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Al-shabab leaders meet in southwestern Somalia town
(Sh. M. Network)-- Top Al-shabab leaders have had a meeting with some elders in Southwestern Somali town Dinsor in Bay region, asking for help,reports said on wednesday.

As sources in Dinsor district have confirmed Shabelle Radio, that key members from Al-shabab, including foreign officers from Al-qaeda and local elders who were forced to attend that meeting by Al-shabaab have had the meeting in the town.

The forced elders who attended the meeting came from the regions of Bay, Bakool and Gedo. Some of these elders who spoke Shabelle, told that the meeting was being discussed how Al-shabaab can retake the control of the captured areas by the TFG forces backed by Ethiopian troops.

The Al-shabab officers have forced the elders to bring each clan its young boys to be recruited by Al-shabab, in a bid to fight against the TFG and countries who invaded the country, as they put it.

It is reported that, the officers who took part the meeting were the leaders of the regional administrations of Al-shabab of Bay, Bakool and Gedo regions, while some reports indicate that the leader of Al-shabab Sheikh Muktar Abdirahman known as Zubeyr has also participated the meeting.

However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
it is not known how that meeting can help Al-shabab, as the cut-thoat radical group lost some key strategic towns in Somalia, like Hiran, Bay, Bakol and Gedo, while it is also facing huge military pardons of war against them.
Posted by: Fred 2012-03-26
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