Hawiye Branch of Shabaab Spilts with Hassan Yakub on Sharia for Somalia

Sheik Hassan Ya’kub

“We will not recognize the outcome of apostate cabinet ministers and apostate parliamentarians,” said Terrorist Sheik Hassan Ya’kub the secretary information of al-Shabab. “We want an Islamic government that does not have the support of the United Nations and Ethiopia,” he added.

MOGADISHU (Mareeg)--Al-Shabaab Islamist Terrorist group has described Wednesday the decision of the Somali talaban Cabinet to endorse the Islamic Law as something “ridiculous” and said they would not welcome.

Several armed groups have said they will stop fighting the government if sharia was implemented, but al-Shabab rejected the plan.

“We will not recognize the outcome of apostate cabinet ministers and apostate parliamentarians,” said Terrorist Sheik Hassan Ya’kub the secretary information of al-Shabab. “We want an Islamic government that does not have the support of the United Nations and Ethiopia,” he added.

He said that they will not accept a government that Burundian and Ugandan troops are keeping guard,

but the spokesman of Hizbul Islam (Islamic party) aka.. hawiye.-(Habar-gidir ) wing of shabaab, an alliance of four groups that control parts of the capital and have influence in the port town of Kismayo Terrorist Muse Abdi Aralle said they will wait from the government to fulfill its commitment.

“We were fighting for the sharia to be implemented, so we are waiting from them to carry out their promise,” said Muse Aralle.

........Al Shabab, the Islamist militant group active in Somalia, is tied closely to al Qaeda through its senior leaders, many of whom trained with and carried out operations in the name of al Qaeda prime. Its leaders’ training and experience lend al Shabab strength.....

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Shabaab keep 7 Aid WFP Trucks from Kenya from their Starving People

Last Updated: Dec 17, 2008 - 9:16:39 AM

Islamists in Somalia warn WFP, seize aid trucks17 Dec 17, 2008 - 9:13:29 AM
KISMAYO, Somalia Dec 17 (Garowe Online) - Islamist militia in control of Somalia's southern port of Kismayo seized aid trucks and warned the UN's World Food Program (WFP) about future aid deliveries, Radio Garowe reported Wednesday.

Witnesses and officials said seven aid trucks were seized near Kismayo, the country's third-largest city that has been under the control of the Islamist Al Shabaab militia since August.
The aid trucks came from Kenya, which shares a border with Lower Jubba region where Kismayo is located.

Sheikh Hassan Yakub, the Islamist administration's information secretary, later told a press conference in Kismayo that the aid trucks were seized for two primary reasons.

"For one, we prohibited WFP from continuing operations in Lower Jubba [region]," Sheikh Yakub said, adding: "Secondly, WFP has made farmer jobless."

He accused WFP of timing food aid deliveries with harvest season, when Lower Jubba farmers are expecting to collect crops.

The aid trucks are reportedly being kept at a Kismayo warehouse under the guard of Islamist gunmen.

WFP was not issued any public statements regarding the latest development, but many people worry WFP might completely stop its aid operations in the region.

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