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Africa Horn
Islamic Courts shut out of April conference
2007-03-13
(SomaliNet) Somalia’s foreign minister Ismael Mohamud Hurre Buba has ruled out the attendance by the defeated Islamic leaders at the coming reconciliation conference which is due to be held inside the country on 16 April. In an interview with the London based Sharqal Awsat Arabic newspaper, Mr. Buba said no Islamist leader would participate the nation-wide conference that is expected to be opened in the capital next month. He underlined that what he called ‘Al-Qaeda linked international terrorists’ remain in Somalia waging war against the government interests.

Buba also said that President Abdulahi Yusuf will arrive in Mogadishu soon after clearing the terrorists who were based in the capital during the Islamist rule. It was for the first time that senior interim government official gives total rejection to the IslamistsÂ’ attendance to the meeting already announced to be held in Mogadishu, Somalia capital for all rival clans.
Posted by:Fred

#1  "Sure, they can show up, but we'd probably just shoot 'em..."
Posted by: mojo   2007-03-13 10:45  

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