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Somali Islamist Leader Denounces Amisom for Killing Disabled Forces in Mogadishu
15 September 2009
Somalia — Mohamed Ibrahim Bilal, the chairman of the Islamic council of Amal has Monday denounced AMSIOM troops for being behind the shelling targeted to the former disabled Somali forces in Martini hospital in Mogadishu.
The chairman said in an interview with local journalists that the African Union troops (AMISOM) were behind the mortar shell attack murdered the disabled national forces and the Somali civilians in Martini hospital adding that they will take the responsibility of the military action.
"The weapon targeted to the compound of the disabled forces of Somalia was the weapon of AMISOM. Because the Islamist fighters have no like that weapon. They accustomed massacring the Somali people. We are sorry for what happened and the people who lost their lives there were Mujahideen (Islamist fighters)," Mr. Bilal said.
On the other hand the chairman of the Islamic council of Amal has also said the AMISOM troops had deliberately killed the livestock 'camels' of the Somali people as they were walking around their bases in the international airport of Aden Adde in Mogadishu saying that they shot and killed at least 12 camels there on Saturday night.
The statement of the Islamist leader Mohamed Ibrahim Bilal comes as the transitional government officials accused the shelling to the Islamist forces who are against them and the AMISOM troops in the capital who also said that they were not involved the sorrowful accident happened in Martini hospital which left the lives of more than 12 of the disabled forces of Somali people in Mogadishu.
Clannish Fighting Kills Five, Injures Three Others in Central Somalia
At least five people have been killed and three others haven injured after clannish fighting started at Jalalaqsi district in Hiran region, witnesses told local journalists on Saturday.
Reports say that the fighting is between two clans who live in the neighboring regions of Hiran and Middle Shabelle region and started early on Saturday morning at Qoryale village in Jalalaqsi district in the border between both regions.
The fighting of both clan militias came after clan militias attacked to the other militias to revenge them and then spread further killing 5, wounding 3 others in the region.
Witnesses say that about 8 people died in the fighting saying that most dead and wounded people were the sides who were fighting.
Sources in area of the clashes say that the situation of the village where the fighting started returned calm now as the militias who attacked there reportedly returned back to where they were from earlier.
The war follows several other clashes between the two clans who fought in the border of both regions of Middle Shabelle and Hiran region in central Somalia.
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