English News ( Warsom.com)
The al Qaeda-linked group of Somalia, Al Shabab has Sunday 15th April 2012, warned Sierra Leone troops on peacekeeping
duties, not to join the war in Somalia otherwise they will face the same fate as Kenyan soldiers who returned to Kenya as dead bodies. This is according to a senior Al Shabab commander by the name of Sheikh Abdurahman Muhumed Hudeyfa who
commands in the Lower Jubba region. Hudeyfa told the Warsom Site that any troops from Sierra Leone which reached his region will face retaliation attacks against them.
“We, as the Mujahidin in Somalia tell the government and the people of Sierra Leone not to dispatch their boys to Somalia otherwise they will collect more bodies from here [just] as failed Kenyans did.” Sheikh Hudeyfa said according Al Shabab run radio.
“We will fight them as we fought against the crusaders of Kenyans, AMISOM and the Christian Ethiopians,” he vowed.
Hudeyfa says African Union forces [AMISOM] and Kenyans needed reinforcement as Al Shabab defeated them in the
south and central Somalia.
“If they [AMISOM and Kenyan army] were successful they would not have to call Sierra Leone troops to join them.
This shows they have failed in their oppressive and injustice reign against Islam,” Sheikh Abdurahman Muhumed Hudeyfa said.
The announcement from Al Shabab came as Somalia government and AMISOM await the first deployment of 850 soldiers from Sierra Leone in June. Three weeks ago military officers from Sierra Leone and Kenya visited the southern region of Gedo region to look at possible locations for the new deployment.
Meanwhile sources in Kismayo town report that Al Shabab officials begun recruiting new young teenagers to fight for them.