Hardline Islamist takes over Somali opposition
July 24, 2008 00:00:00
NAIROBI, Jul 23 (AP): A fundamentalist Muslim whom the US suspects of collaborating with al-Qaida says he has taken over leadership of Somalia's opposition.
Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys says he deposed the former chairman, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, because Ahmed signed a UN-brokered peace deal with the Somali government last month.
The US government has said Aweys was an associate of Osama bin Laden in the early 1990s.
