Villa Somalia hit by mortars

[Centurion]

By Sahal Abdulle

 

MOGADISHU, March 13 (Reuters) - Mortar rounds crashed into Somalia's presidential palace on Tuesday hours after President Abdullahi Yusuf flew back into the chaotic coastal capital Mogadishu.

 

Yusuf's interim government voted overwhelmingly on Monday to move to the city, despite near-daily insurgent attacks blamed on an Islamist movement defeated two months ago.

 

"We saw several mortars flying over us towards the palace," said one woman who lives nearby and asked not to be named.

 

Residents said government troops and their Ethiopian allies based at the hilltop Villa Somalia compound immediately returned fire with artillery guns. At least three areas in the city were said to have been hit, but details were scarce.

 

In New York the U.N. Security Council condemned the violence in the Horn of Africa country.

 

South Africa's U.N. Ambassador Dumisani Kumalo, the current council president, said it condemned the attacks against an African Union force in Somalia and the leaders of the country's transitional institutions.

 

"The members of the council also express their great concern at the deteriorating humanitarian situation," he said.

 

In other violent incidents in Mogadishu on Tuesday, a remote controlled bomb -- the first known use of such a device in Somalia's insurgency -- destroyed the car of a city official, although it was unclear if he was in the vehicle at the time.

 

Police cordoned off the site of the blast and stopped journalists from viewing the wreckage.

 

Elsewhere, residents said two civilians were killed and three wounded when Ethiopian troops opened fire after their convoy was ambushed by gunmen.

 

Yusuf, who has been out of Mogadishu for about a month, returned to the capital earlier on Tuesday amid tight security.

 

His administration is anxious to impose its authority on the whole of the Horn of Africa country after being confined to the south central town of Baidoa since its creation in 2004.

 

Its Ethiopian allies are to make way for African Union troops who began arriving in Mogadishu last week. More than 1,000 Ugandans have landed, and been attacked at least twice.

 

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[Kamalu Diin]

when are you gone stop slaughtering people.

[General Duke]

^^^Indeed not a single mortar hit Villa Somalia.

They hit the neighbourhood injuring civilians.

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

They did not even allow the Stooge to sleep peacefully for one night, xataa asagoo qarsoodi kusoo galay magaaladda. Poor Stooge.

 

Bil iyo nus uu ka maqnaa Xamar, dhuumashana kusoo galay shaley, xaleyna madaafiicdaas la seexan waaye. Haye, mar labaad muu carari doonaa?

 

Hakaa saarto, Adisababa iska aad, meeshaas ayaa safe iyo well kuu eh, where the Master lives, too.

[rudy-Diiriye]

word is that yeey was screaming ar bilo ar bilo ee igu soo tuureen!! waxaa la dhahey qarsho aa madax kaga dacadey oo marka diig baa ka so dhaatay. i guess he brought his six pack!!

 

actually, the bigger damage was done by a road side boomb that killed about a dozen of ethio soldiers.

[Abwaan]

Originally posted by General Duke:

^^^Indeed not a single mortar hit Villa Somalia.

They hit the neighbourhood injuring civilians.

They might not have hit it but don't be excited yet cause while this is being fired at the compound, nabadi ma jirto.

 

And of course dadka shibilka ahna dhibaato ayaa ka soo gaareysa Ilaahay ha u gargaaree.

 

He was only there for hours and this is what happens. Isn't that enough to wake you up to face the reallity before regret?

 

Who knows what is going to happen in the coming days? maybe more shelling. And if only you knew how shocking this is....you think in meeshaan yaanyadii bisha July spanish people isla dhici jireen in la isku tuurayo? and don't start saying military man again, cause military men have naf and who knows C/llaahi kulaylka ay ku hayso arrintaani. He even couldn't hide how scary this was and he had to share it with his audience in his london speech by repeating it and asking them if they knew what type of shell it was and how damaging it is. And I guess you heard the mines that are burried and two of them were used yesterday. Are helicopters going to take these puppets around the city? let us see.

 

Xabbaaddaan Geeddi laba jeer bay sigatay waa ogtahay xanuunka car ha soo noqoto.

 

Let me tell you what ameey roontahay inaan runta ka hadalnaa sheekadaan qiirada la iska dhaafaa oo dhiigga Soomaali la badbaadiyaa.

 

 

no 1 Let Amxaaro get out of SOMALIA asap and I mean ASAP.

 

no 2 Shir Soomaaliyeed oo xalaal ah la qabtaa, not midka jeesjeeska ah ee 16ka Abriil Amxaarada iyo kooxdeedu ku dhawaaqday. Ciidammada Soomaaliyeedna lagu kala xareeyaa xeryo cayiman.

 

haddii labadaas ay dhici waayaan, wallee inaan waddan bullet proof lagu xukumin