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3 May 2009 Somalia — The chairman of the
Asmara-based Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia
Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys has said on Saturday that the
world does not desire Somalia to have an Islamic
government.
Speaking to hundreds of Somalis in Abu Hurera
Mosque in the Somali capital Mogadishu, Sheik Hassan
Dahir Aweys said that the world separated Somalia into
many different parts adding that there had been an
Islamic government of Somalia which was collapsed
before hundred years ago.
"The world does not allow for Somalia to have an
Islamic government at the current and there was no
body who achieved that. Even if Somalia forms Islamic
administration, it is collapsed and divided into
different parts because there was an Islamic
government of Somalia that was collapsed before 100
years ago," Sheik Aweys said.
Sheik Aweys said that the United Islamic Courts
were controlling parts of the country for six months
and achieved to restore relative peace in the south
and central Somali saying that they had reopened
Mogadishu seaport and the international airport of
Somalia adding that they were conducted a military
steps and separated where they were expecting support.
The statement of the Islamist leader Sheik Hassan
Dahir Aweys comes as the Somali transitional
parliamentarians recently approved the Sharia law to
be ruled in the country.
ICU Forces Conduct Security
Operations in Beledweyn Town
In a separate occasion, Forces loyal to the Islamic
Courts Union have conducted security operations at
overnight in Beledweyn town in central Somalia,
witnesses told journalists on Saturday.
Reports say that the forces of the Islamic Courts
Union in Beledweyn town started operations against
armed militias who accustomed committng insecurity in
the town to assure the security of the town.
Locals said that armed forces accompanying more
battle wagons could be seen in the streets and
villages in the town searching the traffic and the
people they suspect which caused to halt the movement
of the people, business and the traffic in the town.
Earlier, the Islamic courts detained many people
those were accused of being behind insecurity actions
in Beledweyn town in Hiran region.
It is unclear how the ICU forces will continue
their operations in the town as other independent
armed forces are present in some villages in Beledweyn
town. |
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