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Somalia: Al-Shabaab Spokesman Warned Additional Troops From AU

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Original Post Date: 2010-08-02 Time: 19:00:01  Posted By: News Poster

A spokesman for Somalia’s main armed opposition group has warned African Union against plans to send additional troops to the war-ravaged country.

Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage aka Ali Dhere, the spokesman of al-Shabab, said that the new troops will end up in the same fate as the 6,000 peacekeepers are already in Mogadishu, warning African population not to allow their sons to be deployed in Somalia.

“The new troops will be met with strong resistance, and we will annihilate them just like those present. We will not allow more troops in our country,” he warned.

He said that the fragile UN-backed transitional government has failed in convincing its western and African masters to have support, adding that AU has no capacity to deploy extra troops while not finishing the 8,000-strong force it first pledged.

Earlier this week, African leaders at a summit in Kampala Uganda, pledged some 4,000 more troops to join the 6,000 Ugandan and Burundian soldiers serving African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia.

Al-Shabaab, which controls large swathes of territories is waging daily attacks against the AU forces, which are protecting UN-backed Somali transitional government in Mogadishu.

Meanwhile, Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni said his soldiers is ready to engage the militant Al-Shabaab. Uganda has some 3000 peacekeepers serving the mission in Mogadishu.

Original date published: 2 August 2010

Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201008021231.html?viewall=1