Reuters: New battle shakes Mogadishu, 15 dead

[Eugene]

New battle shakes Mogadishu, 15 dead
Sun Jul 9, 2006 11:26 AM GMT

By Guled Mohamed

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist militia attacked fighters loyal to defeated Somali
warlords in Mogadishu on Sunday in a heavy battle that killed at least 15 people
and wounded scores including refugees, witnesses said.

The death toll looked set to rise further in the most serious flareup since
the Islamists took over the Somali capital from U.S.-backed warlords on June 5.

Mogadishu's war-weary residents ran for cover as rival militia fought each other
in streets with machine-guns and mortars near the volatile Kilometre Four district
of Mogadishu which had been a pocket of warlord resistance to the Islamists.

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[alfredo]

1. somalia has never been a nice place to live.

This is just another chapter in the bloody history of this sad little country.

I believe there will be another war between Somalia and Ethiopia.