Mogadishu (Sunatimes) Mustafa Khalil Abdulahi who is the son of Somaliland's minister of religion and Awqaf has been appointed to be the commander of Abu-Muhsin brigade which belongs to Al-Shabaab militant group and recently completed a military training course in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, official sources told Sunatimes on Tuesday.

Khalil 22 age, told his brigade of Al-Shabaab militias that his father had advised him to participate the Islami Jihad in Southern Somalia and then decided to join the insurgency in Mogadishu nine months ago.

"I came here to stand by my uncle Ahmed Godane Abu-Zubeyr. I was born in Hargeysa and I am fighting in Mogadishu which I had not seen before. this happened for Allaha's willing and my honesty based on how the Mujahideens would liberate the enemy of Allah out of the country." said Khalil.

Somaliland minister of religion and Awqaf Sheik Khalil Abdulahi told Sunatimes.com on the phone that his son Mustafa crossed into southern Somalia but denied he had sent him to join the war in southern Somalia. "My son knew nothing about the religion and I could not convince him to learn it." he added.

Most of Somaliland's new government members are Islamic extremists who have close ties with the Al-Qaeda terror group as the minister of the aviation Mohamud Hashi was the man whom the former president Mohamed Ibrahim Igal dubbed him as 'the Osama Bin Laden in horn of Africa'.

By Abdi Salan Abdulle

[email protected]

Mogadishu-Somalia