Afgoi, (insidesomalia.org) - Heavily armed Ethiopian troops have entered in Jalasiyad area in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday night eyewitnesses said.

The soldiers were reported to have been examining in the houses of the quarter as the resident were in forty winks time.

"they came into some houses of the locale, that has greatly deterred us" Fatima Siad Nor a resident in Jala Siad told Shabelle English service" they were chary"

Moreover the soldiers have expanded into the parish where some reports say that they've seized from several people.

At this Monday morning no business and vehicle's activities in the area are running.

Some where else so called "Muslim brothers" Islamic group has dropped warning leaflets against tax collectors in Afgoi town of lower Shabelle region.

The leaflets were attached on the walls of the district's shops and business sites.

One slogan of one the warning letter says "stop the taking of the illegal money from the civilians, if you do accept we will kill you"

Somewhere else armed groups have shot dead civilian man in Afgoi district.

The killing of the man was attributed to clan based tenets between two clans in the region.

In recent weeks, Somali insurgents have stepped up attacks on the Ethiopian army and the Somali transitional government it is backing.

In the past few weeks the islamists have taken over a series of towns, killing government soldiers, stealing weapons, and then withdrawing.

But it has become clear there are deep divisions within the islamists over which direction it should take, with many of the recent attacks attributed to one group - Islamist organisation called al-Shabab, meaning "The Youth."

"There are al-Shabab fighters in all parts of the country," he says" Alshabab commander Sheikh Moqtar Robow told Shabelle

"I don't want to talk of numbers. But when the Ethiopian troops first arrived we were already strong.

"Now we have even more power because now we have the support of the people everywhere."

Like many islamists, he headed to Mogadishu to fight the Ethiopians as soon as they entered the capital in December 2006, ousting the Union of Islamic Courts which had taken control of much of southern Somalia.

"With God's grace we defeated them in that first battle. At that time I was happy because I was hoping to become a martyr." One fighters said.

Al-Shabab began as the militia wing of the Union of Islamic Courts

He adds he has two aims - to become a martyr and to ensure that the country is governed by Sharia law.

"As al-Shabab, we don't care about people who don't want Sharia law," he says.

"Our goal is to have Sharia as the permanent law of our country, and to get the infidels out of our country, whether they are Ethiopians or Americans."

"First of all, we will call them to return to Islam and pray - because what differentiates a Muslim and a non-Muslim is praying five times," he says.

"If they refuse we will call them again and again to pray. If they entirely refuse, we will jail them and we will keep them without food until they return to praying."

He denies that al-Shabab has any links with al-Qaeda, although he says that "they are Muslims so they are our brothers".

"Our common objective is to have Sharia law as the law of our country. Al-Qaeda wants that and we want that," he adds.

There is no history of widespread support for radical religious movements, and this is why al-Shabab's ideology is at odds with that held by many Somalis.

But al-Shabab does not tolerate dissent.

One 25-year-old woman, who did not want her name revealed, says that in late 2006 - when the Union of Islamic Courts were still in control of Mogadishu - al-Shabab ordered a cinema near her house to close.

Source: Shabelle Media Network