Two U.S. Marines Choppers Crash Off Djibouti

[Mowhawk]

Demure, in my opinion these assassinations, and others is what triggered the latest fighting in Mogadiscio between forces loyal to Sheikh Aweeys and those of the warlords.

Gunmen Kill Three Senior Somali Security Forces

MOGADISHU, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Two former colonels in Somalia's defunct military and a top police officer were killed in separate attacks in Mogadishu, raising fears of a new wave of assassinations in the lawless country, witnesses said on Sunday.

Eyewitnesses said Colonel Salad Ali Dhorre, a pilot in the former Somali air force, was shot dead in front of his house late on Saturday by an unidentified people.

Another former colonel, Ali Haji Mohamed, was also shot dead inside his car at Galgalato area north of Mogadishu. The third victim, Colonel Mohamed Hassan Addaawe, a serving police officer was shot while travelling in a public mini bus, witnesses said.

"Two armed men came in front of our house and found the colonel sitting outside, they shot him in the head and stomach," said Ahmed Ali Dhorre, the brother of the deceased.

The shootings were the latest of about a dozen incidents involving security experts murdered by gunmen in the last several months in killings that have remained mysterious.

In October last year, gunmen shot dead Colonel Mohamed Mohamud Raghe, who was helping to train militiamen recruited from around Somalia in order to create a national force following President Abdullahi Yusuf's new government's relocation from Kenya.

Residents saw the killings then as signs of opposition to Yusuf's Transitional Federal Government. The interim government formed at peace talks in 2004, has remained fractious and fragile, unable to rein in powerful warlords and their militias.

http://www.somaliuk.com/News/index.php? ... =1&id=3542

B.Max

The theatre of blood letting may not be new, but this second wave is nastier and is part of the so called "war on terror".

[fagash_killer]

the americans and habaashis are smart just like 1993 they will send forces out their the americans will say we will go their to fight against terrorist they payed sure the xamar warlords to do that look these fakness in one day fake wadaads captured dayniile xamar warlords got sure mo power and hub but they must do like they cant defend them selfs of the fake wadaads and washington reponse is we will send forces to stop the cival war ore ore atleast the adoon forces while the habaashi are just chilling and sending many of their forces deep in the heart of somalia thnx to them we got no water no food no shit with no doubt brother somalia will dissapear of the world map and we cant blaim no one else than oure selfs thats why i dont give a shit about them anymore you can atleast support sland