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Government disarms Mogadishu
(SomaliNet) Hundreds of Ethiopian forces along with the interim government troops have on Thursday launched the largest security drive in the capital for the third consecutive day searching for weapons and suspects.
Any time somebody starts waxing too lyrical about the 2nd Amendment, I always bring up Somalia, followed by Yemen. By the time I get to Pakistan they're rolling their eyes and remembering that they left something on the stove. There are limits to everything.
Heavily armed Ethiopian troops backed by tanks and armored vehicles blocked all roads to the main Bakara market in Mogadishu where the Somali police forces began door to door searching for arms. In the Bakara raid, the security forces have taken several rifles from a number of business centers. All the weapons collected from Bakara were shown to the journalists in public.

The wider security operation in Mogadishu had an impact on the traffic of both people and cars. "These operations are part of the routine security tasks carried out with the help of our friends, the Ethiopians," Deputy Defense Minister Salad Ali Jelle said.

The operations continue as three main radio FM stations in Mogadishu are off-air for the second day after the transitional government ordered to shut down these media houses. Shabelle, Horn Afrik and IQK (Koranic Radio) were shut down in a decree issued by the government on Wednesday after they were accused of supporting terrorism and breaching the law of free media.
Posted by: Fred 2007-06-08
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