Mogadishu,Sunatimes- The Alqaeda-proxy in Somalia Al shabab militants on Saturday arrested over one hundred young men as kind of the group’s newly adopted policy to forcibly recruit people for holy war, eye witnesses and relatives confirmed.

Residents in the villages of Kaaraan, Sana'a and Jungale in Mogadishu who were reached for comment on Saturday indicated that on the average of more than a hundred people mainly young boys were snatched by the Al shabab militants to forcibly use them for fighting against Somali government and AU peacekeepers in Mogadishu.

"AL shabab have taken my two young sons, Abdi Wahab Mohamed, 16 years old and his younger brother Hassan Mohamed aged 14 years, they were among many boys abducted by the Islamists earlier on Saturday morning" Said Halimo Dahir, a mother whose two children were taken by the militants.

"I demand the Islamists to free my sons who are too younger than those who can fight" lamented the mother during a telephone conversation.

Earlier in the week a high-ranking Al shabab official Sheik Abu Musab called on all Somalis to join the jihad or will face bad consequences.

The group said earlier that every teenage person must fight for them at least six hours per day and those who can’t fight will be obliged to contribute money to the on going Jihad.

How ever it is unclear how the fate of the abducted youths will finally be.

The militants have been fighting Somali government for the past three and a half years in a bid to topple it and instead form a Taliban-like system in the war-ravaged horn of African country which lacked a functioning central government for the past twenty years.

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