The farmer General of the Somalia National Security Agency Assassinated
Djibouti (HAN) October 5th, 2007 - Three people including General Ahmad Jilacow lost their lives today in a dreadful gun fire against his car.
General Ahmad Jilacow died today when insurgents fired gunsat his car and also kill his driver and other. He was also the commander of NSS 1980's and 90's, and was also the leader of Dahir Riyale Kahin (The current president of Somaliland) during his membership as NSS Agent in North and Sool regions (Somali national Security Agency).
Daily insurgent-led attacks have convulsed Mogadishu since January when the government, backed by Ethiopian forces ousted an Islamist movement that controlled much of southern and central Somalia.
General Ahmad Jilacow, recently appointed by the Somali PM Geedi as the National leader of the Civil society in Somalia.
- Grenades hurled by insurgents killed at least five Somalis around the capital's main market, a witness said Friday.
Mohamed Abdulle Matan, one of the main traders at the Bakara market, said two soldiers were also wounded in the attack, a day after the government announced a major security crackdown on Islamic insurgents.
"The insurgent groups hurled at least nine hand grenades at the soldiers and the soldiers retuned fire," he said.
One of the dead was an attorney at the regional court, he said.
The shaky U.N.-backed government has been struggling to assert its authority after it chased a powerful Islamic alliance out of power last December with the help of its Ethiopian allies.
The Islamic fighters vowed to fight an Iraq-style insurgency against the government and the Ethiopians and the fighting has claimed thousands of lives this year.
Elsewhere in the city, the Ugandan Ambassador to Somalia, Sam Turyamuhika, said the two country's had signed an agreement to help reconcile the government with opposing groups.
Turyamuhika also said that Uganda would help the transitional government distribute food and water to displaced Somalis around Mogadishu.
Uganda currently has 1,800 peacekeepers in Somalia, which were originally sent as part of a 8,000-strong African Union force. However, other countries have been reluctant to send troops and the force has failed to make up its quota.
Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when a group of powerful clan leaders overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and then turned on each other. The arid Horn of Africa nation is deeply impoverished and riven by clan rivalries.
Diplomatic Note: The Ugandan presidential envoy to Somalia on Friday said Kampala was brokering peace between the country's embattled government and its opponents in yet another bid to restore stability. Ngoma Ngime said he had held talks with President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, who supported the latest initiative, but was yet to meet the opposition groups including the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS).
"We are facilitating negotiation between the Somali Transitional Federal government and those opposing the institution," Ngime told a press conference in Mogadishu.
"The meditation effort will involve those who are fighting the government inside the country and opposition groups that are based in Asmara," the capital of neighbouring Eritrea, he explained.
"Our initiative is serious as really need peace in Somalia," Ngime added said, referring to a nation of 10 million people where numerous UN-backed peace efforts have unravelled under a welter of clan feuds and power struggles. Sources: HAN News Agencies
