Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
14 September 2007
Mogadishu — The newly-set up Somali opposition group in Asmara has elected sheekh shariif sheekh Ahmed, former top leader of the defeated Islamic courts as the executive leader of the group while fprmer parliament speaker Shariif Hassan was elected was elected to lead the central committee of the group.
The opposition group calling its self, Alliance for the Liberation of Somalia consists of 191 members including Somalis in the Diaspora, former MPs of the current Somali parliament and leaders of the Islamic courts they have vowed to drive Ethiopian forces out of Somalia soon after they were formed out of a week long convention in the Eritrean capital city of Asmara.
In an interview with Shabelle media network after the election, Shariif Hassan Sheekh Adan former house speaker and currently one of the top leaders of the group, has told that they would take steps to liberate Somalia from the enemy conquering it, meaning Ethiopian soldiers in the country.
Somalia's transitional government has riducled the formation of this alliance, calling them ineffective.
Interior Minster, Mohamud Gamo dhere has told in a news conference that his government is close to eliminating this group
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