"Fighting in Somali capital leaves 35 dead" by Associated Press | May 11, 2009
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Mortars and machine-gun fire rocked the Somali capital yesterday, leveling homes and a mosque in renewed violence that has killed at least 35 people over the weekend as pro-government Islamist fighters clash with gunmen who want to topple the Western-backed government, officials said.
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Somalia's Al-Shabab IS "Al-CIA-Duh"
It was some of the worst fighting in weeks in one of the most violent cities in the world, with both sides pounding Mogadishu with mortars and machine-gunfire. Residents were streaming out of the city seeking safety.
Just what they need: more refugees.
Ali Mohamed, a 20-year-old Mogadishu resident, said he was losing all hope: "The future is bleak," he said. An Associated Press reporter counted at least 15 corpses in the streets of Mogadishu yesterday after fighting that started late Saturday.
Hospital officials and witnesses in other parts of the city said five other people were killed. Later in the day, a mortar hit a mosque and a nearby home, killing 15 more people, said witness Yasir Mohamed, who counted the corpses and received minor injuries.--more--"
"113 die in Somalia in 3 days of violence" by Associated Press | May 13, 2009
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Fierce fighting in Somalia's capital has killed 113 civilians in the past three days and forced more than 27,000 to flee their homes, a human rights organization said yesterday.
Some 10,000 civilians fled their homes in Mogadishu yesterday alone, according to Ali Sheik Yasin Fadhaa of the independent Elman Human Rights Organization. About 345 civilians have been wounded in what has become Mogadishu's worst violence in recent weeks, he said.
The organization gathered the figures from talking to hospitals, victims' relatives, and staff spread across the capital. The renewed violence in the nation on the Horn of Africa is pitting pro-government fighters against those allied to al-Shabab, an insurgent group seeking to overthrow Somalia's Western-backed government and establish an Islamic state.
And THAT JUST REEKS since the NEW GOVERNMENT is the OLD ISLAMIC COURTS UNION that BROUGHT PEACE for SIX MONTHS back in 2006.
And so it goes, readers, and so it goes....
Over the weekend, both sides pounded the capital with mortars and machine-gunfire. National Security Minister Omar Hashi Aden said the government would crack down on the insurgents, and said some of them were foreigners. "They are anarchists," Aden told the Associated Press yesterday. "We will continue the fighting until we eliminate these elements."
Aden said 15 government fighters have been killed in the violence, and that civilian casualties could be high, though the government did not have any figures. Among the insurgents, 19 foreigners - 12 Pakistanis and seven Yemenis - have also been killed, he said.
Yup, "Al-CIA-Duh" terrorists.
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