Any time Somalia appears, I am suspicious.
This place lacks coverage unless the MSM needs it for something.
Let's see:
"Fighting in Somalia kills at least 21; Ethiopian corpses dragged in streets" by Aweys Yusuf/Reuters November 9, 2007
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somali insurgents dragged the bodies of dead Ethiopian soldiers through the streets of Mogadishu yesterday, amid fighting that killed at least 21 people and sparked a further exodus from the lawless city.
Witnesses said at least three Ethiopian soldiers, who are backing the interim Somali government, were killed during battles in the Sqa Holaha neighborhood.
Resident Deqo Ali: "I saw three Ethiopian troops killed by insurgents. Crowds of people were chanting 'God is great' and dragging their bodies on the ground."
Oh, this is why it is in the paper.
Our Ethiopian proxies got there asses handed to them in a battle.
Later, fighting in the northern neighborhood of Hodan, where insurgents regularly hit government targets, killed at least 18 people and wounded many more in fierce combat during which Ethiopians tanks fired into the area, witnesses said.
Resident Omar Ahmed: "I saw seven dead Ethiopian soldiers and 11 Somalis who were killed in fighting and many more people who were wounded and not taken to the hospital because it was too dark."
At Mogadishu's main hospital, Madina, medical officer Dahir Dheere said doctors had treated more than 20 wounded people.
The grisly scenes of dead soldiers dragged through the streets recalled the 1993 shooting down of two Black Hawk helicopters by Somali militiamen during a failed US operation to hunt down warlords in Mogadishu.
That's another reason it makes the paper!
Hammer home those stereo-typical images!
Images of dead Americans dragged through the streets by joyous Somalis rocked US public opinion, precipitating an American withdrawal and contributing to the ending of the UN peacekeeping operation in 1995.
Ethiopian corpses were also dragged through Mogadishu in March, during offensives against insurgent strongholds in which hundreds died.
Funny how those deaths never seem to command much attention in the War Dailies.
Fighting in Mogadishu this year has sent hundreds of thousands fleeing the city and made aid delivery next to impossible in the capital.
Many ordinary Somalis and insurgents, drawn mainly from a militant Islamist movement that ruled Mogadishu briefly last year, resent the presence of Ethiopia, their ancient enemy.
Hundreds of residents poured into the streets of southern Mogadishu on Wednesday to demonstrate against the Ethiopians, who helped the government seize the city last year and are essential to retaining control.
And are HATED OCCUPIERS, too!! Don't forget that, Times!
In the south-central town of Baidoa, where the Somali Parliament still sits, the UN urged legislators yesterday to move quickly to stem the humanitarian crisis.
Eric Laroche, UN humanitarian coordinator for Somalia:
"I want to be clear here today that 1.5 million Somalis are in need of emergency aid. And the number of people that have been displaced goes up to 850,000. We have to be able to help them and we have a problem reaching them."
And yet it rarely makes the papers!
Only when it is Islamists killing our occupying ally, or when the US must strike "Al-CIA-Duh."
Sorta STINKS, huh?
