Somalia: MP blames president Yusuf and his premier on assassination attempt
Wed. June 27, 2007 10:06 pm.- By Mohamed Abdi Farah. - Send this news article
(SomaliNet) Barre Aden Shire ‘hirale’, who had today escaped a roadside bomb aimed to kill him near Bardhere town, south of Somalia, said late Wednesday that the senior officials of the transitional government like president Abdulahi Yusuf and his premier Ali Gedi were behind what he called ‘the assassination attempt on his life’.
Speaking to the local media tonight, Mr. Aden indicated the today’s bomb attack on his car was an attempt on his life. “I suspect that this terror act was a work planned by president Yusuf and his prime minister Ali Gedi and I don’t known why they are still after me,”
Mr. Aden, former defense minister but now a member of parliament admitted that the government’s top officials have deep animosity with him.
“Even I was told that there were celebrations formed in the presidential palace in Mogadishu when the news of my injury came in and that shows me that the government would be very happy with my death but fortunately I survived,” added Aden.
He said that he had lost his driver in the explosion and received light injury on his right eye and is now recovering.
When the roadside bomb exploded on the convoy, some of the local officials who were accompanying Mr. Aden also received injuries and are now being treated in the local hospital.
Three months ago, Mr. Barre was fired from the post of the defense minister after the TFG blamed him for not doing his work properly.
