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Africa Horn |
Somalia: Ethiopian soldiers arrest key Islamist supporters |
2007-05-12 |
![]() “The suspects were caught as they were sleeping in their beds in the hotel which was surrounded by heavily armed Ethiopian soldiers,” one eyewitness told Somalinet. The Ethiopian soldiers raided the market before dawn blocking all the key roads to the market. No business center was opened during the mission. “I was surprised when I saw this morning Ethiopian soldiers taking position at my door, I was really scared and I was refused to go out,” said Leylo Ahmed, a resident in Bakara market. The Ethiopian military mission in this morning followed last night’s skirmishes within the government forces killing two civilians Bakara market is where biggest businesses are stationed. The interim government officials suspect that Bakara is now safe haven for many of the Islamist remnants. Elsewhere in Mogadishu, the Ethiopian soldiers killed two people whom they suspected this morning. |
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