NAIROBI, April 21 (Reuters) - Somalia's hardline Islamist opposition??? Al-Qaida in Somalia. ... Terrorist leader Sheikh Hassan Daahir Aweys has returned to his exile base in Eritrea without meeting Somalia's new President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, a close ally said on Tuesday. Aweys, 62, is on a U.S. list of terrorism suspects. He quit self-imposed exile in Eritrea last month and went to Sudan for what some Somalis had hoped would be reconciliation meetings with the president and members of parliament from his clan. His return to Asmara is another setback 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. "He returned as he had planned. He has been in Asmara for the last three days," said Jama' Mohamed Khalib, deputy chairman of the opposition Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS) in Asmara, and an Aweys ally. "Khartoum is not his base. He went back to the ARS base in Asmara. He has no animosity with (Somali) government officials," he told Reuters by phone from Eritrea.
Aweys and Ahmed had worked alongside one another in the Islamic Courts Union that ruled Somalia's capital in 2006 before being ousted by Ethiopian troops.
They later formed the ARS in Eritrea but fell out when Ahmed joined a U.N.-hosted peace process in neighbouring Djibouti. Ahmed was elected Somalia's first Islamist president by lawmakers meeting in Djibouti in January..more..http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LL940173.htm
Somali opposition leader quits ???Eritrea for Sudan ..we break 2 days ago..Jump on the ban wagon
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