50 Somalis Killed in Day of Fighting

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

50 Somalis Killed in Day of Fighting

Friday November 9, 2007 2:31 PM

By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN

Associated Press Writer

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Heavy fighting between
insurgents and Ethiopian troops backing Somalia's shaky
government has killed 50 people and wounded 100 others
in the past 24 hours, witnesses and doctors said Friday.

Ethiopian troops based at the former defense ministry
in the south of the capital killed eight civilians early
Friday when they fired tank shells into the main Bakara
market, Khalif Haji Muse told The Associated Press,
adding that two others died when Ethiopian snipers fired
at them. Other witnesses said six others died when shells
crashed into their homes.

The bodies of 34 people, among them four women and six
Ethiopians, were found in the northern and southern parts
of Mogadishu, where fighting was intense a day earlier,
witnesses said.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7064371,00.html

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Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Friday, 9 November 2007, 10:48 GMT

Somalia peacekeepers 'not viable'

The idea of deploying UN peacekeeping troops to Somalia
is "neither realistic nor viable", the UN head has said.

Ban Ki-Moon said that because of the security situation,
it had not even been possible to send a technical
assessment team to Somalia.

His comments come as more than 50 people died in battles
in the capital.

A BBC correspondent says Ethiopian forces are engaged in
reprisal attacks after two soldiers' bodies were dragged
through the streets on Thursday.

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7086367.stm

[Beerboy]

1. Meh.

At least the UN wasn't responsible for the cluster-fuck.