht Ethiopia should do is 'follow the money'. The 'insurgency' is being fuled by remittance and all kind of shady mafiozi type of activities by some members of the Hwiye clan. So long as Ethiopia and the TGV aren't forcefully pursuing the source their attempts to quell this restive atomosphere will be in vein. Every and all remitances and commerical activitities should be scrutinized. Then and only then will the powers to be able to quash this mafiozi Bukahra markets pundits who are behind the insurrection. They have to turn the tab on Western Union for starters. All attmepts will... [Read Full Text]
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