UN-Truth

The New York Times is reporting today that the Somali Transitional government thinks it can turn captured “terrorists” over to the UN.  In a dispatch entitled “Islamist Fighters Captured Fleeing Somalia“, Jeffrey Gettleman writes that ”Several Somali Islamist fighters and possibly some of their leaders were arrested trying to escape into Kenya, Kenyan authorities said today, raising the possibility of a sticky asylum issue…Somalia’s transitional government officials have agreed to give amnesty to rank-and-file fighters, but they said they wanted the top Islamists handed over to them. ‘Any members of the upper echelons of the Islamists who still pose a threat to our security will face due process of the law in Somalia,’ said Abdirizak Adam Hassan, chief of staff for the transitional president, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed. ‘As for terrorists, we will give them to the Americans or the U.N.’
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/world/africa/17cnd-somalia.html?ref=africa

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