From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Mon Aug 11 2008 - 12:57:26 EDT
Islamists blow up Ethiopian army vehicle-witnesses
Monday 11 August 2008, Mareeg Online
An explosion occurred near Mogadishu has struck an Ethiopian troops army
vehicle at Sinka Dhera area outside Somali capital on Monday morning
eyewitnesses said.
Witness Mohamed Hassan says he saw a blown-up vehicle laying the
wayside, but fled the scene after Ethiopian troops began opening
additional fire.
The spokesman of the Islamic courts union has claimed that his group was
behind that attack.
He added that more than 25 Ethiopian troops died in the blast.
Sacdiya Hussein, a local woman at the site of the explosion, said, "It
looked very ugly, there was blood everywhere."
Islamic insurgents have carried out almost daily attacks on government
troops and their Ethiopian allies in the capital since they were driven
from Mogadishu in December 2006.
In the past few months, fighters linked to the Islamic Courts Union have
begun staging hit and run raids on outlying towns.
Impoverished Somalia has not had a government since warlords overthrew
dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991 and then turned their clan-based
militias on each other.
By: Abdi Guled
Email: naasir0513@hotmail.com
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