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Somalia: Islamists extend invite to foreign fighters
28 Nov 28, 2006, 19:23





Indha Ade, security chief
MOGADISHU, Somalia Nov 28 (Garowe Online) - The Islamic Courts Council has extended an invitation to “foreign fighters” from Muslim countries to come join their cause if the 1992 UN arms embargo on Somalia is lifted.



“We proclaim to the Muslims of the world to prepare for jihad and we invite Muslims of the world to come inside Somalia,” Yusuf Indha Ade, the Islamists’ head of security, said while addressing a public rally in Mogadishu on Tuesday.



Hundreds of supporters rallied in Mogadishu against Ethiopian military intervention and plans to lift the arms embargo, a move proposed and supported by Somalia’s weak, two-year interim government.



The government’s authority is limited to the inland city of Baidoa and is reliant on IGAD military support, especially from neighboring Ethiopia.




Somalis demonstrate against foreign troops
The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an East African regional grouping that sponsored the Somali peace talks in Kenya, has proposed plans to deploy 8,000 peacekeepers to assist the Baidoa-based government assert its authority.



At Tuesday's rally, Islamist leaders, including Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, again rejected any plans to lift the arms embargo and vowed to wage jihad against any foreign peacekeeping force in Somalia.



Aside from the Mogadishu region, the Islamist militia is either in full or partial control of 10 of Somalia’s original 18 regions, including strategic southern ports on the Indian Ocean coast.



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