Somalia: TFG Identifies Al-shabab Imam Killed by Own Bomb

By Peter Omondi

The Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG)  has identified Somali Imam, Awais Abu Yusuf, as the Imam who was involved in the Al Shabaab’s  taste of own medicine Saturday, offering final prayers as evil men prepared to take innocent lives.

 Somali Minister of Information, Hon. Eng. Abdurahman Omar Osman said:

“Now that we have identified the Imam, I cannot imagine the emotional pain and social humiliation that this man’s family will endure. It doesn’t just affect him, it affects everyone. He is a traitor to his family and his country.

“Somalis have no purpose in supporting these foreign fighters who are corrupting our society and violating the rights of our vulnerable people. These people have nothing to offer Somalis but violence, murder and the destruction of our culture.

The minister added: “They are using the Somali conflict for their own end but there is now something inexplicable in that for the last 5 months the number of own goals and internally compromised operations seems to be increasing. The question is why?”

On Saturday,  eleven mostly foreign insurgent militiamen, mainly from pakistan, Afghanistan, Algeria and India  were killed by their own bombs when they went off prematurely in Somalia's capital.

According to the Ministry of Information, the militiamen died in two separate incidents, 10 while preparing a car bomb and another as he planted a roadside bomb.

Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab and another Islamist militia have been fighting Somalia's Western-backed government since the start of 2007, launching frequent attacks on its bases in the capital.

The rebels, who control much of the capital in a country which has had no central government since 1991 after dictator Siad barre was deposed.