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Somalia Jihad Update. "Somali town overrun by Islamists," from the BBC:
Somalia, 02/25 - Somali Islamists seized control of a southern town on Sunday, killing nine government troops. The rebels, armed with rocket launchers and machine guns, voluntarily retreated after three hours, said a police officer in Dinsoor, Mohamed Ahmadey.
He said the town had been under "no-one's control" since the incident, in which eight soldiers were wounded.
For more than a year, government forces backed by Ethiopian troops have struggled to assert control in Somalia.
The capital, Mogadishu, has often been the focus of the fighting between the government forces and the Islamists they ousted from power.
But the incident on Sunday shows the Islamists are increasing their attacks outside Mogadishu, says the BBC`s Mohamed Olad Hassan in Somalia.
A spokesman for the Islamists' Shahab youth wing, Sheikh Muktar Ali Robow, told local radio that he was leading the rebel unit that seized the town.
"Our troops moved into the town to dismiss bandits under the cloak of Somalia`s honourable army. We defeated those, burned three of their military vehicles and seized two others,” he said.
“We spoke to the town's residents in public and told them that we were not in a position to harm any one and ordered them to maintain their ordinary activities, and later withdrew from the town,” he said.
Residents of the town confirmed the incident, but there has been no comment yet from any senior government official.
Posted by Marisol at February 26, 2008 12:11 AM
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Man, that is some kind of hellaysushly strong inner spiritual struggle these poor souls are a strugglin' with! And it appears that its some of Somalias most precious youths that are strugglin' the most. Poor devils.
I had some strong 'inner struggles' as a teenager myself, but the worst I did was have a party at our house when my parents went on a trip.
Can you imagine what would have happened if I had taken my dads shotgun downtown to our little farm country community and ordered them nice folks there to 'maintain their ordinary activities'?
60 some years, ago my dad and his fellows thought they had rid the world of that horrendous death cult once and for all.----History repeats,and repeats, and repeats, does it not?
It seems like their 'struggle' gets worse and worse every day.
They could just quit strugglin' and go home and live in peace like the rest of us!
Posted by: guide inside![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/nav-commenters.gif)
at February 26, 2008 1:32 AM
As a Somali I am very alarmed by this development. The country does not need that crap, and how tragic that there's no way Somalis could intellectually and culturally combat those inner spiritual strugglers.
at February 26, 2008 4:39 AM
Interesting that the beeb has used the word "Islamist".
Of course the text reverts to the bland term "rebel".
Natural, no doubt, when trying to describe the soldiers of an international imperialist army.
Sure, rebels ...
... in a principled uprising against your right to live.
Posted by: joeblough at February 26, 2008 5:20 AM
"how tragic that there's no way Somalis could intellectually and culturally combat those inner spiritual strugglers"
by ibrahimX
They're going to have to find a way, one that doesn't require outsiders to come in and do their fighting for them. As long as Muslims believe they can't fight one another then the weak will perish. Somalis who resist fighting because the Islamists are fellow Muslims had better prepare to live under their rule. No one from the outside should be expected to lend them a hand.
Posted by: PMK at February 26, 2008 8:03 AM
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