Somali Islamist leader says Ethiopian leader ungrateful

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Aug 16, 2006 (MOGADISHU) - Somali Islamist leader said that the
Ethiopian Premier Minister is ungrateful to Somalia because he was
educated in Mogadishu, and once lived in Mogadishu and now he is
plotting to conquer Somalia.
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Sheikh Sharrif Sheikh Ahmed
The chairman of the Islamic council courts, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed,
told Somalis that plots were being hatched to conquer Somalia, region
after region, clan after clan, with the final aim of making it part of
Ethiopia.
According to Somali Union of Islamic Courts website Qaadisiya, he said
those carrying out this plot were people who had been educated in
Somalia, but who were paying it back today by torturing Somalia.
"Meles Zenawi, as you know, was educated in Mogadishu, and once lived in
Mogadishu. The Siyad Barre regime spent huge amount of funds on him. But
today, you can see how he is paying it back, openly, in front of the
international community," said Sheikh Sharif.
Sharif was speaking in a ceremony held at Mogadishu's Taleex
neighbourhood to inaugurate a new Islamic Court christened the Al-Nasr
Islamic court.
The ceremony was attended by several officials. The court has been set
up for the Dir clan, a dominant clan in Somaliland.