Somalia: Hizbul-Islam vows to fight Al-Sabab martyrs

Mogadishu Wednesday 30 Sep 2009 Shaaficiyah Media

Hizbul-Islam wic is one of the strong factions against the Somalia Federal Government has vowed on Wednesday to fight against its closest ally.

“If at all fighting erupts in the southern coastal town of Kismayo, there is no doubt that it will escalate to the entire regions in Somalia where both Hizbul-Islam and Al-Shababs factions are jointly controlling” said Sheikh Ishmael Adow the spokesman of Hizbul-Islam in Somalia in a press conference he has held on Wednesday

On the other hand the spokesman of Hizbul-Islam has added that in the past couple of weeks there had been speculations that Hizbul-Islam has signed clandestine agreement with the Somali government, or joined Al-Shabaab or to be part of the civil society, and he as brushed aside all these rumours, and termed them as null and void voices.

The spokesman has also added that if the worst comes they will defend themselves.

For last two weeks there had been political tension between the two strongest Somali government oppositions, and the base of the rat smelling between the two factions started from the southern strategic town of Kismayo, which some 500KM from the Somali capital Mogadishu.

Mohammed Omar Hussein