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Somalia: Insurgents Kill 2 Soldiers in Mogadishu Sneak Attack
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Garowe Online (Garowe)
29 April 2008
Posted to the web 30 April 2008
Mogadishu
Somali insurgents shot and killed two soldiers in a central section of the Horn of Africa country' s capital Mogadishu, witnesses reported Tuesday.
One of the soldiers was a military officer while the second was a soldier serving as a bodyguard. A third person, who was reported to be a civilian walking alongside the soldiers, also died in the crossfire.
Witnesses said three insurgents armed with pistols were responsible for the killing. The insurgents confiscated the dead soldier's assault rifle before fleeing on foot.
In a separate incident, men dressed in government military uniform shot and killed a civilian before robbing the dead victim of whatever he possessed.
According to eyewitness accounts, the men were thieves clad in military fatigues but clearly involved in robbery and other criminal activities.
Another incident in Mogadishu involved the shooting death of a man who was reported to be a member of the Islamic Courts movement that ruled the Somali capital in 2006.
It is not clear who killed the man or why he was targeted, but Mogadishu locals said a string of unexplained killings have rocked the city in recent months.
In Mogadishu's Bondhere district, a former warlord was the target of a roadside bombing that wounded at least three people, including one of his bodyguards.
Two women who were cleaning a nearby street wounded by the bomb were rushed to a local hospital for treatment.
The target of the roadside bomb was reported to be Isse Osman Ali, a junior warlord who was one of the founding members of the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (ARPCT), a CIA-financed warlord coalition that aimed to expel the Islamic Courts from Mogadishu but lost control in June 2006.
In another attack, an Ethiopian army convoy hit a hidden landmine that damaged a part of their vehicle.
None of the Ethiopian soldiers on board were wounded in the attack and the vehicle continued forward after a few minutes, according to witnesses.
Islamist-led insurgents have spearheaded a bloody guerrilla war since January 2007, when Ethiopian-backed Somali government troops took control of Mogadishu from the Islamic Courts militia.
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Thousands of people have been killed in the violence and hundreds of thousands others displaced from their homes.
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