 (SomaliNet) Reliable sources say former trade minister Muse Sudi Yalahow and warlord turned businessman Bashir Rage Shirar in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia announced on Wednesday that they gave up the membership of anti terror alliance after having consultation with intellectuals of their clan.
| 'Intellectuals'? Aren't they supposed to put that in BBC-style quotes? |
Both men who lost in more than months fighting with Islamic fighters in the capital, said they grasped that they were misled by non-peace loving people who led them into disaster and now back to the right path, aide official said.
| "We never liked him. We only joined the Party for the business contacts." |
Sudi and Rage threatened that they will fight against any foreign troops entering in Somalia but it is not clear whether they joined supporting Islamic courts. Earlier, Colonel Abdi Hassan Aawale ‘Qeybdid’, former Somalia police chief, told the reporters in Mogadishu he withdrew the coalition of counter terrorism after accepting an advice from his clan men.
| "You better quit now, before they kill you, Abdy." |
The back out of these three men is another severe blow to the US backed alliance for restoration of peace and counter terrorism (ARPCT) which contained of powerful warlords who faced unrecoverable lose in more than decade. Just in reports say that former minister of religion Omar Mohamud Mohamed known ‘filish’ who remains in Mogadishu is now considering to back out the alliance after facing hard pressure from his clan men who advise him give up membership quickly. Mogadishu’s Somalinet correspondent Mohamed Abdi says the alliance of warlords born with constant failures and got huge collapse after they lost key strategy towns including the capital city.
| So mostly what they were good for was slapping civilians around and strutting their stuff for the girlies to admire. |
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