... the successor to the Islamic Courts...
Sheikh Ali Mohamoud Raghe alias Sheikh Ali Dhere, stated on Thursday that a coalition of forces, backed by NATO
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, is involved in a military campaign against the bad turbans.
Sheikh Dhere read a long list of governments and organizations taking part in the latest campaign against the fanatical Islamists, mentioning Uganda, Æthiopia, Kenya, Burundi, and Djibouti as being allies of the Transitional Federal Government.
He added that NATO is supporting "the hostile operation".
"NATO, which is a military pact and made of the strongest nations on earth has joined the war," announced the Al-Shabaab front man.
He added that the coalition was meant to defeat a small fraction of the Somali society.
"Al-Shabaab is made of less than 5 per cent of the Somali society," stated Sheikh Ali Dhere.
Speaking through al-Andalus, a broadcaster run by the bad turban group, he wondered why all those forces were united to fight Death Eaters from a small proportion of the Somali society.
"We urge the Mohammedan Somali people to help us defeat this invasion from 'non-Mohammedans," he said.