OK shanta i get your point...the long history of conventional warfare tells us that the loss of human life is enevitable, this form of assymetrical warfare further deteriorates this unfortunate factor in war.. my simple point is that the goverment of the day and the ethiopian goverment are by no means alterntives to our problems and perhaps even some in the opposition but what i have seen by some elements in the opposition is something different i see a kind of sparkle something better a viable option?....how can we know that the intended aim was to  to trigger such an action, i mean i cant remember the islamic courts looting or killing indiscriminately( maybe a few blunders), yes a portion of their men might have a history with the civil war but this does not resemble the rest of the fighters( what about the TFG make a comparison), who are simply made of ordinary somalis no longer able to withstand the occupation of their homeland( many leaving there comfortable lives in external states), i dont want to get into the nitty gritty of this is no party is perfect but some are better than others and in this moment of crisis we cannot stand with the current TFG who have shamed and exposed us naked and vulnerable to the world, we are no longer a proud people..we are a hopeless people SHANTA please layout your claims against the opposition as a whole and other groups which you oppose( onlf etc.) and what are your alternatives and who do you recognise as a group or person who can bring our nation together...i think your views represents mainstream western media...you need to dig deeper to understand certain things.

Furthermore, if the Warlords are enemy of the State, then by all means eliminate them. Their residencies and whereabouts are too well known for any group interested in targeting. Instead of eliminating the innocent civil servants, educated Somalia, and many more personalities involved in bettering the lives of our countrymen: the warlords are untouchables, even when caught they are released on their own recognizance!

Abdul P Pointing out the atrocious miscalculation played by a group whose contempt and disregard for human life to be a replica of the previous carnage carried out by the former practitioners of daily violence; if that is anti-Somalia then I guess that majority of you are right and the rest of us are wrong. Considering the enemy’s reaction should be one that matters when planning such attack to occur, other than what Al-Haram considers an opportunity to strike at any given moment, and realizing the repercussions ensued soon after to be a motivating factor in your psyche for supporting them. In this point, the aggressors are not punished, but defended to be freedom fighters waging a liberation war, while the reaction of the enemy is made to be a malicious indiscriminate attempt to punish the innocent public, who by the way were travelling along that road without the fear of being targeted by two camps- had they known, then the road would have been off limit and found an alternative.

shanta to try an justify this horrific action is really criminal, i deplore your spin..your emotions have been consumed by perhaps your clannish fevor...your uncle abdullahi yusuf is a warlord hell bent on securing his clannish ideology...i see no point in following this man and supporting i doubt he knows the meaning of democracy i would rather dictator barre who ommitted much more nationalism than this sadistic creature...i am saddened by such an occurrence...your support for ethiopia is a tragedy perhaps you dont know them your family has never lived in the ogaden have they or mogadishu....your politically astray ...see i support your decision to condemn the southern warlords..however your view on the young men burning with nationalism perhaps a bit firey and inexperienced in politics is wrong ...i call upon all somalis to support movements such as the ARS( sheik sharif), the ONLF,and others who are true patriots and true to what somalia or greater somalia is...we must be strong in our resolve we cannot allow this dark period to destroy us every nation-state has been through this...others have dealt with it better our struggle is been hampered by some big states(USA) and a poor autocratic and dictatorial regime(ethiopia) and typical to every conflict( the warlord, clannist and plain puppets and blind supporters)

Collateral damage is not something new. The better days are still a head with stable government and less mooryaan that took hostage for the whole country.