Somalia:President back to capital, denounces attack on AU soldiers.

Mogadishu 22 Fabaury 2009 Waagacusub Media

Somalia’s new president Sharif Sheik Ahmed has returned back to the capital of Mogadishu on Monday condemning the recent suicide attack on African Union peacekeepers killing 11 soldiers as unlawful and inhuman.

Special plan carrying the president and his delegation landed on Mogadishu’s airport this morning as the security was tightened by the government’s joint forces of secular and Islamists.

The president told reporters at the airport that he was so sorry about the deaths of the Burundian soldiers killed in the yesterday’s suicide blast which claimed by the Al Shabab Islamist group.

He sent condolence to the government of Burundi and families whose men killed in the suicide attack.

`` the AU peacekeepers did not come to Somalia to kill the people but to help Somalis and it is certain that they will pull out of the country through peaceful means not by force. Their withdrawal will come when peace agreement reached,`` said president Ahmed.


He reiterated his call for peace and ready to negotiate with the rebel groups at all costs. “I believe that any difference could be solved through dialogue,” added Ahmed.

The moderate leader welcomed the recent statement by the religious clerics who had been meeting in Mogadishu a week long and called for total withdrawal of AU troops from Somalia within 120 days.

By:Dahir Abdulle Alasow
Dahiralasow@yahoo.com