5,000 Ethiopian troops to deploy, disarm central Somalia

[Hiiraan boy]

5,000 Ethiopian troops to deploy, disarm central Somalia
9 May 9, 2007 - 12:53:23 PM

More Ethiopian troops en route to Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia May 9 (Garowe Online) - An ongoing series of meetings between the Ethiopian military and a group of Somali clan elders and politicians have concluded, officials and the elders said.

The meetings where the two parties discussed general security issues were being held in Shilabo, a town in the Somali-inhabited region of Ethiopia.

Independent sources at the meeting told Garowe Online that the Ethiopian military informed the clan elders from Galgaduud region in central Somalia to peacefully transfer weapons and prepare for the arrival of an Ethiopian contingent.

Col. Wato Tadhu, the ranking Ethiopian officer at the meeting, told clan elders belonging to the Habar Gedir sub-clan of the Hawiye clan-family to bring all their weapons to the home of the clan chief in Guri El town.

Galgaduud is the home region of several Islamic Courts leaders, including influential chief Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys and their vocal ex-defense secretary, Yusuf Indha Ade.

Col. Tadhu also informed the clan elders that a 5,000-strong Ethiopian contingent would arrive in Galgaduud region to oversee the peaceful transfer of the weapons and prepare for the arrival of Somali government troops.

The Ethiopian military suspects that stockpiles of weapons were secretly hidden in the towns of Guri El and Dhusamareeb, the regional capital.

The colonel also accused local elders of “harboring” Islamist officials and fighters and promised to crackdown on weapons shipments from Eritrea that often land at the Dhusamareb airstrip.

Military sources said the 5,000 Ethiopian troops could deploy in Galgaduud region as soon as next week.

The clan elders accepted the Ethiopian military proposal and had returned to Galgaduud to inform residents, a local journalist said by telephone.

Ethiopia's government has repeatedly said its troops would retreat from Somalia as soon as a complete African Union peacekeeping force is deployed. But observers say the weak transitional government can neither function nor survive without Ethiopian protection.

[DawladSade]

look at what sacad did

[COSTA]

Ceyr and Mareexaan in Galgaduud will be disarmed by force
and come under the TFG

[biko]

[quote="DawladSade"]look at what sacad did [/quote]


this must be a dream come true for you.

[COSTA]

``Ethiopia's government has repeatedly said its troops would retreat from Somalia as soon as a complete African Union peacekeeping force is deployed. But observers say the weak transitional government can neither function nor survive without Ethiopian protection.``

Trust me they will never leave

[eyes-only]

Sade... they think the Xabashi are just going to go after ceyr but the sacad and all other clans are getting terrorised in Xamar....someone is giving them wrong intelligence.

But it is just sick to see a country waging a war against a sub-sub-clan...

f*ing midget Xabash

[Hiiraan boy]

habar gidir is dead

sacad are fuking backstabbers

[michael_ital]

Whata focking disgrace. Siyaad must be spinning in his grave.

[smooth]

Where the hell does it say Sacad?? It's very amusing how you have people scapegoating around that clan as if Qeybdiid is calling the shots, the more i read this BS the more my opinions shift

Hiiraan-boy

Sxb please, if i was Xawaadle i wouldn't be blaming anyone, nevertheless you preyed upon the weak & displaced, Invited the Ethiopians into your land twice both during the ICU war and the Mogadishu one, your homelands are untouched while the places i grew up in was shattered during the war, your liabilities are far more greater then your contributions.

Eyes

Your uncles were the once that abandoned the front-line positions for ransom, your loyalties were so cheaply bought, all of your fighters are incorporated in the TFG, and are now exposing the burial sites of weapons.

You cant look beyond facade and are locked in a fantasy world that one or two sub-sub-clans are purely fighting this war against the Ethiopians, if that was the case they wouldn't have lasted beyond sunset, Ceyr on it's own is insignificant and deeply divided within, why don't you talk of characters such as (culusow) and the formal Anti-terror Boss (Abdiwaal) ?

Why is there no Jihad in Ceelbuur, dhuusomareeb, galguluud and other ceyr strongholds? not even a single attempt of an Ambush was recorded while Ethiopian reinforcements flowed past it continuesly

You need to stop scapegoating on Sacad, all they did was think of there own Interests, the more I read your BS the more i start to realize why these man didn't want anything to do with your types

[AbdiWahab252]

Smooth,

Karbaash 'em

[cabdi123]

dawlad sade look at what marexaan did bare hirale waxu kenay itobiya somalia kismayo and goes what itobiya will do with u in few days.