Mogadishu — Union of Islamic Courts centered in the capital Mogadishu has confiscated local FM radio stationed in north Mogadishu.

This local FM dubbed East African Radio had belonged to former overpowered Anti-terror Coalition member Bashir Rage and had been quite eminent for anti-Islamist programs.

Mohammed Mohamood Moalim, one of the East African Radio administrators, has told Shabelle that Islamic Courts information secretary Abdirahman Ali Mudey accompanied by the Courts forces raided the FM station. "Abdirahamn Mudey has ordered us to shut down the Radio and then ordered his forces to confiscate all the transmission equipments"', confirmed the Radio administrator Moalim.

Moalim also said that the order to shut down the Radio was issued by the Islamic Courts executive council leader Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed.

The Islamists have not been available for comments on the issue.

Since seizing power, Somalia's powerful Islamists had shut down Radio Jawhar in central Somalia for broadcasting love songs and music but was allowed to reopen after the Radio Jawhar owners obeyed to Islamic Courts rules not air any kind of music and songs.

Union of Islamic Courts had overrun the tribal warlords who tormented the civilian population for the past 15 years, taking complete control of the capital early June this year.