Somalia: The UN Report is Baseless Propaganda- Says Somalia's Islamist

Mogadishu — Reacting UN report that different countries and international extremist organizations had breached the UN arms embargo imposed on Somalia in 1991, senior Islamic Courts leaders pointed the report an unfortunate one that may harm the Courts' image.

Shiek Hassan Dahir Aweys, the UIC judiciary leader said "The UN report is baseless propaganda collected by people who want inflict harm on Islamic Courts success in Somalia", reiterating that it was even far from the truth.

Speaking with Reuters, Aweys said the United Nations would lose its faith in Somalia with spreading reports like this which he said was inappropriately put together.

UN report that was posted in the internet website services indicated that more Middle Eastern and African countries were massively involved in providing Somalia's Islamists with arms and artilleries of various types.

The countries specifically named were Libya, Eritrea and Iran in particular that was accused of arming Islamists in exchange for uranium to upgrade its nuclear technology. Iran, however, refutes the report.

Abdirahman Mudey, the Courts information secretary, said that a report written by individuals would do nothing to change Islam and the country, pointing the report writers as people who know nothing about Somalia.

Fears of war have escalated following the collapse of Sudan peace talks that could not open after Islamists demanded that Kenya, representing the regional body of IGAD, to be removed from the mediators while the interim government insisted on Kenya's inclusion in the talks arbitrators between them and the Islamic Courts.

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