Al Shabaab reiterates opposition to new Somali leader

From Xinhuanet

AIDOA, Somalia, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Islamist Al-Shabaab movement Thursday repeated its opposition to the newly elected Somali President Sharif Sheik Ahmed, vowing it will continue attacking African Union peacekeeping forces in Mogadishu.

"As far as we are concerned (President) Sharif (Sheik Ahmed) is not different from his predecessor Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and we will continue the Jihad (holy war) against the invaders (African Union peacekeeper)," Shiek Muqtar Robow Abu Mansur said at a news conference in the southern town of Baidoa, former seat of Somali parliament and now stronghold of the movement.

Abu Mansur said that President Ahmed's government does not implement Islamic law in the war-torn Horn of Africa country and warned African countries considering sending their forces to Somalia as peacekeepers that they will come under attack from the group's fighters.