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Somali warring sides condemn Mogadishu Mosque blasts
3 May 3, 2010 - 9:15:34 AM
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A twin bomb explosion that killed scores of people inside a mosque in Somalia ’s restive capital Mogadishu on Saturday has been strongly condemned by all warring sides involved in Somali conflict.
The attack took place inside a packed mosque in the main Bakara market, an area controlled by insurgent group Al-Shabaab.
The leader of Somalia's Hizbul Islam Islamist militant Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys said targets on worships are unheard off in Somalia but now seems to be getting its way into the country thanks to ‘foreign enemies’.
"Such attacks are well-known in Iraq and Afghanistan and they are new to Somalia," he said, denying any involving of his group, which broke ranks with Al-Shabaab in recent past.
The fragile UN-backed Somali government termed the incident as ‘new foreign barbaric phenomena’ that totally dints the historic Islamic culture of Somalis.
“ Somalia is not culturally known for targeting places of worship, this one is the most barbaric acts ever happened in our country and we are strongly condemning it,” Dahir Mohamoud Gele , Somalia 's information minister told reporters in Mogadishu .
The African Union Special Representative for Somalia , Ambassador Boubacar Gaoussou Diarra condemned in the strongest terms possible the attacks and all attacks targeting public places especially those of worship such as the mosque
“Indiscriminate attacks on public places like today’s incident cannot be condoned. I, on behalf of the African Union would like to call upon all warring parties in the Somali Conflict to stop such barbaric attacks on innocent civilian population,” said Ambassador Diarra.
Sheikh Abdullahi Abdirahman Abu Yusuf Al-Qadi, a spokesman for pro-government Ahlu-sunna Wal-jamaa group, which is involved in bloody war with insurgents groups Al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam described the act as a foreign terror campaign that is finding its way into the Somali society.
Al Shabaab movement blamed the attacks on foreign security firms operating in Mogadishu. The group is waging war against the UN-backed Somali government and its backer African Union troops.
GAROWE ONLINE
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