From: wolda002@umn.edu
Date: Thu Jul 10 2008 - 00:13:35 EDT
Government Denies Killing Local UN Chief
Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
NEWS
9 July 2008
Posted to the web 9 July 2008
By Abdinasir Mohamed Guled
Somali government Wednesday denied Alshabab group's remarks on being behind
the killing of the Somalia chief of United Nations development agency this
week and accused Alshabab islamists of carrying it out.
The mayor/governor of Mogadishu Mohamed Omar Habeb Aka Mohamed Dhere has
stepped aside his administration from the killing of UNDP chief in
Mogadishu saying that his administration is not likely to carry out such
killing.
"Alshabab are those kill civilians and essential officials they killed the
official from UNDP and that is accurate "glance back how they killed some
traders in Mogadishu" Mr Dhere said in an interview with Shabelle radio.
He added that as Banadir administration by respecting the ceasefire deal
signed in Djibouti they stopped the military operations against the
islamists saying that they would establish new military tactics when the
premier arrives in Mogadishu.
Elsewhere an Alshabab Islamic group has as well ruled of being behind the
killing of UNDP chief in Mogadishu Osman Ali Ahmed.
Mr.Ahmed, chief of Somalia office for United Nations Development Program,
was shot dead Sunday by unknown gunmen as he left evening prayers from a
mosque near his home in south Mogadishu.
"All the Mujahedeen (fighters) are not behind his (Osman Ali's) killing and
it is not becoming of them to kill important persons who help the Somali
people on whose behalf we are fighting but the enemy of Allah (Ethiopia)
are behind his killing," Muqtar Robow Abu Mansuur, spokesman for Al-shabaab
Islamist movement told reports in a telephone press conference.
Ahmed was the latest of string of killings and kidnapping of senior social
and business leaders or local and international aid workers in the Somalia.
Islamist insurgents groups often deny carrying out those killings.
Insurgent fighters opposed to the Somali transitional government and the
presence of Ethiopian and other foreign forces in Somalia usually target
Ethiopian troops and Somali government officials and forces.
The fighters have been waging guerilla war since a joint Ethiopian and
Somali government forces ousted an Islamist administration that had been in
control in much of south and central Somalia.
Somali government and Ethiopian troops accused the movement of threatening
the national security of Ethiopia and of challenging the authority of the
internationally recognized interim Somali government which was then based
in the southern Somali town of Baidoa, 250 km southwest of Mogadishu.
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