Tigrays can't stand the heat in Mogadish,retreats to their b
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 5:20 pm
they were attacked 24/7 by the mujaahedeen,now they went back to their bases in order to limit the heavy losses,only in November they lost hundreds,and more than thousnad injured..They will not be safe in the bases,,the property of the somali peole..they will be morted there heavily,thats the new Mogadishu rain 
Saturday, December 08, 2007
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Masked fighters occupied a key business district and residential neighborhood in the Somali capital Saturday, saying they had forced Ethiopian troops to withdraw and urging locals to return home.
Some 100,000 people have fled the 20-square-kilometer (8-square-mile) residential area surrounding Sodonka Road, a busy business area in southern Mogadishu, amid fighting in the last month between Islamic insurgents and Ethiopian troops supporting Somalia's shaky, transitional government.
The Ethiopians gave no reason for their departure Saturday, though they had been under pressure from rights groups to vacate civilian houses.
"We are the ones who forced the Ethiopians to withdraw from the residential areas," one fighter told The Associated Press, giving his name only as Ahmed for fear of reprisals.
Another said the fighters were not insurgents or "Shabab," referring to the armed wing of an Islamic Courts group that briefly took power in parts of Somalia last year. "We are mujahedeen," he told journalists at a hastily assembled news conference, also refusing to give
Saturday, December 08, 2007
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Masked fighters occupied a key business district and residential neighborhood in the Somali capital Saturday, saying they had forced Ethiopian troops to withdraw and urging locals to return home.
Some 100,000 people have fled the 20-square-kilometer (8-square-mile) residential area surrounding Sodonka Road, a busy business area in southern Mogadishu, amid fighting in the last month between Islamic insurgents and Ethiopian troops supporting Somalia's shaky, transitional government.
The Ethiopians gave no reason for their departure Saturday, though they had been under pressure from rights groups to vacate civilian houses.
"We are the ones who forced the Ethiopians to withdraw from the residential areas," one fighter told The Associated Press, giving his name only as Ahmed for fear of reprisals.
Another said the fighters were not insurgents or "Shabab," referring to the armed wing of an Islamic Courts group that briefly took power in parts of Somalia last year. "We are mujahedeen," he told journalists at a hastily assembled news conference, also refusing to give