Despite a brief flirtation with peace, the fighting that has ravaged Somalia in recent days appears likely to continue. The Union of Islamic Courts has advanced to the transitional government’s last remaining base of power, Baidoa, where fighting with Ethiopian troops has led to heavy casualties.
New York Times:
According to United Nations officials, the transitional government, with the help of thousands of Ethiopian troops, has inflicted heavy losses on the Islamists, who rely on teenage boys to do much of their fighting. Today, the fighting was concentrated in towns surrounding Baidoa, where witnesses said that dead bodies were piling up in the streets.
As the two sides continued to blast each other with machine guns and howitzers, thousands of residents tried to flee the city for safer areas, piling into minibuses with sacks of clothes on their shoulders.
The Islamists say that they are at war on Ethiopia, Somalia’s large, powerful, Christian-dominated neighbor. The two countries have clashed repeatedly in the past over contested border areas, and the Islamist leaders, along with many ordinary Somalis, consider Ethiopian troops inside Somalia to be invaders.
Sheik Ibrahim Shukri Abu-Zeynab, a spokesman for the Islamists, said today that the fighting will only worsen.
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By mrJJ, December 24, 2006 at 8:43 pm #
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“Earlier this year, Washington provided covert aid to an alliance of secular Somali warlords in a failed bid to prevent the Islamists from seizing Mogadishu, the capital. U.S. officials confirmed to McClatchy Newspapers that one recipient of the CIA payments was a leader of a Somali militia that killed 18 U.S. troops in 1993 in fighting in Mogadishu, which was portrayed in the film Black Hawk Down.”
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/16301743.htm
Ethiopia has the most powerful military in the region, trained by American advisors and funded by American aid. American officials have acknowledged that they tacitly supported Ethiopias decision to send troops to Somalia because they felt it was the best way to check the growing power of the Islamists, whom American officials have accused of sheltering Al Qaeda terrorists. .
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/world/africa/24cnd-s omalia.html?hp&ex=1167022800&en=7190c64e905ada39&am p;ei=5094&partner=homepage
Report thisBy philly, December 23, 2006 at 2:03 pm #
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Surely on this website we can find a way to blame America for this. Everything is Bush’s fault right guys?
Report thisBy american atheist, December 23, 2006 at 7:59 am #
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This is part of the global jihad.
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By Abdikarim, December 22, 2006 at 6:34 pm #
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It is sad to read your misguided news about, the war in Somalia is actualy Ethiopian Christian that are pilling up on the ground we destroy them. and guess what they could not do your dirty work no mater how much you support you gave them. No mater how much false probaganda you do for them and you it is still not enough. This time we Somalian people will finish them of once and for all remember 1977 it will be walk in the park.
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