A/Qaybdeed surrenders..End of fighting....

[General Duke]

Islamists claim victory in Somalia

 

 

Monday 10 July 2006, 23:53 Makka Time, 20:53 GMT

 

 

Abdi Hassan Awale Qeydiid, Somalia's last secular warlord in the capital Mogadishu, has surrendered to Islamic militants after a two-day battle that left at least 67 dead, militants said.

 

 

The militants said on Monday that they had captured the warlord's headquarters in the south of the city and that his fighters had begun handing over their weapons.

 

 

 

The militants had claimed on Sunday that they had taken full control of the city after declaring victory over Qeydiid and fellow warlord and transitional government member Hussein Aidid, but heavy fighting had resumed early afternoon on Monday.

 

 

 

After four months of fighting between militants and the US-backed warlords, which left over 400 dead, Mogadishu fell on June 5 to the militants, who also control swathes of southern Somalia.

 

 

Somalia's transitional government in Baidoa, about 250kms (150miles) from Mogadishu, demanded that the Islamists abandon territories they seized in Mogadishu and be excluded from peace talks with the government, expected to resume in Khartoum on Saturday.

 

 

 

Peacekeepers

 

But Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, a top official in Somalia's supreme Islamic Court, said that "the government has nothing to do with peace in Mogadishu".

 

This government was unable to come to the capital after being repelled by the warlords, whom we have at last toppled. They (the government) should be grateful for what we did," he told journalists.

 

Earlier on Monday in Nairobi, Mwai Kibaki, the Kenyan President and Yoweri Museveni, his Ugandan counterpart, who are members of the seven-nation east African Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), called on the international community to help deploy peacekeepers in the east African country.

 

 

 

In recent weeks, IGAD officials have complained that the international community, especially Western powers, have been non-committal on the Somali conflict, thus complicating regional efforts to restore a functional government there.

[Dhubad.]

^Good news, afkaaga caano garoow lagu qabay. He should put to death now

[Wiilo]

Wararkii ugu dambeeyay dagaalkii Muqdisho.

 

Cabdi Qaybdiid oo gebi ahaanba lagala wareegay hubkii iyo goobihii uu ka talin jiray

 

Maalintii labaad ayaa dagaal waxa uu ka dhacay deegaanada ay ka mid yihiin Jaamacaddii Ummadda, Agagaarka Isbitaalka Banaadir, Sildhiga Mareykanka iyo Soona-key, gaar ahaan dhabarka dambe ee Isbitaalka Dikfeer, waxaana dagaalkaan la isku adeegsaday hubka culus iyo midka fudud, waxaana la sheegay in Maxaakiimta ay si aad ah ugu siqayaan goobihii uu ka dagaalamayay Cabdi Qaybdiid.

 

Warar kala duwan ayaa ka soo baxay dagaalkaasi oo ahaa kii ugu xumaa oo mudooyinkaan ka dhaca Magaalada Muqdisho, qaar waxay sheegayaan in Cabdi Qaybdiid iyo Maleeshiyadiisii ay gebi ahaanba joojiyeen dagaalkii, warar kale ayaa waxay sheegayaan in Odoyaal ka tirsan Beesha uu ka soo jeedo Cabdi Qaybdii ay dhex dhexaadin ka wadaan dagaalka saameynta ku yeeshay dadka rayidka ah ee ku nool Magaalada Muqdisho,.

 

Dagaalkaan ayaa waxaa la xaqiijiyay in ay ku dhinteen dad kor u dhaafaya 50 qof ayna ku dhaawacmeen 80 qof, kuwaas oo intooda badan la dhigay Isbitaalada Magaalada Muqdisho.

 

Warar hadda na soo gaaray waxay sheegayaan in maleeshiaydii iyo hubkii Cabdi Qaybdiid ay gebi ahaan la sheegay in ay isku dhiibeen golaha Maxaakiimta, waxaana tan iyo xalay socday sidii loo dhameystiri lahaa dagalkaasi oo labo maalmood si xowli ah uga socday magaalada Muqdisho, ilaa iyo hadda lama oga halka uu ku dambeeyay Korneel Cabdi Qaybdiid, hase yeeshee warar ayaa waxay sheegayan in uu baxsaday, warar kalana waxay sheegayaan in uu ku jiro gurigiisa oo ay waan waan socoto, kadib markii Midowga Maxaakiimta intii badneyd goobihii uu ka talin jiray Cabdi Qaybdiid gacanta ku dhigeen. (Cinwaanada warbaahinta caalamku ay ka qoreen muqdisho maanta ayaa ahaa: "Abdi Hassan Awale Qeydiid, qabqablihii 'secular warlord' ee ugu dambeeyey Soomaaliya oo isu dhiibay maleysiyada Maxaakiimta). [Kelmedda Secular qaamuuska Soomaaligu waxa uu ku macnaynayaa sidan: Secular = cilmaani (ee cilmi-adduun ku salaysan, oo diin iyo aakhiro toona aan ku lug lahayn.)]

 

(Waa warkii habeenidii Isniinta July 10, 2006 - xilliga Muqdisho).

 

W/D Amiin Yuusuf Khasaaro

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