Prime Minister says Ethiopian troops on outskirts of Somali capital
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(28 Dec 2006) ++PART MUTE++
(28 Dec 2006)
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1. Street scene
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian Prime Minister:
"But while we are there we will help them try and stabilise Mogadishu. We will not let Mogadishu bury. We will help the transitional government to do whatever it can to make sure that Mogadishu is stabilised quickly."
3. Wide of news conference
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian Prime Minister:
"At most it will be few weeks, hopefully just a matter of days before we leave but at most it will be a matter of (a) few weeks."
5. Cutaway cameraman
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian Prime Minister:
"Because we plan to pursue the remnants of the Eritrean troops international Jihadists and the hardcore elements of the Islamic Courts who are fleeing towards Kismayo and other port areas. I will continue to pursue them. That is our primary agenda.
7. Cutaway of media
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian Prime Minister:
"The forces of the transitional government and Ethiopia are in the outskirts of Mogadishu now. We are discussing as to what we need to do to make sure that Mogadishu does not descend into chaos."
9. Cutaway of reporter
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian Prime Minister:
"The United States has not contributed a single bullet, a single soldier or a single military equipment to this operation. Lastly, we have with the United States longstanding arrangements to share intelligence on terrorist activities in the neighbourhood. That sharing of intelligence has not been stopped during the conflict."
11. Street scene
STORYLINE:
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told a news conference in Addis Ababa on Thursday that Ethiopian troops and forces from the transitional government were on the outskirts of the Somali capital Mogadishu.
"We are discussing as to what we need to do to make sure that Mogadishu does not descend into chaos," he told reporters.
Somalia's prime minister arrived on the outskirts of the capital on Thursday, hours after their Islamic movement rivals who had once seemed unstoppable abandoned Mogadishu.
Prime Minister Mohamed Ali Gedi, who was welcomed by hundreds of Ethiopian and government troops, immediately went into a meeting with clan leaders to discuss the hand over of Mogadishu to government forces.
Zenawi vowed to inflict total defeat on the Islamic movement, saying the that he hoped the fighting would be over "in days, if not in a few weeks."
Witnesses reported seeing a large number of foreign fighters in the convoys heading south.
Islamic movement leaders had called on foreign Muslims to join their "holy war" against Ethiopia, which has a large Christian population.
Hundreds were believed to have answered the call.
Islamic fighters have gone door-to-door in Kismayo, recruiting children as young as 12 to make a last stand on behalf of the Islamic courts, according to a confidential United Nations situation report citing the families of boys taken to the frontline town of Jilib, 110 kilometres (65 miles) north of Kismayo.
Residents told the AP that Islamic leader Hassan Dahir Aweys had arrived in Jilib with hundreds of fighters aboard 45 pickup trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns.
The Islamic movement took Mogadishu six months ago and then advanced across most of southern Somalia, often without fighting.
Then Ethiopian troops went on the attack in support of the government last week.
Before the Islamists established control, Mogadishu had been ruled by competing clans who came together to support the Islamic courts.
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++PART MUTE++
1. Street scene
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian Prime Minister:
"But while we are there we will help them try and stabilise Mogadishu. We will not let Mogadishu bury. We will help the transitional government to do whatever it can to make sure that Mogadishu is stabilised quickly."
3. Wide of news conference
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian Prime Minister:
"At most it will be few weeks, hopefully just a matter of days before we leave but at most it will be a matter of (a) few weeks."
5. Cutaway cameraman
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian Prime Minister:
"Because we plan to pursue the remnants of the Eritrean troops international Jihadists and the hardcore elements of the Islamic Courts who are fleeing towards Kismayo and other port areas. I will continue to pursue them. That is our primary agenda.
7. Cutaway of media
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian Prime Minister:
"The forces of the transitional government and Ethiopia are in the outskirts of Mogadishu now. We are discussing as to what we need to do to make sure that Mogadishu does not descend into chaos."
9. Cutaway of reporter
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian Prime Minister:
"The United States has not contributed a single bullet, a single soldier or a single military equipment to this operation. Lastly, we have with the United States longstanding arrangements to share intelligence on terrorist activities in the neighbourhood. That sharing of intelligence has not been stopped during the conflict."
11. Street scene
STORYLINE:
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told a news conference in Addis Ababa on Thursday that Ethiopian troops and forces from the transitional government were on the outskirts of the Somali capital Mogadishu.
"We are discussing as to what we need to do to make sure that Mogadishu does not descend into chaos," he told reporters.
Somalia's prime minister arrived on the outskirts of the capital on Thursday, hours after their Islamic movement rivals who had once seemed unstoppable abandoned Mogadishu.
Prime Minister Mohamed Ali Gedi, who was welcomed by hundreds of Ethiopian and government troops, immediately went into a meeting with clan leaders to discuss the hand over of Mogadishu to government forces.
Zenawi vowed to inflict total defeat on the Islamic movement, saying the that he hoped the fighting would be over "in days, if not in a few weeks."
Witnesses reported seeing a large number of foreign fighters in the convoys heading south.
Islamic movement leaders had called on foreign Muslims to join their "holy war" against Ethiopia, which has a large Christian population.
Hundreds were believed to have answered the call.
Islamic fighters have gone door-to-door in Kismayo, recruiting children as young as 12 to make a last stand on behalf of the Islamic courts, according to a confidential United Nations situation report citing the families of boys taken to the frontline town of Jilib, 110 kilometres (65 miles) north of Kismayo.
Residents told the AP that Islamic leader Hassan Dahir Aweys had arrived in Jilib with hundreds of fighters aboard 45 pickup trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns.
The Islamic movement took Mogadishu six months ago and then advanced across most of southern Somalia, often without fighting.
Then Ethiopian troops went on the attack in support of the government last week.
Before the Islamists established control, Mogadishu had been ruled by competing clans who came together to support the Islamic courts.
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