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Heavy fighting in kismayo city

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Islamist factions clash in Somali portOctober 1, 2009 - 11:04PM
Rival Islamist groups battled on Thursday for control of the Somali port of Kismayo, shattering a key alliance in the insurgency and sending thousands fleeing the city.

At least 10 poeple were killed in heavy fighting in the key southern port, sources said, with both the al Qaeda-inspired Shebab and its Hezb al-Islam foes claiming the upper hand after it ended.

The Shebab launched an offensive on Hezb al-Islam positions at dawn, residents said.

Humanitarian sources and a Shebab spokesman put the number of dead between 10 and 12 and estimated another 50 were wounded.

The city, about 300 kilometres south of Mogadishu, was wrested from government forces in August and had been an Islamist bastion ever since but relations between the two groups soured in recent weeks.

The two factions had agreed to share power in Kismayo, with each governing for six months alternatively, but clan politics seeped in and the rotation failed when the Shebab refused to relinquish the administration.

Firmly under Islamist control for more than year, Kismayo had been relatively quiet until Thursday.

"We were attacked by our brothers with no reason," local Hezb al-Islam spokesman Sheikh Ismail Haji Adow told reporters.

"They (the Shebab) launched their offensive on several fronts very early this morning. The fighting is very intense but we are holding up," he said.

"Hundreds of families are fleeing the city," he added.

Officials from both groups speaking on local radio stations when the fighting eased both claimed they would prevail.
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SOMALIA: Civilians flee fighting in Kismayo

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The displaced in Jamame: fleeing People are fleeing Kismayo and head north, as far as Jamame, 80km away (file photo)
NAIROBI, 1 October 2009 (IRIN) - Heavy fighting between two Islamic groups in Somalia's port city of Kismayo erupted on 1 October, with dozens killed and hundreds of families displaced, local sources told IRIN.

"The fighting started at around 7am local time, with exchanges of heavy weapons fire by the two sides,” Abdulkadir Ali, a resident, said.

Tension had been building between Al-Shabab and Hisbul-Islam over who should administer the city. It boiled over following a decision by Al-Shabab to ignore an earlier agreement that control of the city would rotate between them.

Ali said the fighting was initially concentrated in the north and northeastern neighbourhoods but was spreading across the city. Areas in the west of the city, such as Alanley and Via Afmadow, were now battle zones.

“Hundred of families, including previously displaced people, are fleeing as we speak,” Ali said.

Mahamud Abaysane, a displaced person, told IRIN many residents had left the city on 30 September. “They [Al-Shabab] were on the radio telling people to leave and go to safer areas. Thousands heeded that message and left,” Abaysane said.

He said most were fleeing north of Kismayo as far as Jamame (80km) and Jilib (120km). Others were moving from one neighbourhood to the next “hoping to find a safer place”.

Abaysane, who escaped fighting in Mogadishu, said people like him were being displaced for the third or fourth time. “We keep running but then it [the fighting] catches up with us.”

A hospital source, who requested anonymity, told IRIN that so far they were receiving civilians only. “The two sides are taking their injured to their own clinics.”

He said at least 30 injured civilians had been admitted to the hospital but many more could not make it because of the fighting.

He said the hospital was getting reports of high casualties on both sides. "We will only know the real casualty figures after the fighting stops," he added.

Ali said: “I saw a truck being loaded with the dead and the injured. Both sides are using snipers; they are using tall buildings and shooting at anything that moves.”


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He said many people like him, who had not left the city, were stuck in their homes. “We are literally prisoners in our homes. You open the gate and they shoot you.”

Kismayo is 500km south of the capital, Mogadishu, and has been suffering from persistent insecurity, changing hands following fighting on numerous occasions.

"We have been expecting this [fighting] for the last few days but you always hope it will not come," Abaysane said.

Fighting was reported to have died down later in the day, after Hisbul-Islam forces were pushed back.

"It seems that Al-Shabab has the upper hand. They are now in control of most of the city," said a business source.

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It`s over dude, Xisbul Islam got their azz handed to them waa laga saray magaalada waxay marayan Jiliib.
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Where is milky boy canoole and Axmed dhako madoobee :lol: :lol:
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Emperor Kismayo maxa ka gaalay :?: Hargeisa ka sheekey :up:
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Queen_Arawello wrote:Emperor Kismayo maxa ka gaalay :?: Hargeisa ka sheekey :up:

Kismayo aniga ka madax ah anigu kutubtaydii siita :lol:
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The_Emperior5 wrote:
Queen_Arawello wrote:Emperor Kismayo maxa ka gaalay :?: Hargeisa ka sheekey :up:

Kismayo aniga ka madax ah anigu kutubtaydii siita :lol:
You're role is a symbolic one :up:
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The_Emperior5 wrote:
Queen_Arawello wrote:Emperor Kismayo maxa ka gaalay :?: Hargeisa ka sheekey :up:

Kismayo aniga ka madax ah anigu kutubtaydii siita :lol:
Dude your not a shidh in Kismayo never were never gonna be. This is a internal feud and this Zeylici guy can be shot on the spot and no one will ask who did it the same can be said about Ina Godane, they are just figures no one really gives a crap about them.....meeshan raag baa isku hayo oo militia isku so kaxaystay adigana waxad ka hadleysa labo niman la hagayo oo la rabo inay Hargeisa iyo Berbera ay isku qarxiyana maskaxda ka shaqeysii ninyahow.
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Re: Heavy fighting in kismayo city

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Queen_Arawello wrote:Emperor Kismayo maxa ka gaalay :?: Hargeisa ka sheekey :up:
adna ka sheekee dhagaxbuur :lol:

seriously though what is this infatuation with kismayo
it must be a hella of a place if everybody is talking about it
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Xamud. wrote:
The_Emperior5 wrote:
Queen_Arawello wrote:Emperor Kismayo maxa ka gaalay :?: Hargeisa ka sheekey :up:

Kismayo aniga ka madax ah anigu kutubtaydii siita :lol:
Dude your not a shidh in Kismayo never were never gonna be. This is a internal feud and this Zeylici guy can be shot on the spot and no one will ask who did it the same can be said about Ina Godane, they are just figures no one really gives a crap about them.....meeshan raag baa isku hayo oo militia isku so kaxaystay adigana waxad ka hadleysa labo niman la hagayo oo la rabo inay Hargeisa iyo Berbera ay isku qarxiyana maskaxda ka shaqeysii ninyahow.

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Dude your not a shidh in Kismayo never were never gonna be. This is a internal feud and this Zeylici guy can be shot on the spot and no one will ask who did it the same can be said about Ina Godane, they are just figures no one really gives a crap about them.....meeshan raag baa isku hayo oo militia isku so kaxaystay adigana waxad ka hadleysa labo niman la hagayo oo la rabo inay Hargeisa iyo Berbera ay isku qarxiyana maskaxda ka shaqeysii ninyahow.
xamud yare xiligii clan factions meesha walaga taggay Kismayo ama somalia emir ba ka taliya ama shabaab
Xiligi reer hebbel baanu nahay ogaden baanu nahay merexaan baanu nahay laga tagg meesha kooxa islamiyin ba isku haya adigu kee baad raacsantahay :lol: Suaashu wa taa Meesha ma jirto clan faction iyo reer hebbel
meesh islamyin ba ka taliya la qaad :mrgreen:
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Re: Heavy fighting in kismayo city

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abdikarim86 wrote:
Queen_Arawello wrote:Emperor Kismayo maxa ka gaalay :?: Hargeisa ka sheekey :up:
adna ka sheekee dhagaxbuur :lol:

seriously though what is this infatuation with kismayo
it must be a hella of a place if everybody is talking about it

Let me tell you abdikarim xassan xabashi wants to use Kismayo for his own clan so that inu hub Kala so daggo ku xoreyoo tolkiis Ethiopia
Marexaanku they used to rule it for a few years kismayo under barre hiiraale laakin mamuul way dhisii karii wayeen. And they want to get back in kismayo they dont really care who wins shabaab or xisbal xasuuq.
Merexaan shabaab are in shabaab to fight turki oo xisbal islam tageera , laakin they want in ay labbada kooxood isku madhan so that inay iyaku fursad uu hellaan inay ku so noqdaan kismayo
but shabaab knows all of that dhakhasay magaaladii uga saarren xisbal islam xukun dag dag ah na ku rogeen :mrgreen:
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Re: Heavy fighting in kismayo city

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abdikarim86 wrote:
Queen_Arawello wrote:Emperor Kismayo maxa ka gaalay :?: Hargeisa ka sheekey :up:
adna ka sheekee dhagaxbuur :lol:
:lol: Jubaland is my property :mrgreen:

Btw Kismayo is the Jerusalem of Africa :up:
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As I have heard and been told the Shabaab in Kismayo are mixed and they hail from all kind of tribes, although Marexaanku Alshabaab beey ku wada jiraan oo Ras kamboni/Xisbul Islam kuma jiraan sidaan maqlay.

Anigu awal baan sheegay Alshabab inay adkanayan, although I did have my doubts for a min....Ahmed Madoobe came out of nowhere and he seemed like a warriors warrior.
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Re: Heavy fighting in kismayo city

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Emperior really and truly supports Zaylici and is happy an Isaaq rules Kismaayo in the name of Islam. Don't look at his anti-extremism talk, waa nin farax san. :lol:
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