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Somalia:Al-Shabab hardliners lose key military base in central Somalia

 Elbur 16 March 2009 Waagacusub Media


Somalia’s pro-government Islamist militia ‘Ahlu-Sunna Waljama group’ has take over key airport from the Islamist hardliners Al-Shabab along with Hizbul Islam (Islamic Party) militias on Saturday in heavy fighting which erupted around Elbur town 300km north of the Somalia capital.
 

Waagacusub reporters who was with Ahlu-sunna Islamic fighters confirmed that Al-Shabab group had been defeated in the fighting. “I saw the dead bodies of 42 Al-Shabab combatants, 12 from foreign nationals inside the airport – also I have seen three war vehicles burnt as Ahlu-sunna fighters broke a big ware house full of weapons,” said the reporter.

The confrontation took places in Wabho village just outside of Elbur where the residents fled to nearby areas in Galgadud region.

It was the worst and heaviest battle raged between the moderate Ahlu-sunna group and Al-Shabab hardliners as the two sides earlier fought in Galgadud province in central Somalia.

The Sufi Islamist officers who reached the area soon after the fighting surprised how big space the airport had. “It is really big airstrip built by Al-Shabab, even they made under ground houses, I though just it was small airport,” said Sheik Omar Sheik Mohamed Farah, Ahlu-Sunna’s chairman in central regions of Somalia.

The Sheik stated that his followers will not allow Al-Shabaab group to remain in a territory dominated by moderate Islamists.

Al-Shabab militant group, which on the American black list of terror groups, had its biggest military base around Elbur town before it had fallen in the hands of Ahlu-sunna moderate Islamists.
 

By Dahir Abdulle Alasow

Dahiralasow@yahoo.com

Dahiralasow@waagacusub.com

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