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December 24, 2006 |
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BAIDOA, Somalia (Reuters) -- Ethiopian
planes dropped bombs and fired missiles on two locations in Somalia on
Sunday, witnesses said, as fighting between Somali Islamists and their
Ethiopian-allied rivals raged for a sixth day.
There was no immediate word from Ethiopia, which has said it would make public any intention of war against the Islamists, or from the Somali interim government. Resident Abdirashid Hassan said he saw planes drop bombs on the outskirts of Baladwayne, 190 miles (300 km) north of the capital Mogadishu. "The Ethiopians have started bombing," he said by telephone. Another witness, businessman Farah Osman, said two Ethiopian planes fired missiles on the outskirts of Bandiradley, 435 miles (700 km) north of Mogadishu. A senior Islamist, Sheikh Mahmud Ibrahim Suley, accused the Ethiopians of using MiG warplanes and helicopters against Islamist positions. "Today the war is being fought by land and air," he told reporters in Mogadishu, adding that Islamists had destroyed five Ethiopian tanks. He did not comment on casualties. If confirmed, the use of foreign attack aircraft would ratchet up tensions in what is already the most sustained combat yet between the Islamists and Ethiopia-backed government, marooned in the south-central trading outpost Baidoa. Both sides say they have killed hundreds since the fighting began on Tuesday, although aid agencies report dozens of dead.
Source: Reuters
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