Saturday 8 May 2010

Ahlu Sunna - 'We Shall Continue Fighting in Hodan And Hawl-Wadag Districts'

Sheik Abdullahi Sheik Abdirahman Abu Yusuf (Al-qadi), the spokesman of Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a has Tuesday said that they would continue the fighting in Hodan and Hawl-wadag districts in the Somali capital Mogadishu.

The spokesman had held press conference between Dabka intersection and Bakara market in Mogadishu and disproved reports saying that some of the areas under their control had been taken over by the their rivals claiming victory over fighting that continued yesterday afternoon until overnight in war zones of both districts adding they inflicted casualties to the fighters against them.

Abu Qadi said that more government troops mainly the troops of the state minister for the defense affairs Sheik Yusuf Mohamed Si'ad (Inda'adde) adding began from that day they would collaborate the fighting with government troops and would seize whole districts in Mogadishu.

More government officials including the state minister of the defense affairs Sheik Yusuf Mohamed Siad (Inda'adde) and other members of Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a clerics were present at the place where the spokesman of Ahlu Sunna held the press conference to supervise the areas of the troops of the government and Ahlu Sunna in Mogadishu.

On the other hand the troops of Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a had conducted operations removing headscarves from the women traveling between the two divided sides of the capital.

Some of the women whose headscarves removed told Markacadey Online that the fighters of Ahlu Sunna started the operations removing it on Tuesday for the first time.

"We got surprise. It was my first time that another man sees my face since 20 years. The fighters ordered us to remove our head scarves and we did. If the women refuse the order, the fighters will do it," said one of the women

The spokesman of Ahlu Sunna Sunna who held press conference at the areas where the troops were conducting operations said the decision removing heard scarves from the women was not from the high officials of Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a.

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