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Islamist - 'We Do Not Want Your War. Do Not Enter Somalia'

Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
NEWS
December 7, 2006
Posted to the web December 7, 2006

By Aweys Osman Yusuf
Mogadishu
In a press conference held in the capital Mogadishu, the first acting chair of
Union of Islamic Courts executive council, Sheik Abdirahman Jiniqow, said the
UN Security Council resolution on Somalia was an aggression against the Somali
population.
He said there was never an arms embargo on Somalia. "Ethiopia has been
transporting arms and troops to Somalia and it has thousands of troops in the
country, no one criticized it instead Ethiopian troops in Somalia were
permitted lingering while additional African troops will be deployed", he said.
Ethiopia, which is America's main ally in the war on terror in Horn of Africa,
was blamed by Islamists that it has prepared draft resolution and took it to US
government to convince UN security council member states to lift the arms
embargo on Somalia and allow African peacekeepers go in the country.
Islamic Courts chairman Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahemd said the United States wants
to revenge on the Somali people in the war in which they had lost 18 soldiers
in 1993 when its troops were in Somalia for relief operations. "Our troops are
geared up to fight with any foreign soldier that comes to Somalia", Ahmed said.
He said Somalia needs international help to resume peaceful dialog. "We tell
you (African troop contributing states) that we do not need your war and your
unfairness. Don not enter Somalia or you will be defeated", he said.
Sheik Sharif said the UN did not make resolution of letting African troops in
Somalia but that it was America's decision.
Somalia's Union Islamic Courts seized central and southernmost of the country,
including the capital Mogadishu after it evicted warlords from the capital
forcefully early June this year.
The head of the Islamic Courts security department, Shiek Yusuf Mohammed Siyad
Indh-adde, reiterated that Muslims around the world should avert foreign
troops' entry to Somalia.
Earlier Islamic Courts leaders called on Muslims around the world to come to
Somalia's defense against Ethiopian troops in the country.
Somalia lost its central government in 1991 when tribal warlords overthrew
former president Siad Barre.


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