Somali Reports: Fighting in Mogadishu Kills 10Somali news reports say at least 10 people have been killed during fighting between Ethiopian troops backing the government and Islamist insurgents in the capital, Mogadishu.
VOA News
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Witnesses say mortars landed in areas filled with civilians, and that several people also were wounded.
A spokesman for the al-Shabab insurgents said one of their top commanders, Abdullahi Salad Farah, was killed, but that many Ethiopian soldiers died as well...
Islamists, who control the southwestern city of Kismayo, have confiscated trucks carrying food aid. They say the aid discourages farmers from cultivating.
Fighting over the last two years involving Ethiopian-backed government forces and a variety of Islamist groups looking to impose Islamic law has killed thousands of Somalis and displaced at least a million others.
Not this shit again. Rice will put our troops into Somalia but President Obama will let our guys get killed without any air support.... Wait and see if we send in troops it will be a 1993 redux.