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Islamists Under Fire On Ethiopian Military Base in Capital


Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)


NEWS
24 June 2008
Posted to the web 24 June 2008

By Abdinasir Mohamed Guled


Fighting between Islamist-led fighters and allied Somali-Ethiopian troops has
erupted in Mogadishu after Armed with propelled grenades and machine guns
Alshabab Islamic fighters have assaulted on Ethiopian troop's army pedestals
known as Aslubta and small police station nearby on the remote northern
Mogadishu Tuesday residents said.

Stray bullets from crossfire killed unknown figure of the neighboring civilians
in a separate incident about the same time the Islamists suddenly attacked at
Somali military base resident Fatuma Hussein said a mortar landed on her
neighbor's house in the vicinity of the Battled area.



She had no further details on the incident.

The Ethiopian troops have responded with mortars when Alshabab fighters closed
on their army base.

The causalities from those mortar shelling remains unknown.

Somalia's government and members of an exiled opposition group signed a
U.N.-mediated ceasefire in Djibouti earlier this month, but some Islamist
leaders and Alshabab on the ground rejected the pact.

They say they will not talk until thousands of Ethiopian troops backing
President Abdullahi Yusuf's government leave the Horn of Africa nation. Somalia
has been in near-perpetual conflict since the 1991 toppling of a military
dictator.


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