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Yemeni fighter killed in Mogadishu
[Iran Press TV] A Yemen-born foreign fighter has been killed in the latest heavy festivities between al-Shaboobs and Somali government troops backed by African Union forces in war-weary Mogadishu.
The jihad going on at home wasn't exciting enough for him. He wanted to die for his god somewhere foreign and exotic.
The krazed killer, identified as Rabah Abu-Qalid, lost his life when al-Shaboobs launched attacks against Somali soldiers in Mogadishu's northern districts of Shibis and Bondhere on Sunday, a Somali official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Radio Garowe on Monday.

He added that 22 other people, mostly fighters, were killed in festivities between al-Shabaab hard boyz and government-backed troops in the central Somali region of Hiran.

The International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) has reported that hundreds of civilians were maimed in fighting in Somalia in recent months.

The Geneva-based humanitarian institution said that a total of 5,000 patients with war injuries, including 1,900 women and kiddies, were admitted to Mogadishu's Keysaney and Medina hospitals from January through September.

Compared to last year, it is an increase of 25 percent in the total number of war casualties and 72 percent in the number of war-maimed women and kiddies admitted to the hospitals.

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Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.

Over the past two decades, up to one million people have bit the dust in fighting between rival factions and due to famine and disease.

There are more than 1.4 million internally displaced people (IDPs) in Somalia. Over 300,000 of the IDPs are sheltered in Mogadishu.

The United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society High Commissioner for Refugees reported that most of the displaced live in poor and degrading conditions on makeshift sites in southern and central Somalia.
Posted by: Fred 2010-12-08
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