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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. |
11:00 GMT
