Arabic News Weekly Edition for Somalia, 3/17/2003
Weekly Edition, Somalia - Week of March 17, 2003
- Six armed men kidnapped from Makadishu, Kenya detains one al-Qaida suspect
Kenya's national security minister said yesterday that the Kenyan security forces arrested in collaboration with "Somali leaders" a man suspected to be a member in al-Qaida organization, while earlier reports indicated that American hirelings carried out this operation. Somalia, Politics, 3/20/2003 - Somali government returns to reconciliation negotiations
this government step of "returning back to negotiations" came following intensive meetings held by the chairman of the conference's organizing committee Bathiol Kablejat with the government's delegation to the negotiations and with the "8- group" of the war lords who took a stand similar to that taken by the government. Somalia, Politics, 3/18/2003 - Kuwait, Somalia for boosting bilateral relations Kuwait-Somalia, Politics, 3/17/2003