Eight foreigners arrested in Somalia over terrorism links

Eight foreigners were arrested in Somalia on Thursday suspected to have links to terrorism.

News reports quoted a high ranking representative for the provisional Somali government as saying on Friday that the eight suspected persons were arrested during several operations and they have been interrogated by the Somali intelligence.

The representative stressed that other persons will be chased for the same reasons.

He added the government in Somalia, above all, decided to register foreigners residents in the country, noting that the Somali people, at any rate, do not want to be linked to terrorism, nor extremists.