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Islamic Courts Object to AU Decision of Deploying Peacekeepers

Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
NEWS
September 14, 2006
Posted to the web September 14, 2006

By Aweys Osman Yusuf
Mogadishu
Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts clarified in a statement they issued that are
vehemently opposed to the decision reached in Addis Ababa Ethiopia by the
African Union and IGAD to deploy 8,000 African peacekeeping forces to Somalia.
Abdirahman Ali Mudey, the Islamic Courts' information officer, stated that AU's
decision was impulsive and might bring back bloodshed into war-ravaged country.
"Deploying unwanted peacekeepers in Somalia is in fact a perilous decision made
by AU and we will never forsake our stance of turning down any foreign
intervention in our country", Mudey Said.
About eight thousand African peacekeepers are due to arrive in Somalia within
next month as made clear by African Union authorities in their last decision.
Earlier Somalia's Islamists threatened that Somalia would be a graveyard for
any foreign soldier who lays his foot in Somalia.
Ethiopia and Uganda are the only governments, known up to now, that have
military troops in Somalia.


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