Disarmament drive leads to firefight in Mogadishu

Flabbergasted

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Sat Jan-06-07 07:16 PM
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Disarmament drive leads to firefight in Mogadishu

Mogadishu: Ethiopian troops and Somali protesters exchanged fire in Mogadishu yesterday killing three people, witnesses said, as hundreds of Somalis demonstrated against the foreign forces and a government disarmament drive.

The protesters hurled stones and burnt tyres, wreathing streets in smoke and reviving memories of the chaos that had largely stopped during six months of strict Islamist rule before the Somalia Islamic Courts Council (SICC) was ousted last week.

"The Ethiopians opened fire and shot dead a young boy and a lady, they also killed another person," a witness said. Other witnesses agreed.

http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Somalia/10095154.html

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msongs

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Sat Jan-06-07 07:29 PM
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1. the people are the cause of their own chaos. maybe they should start being

what islam says they should be, peaceful, honest, etc.

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ck4829

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Sat Jan-06-07 09:21 PM
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4. All the nice Somalis left

Edited on Sat Jan-06-07 09:21 PM by ck4829

Some of them are here in Ohio, they're some of the nicest and sweetest people I've ever met.

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jody

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Sat Jan-06-07 07:37 PM
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2. There is no government to protect Mogadishu residents so it makes sense that they

would not turn in their arms needed for self-defense.

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papau

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Sat Jan-06-07 09:00 PM
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3. As in much of the rest of the world - everything is tribal - nothing happens without

tribal leaders agreeing it should happen. Kind of like government by the Mafia. I wish I knew how the Ottomans made it work because it is not working in Iraq, in Somalia, and in the west bank and Gaza.

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