(SomaliNet) The Somali transitional federal government has on Thursday arrested prominent business and political figures in the capital ostensibly suspecting them to be behind the terror network. Heavily armed government forces this morning stormed a building in Bakara market where they apprehended several high profile men from Hawiye clan. Witnesses told Somalinet that the forces surrounded the building and forced guards to surrender their weapons. Then they entered building, ordered the political and business figures to raise up their hands and took them to an unknown location. Among the arrested men were Dr. Mohamed Mohamud Ulosow, a well-known politician and Ali Iman Sharmarke, one of the share holders of Horn Afrik Media in Mogadishu. Just in reports say that all the detained men were released after they had been questioned for their involvement of the terror acts in the capital. “This was not what we were expecting from the government because the forces dealt us as we were criminals and we really had been disgraced... they ordered us to sit down on a sunny ground, this was inhuman act done to such high profile people,” Dr.Ulusow told the local reporters after their release.
The transitional government in Mogadishu now continues a wide-spread disarmament operations aimed to restore law and order and to clear what it called ‘all the terror suspects’ from the capital. Also in the news, the chairman of Hawiye clan Haji Abdi Iman was released today. On Wednesday, the security forces arrested Haji Iman from his house in Yaqshid neighborhood, north of the capital.