{"id":3239,"date":"2012-12-27T09:59:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T09:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daafeet.com\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2012-12-27T09:59:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T09:59:59","slug":"somalia-sets-deadline-for-al-shabab-militants-to-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/2012\/12\/27\/somalia-sets-deadline-for-al-shabab-militants-to-surrender\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia sets deadline for al-Shabab militants to surrender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daafeet.com\/?attachment_id=732\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-732\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-732\" alt=\"alshabab\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daafeet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/alshabab2.jpg?resize=265%2C190\" width=\"265\" height=\"190\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Somali Minister of Interior and National Security Abdikarim Hussein Guled said on Wednesday that the government had set up a deadline for the youths fighting along with the al-Shabab militants to surrender and leave the group.<\/p>\n<p>He also called on al-Shabab members to stop following the ideology of violence, promising that the government would welcome the repentant youths.<\/p>\n<p>Guled further said the Somali army should embrace the penitent al-Shabab militants with open arms, adding that, &#8220;The youths have been brainwashed and misled. If they decide to join the peace building efforts, let us welcome them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Somali minister vowed that those who return deliberately would not be arrested or punished.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, at least 550 members of al-Shabab militants have so far deserted the group and surrendered to the Somali officials.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2006, al-Shabab broke away from the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) and began attempting to topple the various configurations of the Transitional Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p>The Western-backed transitional government in Mogadishu has been battling with militants for the past five years and is propped up by thousands of African Union forces from Uganda, Burundi and Djibouti.<\/p>\n<p>Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.<\/p>\n<p>Source Press Tv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somali Minister of Interior and National Security Abdikarim Hussein Guled said on Wednesday that the government had set up a deadline for the youths fighting along with the al-Shabab militants to surrender and leave the group. He also called on al-Shabab members to stop following the ideology of violence, promising that the government would welcome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89N1L-Qf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}