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    Somali president asks for lifting of arms embargo

    By ABDI GULED | Associated Press – Wed, Feb 15, 2012

    MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia's president asked the United Nations on Wednesday to lift the arms embargo against his country, saying the recent merger between al-Qaida and al-Shabab has made the dropping of the arms ban necessary.

    Thousands of Somalis marched through the capital during an anti-militant protest attended by President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. Many of the demonstrators were shouting and angry as they protested the al-Qaida merger.

    One protester's poster read: "Let us be united to fight our enemy al-Qaida."

    The Somali militant group al-Shabab has long had close links with al-Qaida, but the two announced an official merger last week.

    "To say the arms embargo cannot be lifted now is unfair," Ahmed said. "Our army is working under difficult conditions because of economic problems and a lack of arms."

    The U.N. imposed an arms embargo on Somalia in 1992, one year after warlords toppled dictator Mohamed Siad Barre. The warlords then turned on each other, sinking the poverty-stricken nation of 7 million people into chaos.

    Ahmed's call for the lifting of the arms embargo comes one week before a high-level meeting on Somalia to be attended by world leaders in London. Currently the Somali army is armed by international donors.

     

    5 comments

    • Joe
      Joe  •  3 mths ago
      Does the Somalia government really believe al-Qaida will keep any agreement? This group is just like Hitler.
    • kugelschreiber
      kugelschreiber  •  3 mths ago
      Somalis are not people to be trusted . keep guns away from this animals . they become cancer in the horn of africa. as an African , i believe Somali needs to be divided between Ethiopia and Kenya and djibouti............
    • herb
      herb  •  Oceanside, California  •  3 mths ago
      Screw somalia people have short memory remember Black Hawk Down ,remember we sent hundreds of tons of rice to feed those reproducing vermin ,remember what happened to those supplys Somali war lords took it and turned it into somali beer which those vermin drank and turned there pathetic country into a blood bath.Send them a ton of razorblades to slit their wrists with.Aid to somalia ,embargo lifting no way
    • Carol
      Carol  •  3 mths ago
      #$%$ these #$%$ !!! They have been holding 2 SA citizens hostage for US$4 million for past 15 months ! SA govt. will do NOTHING towards rescuing these people !!! WHY we have new bomber planes & warships is ANYONE's guess ! #$%$ all african govt's - VERMIN, that is what they are. We citizens are trying to raise the ransom ourselves which is +/- ZAR30 million.
    • POLITICAL CORRECT
      POLITICAL CORRECT  •  3 mths ago
      muslim killers need more guns , where is eric holder ?
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