Somalia's president said Monday that he opposed Kenya's week-old military assault against Islamists in the south of his country as a grenade attack on a Nairobi disco was linked to the rebels. While the Islamists had already threatened revenge attacks, the public opposition of Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed further raised the stakes over the controversial cross-border incursion.
"Somalia's government and its people will not allow forces entering its soil without prior agreement," Sharif told reporters in Mogadishu. "There is only one thing we know about the Kenyan forces, and that is their offer of training to the national army of Somalia." Kenya's unprecedented military incursion eight days ago, launched after several foreigners were abducted on its soil and taken across the border, stunned the region. Its troops and tanks have pushed some 100 kilometres (60 miles) into southern Somalia, areas controlled by the al Qaeda linked Shebab.
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