
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) —
Terrorist Apologist Ahmedou Ould The United Nations' top
'UN envoy for Somalia blamed Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys Wednesday for recent fighting in Mogadishu and accused him of seeking to topple the country's government."Aweys came to take power and topple a legitimate regime," Ahmedou Ould Abdallah told reporters on the sidelines of a meeting on Somalia at the African Union's headquarters in Addis Ababa."The attacks of the past few days, all that has happened in Mogadishu lately, it's an attempt to seize power by force, it's a coup attempt," he said.Clashes that started last week between forces loyal to the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and radical forces including members of the Shebab group have left some 100 people dead.Aweys and Sharif were two of the Islamist leaders who took over most of Somalia in 2006 before being ousted by an Ethiopian invasion in support of the TFG.Sharif eventually joined the UN-sponsored reconciliation process based in Djibouti and was elected Somalia's president in January, days after Ethiopia completed its military pullout.
Aweys has always rejected the Djibouti process and returned from exile in Eritrea last month, vowing he would continue to oppose the government so long as African Union peacekeepers remained on Somali soil...more..
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gFz49kXW-xr8DGq5w3550pJ_rAPgBattles rage in Somalia, world calls for calmhttp://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE54C47X20090513?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews
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