MOGADISHU(Mareeg)—Somali government has displayed the body ofsomalia man thoutht to be  “a foreign fighter” in Villa Somalia, the presidential palace on Saturday.

A spokesman for the military of the Somali government, Farhan Asanyo, showed reporters the body of a white man which he described as a fighter from Afghanistan. MAREEG MEDIA has learn that is man  is

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the body of the alshabaab fighter  that the governmnet displayed 11 July 2009


Farhan said the fighter was killed in fierce fighting between the Islamist forces and the government soldiers which took place in Abdi Azizi district in Mogadishu early on Saturday.

Somali government has been repeating that foreign fighters  were fighting  alongside  Al Shabaab and Hzbul Islam Islamist groups.

Separately, foreign fighters addressed hundreds of  people in Mogadishu’s Heliwa district  in the north of the capital on Friday afternoon where al Shabaab has a main base  and said they came to Somalia to help the Somali Islamists to form an Islamic government through out Somalia.

Witnesses said the foreign Islamist fighters spoke to the people in English and Arabic and some of them claimed they were from Britain and the United States of America.

By Ahmednor Mohamed Farah

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