Somali Army General Dies in Ambush

Published: October 7, 2007

MOGADISHU, Somalia, Oct. 6 - Suspected Islamist insurgents killed a
Somali Army general in an ambush here in the capital, witnesses said
Saturday.
Five men armed with pistols killed Gen. Ahmed Jilaow Adow, his bodyguard
and his driver late on Friday after he left his office in north
Mogadishu.
"His car was blocked by a van, and then a car parked next to his," said
the general's nephew, Abdihakin Omar Jimale. "Five men armed with
pistols came out, shooting my uncle, his driver and his bodyguard dead."


"He was a peace advocate and a member of Interpol," Mr. Jimale said. "He
was internationally and locally known."
Mogadishu has been rocked by violence since Somali government forces,
backed by Ethiopian troops, early this year ousted the Islamists who
ruled Mogadishu and much of southern Somalia for six months in 2006.
A police spokesman, Abdiwahid Hussein, said Somali troops would begin a
20-day campaign on Sunday to collect arms from residents in the
gun-infested city.