Now its clear Who is killing aidworkers in Somalia

[General_Farax]

TFG and Ethiopia

Friday, July 18, 2008

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead three Somali elders on Friday who were helping local aid workers distribute food in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, witnesses said.

The shooting, by unknown men, appeared to be the latest deliberate attack on humanitarian efforts in the Horn of Africa nation where an Islamist-led insurgency is raging and more than one million people live as internal refugees.

Witness Abdikafi Hassan said one of the elders died on the spot, while the other two passed away in hospital.

"We suspect the elders were killed by the same gunmen who have been targeting aid workers," he added of the three, who were local leaders among the refugee community.

A wave of assassinations of senior local humanitarian workers has shocked aid agencies and forced many to consider suspending operations. Four foreign aid workers -- two Italians, a Kenyan and a Briton -- are also being held hostage.

Suspicion has often fallen on Islamist insurgents, whom the government says have links to radicals including al Qaeda.

But insurgent leaders accuse government hardliners of masterminding the attacks in a bid to scare the international community and hasten the arrival of a peacekeeping force.

The African Union (AU) has 2,200 peacekeepers in Somalia, but they have done little to stem the violence and the continental body wants to hand over to the United Nations.

In typical violence rocking Mogadishu virtually daily, a stray mortar landed on a shack on Thursday, killing a mother and her three sons, during an Islamist attack on Ethiopian troops, who are supporting the Somali government, witnesses said.

"The mortar shell melted their house made of iron sheets. The father and three other children sustained light injuries," witness Ahmed Mohamed said.

At least four Islamists also died, witnesses said.

Sheikh Abdirahim Isse Adow, a spokesman for the Islamists, said only two of their fighters had died whereas "many" Ethiopians had been killed. "We attacked our enemies from various angles killing many of them," he said.

The Ethiopian government, which has thousands of troops in Somalia, seldom comments on its casualties there.

Somalia, with a population of 9 million, has had no effective central rule and has been in a state of near-perpetual conflict since the 1991 toppling of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.

A spokesman for the Islamists' militant wing, al Shabaab, confirmed that a Kenyan militant in its ranks had died during fighting this week in the southern town of Berdale.

"We lost Musa, a Kenyan national and a great Muslim fighter," Sheikh Mukhtar Robow said, without giving more details. (Writing by Guled Mohamed in Nairobi; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne and Mariam Karouny) (For full Reuters Africa coverage and to have your say on the top issues, visit: http://africa.reuters.com/) (Nairobi.newsroom@reuters.com; +254 20 222 4717)

Source: Reuters, July 18, 2008

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TFG and Ethiopia?

isnt that one and the same?

waa maxay waxaad kala wada.

[General_Farax]

deliberate attack on humanitarian efforts in the Horn of Africa nation


this is a new desperate and brutal tactic by TIGrey/TPLF feable forces to starve the somali people in order to subjugate them.

It wont happen,NEVER....Somalis will continue to resist as long there is ONE blood drop left in us

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deliberate attack on humanitarian efforts in the Horn of Africa nation


this is a new desperate and brutal tactic by TIGrey/TPLF feable forces to starve the somali people in order to subjugate them.

It wont happen,NEVER....Somalis will continue to resist as long there is ONE blood drop left in us

Ameen to that!

[AbdiWahab252]

Inshallah,

the TFG supporters will suffer immensely in the deserts of Ogadenia

[QansaGabeyle]

One thing I realized. All the killing is carried out by the socalled TFG moryaan militia and the Islamic militia are not even close to being muslims. Those check point guards with new dresses and they are motivated by qabiil and politics and not religion. It is good to see moryaans fighting but I have no choice but to back the one that is not backed by a traditional enemy.

[RebelLion]

"But insurgent leaders accuse government hardliners of masterminding the attacks in a bid to scare the international community and hasten the arrival of a peacekeeping force."

And you call that evidence? The word of 'insurgents'?

[Enlightened~Sista]

ninbaa lagudilay xafaad no dhaow..waan hubaa boqolkii baboqol inu nin madow kadambeeyo..because iyaka markaasta waxaa kushaqaysta

[RebelLion]

^ You've very annoying you know that? You type nothing but nonsense.

[Enlightened~Sista]

Rebel ..waa logikaaga walaalkiis

[MJ-Pride]

Enlighten ?Sista, as long as you blame both, you are good in my book, the stance of Fah, Hyper and Cawar. I hate the likes of General Duufle/Siiil Laqooyeye and Qansa who thinks the resistance is purely to kick out the Ethiopia. Do you know that they tried to make a deal with Ethiopia to switch sides, only for to be denied?

[RebelLion]

This enlightened sista wey iska hadashaa without knowing what she's talking, the al shabab she defends would probably have her executed for her liberal interpretations of islam.

[Enlightened~Sista]

RebelLion..You're right Al Shabab coming to power would be a disaster in the long term..many of them are religious extremists (possibly even have qabilist tendencies) but the criminal TFG are extremists too. I have never defended EITHER..but i dont accept proof that cannot stand in a court of law!


If the witnesses say the gunmen couldnt be 'identified' then thats all i accept speculation is pointless. I then analyse who stands to benefit from these actions and form my own conclusions.


Lastly but not least..im not american..so pls dont label me as 'liberal'.