Sunday, March 22, 2009
Mogadishu, Somalia (APA) - Somali extremists in southern Somalia on Sunday welcomed the recent announcement by Osama Bin Ladin for the uprooting of the month and a half old government in Somalia, according to a spokesman of the Islamic administration in Kismayo in Lower Jubba region.
“This is a holy message to Islamic fighters in Somalia. It is a clear and welcomed message,” Sheikh Hassan Yacquub, the spokesman of the Islamic administration in Kismayo said during a press conference held in Kismayo on Sunday.
The statement by Sheikh Yacqub comes after the Al-Qaeda leader called on Islamist warriors to overthrow the newly elected Somali president, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed.
Somalia, which has not had a functioning central government since 1991, when Somali war lords ousted the country’s former regime of Mohamed Siad Barre, is recently making some improvement towards the right path of peace.
Late in January, Somali law markers elected Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, a former geography teacher and head of the main group of the opposition as the country’s new president.
Source: APA, Mar 22, 2009