Time For ICU To Put Up Or Shut Up!
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:05 pm
Fresh Ethiopian troops enter SomaliaÂ’s Ballanballe area
Tue. December 19, 2006 08:30 am.
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Bonny Apunyu
(SomaliNet) A new group of Ethiopian troops have occupied Ballanballe in Galgaudu province, central Somalia, officials have said. The Ethiopian troops are said to have moved in the area along with number armored vehicles.
Witnesses said they saw 18 battlewagons and a large number of Ethiopian troops coming to Ballanballe to fortify Ethiopian troops that were already in the district.
The entry of Ethiopian troops in Somalia comes just a day after an Islamic Court dubbed Imamu Shafici was set up in Galgadud provincial district of Abudwaq.
Meanwhile, the consultative leader of Imamu Shafici Islamic Court in Abudwaq, Abdirisak Mohammed Warsme Fiqi, called on the people to be ready for a jihad war with Ethiopia and Ethiopian troops in the region.
The new arrived Ethiopian troops were patrolling in and around Ballanballe, searching cars. Ethiopian military maneuver was also reported in the Ethiopian Somali administered region of Ogaden, eye witnesses added.
Last week Islamic Courts headquartered in the Somali capital Mogadishu gave the Ethiopian troops seven days to withdraw its troops from Somalia or that it would face an Islamic jihad war. An ultimatum will last Tuesday (today).
Ethiopian troops that were inside Hiran province, central Somali, reportedly went back to Ethiopian border on Monday.
The troops were accompanied by militias loyal to former defeated warlords Mohammed Dhaere who controlled Jawhar town, 90 km (55 miles) south of the capital Mogadishu and Dabageed who controlled Hiran province.
The Ethiopian military movement came as hours are left for Islamic Courts to decide whether they would launch a holy war on the Ethiopian troops in the country.
Somalia's central government collapsed in 1991 when warlords ousted dictator Mohammed Siad Barre.
Tue. December 19, 2006 08:30 am.
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Bonny Apunyu
(SomaliNet) A new group of Ethiopian troops have occupied Ballanballe in Galgaudu province, central Somalia, officials have said. The Ethiopian troops are said to have moved in the area along with number armored vehicles.
Witnesses said they saw 18 battlewagons and a large number of Ethiopian troops coming to Ballanballe to fortify Ethiopian troops that were already in the district.
The entry of Ethiopian troops in Somalia comes just a day after an Islamic Court dubbed Imamu Shafici was set up in Galgadud provincial district of Abudwaq.
Meanwhile, the consultative leader of Imamu Shafici Islamic Court in Abudwaq, Abdirisak Mohammed Warsme Fiqi, called on the people to be ready for a jihad war with Ethiopia and Ethiopian troops in the region.
The new arrived Ethiopian troops were patrolling in and around Ballanballe, searching cars. Ethiopian military maneuver was also reported in the Ethiopian Somali administered region of Ogaden, eye witnesses added.
Last week Islamic Courts headquartered in the Somali capital Mogadishu gave the Ethiopian troops seven days to withdraw its troops from Somalia or that it would face an Islamic jihad war. An ultimatum will last Tuesday (today).
Ethiopian troops that were inside Hiran province, central Somali, reportedly went back to Ethiopian border on Monday.
The troops were accompanied by militias loyal to former defeated warlords Mohammed Dhaere who controlled Jawhar town, 90 km (55 miles) south of the capital Mogadishu and Dabageed who controlled Hiran province.
The Ethiopian military movement came as hours are left for Islamic Courts to decide whether they would launch a holy war on the Ethiopian troops in the country.
Somalia's central government collapsed in 1991 when warlords ousted dictator Mohammed Siad Barre.
