The fact is that it the British who are imposing their will rather wise on Yoweri Museveni's Uganda..and have Museveni deploy 3,500 Ugandan UPDF troops for what the British term "peacekeeping mission" in Somalia. As we write, the Brits have deployed some British Soldiers in Jinja Military Barracks as "advisers" and hear to train Ugandan UPDF soldiers to be good "peace keepers". Let London deploy it's own troops in Mogadishu to maintain peace in Somali land. This conniving British tactics of deploying other people..blacks to go face the Islamist in Mogadishu show a coward British act, if you are strong you go there and do the fighting yourself!!
MK
Uganda: Somali Strongman Advises UPDF Not to Deploy
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New Vision (Kampala)
September 21, 2006
Posted to the web September 22, 2006
Posted to the web September 22, 2006
Els De Temmerman
Mogadishu
Mogadishu
Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys , the political leader of the Union of Islamic Courts in Mogadishu, has said Ugandan soldiers should not deploy in Somalia because he does not want a Somali bullet to hit a
Ugandan.
Asked what message he had for Uganda, he said, "Ugandans were our good brothers and neighbours. We like them.
"They have helped us a lot. But now, unnecessary tensions are cropping up because of the talk of them sending troops. We don't want a Somali bullet to hit a Ugandan. Or a Ugandan bullet to hit a Somali. There should be no reason for that."
Sheikh Aweys, who is on the US list of 'most wanted terrorists and individuals supporting terrorism', is strongly opposed to the sending of a peacekeeping force, as decided by the African Union and IGAD.
Uganda has volunteered to send troops.
Sheikh Aweys is clear about this: "Our reaction is no to foreign troops.
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"I really don't understand the need for them. We have been against the deployment of
foreign troops even when the situation was much worse.
"Now that most of the country is more or less secure, there is no reason for it.
"If they come, we will have no choice but to fight them. We will see it as an invasion
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