From: Berhane Habtemariam (Berhane.Habtemariam@gmx.de)
Date: Sun Sep 14 2008 - 06:43:53 EDT
UIC vows to prevent abduction of Somalis
Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:47:54 GMT
US soldiers at the international airport in Mogadishu
Al Shabaab vow to fight the extraordinary rendition of innocent people through Aden Adde Airport in Somalia to secret foreign jails.
Press TV correspondent in Mogadishu reports that the Union of the Islamic Court's military arm, Al Shabaab are prepared to attack any plane landing at the international airport in response to Uganda and the US' illegal use of the airport to kidnap people from the country.
The final destination of the abductees is unknown but Al Shabaab claims that the US has clandestine prison facilities in Africa.
Warning notes, including the promise of retaliation against any further use of the airport for these covert missions by international agencies has surfaced in Mogadishu, our correspondent reports.
The UIC has been trying to reestablish order in the country after it was ousted by the current Transitional Federal Government backed by Ethiopia and the US in 2007.
Fighting in the Horn of Africa nation has claimed the lives of thousands of civilians and displaced nearly a million in a humanitarian crisis which already has to contend with drought, spiraling food prices and an uncontrollable inflation.
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