MOGADISHU, March 31 (Reuters) - Somalia's hardline Islamist opposition leader Hassan Dahir Aweyseys has quit self-imposed....???exile in Eritrea for neighbouring Sudan and may return to Mogadishu soon, Somali media said on Tuesday. Aweys, 62, is on a U.S. list of terrorism suspects. He is a former chairman of the Islamic Courts Union that ruled Somalia's capital in 2006 until being ousted by Ethiopian troops. He worked alongside his country's moderate Islamist president, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, in the Islamic Courts and they later founded the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia. Earlier this year, Ahmed was elected president by lawmakers at U.N.-hosted talks in Djibouti. Radio stations in Mogadishu said Aweys was in Khartoum and held talks on Tuesday with two senior Sudanese officials. They said he was expected to fly to the Somali capital later to offer his support to Ahmed's new administration.
The endorsement of Aweys would be a boost for Ahmed, who faces the daunting task of trying to establish a new national security force and persuade heavily-armed Islamist guerrillas to back his government in the interests of peace
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Somalia:Terrorist leader Sheik Hassan Daahir Aweys escapes from house arrest in Eritrea...Once a jehadist, Always a jehadist
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