Somalia: Al-Shabab Militants Say They Will Wage Fighting Against Beledweyn Town

Baladweyne — The hard-line militants of Al-shabab said Tuesday that they will continue fighting and blasts against the TFG soldiers and eithopian forces in the town of Beledweyne of Hiran region in central Somalia. Sheik Yusuf Ali, the governor of Hiran province for Al-shabab fighters told a rebel-controlled local FM radio that they are committed to attack the town unless TFG soldiers and their allied Ethiopian forces out of Beledweyne, the capital city of Hiran region which is just 350-Km away north of Mogadishu.

He said The Islamist fighters of Al-shabab vowed to resist any foreign intervention in Somalia and they will not stop explosions and coordinated suide car bombs against Somali government troops in Beledweyne town. Ethiopian, Somali government forces set to advances on Al-shabab's strongholds in central regions of Somalia after capturing last year Beledweyne, a key stronghold town of the militant group Al-Shabab in central Somalia.

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