‘We are fighting children in Mogadishu,’ says Somali leader

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‘We are fighting children in Mogadishu,’ says Somali leader

18 Apr 18, 2008 - 9:26:55 AM



MOGADISHU, Somalia Apr 18 (Garowe Online) - Somalia’s interim president has said that his government can crush the armed opposition, which is being spearheaded by “children named al Shabaab.”

In a Friday interview with the VOA Somali Service, President Abdullahi Yusuf said the Somali transitional government has the military capacity to completely crush al Shabaab and other armed opposition groups fighting in the capital, Mogadishu.

We are concerned about the safety of civilians for we cannot fight among them against these children,” President Yusuf said, adding: “ do not hear anything, do not know anything, have no academic knowledge and are bought for petty Shillings by opposition leaders.”

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He indicated that al Shabaab is a guerrilla group that is incapable of maintaining control of towns the group captures, saying: “Their objective is propaganda to tell the world that they exist and that there is chaos ,” President Yusuf added.

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