Al-shabab denies involving assassinations
Posted: 4/17/2009 5:31:00 PM
Shabelle: SOMALIA
MOGADISHU (Sh. M. Network) – Sheik Moktar Robow Ali known as (Abu Mansor), the spokesman of the Islamist group of Al-Shabab has held a press conference through the telephone overnight and denied that they had involved recent assassinations in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
Sheik Abu Mansor said that those who were shot and killed were famous Islamist fighters and took part the fighting against Ethiopian troops who invaded in Somalia and he said that they were not behind their killing.
“We are also calling for those who are against to attack the foreign troops in Mogadishu to be silent from the Mujahidiin (Islamist fighters) or join them to attend the war against the presence of foreign troops in the country,” Sheik Moktar said.
Sheik Abu Mansor also said that some of their bases in the capital were attacked claiming that they captured two of the groups who attacked them and one vehicle.
The statement of the Islamic organization of Al-Shabab comes as the Islamic Courts Union officials said that they have evidence that Al-Shabab organization was behind the recent assassinations of some of their officers in Mogadishu.
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