ICU Intact, Alive & Well. Alxamdulilah

[Megatron]

Somalia's Islamic Courts movement "intact"
Tue. September 04, 2007 03:38 pm.- By Mohamed Abdi Farah. - Send this news article

(SomaliNet) A senior Somali Islamist leader said on Tuesday the Islamic Courts movement ousted from Mogadishu in a brief war at the end of 2006 remained unbroken and better-supported than before among the population, Reuters reports.

"The movement is intact. The leadership is still there. Many of them are inside the country, in Mogadishu and elsewhere, in hiding. Others are abroad," said Ibrahim Hussein Adow, foreign affairs pointman for the Somalia Islamic Courts Council (SICC).

Adow, who has made Yemen his home in exile, said Somalis had seen the contrast between violence by the Ethiopian military backing Somalia's interim government, and the stability the Courts brought during their six-month rule of the south in 2006.

"When the Islamic Courts came in, things changed. Tribes were united, the port and airport opened, weapons were collected, we even stopped piracy," he said by telephone during a trip to Doha.

"The movement changed people's lives for the better...The Ethiopians and Transitional Federal Government have created violence and genocide...So the support for the (Islamic Courts) movement is more than before."

Many in Mogadishu and elsewhere in south Somalia credited the Islamists last year for bringing peace to areas knowing little but warlord rule and anarchy since 1991, when the Horn of Africa nation descended into chaos with the fall of a dictator.

But Somalis, who are generally moderate Muslims, also complained of hardline practices by the SICC such as enforcing dress codes and banning public viewing of films.

Ethiopia, and the United States, both accused the SICC of being close to al Qaeda -- a charge the Islamists said was lies.

Addis Ababa sent thousands of troops into Somalia to help the interim government of President Abdullahi Yusuf drive the Islamists out of power at the New Year, scattering their fighters around the south and sending leaders into hiding.

But some Islamist fighters regrouped to spearhead an insurgency against the Ethiopian troops and government.

"It is not the Islamic Courts organising this, but the population organising itself," Adow said of the daily attacks.

"The Ethiopians killed so many people with their indiscriminate bombing and their tanks. Their violence is behind the problem, they have alienated the population."

Adow said the recent National Reconciliation Conference in Mogadishu was a failure as it was run by the Ethiopians and government, and never intended to bring opponents on board.

A U.S.-educated lecturer in education and international affairs, Adow, in his mid-fifties, said he advocated peaceful engagement of all the Somali factions at a neutral venue.

"We will go anywhere, provided talks are inclusive, there is an independent body present, and the place is safe," he said.

Source: Reuters

[paidmonk]

It would be very nice if they:

A) Stopped the insurgent attacks
B) Made their orders from within Somalia, and not in Eritrea

But until then, I can't really say how genuine they are.

[Megatron]

Maybe. But self preservation is a must, at this point in time.

[James Dahl]

The ICU is biding their time, like I always said.
They're waiting for the Ethiopians to withdraw, which they will have to do due to lack of money and the Ogaden insurgency.

[*jr]

As with all terrorist groups, ICU is no axception, they're hiding and waiting to strike when they see weakness. No surprise there.

[Cilmiile]

ICU is finished and dead. They have lost the military credibility when they showed cowardice in the face of the enemy by fleeing disgracefully. Some of them were said to have soiled their pants when they saw Ethiopians. They disgraced Somalis.

And they also lost the moral credibility when they took shelter in an infidel country after all these years railing against the infidels

They have sought the hospitality of the marxist drunk Isaias Aferwerki, a man who slaps and slugs his ministers when they disagree with his drunken delusions.

Nacalaa Wadaad Hawiye ku yaal

[Ican]

ICU is an embarassment, they're lucky the TFG is not any better. The faster we dislodge ourselves from both, the better.

[Alchemist]

Their waiting on casho yusuf to die of a heart attack

[SummerRain]

^^^ I read somewhere he is getting a three year extension onces he gets a new liver transplant this time from Callicebus bernardi of the Amazon rainforest.

[gurey25]

@TFG


without Ethiopian interferance you would all have been ruled by the ICU,

[Alchemist]

[quote="Ismahan123"]^^^ I read somewhere he is getting a three year extension onces he gets a new liver transplant this time from Callicebus bernardi of the Amazon rainforest.[/quote]


I heard the same sh^t too, i hope his heart explodes while his in a meeting with high ethiapion officials.

[PosH]

May Abdullahi Yusuf live a long and happy life, Amen. If he needs a beer, there are more than enough in Xamar.

[Password]

^Finally, you have changed your mooryanimo outlook and traded it with something more islamic

Ramadan is coming I dig

[Megatron]

Cilmiile

The question is though, who is the bigger disgrace ? The ICU for exercising smarts, and letting themselves live to fight another day ? Or the Transgendered Female Girlymen who disgraced the country as a whole by illustrating that they are too weak and feminine to fight their own battles ? Methinks the latter.

[Cilmiile]

The "Transgendered Girlie Man" are raping the ICU and making a loot in the process. Geeddi's son had a lavish wedding that cost 2 million

Hawiye Wadaadism is dead. Deal with it son.