Mogadishu, Somalia 9th Dec, 2009 – The president of the Somali Transitional Federal Government Sheik Shairf Sheik Ahmed on Wednesday called on the country’s newly recruited Marines to work harder to tighten security off the country’s lawless coast where rampant piracy is at large. Addressing hundreds of newly recruited coastal guards at the municipal headquarters in Mogadishu, the president stated that it is a religious obligation to defend the country, people and even the country’s coasts where buccaneers have been strengthening their activities of hijacking ships in the past.

“We see that piracy is rampant off our coast and who is wanted to tackle that problem is you {the marines}, now it is time to regain our lost prestige because the entire world says that Somalia is home to notorious buccaneers, drug traffickers and other criminals running from the rest of the world” the president told the Marines. “Most of the pirate-related activities in the whole world occurred in Somali waters and that is something to be ashamed of” the president added during his address to hundreds of Somali coastal guards on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the president said that his government is arranging the latest and the biggest military operation to oust what he called the criminals and international terrorists who invaded Somalia. “We have lost patience, we cannot wait until they have killed the rest of the Somali people whom we know are fed up with their long-running civilities, the boat is about to sail and we call on anyone who wants to defend his people and homeland to get on” the Somali president stressed.

“You know what they have done yesterday in the Elasha Biyaha residence outside Mogadishu, it is a very surprising matter that a man who calls himself a Somali national puts down the country’s sign {the national flag} and replaces with a black one that; this shows that terrorists are using unknown ideology” president Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed said.

The president condemned the recent attack on a mosque outside Mogadishu where Al shabab fighters killed four religious men and destroyed the grave of a revered Sunni Muslim cleric who was buried there over a hundred years ago.

However Somali president Sheikh Sharif has for the past several weeks been visiting military and police units in the capital and experts say that this move shows president is commitment to arrange a big offensive against Islamist rebel groups who currently control most of south-central Somali regions and about two thirds of the capital Mogadishu.

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