From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Sat Jan 31 2009 - 02:26:57 EST
Friday the 30th of January, 2009
Ogaden: Regional Authorities Ordered to Conscript Local Militias
Jan 28, 2009 Reports reaching our Ogaden Online News service desk from
the city of JigJiga confirm a recent rumor that all the regional
authorities (Kilils) were ordered to conscript local militias.
It is said that this order was issued by the minister of defense of the
Tigrian clique in Addis Ababa. This order follows the sudden and
unexplained withdrawal of the regime's soldiers from Somalia. In the
order issued by the minister of defense, it specifically required the
so-called Somali administration to conscript an army numbering about
3,000. It is said that the local administration is now scrambling to
fulfill the order, but unable to get enough militias to number the
required target. Multiple sources in JigJiga have confirmed to the
service desk that the head of the so-called Somali administration has
requested an extension of the conscription deadline, but he is said to
have received no word from the defense ministry.
--Ogaden Online News
http://ogaden.com/ognws280109.htm
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