SHEIKH SHARIF A GREAT SOMALI HERO
Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 3:08 pm
Somalia can never forgive itself if anything happens to this man who is guilty of nothing but wanting a better day for his people.he wants the best for his ppl than compared to these cowards traitors who fled from somalia
Somalia's Islamic movement vow to continue fight
KISMAYO, Somalia: The leader of Somalia's Islamic political movement vowed Friday to continue the fight against Ethiopia, which lent key military support to the government in a campaign that saw the Islamic militia retreat from the capital a day earlier.
"We will not leave Somalia," Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, the executive leader of the Council of Islamic Courts, told The Associated Press. "We will not run away from our enemies."
He spoke in the southern coastal port of Kismayo, about 300 miles (about 500 kilometers) south of the capital, where his forces retreated after abandoning Mogadishu.
The Islamic movement had taken control of much of southern Somalia, often without fighting, after defeating a coalition of warlords to capture Mogadishu in June. But its fighters collapsed when Ethiopia, which has the most powerful army in the region, sent reinforcements across the border to help Somalia's internationally recognized government.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi had vowed Thursday to crush fighters he described as extremists in the Islamic movement and their foreign allies, predicting it would take a few weeks longer.
Ahmed's movement had pledged to bring Quranic law to Somalia, and some of its members espoused an extreme form of Islam. The United States accuses the movement of harboring al-Qaida terrorists.
Somalia's Islamic movement vow to continue fight
KISMAYO, Somalia: The leader of Somalia's Islamic political movement vowed Friday to continue the fight against Ethiopia, which lent key military support to the government in a campaign that saw the Islamic militia retreat from the capital a day earlier.
"We will not leave Somalia," Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, the executive leader of the Council of Islamic Courts, told The Associated Press. "We will not run away from our enemies."
He spoke in the southern coastal port of Kismayo, about 300 miles (about 500 kilometers) south of the capital, where his forces retreated after abandoning Mogadishu.
The Islamic movement had taken control of much of southern Somalia, often without fighting, after defeating a coalition of warlords to capture Mogadishu in June. But its fighters collapsed when Ethiopia, which has the most powerful army in the region, sent reinforcements across the border to help Somalia's internationally recognized government.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi had vowed Thursday to crush fighters he described as extremists in the Islamic movement and their foreign allies, predicting it would take a few weeks longer.
Ahmed's movement had pledged to bring Quranic law to Somalia, and some of its members espoused an extreme form of Islam. The United States accuses the movement of harboring al-Qaida terrorists.
