Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
20 May 2011
Dhobley — Abdirashid Mohammed Hidig, Somalia’s deputy minister of defense on Friday said that they Al shabaab has not the power and ability to prevent the advances Somali government forces are doing in frontlines.
In an interview with Shabele Media Network, the Somali minister spelled out that Somali army is making military maneuvers in the regions Lower and Middle Jubba in an attempt to clear Al shabaab from those regions first and then all of Somalia, the second.
Mr. Hidig noted that Somali forces are heading to the towns of Bardhere, Bu’ale where Al shabaab movement tightly controls.
Somalia has not had any functioning central government fore more two decades. Al shabaab, which the United States accuses of being al Qaeda’s proxy in Somalia, controls large swathes in southern and central Somalia.
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