MOGADISHU (Mareeg)—Reports from Libya said Monday Somali prisoners who were jailed in Libyan tows were freed and are being trained as soldiers in Libya to fight for the Somali government.

Independent sources say officials from the Somali government and Libya discussed the issue and the prisoners were freed. The Somali teenagers who were jailed in Libya were immigrants fled from the endless wars in Somalia.

Somali President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed visited Libya and met the Libyan leader Muammer Kadafi. Hassan Moallim Mohamud, the state minister of the presidential palace said earlier Libya promised for the Somali government that it would free the prisoners.

Libyan soldiers are often accused of harassing the Somalis in Libya. The move comes as residents in North Eastern Kenya accused the Somali government of being recruiting young teenagers as soldiers, but the Somali government denied the accusations.

Islamist rebels are fighting against the Somali Fragile government and the African Union troops in Mogadishu. Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands have been displaced sine May this year when the rebels started their major battle against the government led by president Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed.

Mareeg Online