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Ethiopian Troops Leave Security In Mogadishu to City's Residents
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Jan 03, 2007 04:56pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Wednesday, January 3, 2007 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Disarmament Order Is Roundly Ignored
By Stephanie McCrummen
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, January 3, 2007; Page A14
MOGADISHU, Somalia, Jan. 2 -- The sandy road from airstrip K-50 is littered with the remnants of roadblocks, heaps of pushed-aside stones left over from when warlords balkanized this coastal capital, and rusted metal gates where Islamic militias took charge from the warlords.
On Tuesday, clusters of Ethiopian troops were here and there on the road into the city, leaning against gray crumbling walls or passing in trucks along wasted yellow cornfields still sopping from recent floods.
Within the city's borders, the Ethiopian troops who chased out the country's Islamic Courts movement on behalf of Somalia's weak transitional government were hardly visible.
Six days after the transitional government took hold, very little security was evident beyond that which Somalis have grown accustomed to providing for themselves: roving pickup trucks filled with armed teenagers, and AK-47-toting militiamen who guard the city block by block, and clan by clan. |
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