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| Somali government to curb insurgents near Beledweyn |
| 2007-11-19 |
| (SomaliNet) The government forces in Somalia’s central region of Hiran are now conducting security operations aimed to prevent the Islamic insurgents who had said to be regrouping in the mountains surrounding Beledweyn city, 335km north of the capital, reports say on Sunday. In their latest raid, the soldiers arrested a suspected militant who was accused of killing a government soldier. The troops who had recently completed training course in Amara, Puntland, in northeast Somalia, began constant patrolling inside the city and keeping guard on the police stations and the government offices which had been target for attacks by the local militants. Sources say the soldiers manned checkpoints on all roads to the government buildings in the nights keeping an eye on all activities by the insurgents. Reliable sources say that the government troops in Kala-Bayrka area near Beledweyn captured a truck carrying explosive devices aimed to smuggle the city despite the local government did not comment on that. Residents in Beledweyne are growing concern over that insurgents might launch attacks after being found leaf lets warning over what they called ‘the puppet government troops’. |
| Posted by:Fred |