CIA on track with five "Al-Qaeda suspects" in Somalia

Washington 12 April, 06 ( Sh.M.Network) Group with Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) asked Somali militias and factional leaders to join US security campaign for power spreading to hunting five of members of Al-Qaeda network who believed to escape into central Somali capital of Mogadishu.

Top official of Somali federal government told London based Asharqal Awsat newspaper that his government made series contacts with US representatives and Somali armed leaders to prepare terror hunting campaign to arrest five suspects of Al-Qaeda those three of them had not had Somali passport.

The TFG official who requested not to be mentioned, also said Somali federal government still didn’t receive the names of the five persons but they got reports relating to the US list of Al-Qaeda suspects, which was not officially known where it quoted.

Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi had several times requested US government to suspend its contacts with faction leaders since his government was not aware of what Americans searching for but Mr Gedi yet received any response to his appeal.
The US terror hunting campaign against militants and Islamic radicals in Somalia came as people worry about renewed fighting between Islamic courts militias and counter terrorism alliance which Somali government blamed them to have direct financial and technical support from the US government.

The CIA said Sheik Hassan Dahir Awies who is one of leading figures of Somali Islamic militants harbored terrorist members in Mogadishu, but sheik Aweys told Asharqal Awsat paper that he didn’t host any terrorists saying the American cruelty to Somali people prompted to create such baseless assertions.

Sheik Aweys, 60 aged, told the paper in the telephone line in Mogadishu that Al-Qaeda is not available absolutely in Somalia, saying Somalis were consist of tribes or clans and it is known deeply what it is inside of each clan men and secondly a foreign man couldn’t be hidden in Somalia devastated with civil war.

He also stated that only US government has the information over Al-Qaeda suspects in Somalia. He said that Al-Itihad Al-Islami which linked with Al-Qaeda is now offstage in the Somali politics.
Sheik Aweys who is a target of CIA and Ethiopian government blaming of supporting terrorists, pointed out that charges against him were the result of his beliefs towards creating Islamic state in Somalia.

Sheik said “We work on light, it is not disguise that my political agenda is to get Somalia Islamic government and I am not afraid of getting in the hands of America and Ethiopia”
He indicated how he was opposite against plans of Somali president Abdilahi Yusuf and premier Gedi over their demand of foreign troops deployment in Somalia from its enemy neighborhoods like Ethiopia. He said Somali society would see any troops from the region as enemy and will resist against them.

M.A Farah