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Somali forces regain Mogadishu
Staff and agencies
Thursday December 28, 2006
Guardian Unlimited
Somali militiamen hold weapons they looted after Islamists fled Mogadishu. Photograph: Shabelle Media/Reuters
Somali government troops entered Mogadishu unopposed today, hours after an Islamist movement that tried to establish a government based on Sharia law abandoned the capital.
The retreat of Somalia Council of Islamic Courts (SCIC) fighters was followed by
ng by clan militiamen, a reminder of the chaos that once ruled Mogadishu. One resident said three men and a woman had been killed in the
ng. Gunfire could he heard in many parts of the city.
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"We are in Mogadishu," the Somali prime minister, Mohamed Ali Gedi, said after meeting with clan leaders to discuss the handover of the city. "We are coordinating our forces to take control of Mogadishu."
Mr Gedi was welcomed to the town of Afgoye by dozens of traditional leaders from Mogadishu and hundreds of government and Ethiopian troops who have been fighting for more than a week against the SCIC that had at one point taken over most of southern Somalia.
The Ethiopian prime minister, Meles Zenawi, vowed to inflict total defeat on the SCIC, saying that he hoped the fighting would be over "in days, if not in a few weeks".
"Forces of the transitional federal government and Ethiopia are on the outskirts of Mogadishu now," he told reporters in Addis Ababa. "We are discussing what we need to do to make sure Mogadishu does not descend into chaos. We will not let Mogadishu burn."
However, it is Mogadishu's clan leaders who have the greatest influence over whether order or lawlessness follows the SCIC retreat.
The Somali president, Abdullahi Yusuf, said in a statement that his troops were not a threat to the people of Mogadishu.
"The government is committed to solving every problem that may face Somalia through dialogue and peaceful ways," the statement said.
Sheik Sharif Ahmed, the executive SCIC leader, told al-Jazeera television that he ordered his forces out of Mogadishu, which they have occupied since June, to avoid bloodshed in the capital. Residents living south of Mogadishu said they saw convoys of Islamist fighters driving south towards the port city of Kismayo.
"I have seen that the Islamists are defeated. I'm going to rejoin my clan," said Mohamed Barre Sidow. "I was forced to join the Islamic courts by my clan, so now I will return to my clan and they will decide my fate, whether I join the government or not."
Yusuf Ibrahim, an Islamist gunman until today, said around 3,000 hardcore followers decided to continue fighting against the government and Ethiopian troops and had left for Kismayo.
Other witnesses reported seeing a large number of foreign fighters in the convoys heading south. There were suggestions they were headed for a SCIC base at the southern tip of Somalia called Ras Chiamboni.
Islamist movement leaders had called on foreign Muslims to join their "holy war" against Ethiopia, a predominantly Christian nation. Hundreds were believed to have answered the call, according to reports.
Salad Gabayre, a clan militia commander in the Sinai district, said elders were calling for young men to form militias to protect their neighbourhoods.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said hospitals and other medical facilities in southern and central Somalia had admitted more than 800 wounded people in recent days.
"The ICRC is extremely concerned about civilians caught up in the fighting, wounded people and people detained in connection with the fighting," said Pascal Hundt, the head of the ICRC's Somalia delegation. The SCIC captured Mogadishu in June and went on to take much of southern Somalia, often without fighting. Its fortunes started to reverse on Christmas Eve, when Ethiopia sent reinforcements across the border to help the internationally recognised government.
Somalia's complex clan system has been the basis of politics and identity for centuries. But due to clan fighting, the country has not had an effective government since the civil war of the 1990s. Two years ago, the United Nations helped set up the interim government. It has been unable to assert much authority, in part because it has been weakened by clan rivalries.
The competition for control of Mogadishu since 1991 has involved the Abgal and Habr Gadir clans, who joined forces earlier this year to support the Islamic Courts. If Abgal elders switch allegiance to the government, probably in return for key government posts, urban warfare between the Abgal and Habr Gadir clans is likely to resume.
The conflict has caused concern among western powers, including the United States, which has accused the Islamists of harbouring al-Qaida terrorists.
Last night, the UN Security Council failed for a second day to agree on a statement calling for an immediate ceasefire in Somalia.
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| اخبار متفرقة | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-27-06, 11:01 AM |
| Re: اخبار متفرقة | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-27-06, 11:02 AM |
| Re: اخبار متفرقة | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-27-06, 11:04 AM |
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| Re: اخبار متفرقة | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-27-06, 11:08 AM |
| Re: اخبار متفرقة | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-27-06, 11:11 AM |
| Re: اخبار متفرقة | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-27-06, 11:27 AM |
| Re: اخبار متفرقة | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-27-06, 11:29 AM |
| Re: اخبار متفرقة | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-27-06, 11:46 AM |
| Re: اخبار متفرقة | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-27-06, 10:00 PM |
| Re: اخبار متفرقة | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-27-06, 10:07 PM |
| Re: اخبار متفرقة | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-27-06, 10:12 PM |
| Re: اخبار متفرقة | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-27-06, 10:15 PM |
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| Re: اخبار متفرقة | Mustafa Mahmoud | 12-29-06, 09:58 AM |
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