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Islamist: Bush advised to abandon resolution of elevating arms embargo on Somalia.
Wednesday Nov. 29, 2006
12:30 PM
By Sh.M.Network
The Union of Islamic Courts consultative leader Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys has advised US president Goerge W. Bush to back down the draft plan of lifting the arms embargo on Somalia.
Aweys has told London based Asharqalawsat that he would call on the international community and the UN Security Council not to elevate the arms embargo on Somalia, warning that lifting the embargo would give rise to regional wars.
He said America failed in Operation Restore Hope in 1993 when more than 30 countries led by the United States contributed peacekeeping forces to Somalia, adding: “America wants to retrigger a civil war in Somalia by using allied countries in the Horn of Africa”.
In a huge rally organized by Islamic Courts in the capital, senior leaders of Islamists threatened they would call on the world Muslims to come to Somalia and take part in a jihad war against Ethiopia.
Islamists head for education department Fuad Khalaf told rally makers that schools and universities would be closed if the war started while teachers and students would become members of jihadists.
Aweys has pointed out that the American draft resolution on Somalia was an evil one orchestrated by the United States and Ethiopia which he said have interests in creating anarchy and war in Somalia.
Somalia has been in the hand of factional clan leaders in the past 15 years following the fall of former government in 1991.
Islamists seized most strategic provinces in central and southern Somalia early June this year and have opposed foreign peacekeepers to be brought in Somalia.
The weak interim government based in Baidoa, 250 km southwest of the capital, intends to ask more African countries particularly neighboring countries like Ethiopia to penetrate in Somalia for peacekeeping mission, taking advantage of UN's expected lifting of arms embargo on Somalia.
Ethiopia has revealed that Ethiopia had thousands of troops in Somalia. Ethiopia admits it has several hundreds of military trainers in the country.
Aweys stressed that Bush wants to complete the unfinished business of his father towards Somalia in early 1990s. “The current Bush's father wanted to control Somalia but that did not work according to his plan”, he said. |
