Somalia’s Islamic leader vowed Friday to continue the fight against Ethiopia.They're not going to depart from Somalia, but have no problem exporting their jihad to Ethiopia or fomenting violence elsewhere on the Horn of Africa. The situation in Somalia remains bleak given the tribal/clan nature of the region. Tribes have more loyalties to each other than to the transitional government. The Islamists were able to take advantage of the tribal/clan nature by playing up the law and order nature of their movement claiming that they would restore order to the region following years of war. Problem was, that law and order had no room for anyone who opposed the religious nature of that law and order - it was Islamic law and those who opposed the imposition of the Islamic law were treated harshly and violently.
“We will not leave Somalia,” Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, the executive leader of the Council of Islamic Courts told The Associated Press. “We will not run away from our enemies. We will never depart from Somalia. We will stay in our homeland.”
He spoke from the southern coastal port of Kismayo, where his forces retreated after abandoning the capital Mogadishu, which they had held for six months.
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