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Violence in Somalia Continues
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Mar 31, 2007 12:58pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Saturday, March 31, 2007 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
Published: March 31, 2007
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 30 — Missile-toting Somali rebels plucked an Ethiopian helicopter gunship out of the sky on Friday, apparently killing the crew and sending a fireball of a signal that they are as determined — and dangerous — as ever.
Residents said bands of insurgents then swept into the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, and fired rocket-propelled grenades at Ethiopian troops, who invaded Somalia in December as part of a plan to back up the country’s weak transitional government. That plan seems to be running into serious difficulties.
Somali hospital officials said the intense urban combat, which began last week, had claimed dozens of lives. The International Committee of the Red Cross called it Mogadishu’s “worst fighting in more than 15 years.”
It showed no signs of letting up Friday. Frenzied mobs dragged the bodies of Ethiopian soldiers through the streets as hundreds of young insurgents massed in the center of town.
“We are warriors,” Abdullahi Hassan Mumin, 25, said as he stood in a crowded intersection with a rocket launcher on his shoulder. |
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