Somalia:combined forces launch security missions in the capital

Mogadishu 11 Fabaury 2009 Waagacusub Media

The joint forces of the transitional federal government and Islamic Courts Union began on Tuesday missions establishing the security in the capital and took the control of the main Bakara market and other surrounding neighborhoods.

Witnesses told Waagacusub Media that the allied troops spread into vicinities of Ali-Kamin, Ifka Halane, Industrial Road, Towfiq intersection, Shirkole and 1st July square road.

A government official said the mission is about ensuring stability in the city for the next three months.

“We promised that we have to restore peace in the capital for three months, now we conduct huge task to set up the security,” mayor of Mogadishu Mohamed Osman Dhagahtur told Waagacusub.

He added that they have ordered their troop to launch an attack on any place fired from mortars and capture those terrorize the population.

“We emphasized the African Union peacekeepers not to respond with the mortars launched by the offenders to protect the people,” said Islamic Courts Union leader Sheik Abdukadir Ali Omar who confessed that they belong to the unity government led by Sharif Sheik Ahmed.

The security expansion by the joint forces is feared to bring an outbreak of war when their mission reaches to the area controlled by the Islamic Party which united by the radical Islamic movements.

By Dahir Abdulle Alasow

dahiralasow@yahoo.com

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