
NAIROBI (AFP) – Hardline Somali leader??Sheikh
Hassan Dahir Aweys, who has spearheaded a deadly military offensive in
Mogadishu in recent days, on Thursday urged President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed to leave office."I am calling on Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed to abandon his self-proclaimed presidential job in order to spare the lives of
Somalis," Aweys told AFP by phone from the Somali capital.Dozens of people have been killed since last week when insurgent forces including the radical
Islamist Shebab group and Aweys' armed organisation Hezb al-Islam launched an unprecedented offensive to remove Ahmed from power.The internationally-backed
president of Somalia's transitional federal administration only controls a handful of streets and buildings in Mogadishu.On Thursday, insurgent fighters were deployed around the presidency and the capital's key institutions, in a tense standoff with
African Union peacekeepers and government forces."We have no real Somali government to speak of but foreign puppets who call themselves the leaders of Somalia," Awe

ys said, brushing off accusations by the United Nations that he was masterminding a coup."No country in the world will accept an imported leadership. The Somalis are equally free to reject that," he said...more..
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090514/wl_africa_afp/somaliaunrestpolitics_20090514110802INTERVIEW-U.N. envoy "destroying" Somalia - Aweys http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LE392447.htmMogadishu braces for final insurgent assaulthttp://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090514/wl_africa_afp/somaliaunrest_20090514114930
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