(SomaliNet) Somalia's powerful Islamic Courts announced they will forcefully free Somali cleric who is held in prison by Somaliland authority if they don't release him safely. The head of Islamic Courts in Juba provinces in southern Somalia Sheik Hassan Abdulahi Hersi known as "Turki" indicated that his Islamic forces would launch tough measure against the arrest of Sheik Mohamed Ismael, a well known Islamist man by Somaliland. He said Islamic fighters will go to Hargeisa city and release him from the jail forcefully if the Somaliland authority would not comply with the calls from Somali religious people to let him free.
Sheik Hassan Turki also briefed his trip to Afdmadow town of Lower Juba region saying that his goal is to practice the Islamic law in completely southern Somalia and establish an Islamic authority in each settlement. He said his troops also reached today in Sakow and Buale environs in middle Juba region where they have received a warm welcome from the inhabitants who have chosen the rule of Islam. |