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We Will Launch a Jihad War Against Any Foreign Forces Deployed in Our Country
Say Islamist

Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
NEWS
December 3, 2006
Posted to the web December 3, 2006

By Aweys Osman Yusuf
Mogadishu
By Monday member states of UN Security Council is hoped to convene on the US
backed sketchy resolution on partially lifting the arms embargo on the volatile
country, Somalia. If UN Security Council agrees on lifting arms embargo on
Somalia, it will let peacekeeping forces from East African states, apart from
frontline states Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti, to intervene Somalia where
swathe of most strategic areas are under the sinewy hands of Islamic Courts.
Shabelle Radio in the capital Mogadishu invited last night the consultative
leader of the Union of Islamic Courts Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys at the studio to
openly reveal their organization's political agenda and view over foreign
military intervention in the country, answering audience's questions locally
and internationally.
Reacting to John Bolton's circulating draft resolutions to the Security Council
over allowing African peacekeeping mission to be deployed in Somalia, Hassan
Dahir Aweys stated that US government failed many times in Somalia.
"America has funded warlords who have tormented the Somali people for the past
15 years so that Somali population remain without law and order.When that could
not work, it is now working ways to shutter the brighter peace that has emerged
for the Somali people by bringing African troops to back up Ethiopian backed
government that is leading the enemy to Somalia", Aweys said at Shabelle Radio
studio on Saturday evening.
Aweys reiterated, "We will launch a jihad war against any foreign forces
deployed in Somalia regardless of which country they are from. All African
states refused to send troops to the controversial territory of Somalia, so
America wants Ethiopia which already has thousands of troops in the country to
be given the title of peacekeeping mission in excuse that other African states
rebuffed sending their troops to Somalia."
A direct question from Khalid Mohamood, a journalist for Asharqalawsat
newspaper based in London was put to Aweys concerning if Islamic Courts would
negotiate with the fragile transitional government based in Baidoa, while Kenya
was member of the talks mediators in the upcoming conference in Khartoum.
Aweys said "We suspect Kenya is biased with one side and it the one campaigning
for peacekeeping troops brought to Somalia, but lately there are ongoing
negotiations between the Kenyan government and us. They have sent us
delegations trying to calm the situation, so we are hopeful that the
negotiations will end in success before Khartoum talks with the government."
The third round peace talks between the transitional government and Islamic
Courts ended in failure on early November after both delegations could not
compromise on conditions before the talks opened.
Mid November, Somalia's parliament speaker Sharif Hassan Sheik Aden accompanied
by 67 MPs arrived in Mogadishu trying to renovate the peace talk. Two days
after, the MPs and Islamic Courts have signed deals including that Ethiopian
government should withdraw its military forces from Somalia.
Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Gedi said the deals the parliament speaker and the
number of MPs had made with Islamists were null and void as speaker Aden did
not have the authorization of the government to make deals with Union of
Islamic Courts based in the capital Mogadishu.
Somalia had lost its central authority in 1991 when warlords overthrew
President Siad Barre and then turned on one another plunging Somalia in
anarchic situation.
Somalia's vying parties are expected to go to the Sudanese capital Khartoum for
third round talks in mid December in spite of US ambassador to the United
Nations John Bolton's campaign for African troop deployment in the only country
in the world without an effective central institutions.


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