Somali Government Continues To Fight Insurgency On all Levels!!
Somalia: Government put troops near IDPs for insurgency crack down
Sun. November 25, 2007 04:43 am.- By Mohamed Abdi Farah. - Send this news article
(SomaliNet) Large number of Somali’s interim government troops have been deployed in an area between Mogadishu city and Afgoye town of lower Shabelle region were thousands of displaced people live to prevent of what it is called ‘local terrorist groups’ fighting with the government and it puck up Ethiopian forces, reports say on Sunday.
According to the local residents, the displaced people in Elesha-Biyaha and Siinka are growing more concern over the deployment of the government troops fearing of more clashes.
Sources close to the presidential house in Mogadishu say that there was insurgent movement around the camps lived by the IDPs to prevent that the government decided to send troops to the area.
Last week, convoy carrying Mogadishu’s mayor was attacked near Elesha-Biyaha where one of the trucks was hit by roadside bomb which caused a casualty on some of his security guards.
Government officials said the move is to establish the security on the road between Afgoye town and Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.
Meanwhile, local Islamic militants fired rocked propelled grenades and mortars into the former defense ministry compound in Mogadishu which houses large number of Ethiopian army, residents said.
The Ethiopian soldiers responded with heavy artillery weapons. No casualty was reported on the Ethiopians.
Witnesses told Somalinet by phone that some of changed artilleries were hit civilians targets but it is not known the casualty.
The situation of the areas hit by the last’s gun battle was quiet this morning as Ethiopian troops began investigations over who were responsible for the latest attack.
