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At least 80 Somalis have been killed in heavy fighting in the capital within the past 48 hours, witnesses and doctors said Saturday.

A day after heavy shelling and gunfire claimed over 50 lives, residents said new bodies were discovered on Saturday morning in southern Mogadishu, where Ethiopian troops backing the shaky Somali government have been fighting Islamic insurgents for two days.

''A pregnant woman and an old man were included in the dead and some of them were fresh and seemed to have been killed last night,'' said resident Ali Shakur Mohamed. ''The scene was horrific.''

The fighting is some of the heaviest the war-ravaged city has seen since April. Hospitals are overflowing with patients and doctors say they lack medicine, beds and space for the wounded.

''The patients are overwhelming us,'' said Dr Dahir Dhere, the head of the Medina Hospital.

Those wounded during the fighting were admitted at the city's three main medical centers, doctors and staff in Medina, Keysaney and Deynile hospitals told the Associated Press by telephone.''

The death toll continues to mount and more than 250 people - mainly civilians - who were wounded in the fighting and the subsequent shelling are being treated at the hospitals,'' said Dr Hassan Gutale.

Islamic insurgents

The fighting was sparked when Ethiopian troops began patrols two days ago in a southern Mogadishu neighborhood seen as a hotbed of support for the Islamic insurgents.

Two Ethiopians were killed, and the mutilated body of one of the soldiers was dragged though the streets by protesting women and children. The Ethiopians subsequently fired tank shells into a civilian market.

Mogadishu's mayor, Mohamed Omar Habeb, accused members of the Islamic militant Shabab fighters of being responsible for the violence.

''They are attacking our troops and those of our friends and hiding among civilians,'' he said. ''The government has a right to fight with them to restore law and order.''

The Ethiopians have temporarily withdrawn from the scene of the clashes, but the capital's main roads remain blocked to both cars and pedestrians by Ethiopians and the troops of the UN-backed transitional government.

The government and its Ethiopian allies have been battling Islamic insurgents since they wrested control of the capital from them in December.

The insurgents vowed to fight an Iraq-style insurgency to regain the territory they had controlled for six months of 2006.

Somalia has not had a functioning government since a group of warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. The impoverished Horn of Africa nation is awash with weapons and riven between quarreling clans.

Source: AP, Nov 10, 2007

If these ethiopians think that they will succeed with brute force than they need to think again.

Viva UIC, UIC all the way.

This is sad

This is why we need to stand along side our Islamic allies and let those that continue to kill innocent people know that we won't put up with uncivilized people like them who continue to threaten the UIC behind innocent civilians since they don't want any rule of law and order established in the capital.

Down with TFG and It's ALLIES.


Viva the freedpm fighters!!!

[quote="Transformer"]This is sad

This is why we need to stand along side our Ethiopian allies and let those that continue to use innocent people us human shield know that we won't put up with uncivilized people like them who continue to threaten the TFG behind innocent civilians since they don't want any rule of law and order established in the capital.[/quote]

Like u foking care....this is sad kulahaa...waryaa aren't the Ethiopians the one that are going around...killing people in excution sytle....shooting them at the head in close range..or the back...is u study most of the dead people...they were either shot from the back or the head....women n men...n if u loook closely it appears to be these ppl were fledding...how can u shoot non combat..fledding person....the Ethiopians rape, skin, beat up ppl....they lose a battle...they go bak to their basesess n start shelling....

[quote="Transformer"]This is sad

This is why we need to stand along side our Ethiopian allies and let those that continue to use innocent people us human shield know that we won't put up with uncivilized people like them who continue to threaten the TFG behind innocent civilians since they don't want any rule of law and order established in the capital.[/quote]

Like u foking care....this is sad kulahaa...waryaa aren't the Ethiopians the one that are going around...killing people in excution sytle....shooting them at the head in close range..or the back...is u study most of the dead people...they were either shot from the back or the head....women n men...n if u loook closely it appears to be these ppl were fledding...how can u shoot non combat..fledding person....the Ethiopians rape, skin, beat up ppl....they lose a battle...they go bak to their basesess n start shelling....

Most of the civilians are Saleebaan, Shiirkole, Black sea dadka degan waa la yaqaan even Furux who never talked before is talking today

[quote="Voltage"]Most of the civilians are Saleebaan, Shiirkole, Black sea dadka degan waa la yaqaan even Furux who never talked before is talking today[/quote]

So what if they are saleeban...war dadka nimanaayo waa somalia...ee saleeban ku wasye....saleeban...saleeban...sun luuqasye...

[quote="Voltage"]Most of the civilians are Saleebaan, Shiirkole, Black sea dadka degan waa la yaqaan even Furux who never talked before is talking today[/quote]

So what if they are saleeban...war dadka nimanaayo waa somalia...ee saleeban ku wasye....saleeban...saleeban...sun luuqasye...

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[quote="Alluring"].......[/quote]

why did u delete it..i was about to qoute u...u were just dis close to prove to us what kind of clown u are...

[quote="X-unit"][quote="Voltage"]Most of the civilians are Saleebaan, Shiirkole, Black sea dadka degan waa la yaqaan even Furux who never talked before is talking today[/quote]

So what if they are saleeban...war dadka nimanaayo waa somalia...ee saleeban ku wasye....saleeban...saleeban...sun luuqasye...[/quote]


I am laughing because how hard some are trying to put themselves in the equation when they are not part of it. Sxb you don't have to try so hard, Ethiopians are in Beled-Weyne orad halkaas ka dagaal. You AND your people are cowards, stop claiming another man's freedom fight!

I am giving recogntiion to the TRUE freedom fighters, if you want to feel moral consciousness ku faan your own kins fighting against being occupied instant of taking women and food to them 8)

Viva Saleebaan, freedom fighters since where the ethiopians are most fighting means it is where most of the resistance is happening, as long as I am here no CLINGER will claim your mujaahidnimo!

[quote="X-unit"][quote="Alluring"].......[/quote]

why did u delete it..i was about to qoute u...u were just dis close to prove to us what kind of clown u are...[/quote]

You f*cking moron, I wrote it on the wrong threat. If you want comment. So to my abgal/hg post.

Dumbass!

[quote="Voltage"][quote="X-unit"][quote="Voltage"]Most of the civilians are Saleebaan, Shiirkole, Black sea dadka degan waa la yaqaan even Furux who never talked before is talking today[/quote]

So what if they are saleeban...war dadka nimanaayo waa somalia...ee saleeban ku wasye....saleeban...saleeban...sun luuqasye...[/quote]


I am laughing because how hard some are trying to put themselves in the equation when they are not part of it. Sxb you don't have to try so hard, Ethiopians are in Beled-Weyne orad halkaas ka dagaal. You AND your people are cowards, stop claiming another man's freedom fight!

I am giving recogntiion to the TRUE freedom fighters, if you want to feel moral consciousness ku faan your own kins fighting against being occupied instant of taking women and food to them 8)[/quote]

You are the one who was talking about there being no point in fighting 80,000 troops and that when an attack happens, whole neighborhoods are shelled and destroyed

the people who lose in an insurgency are always the civilians

the reason they aren't fighting in Hiiraan is because of this very concept

and then we also share a border with them, and then whats happening in Galbeed

Shahid inshallah!

O you munafiqeen(darod & hartiabgaal),the day when you are slaughterd in big numbers just like Bani Qunaiqa is not far away!