War Returns To Somalia

CHUQ · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:40 am Post subject: War Returns To Somalia

Here we go again! Another US backed war without end.

Some of the heaviest fighting in months has broken out between Ethiopian forces and local insurgents in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.

Residents said that at least 10 people had been killed amid shell and machine-gun fire as the Ethiopian forces launched an offensive.

Somalia has seen a surge in violence since Ethiopian-backed government troops ousted Islamists last December.

Hundreds of civilians have been killed in the fighting.

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Tumbleweed · Black Ops Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 3687 votes: 3

That conflict has no end in sight, and it's the civilians that seem to take the heaviest casualties.
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CHUQ · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:47 am Post subject:

the PM has resigned and now the jockeying for power will ensue.

NAIROBI, KENYA -- Somalia's beleaguered prime minister, Ali Mohammed Gedi, resigned Monday after weeks of mounting tensions inside the Horn of Africa country's transitional government and a power struggle with the president.

Gedi's departure could open the door for a political breakthrough among Somalia's warring clans, but some experts said it might also lead to an unraveling of the fragile U.N.-recognized government.

A somber Gedi announced his decision before a hastily convened session of parliament Monday in the city of Baidoa. During his three-year tenure, Gedi survived numerous assassination attempts and a no-confidence vote by parliament, where critics have vowed in recent weeks to unseat him.

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CHUQ · Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 3:59 am Post subject:

I find this extremely amusing.....this is a war that was totally supported by the Bush Admin and it is going to sh*t in a hurry. Yet another coup for Bush...when will people realize that Bush was for a war any war when he came to power?

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday urged the leaders of some of Africa's most unstable states to restore security and shore up faltering peace deals, but she didn't seek or win assurances from their foes to do likewise.

In a hectic series of meetings in the Ethiopian capital, Miss Rice tried to calm the volatile Great Lakes region, ease rising tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea and violence in Somalia, cool the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region and salvage a shaky north-south Sudanese peace deal.

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