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Somalia: Dinsoor is now under our control-Islamists.
Saturday Dec. 02, 2006
3:30 PM
By Sh.M.Network
Dinsoor district, 130 km away from southwest of Baidoa, the current seat for the Somali transitional government, has fallen to Islamic Courts fighters. It is the second town seized by Islamists from the government since it moved to Baido, which is 250 km southwest of the capital Mogadishu.The Islamic Courts have also captured all villages in the district, without resistance.
Witnesses in Dinsoor have said they had seen large number Islamic Courts heavily armed fighters accompanied by trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns and artillery in the district, making the area their stronghold.
The Union of Islamic Courts information chair, Abdirahin Ali Mudey, has revealed in a press conference held at Islamic Courts headquarter in Mogadishu that Dinsoor was under its control, warning that any attempt to attack the town would spark an all out-war.
Mudey said that Ethiopia was to blame for the car bombings in Baidoa Thursday in which at least eight persons have died. “We have launched investigations in which we found out that the explosives were laden in the minibus, while passing on the edge of Bur Hakaba by Ethiopian troops checkpoint. The Ethiopian government was aiming to seize all Somalia in making the world see Islamic Courts as a terrorist organization,” he said.
Unconfirmed reports indicate that Ethiopian forces based in transitional government's temporary headquarter, Baidoa, headed for Dinsoor where Islamists have captured.
Friday the US ambassador to United Nations Jon Bolton passed draft resolution to the Security Council to assess and approve that peacekeeping forces from East Africa states be deployed in Somalia to protect the weak government and make it functional in Somalia. The draft excludes military troops from frontline states like Ethiopia, to go in Somalia.
Somalia has had no government since 1991 when warlords toppled former president Siad Barre.
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