March 21 - Somali Insurgents Drag Soldiers' Corpses

The Associated Press (MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN) - Insurgents dragged the corpses of two soldiers through the streets of the Somali capital and set the bodies on fire Wednesday after a fierce street battle killed at least seven people, witnesses and medical officials said.

Somali and Ethiopian troops, supported by tanks and armored vehicles, entered an insurgent stronghold in central Mogadishu before dawn and were met by hundreds of masked insurgents.
'Ethiopian tanks rolled out of the former Defense Ministry and moved into the nearby
Shirkole area, which is seen as the stronghold of the insurgent groups, and they met with stiff resistance,' said Ali Haji Jama, a resident of the northeastern neighborhood at the center of the fighting

Other witnesses said minibuses filled with insurgents were racing through the city to reach Shirkole and defend against the Ethiopian advance. The same minibuses were used to carry away casualties, said Muqtar Abdulahi Dahir, a Mogadishu businessman who witnessed the fighting.

Somalia's government began the operation at about midnight Tuesday at the former Defense Ministry headquarters and plans to move forces into other parts of the capital, said Mohamed Ali Nur, the country's ambassador in neighboring Kenya.

The operation is meant to try to stop militants from firing rockets at government installations, he told the AP

What we can say about this situation is that the city of Mogadishu is an very anachical territory where even the forces of the government can not enter to take the control. The declaration on the past days of the government to install their see in the city had incremented the violence in the city. Many people dead and many onther is woundled.

With a extreme violent conutry, the investments do not make theirs invesments in this country because of the socual and political inestability.

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