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Mogadishu Mayor Promises Peace And Security in 48 Hours

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Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)

NEWS

30 May 2007

Posted to the web 30 May 2007

 

By Aweys Osman Yusuf

Mogadishu

 

In a news conference in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, Mohammed Omar Habeb, Mogadishu mayor, said that the Somali military forces in the capital would be pulled put of the city in 48 hours.

 

Mohammed Dheer pointed that the remnants of the Islamic Courts fighters began wearing the army uniform and target government officials.

 

"The people in the army uniform who kill and rob innocent people are not the real government forces. They are the Islamists that are still active in Mogadishu," he said.

 

He said the Somali police forces would be fully operational in Mogadishu. "When the police takeover the security situation, anyone who is in the army uniform and roaming the capital would be regarded as a criminal," he said.

 

Dheere met today the chairmen of the 16 districts in the capital discussing the widespread insecurity in Mogadishu.

 

A short while before the press conference was held, Ahmed Wasuge Dhigo Adde, the chief security officer in Hamar Weyne neighborhood, was shot dead by unknown gunmen.

 

The deceased was on his way to his office when unidentified armed men shot him in the chest.

 

Also a former Somalia CID officer was shot dead at Huriwa neighborhood, north of Mogadishu around 6:30 pm local time on Tuesday, according to witnesses.

 

Mohammed Mohamoud Sheik was reportedly killed by two men wearing the government army uniform, while the victim was getting out of a mosque in the neighborhood.

 

Four people were killed and dozens were wounded after an Ethiopian military convoy hit a landmine in Baled Weyn, 330 km north of the Somalia capital Mogadishu on Wednesday.

 

Witnesses said the victims were killed after the Ethiopian troops randomly opened fire at a densely populated area while the explosion destroyed the first military pickup truck.

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