Hirrale defeat confirmed by AFP

[Uthman1]

Here is the neutral source everyone's been looking for.

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Mogadishu - Five people were killed on Sunday when fighters with Somalia's powerful Islamist movement clashed with government-allied militia amid rising fears of all-out war.

 

As both sides girded for battles near the weak government's temporary seat of Baidoa, fighting rocked the town of Buale for about two hours with Islamists driving local militiamen out, witnesses said.

 

A day after government forces, allegedly backed by Ethiopian troops, took Burhakaba, just southeast of Baidoa, fighting erupted in Buale, north of the key port of Kismayo that the Islamists seized last month, they told reporters.

 

Witnesses and Islamist commanders in Buale, about 80km from Kismayo, said Muslim gunmen had driven from the town members of the Juba Valley Alliance (JVA) who fled north after gun battles.

 

"We have taken all of their armed vehicles after fierce clashes with the JVA in Buale," said Ibrahim Hassan Shukri, a commander with the Supreme Islamic Council of Somalia. "One of our Mujahedeen was killed in the fighting."

 

"We took eight battlewagons from the JVA," said another Islamist commander Sheikh Yakubu Ali, referring to machine-gun mounted pick-ups also called "technicals". "The area is under the control of the Islamic courts."

 

JVA commander Deeq Abbi said his fighters had withdrawn after the fighting in Buale in which four of his men were killed.

 

"We were attacked by the Islamic courts militia," he told reporters by satellite phone. "They took two vehicles from us and killed four of our fighters. We have retreated from Buale."

 

The JVA is led by the defence minister in Somalia's transitional government, which is facing a serious challenge from the Islamists, who seized Mogadishu in June from warlords and now control most of southern and central Somalia.

 

It held Kismayo, about 500km south of Mogadishu, until September 24 when its forces fled ahead of a feared push on the town by advancing Islamists, but has since vowed to retake it.

 

The fighting in Buale came as tension gripped Burhakaba, about 60km south-east of Baidoa, which was occupied on Saturday after heavy fighting between government forces and an Islamist-allied militia.

 

Residents said hundreds of villagers were fleeing the town in anticipation of new violence.

 

"The tension is too high and everybody is expecting war," said local elder Osman Ibrahim Aden. "People have started fleeing their villages to escape."

 

The new clashes come as the Islamists and the government are under increasing pressure to take part in a third round of Arab League-mediated peace talks in Khartoum set to begin on October 30.

 

Somalia has been without a functioning central administration since 1991 and the government, formed in neighbouring Kenya in 2004, has been wracked by in-fighting and unable to assert control over much of the country. - Sapa-AFP

[QabiilDiid]

Bare Hiiraale must be captured dead or alive. Why the UIC always let the warlords go? If warlords are not ceased, they will still keep barking in some dark alleys.

Good news...ciid mubaarka to all....

[Allamagan]

^^^ Degdega ma fiicna, celebrating naivety!. Wax hubso adeer

[Gabbal]

This is the same website that reported of a fictional clash in Jilib a week ago and over 20 technicals falling into the hands of the ICU.

 

No such even took place and your lack of knowledge about international journalism shows when you called the AFP "neutral". AFP, Reuters, AP, etc are all what we would term "war kasoo xigasho".

 

Btw expect the AP to report an event prior to Reuters which would always report an event prior to AFP.

[QabiilDiid]

^^^ no doubt in my mind that the will of the Somali people will prevail. Labo borobogaan haddii ay sinaadaan ka kitaabka haysta ayaa run u dhow; mirqaankuna ka fog yahay...

[Gabbal]

Try it now sxb.

 

Originally posted by Nayruus:

^^^ no doubt in my mind that the will of the Somali people will prevail. Labo borobogaan haddii ay sinaadaan ka kitaabka haysta ayaa run u dhow; mirqaankuna ka fog yahay...

You don't know what the will of the "Somali people" is. Somali people is not a singular entity and obviously all the people engaged in hostilities are "Somali people". Interesting how you came back this day of all days after an indefinte length of absence (if you were). Ma waxa Muraad keenay iyaa aadna ku keenay?

[Allamagan]

Hornoow, not enought yet sxb. Weli way soo geli la dahay! masax dhowrkoo bal

[Gabbal]

^Kan kale igu taabo.

[QabiilDiid]

^^^man cool it down. i do not kwon where this arguement will take you. Are u the authority on ascertaining what other know about "the collective will of the poeple". i got u. u got new knowldge u gleaned from streets of uncle sam. The latest news though that uncle hiiraale ran in women's fabric and will soon join the rolls of the unemployed collecting pension from his ethiopen masters just like what qanyaare is dong in baidhabo. take it easy. it ciid. man.

[Allamagan]

^^^ Taarikkhda been ha ka sheegin adeer. Hiraale was/is never on ethiopian's bank roll like your uncles . Durba been aad ku afureysaa miyaa maalinta ciida Nayrusow.