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SOMALIA'S PRESIDENT SAYS THE USA TERRORIZES THE COUNTRY The president of Somalia’s interim government says the population is “terrorized by a propagation campaign launched by the USA” that tries to present Somalia as the country that could become a shelter for Osama bin Laden and his followers. President Abdikassim Salad Hassan told in his interview to Reuters in Sudan’s capital Khartoum, that fear of US’s bombardments hampers peaceful settlement in the country. Washington considers Somalia as a potential target in the war against terrorism. “The people are terrified by a threat of US’s attack on the poor country destroyed after a ten-year civil war”, told the president. He stressed once again, no bin Laden’s units were stationed in Somalia. “We want the international community to help Somalia unite, so that the country could not become a center for terrorism in the future.” Speaking about resources designed for struggle with terrorism, Somalia’s president mentioned problems of the government: governmental officials have not been paid salaries for four months already, the Ministry for Information has only one telephone line. He said, the feudal lords who want to throw off the central government, try to profit by US’s unexpected attention to Somalia. “For the sake of their selfish interests they want US’s bombing in Somalia to seize the power as the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan.” Abdikassim Salad Hassim says that Somalia is not like Afghanistan, and the interim government is not like the Taliban and he himself is not Mullah Mohammed Omar. US officials visited the feudal lords, the opposition to Somalia’s government in the southern town of Baidoa. President Abdikassim reminded the USA about catastrophic consequences of its “humanitarian” mission in Somalia at the beginning of the 90s. It is evident, the president told, that only striving for peace, not for a new war is the way to beat terrorism.
