The hardline Islamist Al-Shabaab movement on Sunday warned of clashes between insurgent fighters in Somalia and reiterated their resolve to continue fighting the Ethiopian troops which are withdrawing.
"We tell the Mujahideen (fighters), all of them, not to turn their guns against each other but rather to direct it at the enemy forces in our country," said Sheik Muqtar Robow, spokesman for Al-Shabaab, in a press briefing held in the southern Bay region.
Robow vowed that his forces would continue attacking the Ethiopian troops, who began withdrawing from Mogadishu on Friday.
He pledged that the fighting would not stop even after the Ethiopian troops' withdrawal is completed.
"As long as there are crusader forces, be they from Africa, IGAD or the UN, or forces of the apostate government, the Jihad (holy war) would go on," He said.
The spokesman played downed the taking over of some police stations in Mogadishu by rival Islamist group as "a distraction".
The fighters of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) on Saturday took control of three of the fourteen police stations in insurgent-held areas in the south and northeast of Mogadishu.
Source:Xinhua
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