Mogadishu, Somalia, September 5, 2009 (SL Times) – Sheikh Sharif who is known for already using the terrorism issue to gain support from the US and other western countries (never mind the fact that he played a big part in spreading terrorism in Somalia when he was the head of the Islamic Courts Union, a terrorist organization) is also trying very hard to milk the piracy issue. He has already put together a few hundred members of his clan militia in Mogadishu and is calling them “Somalia’s Maritime Forces” (Ciidanka Badda Somalia), which is no more than an income raising scheme for himself and his acolytes.
The first funds generating operation was the Brussels gathering in April which was billed as a conference to help Somalia stem the tide of piracy but turned out to be just a gimmick to raise $213 million for Sheikh Sharif and the African Union troops in Somalia.
The latest news is that Sheikh Sharif had a meeting with the Philippine President, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, while both of them were in Libya for the African Union conference, and they discussed how the Philippines would help his “government” to combat piracy. The Philippine President should have asked Sheikh Sharif (or Sheikh Xariif, the Shady Sheikh, as Somalis call him) just how his “government” which controls only a few blocks in Mogadishu, is going to secure the high seas from Somalis pirates, a task which the combined efforts of the US Navy, NATO and a host of international forces have failed to achieve.








 

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