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Mogadishu,(insidesomalia.org)- Asmara based alliance defense secretary as well the former ousted Islamic courts Union Yusuf Mohamed Si,ad Indha-Adde who contacted to local journalists on Monday has snubbed about the surrender of several men of their fighters to the government.
"Our fighters are not mercenaries they are crusaders no warrior of us connected to them that is unfounded words which Mohamed Dhere seeks for a Dignity furthermore he made his men as Islamic courts fighters to remove his self from the pressure he is on" Indha Adde said
Asked about the government's showing of some 60 men said to be Islamic fighters defected from the UIC he told that the men showed by the government on Sunday were some of Mahamed dhere's militias were made-up as Islamist fighters united with the government saying some of the government troops joined to the insurgents.
The Islamist's denial reaction comes as the transitional government has put on view up to 60 men they claimed were some of Islamic courts fighters.
Also another Islamic courts spokesman that is to say Sheikh Mohamud Ibrahim has in the same way rebuffed the surrender of Islamic fighters as Ibrahim was responding to a police report that 49 Islamist gunmen handed themselves over to the government at the weekend.
"Our fight against the Ethiopians and their puppet government is based on an Islamic ideology and it will continue until the Islamic law, which was deprived from the Somali people is restored," he added.
In a separate development, a Somali journalist was freed on Monday after spending nearly a month in jail, accused of collaborating with the Islamists.
Bashir Mohamed Abdulqadir, a reporter for Somaliweyn Radio in Mogadishu, was arrested by government intelligence agents on January 13.
"I was released today," he told correspondents by phone. "They ... accused me of working with the Islamic Courts, but I have been found innocent.”
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