Appraisal of President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed’s

On March 8, 2010, the President of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, Mr. Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, a Muslim cleric, who until a year ago led the Islamic Courts Union ( Islamic Courts Union), began a 5-day long official visit to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, Somalia’s former colonial power. The objective of the visit was all the more clear - to convince authorities in the UK to support Sharif’s government, particularly in its gigantic effort to defeat the ever elusive and religious fundamentalist group, Al-Shabab. The later has martyrdom-based suicidal killings as its signature, and it brags about its relationship with Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda wing of terrorism. Read the whole story