Ethiopia attacks Somali airports

Ethiopian jets have bombed two airports in Somalia in a widening operation against an Islamic militia group.
Jets hit the international airport in the capital, Mogadishu, and another at Balidogle, in the south of the country.
The Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) has been fighting Somalia's weak interim government and its Ethiopian backers.
Ethiopia's prime minister has said his country is "at war" with the Islamists, and the Red Cross has urged all parties to protect civilians from harm.
Thousands of Somalis have fled the escalating violence, and the Red Cross says the fighting is straining an already weak support system in the country.
Red Cross official Pedram Yazdi told the BBC that the organisation was treating 445 people injured during the fighting, including combatants and civilians.
Aircraft are taking some two tonnes of supplies into Somalia from Kenya each day in an effort to keep hospitals adequately supplied, he said.
Town captured
Two senior leaders of the UIC, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys and Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, landed at Mogadishu shortly after the Ethiopian air strike, a clear sign that the attack did not disable the runway.
The airport was recently reopened by the UIC - which holds most of central and southern Somalia.

We will overcome the Ethiopian troops in our land. Our forces are alert and ready [to] defend our country
Abdirahman JanaqowIslamic Courts spokesman
Ethiopia's Somali test
Q&A: Islamist advance
Send us your comments The Ethiopian government said it hit the two airports to stop "unauthorised flights", the AFP news agency reported.
The BBC's Adam Mynott, in the region, says Ethiopia is carrying through its threat to hit Islamist positions in pursuit of what it claims is self-defence.
A spokesman for the UIC, Abdirahman Janaqow, told the Associated Press that the Islamists would stand firm against Ethiopia.
"We will overcome the Ethiopian troops in our land. Our forces are alert and ready [to] defend our country," he said at Mogadishu airport.
As Ethiopia struck, Somali and Ethiopian troops captured a checkpoint outside the flashpoint town of Beledweyne.
UIC forces then left the town, the scene of sustained fighting on Sunday.
"Many, many people - children and women - have evacuated last night, and they are in the bush, while others chose to stay in the town," Abdullahi Warsame, Somalia programme manager for the aid charity Save the Children, told the BBC.
Mr Warsame was in Beledweyne as the town changed hands.
"Those who have hidden in some places in the bush... they started to come back with donkey carts, and others who have gone very far towards the town of Bulo Burto - still they have not come back."
There were also reports of heavy fighting at the central flashpoint of Burhakaba, close to the seat of Somalia's transitional government in Baidoa.
Fresh fighting between Somali government forces and the UIC erupted last week.
'No meddling'
On Sunday Ethiopia admitted for the first time its troops were fighting in Somalia and began attacking the UIC across a 400km (250 mile) front line along the border.
PM Meles Zenawi said Ethiopia was forced to defend its sovereignty against "terrorists" and anti-Ethiopians.

Aid agencies have warned of the civilian cost of fighting"We are not trying to set up a government for Somalia, nor do we have an intention to meddle in Somalia internal affairs. We have only been forced by the circumstances," Mr Meles said.
"We want to end this war urgently and we hope that Ethiopian people stand by the defence forces."
The UIC, which has seized control of much of southern and central Somalia, says Ethiopian troops have been fighting alongside government forces for months.
The Islamist group - which controls most of the south, including the capital, Mogadishu - on Saturday appealed for foreign fighters to join its troops in a "holy war" against Ethiopia.
The UN estimates that at least 8,000 Ethiopian troops may be in the country, while rival Eritrea is said to have deployed some 2,000 troops in support of the Islamic group.

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20 cisho ka hore waxaan socdaal gaaban ku maray tuulo la yidhaahdo Sool joogto oo 22Km ka xigta woqooyi bari magaalada Buhodle. Waxaan aad uga helay dhirta la yidhaahdo gobka oo aad halkaa ugu baxda iyo quruxdooda. Waxaan ka soo qaaday sawiro aad u qurux badan. Iyada oo ay dhirtaasi bixisay modho aad u faro badan hadana nasiib daro midhahaa waxba kama cunun iyada oo ay subab ahayd bislaan la'aan aanay weli bislaan midhahaasi.
Waxaan kale oo Sool Joogto uga helay dhirta ku taal ama ka soo baxaysa iyo sida ay ugu duwanyahiin degaanada kale ee ku xeegaaran.

All out war between TFG & UIC in Somalia

Maanta waxaa batay goobo badan oo ay isku hayaan dowlada ku meel gaadhka ah iyo maxaakiibta. Dagaadaas oo ka socda gobolada Bay, Hiiran, iyo Galgaduud.
Dadka Somalidu waxay intooda badani kala raaceen oo la kala safteen labada kooxood ee isku haya xukunka. Anigu waxaan raacsanahay dadka rayidka ah ee u badan dumarka iyo caruurta ee ay arintani samayan doonto. Waxaanan kula talinayaan qof kasta oo Somaliyeed in ay ka taliyaan wanaaga iyo nabada deriskooda. Sababta oo ah waxay Soomalidu ku maah maahdaa balaayadu ina ay kaa maqantahay waxay ku maqan tahay khayrkaa. Markaa yaan xumaanta la isku raacin hana laga fekero dadka rayidka ah ee aan codka lahayn maalin walbana qaxootiga ku jira. Ninkii xabada ridayow ka feker reerkiina iyo caruurta aad masuulka ka tahay.
Ilahay waxaan ka baryayaa in ilahay labada kooxood ii isdilaya in ilahay kala bad badiyo . Markaa Somaliyey qofka kaa dhintaa maanta waa qof somali ka maqan ee sidaa ula soco. Nin kaa dhintayna waxba kuuma ah somalina waxba uma tarayo markaa ku dadaala inaan is waansano oo aan dadkeena dhibaatada iyo dagaalka ka saaro. Inkasta oo ay adagtahay si nabadaaa lagu helayo inta odayada dagaalamay inta ay nool yahiin ama talinayaan.

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Somali Government Claims Victory

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
Published: December 22, 2006
ZANZIBAR, Tanzania, Dec. 21 —
The transitional government of Somalia, which for several months had been rapidly losing territory to Somalia’s growing Islamist movement, claimed victory on Thursday in the first major confrontation between the sides.
“We have overrun their troops,” said Abdirizak Adam Hassan, chief of staff for the transitional president, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed.
United Nations officials confirmed heavy Islamist casualties in the fighting, which began Wednesday and continued Thursday.
The Islamist fighters — many of them lightly armed teenage boys, the officials said — were mowed down by transitional government soldiers backed by the Ethiopian Army, the most powerful military in the region.
“The Islamists attacked, they retreated and then they made the mistake of running into an open field,” a United Nations official said on the condition of anonymity. “After that, it was one shot, one kill.”
United Nations officials estimated that dozens of Islamists had died. The Islamists denied suffering humiliating defeats. On Thursday, the Islamist clerics who rule Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, ordered schools closed so more children could be sent to the front lines.
After initially playing down the fighting, Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, the leader of the Islamist forces, announced Thursday over national radio that Somalia was at war and said, “All Somalis should take part in this struggle against Ethiopia.”
Ethiopia still denies that many of its soldiers are in Somalia, but has acknowledged sending military advisers. Ethiopia has cause to fear a strong Islamist movement next door. Christians have led Ethiopia for centuries, but about half of its population is Muslim, as are the vast majority of Somalis, and the Muslim areas have become more restive.
The fighting started early Wednesday as hundreds of Islamist fighters attacked the transitional government’s forces from two sides.
Witnesses said the transitional government, with help from Ethiopia, had repelled the Islamist advance in Daynunay, a town outside the government’s base in Baidoa. But in Diinsoor, near Baidoa, the battles were closely contested, and on Thursday, witnesses said each side continued to pound away with artillery, mortars and antiaircraft guns on pickup trucks.
Somalia has been in a state of anarchy since 1991, when the government collapsed in clan warfare. Backing the transitional government was an attempt by donor nations to help bring order, but more Somalis support the Islamists.
The two sides have talked of sharing power. European Union diplomats shuttled between Baidoa and Mogadishu on Wednesday. “The leaders on both sides want dialogue, but we’re not necessarily dealing with homogenous groups that always obey their leaders,” a European official said Thursday.

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