Kenya has been sucked into the Somali conflict after a key radical on the US terror watch-list used a Nairobi-based airline to fly to Mogadishu from Eritrea. The Somali government has written a protest note to Nairobi after Sheikh Dahir Aweys flew on a plane owned by Capital Airlines, which is based at Wilson Airport,Sheikh Aweys and six other Somali nationals took the flight on April 22, 2009, and now the government in Mogadishu is accusing Kenya, of aiding one of the men on the US list of wanted terrorists, who is also accused of links to Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network.
About to crumble
The Somali government is about to crumble as forces from Sheikh Aweys’ Hizb-al-Islam together with fighters from the Al-Shabab movement threaten to take over the capital, Mogadishu. “It is true that the said Kenyan aircraft flew Sheikh Aweys into Mogadishu and the Somali government has written to allies active in Kenya, through the Foreign Affairs ministry to complain about it,” a source privy to the letter but who sought anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter said.
The United Nations has placed Sheikh Aweys on a list of people “belonging to or associated with” al Qaeda while Washington has ruled out contact with Sheikh Aweys, who denies links to al Qaeda. Fighters from Hizb-al-Islam and Al Shaabab are reported to be within 50 kilometres of the Somali capital.
Sheikh Aweys has in the past called for the unification of all Somali-inhabited lands, including Kenya’s North Eastern Province, into a Greater Somalia. In the 1990s, Sheikh Aweys headed al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, an Islamist group that was responsible for terrorist attacks on hotels and markets in Addis
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