Somalia:Al-Shabab forms regional Islamic state.

Baidao 20 Fabaury 2009 Waagacusub Media

Somalia’s Islamist hardliners of Al-Shabab on Friday declared an independent Islamic administration in Baidao town, 250km southwest of the capital Mogadishu which rules Al-Shabab controlled regions with Sharia law.

The local Islamic administration that was announced in a meeting held in former parliament house in Baidoa will be under the control of Al-Shabab hardliners.

It was the first time that Al-Shabab Islamists form an administration since they captured the strategic town of Baidoa from the transitional federal government on 26 January day after the Ethiopian forces withdrew from there.

Islamic officers of Al-Shabab told the local media that they appointed Sheik Hassan Mohamed ‘Ayman’ as the head of the local administration in Bay and Bakol regions.

Local elders, Islamist Sufi clerics and other intellectuals in the region attended at the occasion as the security was tightened by Islamist fighters.

After the declaration of the Islamic autonomy, Sheik Ayman asked for the public in the region to support his administration and help restore peace and stability in the southwest regions.

This comes as some of the parliament members that ousted from Baidoa by Al-Shabab group now involves in military preparations Hudur town bordering with Ethiopia aimed to recapture, according to the resident told Waagacusub.
 

By:Dahir Abdulle Alasow
Dahiralasow@yahoo.com