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STORY: SOMALIA / BOMB-MAKING FACTORY
TRT: 1.52
SOURCE: AMISOM
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 15 AUGUST 2011, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
1. Wide shot, exterior of bomb-making factory
2. Various shots, chemicals, detonators and other bomb-making materials
3. Close up, a cabinet containing grenades
4. Close up, machine gun
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Lt Col Paddy Ankunda, AMISOM Spokesman:
“Our forces, working on information provided by the TFG police and civilians, managed to discover a factory that was being used by the al-Shabab to make bombs. And these bombs were one of the causes of the suffering of the people on the streets because they are being employed as roadside bombs, as improvised explosive devices, and we lost many people to such bombs.”
6. Close up, bomb-making diagram
7. Various shots, bomb-making materials
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Lt Col Paddy Ankunda, AMISOM Spokesman:
“It means that they have to change their tactics, because after loosing the frontlines, they had hoped that they would use, they would employ guerrilla tactics, and now that we have this factory it’s going to be difficult for them.”
9. Various shots, AMISOM troops as they carefully collect the explosives
10. Various shots, AMISOM troops carrying mortar shells out of the building
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Lt Col Kayanja Muhanga, AMISOM Battle Group Commander:
“There was quite some resistance, because it took us two days to reach here, yes, it took us some two days to reach this place, yes, quite some resistance and we had to fight with them.”
12. Various shots, mortar shells and grenades lined up outside the factory.
The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) uncovered a large bomb-making factory in a former steel plant in Mogadishu on Monday (15 August).
AMISOM troops carefully collected the bomb making components including improvised detonators, switches for suicide vests and a considerable amount of explosives.
SOUNDBITE (English) Lt Col Paddy Ankunda, AMISOM Spokesman:
“Our forces, working on information provided by the TFG police and civilians, managed to discover a factory that was being used by the Al-Shabaab to make bombs. And these bombs were one of the causes of the suffering of the people on the streets because they are being employed as roadside bombs, as improvised explosive devices, and we lost many people to such bombs.”
The discovery came about as AMISOM and Government troops pushed back the Al-Shabaab rebel forces from an industrial part of town.
SOUNDBITE (English) Lt Col Paddy Ankunda, AMISOM Spokesman:
“It means that they have to change their tactics, because after loosing the frontlines, they had hoped that they would use, they would employ guerrilla tactics, and now that we have this factory it’s going to be difficult for them.”
AMISOM took control of the building after a two-day operation aimed at dislodging al-Shabab extremists occupying a former steel factory located north of Wardhigley district.
SOUNDBITE (English) Lt Col Kayanja Muhanga, AMISOM Battle Group Commander:
“There was quite some resistance, because it took us two days to reach here, yes, it took us some two days to reach this place, yes, quite some resistance and we had to fight with them.”
AMISOM and Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) have been making gains against Al-Shabaab militants in recent months. The fighting had already uprooted tens of thousands of people in Mogadishu before the current humanitarian crisis began.
Ongoing insecurity and drought, as well as famine in parts of southern Somalia, have caused a massive influx of starving adults and children into the city in the past two months.
Somalia has had no fully functioning national government and has been wracked by factional warfare since the collapse in 1991 of the administration led by the late Muhammad Siad Barre.
