Several armed groups have said they will stop fighting the government if sharia was implemented, but al-Shabab rejected the plan.
“We will not recognize the outcome of apostate cabinet ministers and apostate parliamentarians,” said Sheik Hassan Ya’kub the secretary information of al-Shabab.
“We want an Islamic government that does not have the support of the United Nations and Ethiopia,” he added.
He said that they will not accept a government that Burundian and Ugandan troops are keeping guard, but the spokesman of Hizbul Islam (Islamic party), an alliance of four groups that control parts of the capital and have influence in the port town of Kismayo Muse Abdi Aralle said they will wait from the government to fulfill its commitment.
“We were fighting for the sharia to be implemented, so we are waiting from them to carry out their promise,” said Muse Aralle.
Thousands of Somalis have been killed in battles between armed groups and pro-government forces in the past two years.
In 2006, the Islamic Courts Union took over the capital Mogadishu and much of the south before Ethiopian troops supporting the shaky UN-backed government chased them from power.
The Ethiopians left Somalia at the beginning of this year as part of a peace deal and parliament elected Sheik Ahmed Sheik Sharif as president in January
By: Mareeg English editor
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