Somali talaban Interior Minister Injured in Roadside Attack..jehadist getting some of his own medicine

Somalia's talaban interior minister was injured, and one of his guards killed, in a roadside explosion in the capital, Mogadishu. The attack is the latest reminder of the challenges Somalia's new talaban government faces in restoring security to the country. Interior minister ex- jehadist Abdulkadir Ali Omar was attacked in the city's busy Bakara Market. He escaped with an injured leg, but one of his guards was killed.Omar convened a news conference shortly after the attack.He said the government would continue to work for peace even if its members are killed. He said that everybody knows each other in Mogadishu and the government knows who is responsible for the attack, but would not accuse any group at the moment. No one has claimed responsibility, but Islamist insurgents opposed to the government have launched sporadic attacks on government troops and African Union peacekeepers in the capital.The militias, including the Islamic Party and al-Shabab, which has ties to al-Qaida as well as Somalia's new talaban president Sheikh Sharif Ahmed and many of his ministers, were all members of the same Islamist movement that took control of the country in 2006. President Ahmed was the chairman of the jehadist Islamic Courts Union, and Interior Minister jehadist Omar the deputy chair.Ethiopian troops drove the Islamists out of Mogadishu in late 2006, and Islamists waged a two-year insurgency before the Ethiopians withdrew earlier this year. Meanwhile, a faction of more moderate Islamists ???led by President Ahmed signed up to a U.N.-backed peace process that led to his election shortly after the Ethiopian withdrawal.Al-Shabab, which maintains the most powerful presence, has dismissed President Ahmed as a western puppet and has vowed to continue opposing his government. The Islamic Party(hawiye ), a group of other Islamist militias has also rejected the new government..more..http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-03-26-voa19.cfm.. our sourse..
A remote controlled Bomb injured the ex - Terrorist now interior minister of Somalia Sheik Abdulkadir Ali Omar and killed one of his secretary near his house in Bakara market in Mogadishu, witnesses said on Thursday. .. Residents said the minister was injured on the leg after the bomb targeted him near his house and killed the secretary who was with him at the time of the blast attack.
Sheik Abdulkadir was a former jehadist Insurgent leader and he remained in the country when the leaders of the jehadist Islamic Courts Union during the Ethiopia to come to the rescue of the TFG . There is no word from the minister and the government. The responsibility of the attack has been claimed yet. Insurgent jehadist groups including al-Shabab vowed to continue the fighting against the new talaban government.
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