(SomaliNet) Somali’s interim government troops in Deynunay camp in the outskirt of Baidoa city, southwest Somalia are reported to have been shifted to Baidoa on Sunday after completing months of training course.

Deynunay is a military camp located in less than 20km south of Baidoa city, the temporarily base of the transitional federal government since its relocation in late February 2006. About 40 trucks of the government and others belonging to the allegedly Ethiopian troops were used for the transferring of around three thousand Somali troops to Baidoa city as sources say.

The shift of the government troops came after Ethiopian forces that massed in the region rejected that these Somali troops fight alongside them in the battle against Islamic Courts.

Sources in Baidoa city say that the Ethiopian army officials accused the government troops of holding cell phones and they might bring tricks.  All the government troops were stationed near Baidoa city where they are about to given away weapons and then they will dig up new positions against Islamic Courts.

This came as large military movements in Bay region, southwest Somalia with Islamic Courts fighters and Ethiopian troops intensified their frontline and gather more troops for possible major battle in the area.

Reports from Baidoa say that additional Ethiopian troops already reached the city to prepare an attack on the Islamic Courts.  Islamic fighters continue to recruit more troops to enforce the defense line in Bur-Hakaba area.

Source: Somalinet

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