Businessman Bashir Raage Shirar who is member of Alliance for Restoration of Peace and Counter Terrorism (ARPTC) said they have indications that there are foreign fighters and other Somali tribes who were involved the recent battles in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Mr. Rage who was speaking with local media overnight said that anti terror alliance have facts that outside insurgents and other clan militias were fighting beside Islamic courts’ militiamen in Mogadishu. “Militias from Majerten, 0gaden of Darod clans and others fighters including 0romos, Sudanese, Arab, Afghanistan and Pakistani were involved in the battles that erupted in many locations of the capital” Mr. Rage urged the traditional elders of Darod clans to abstain from what he called the ‘fighting between the brothers’. But traditional elders and intellectuals from Darod clans in the capital denied the accusations of involving the recent clashes between anti terror alliance and Islamic courts’ union.
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