Somali forces arrest Islamist leader in Mogadishu
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Somalia Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys speaks at a news conference in Mogadishu on May 26, 2009. Somali security forces have arrested the veteran leader at Mogadishu airport, police said. (AFP/File)
Somali security forces have arrested veteran Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys at Mogadishu airport, police said on Sunday.
"There was a big argument that turned into a fist fight between the security forces who arrested Sheik Aweys and members of the delegation accompanying him who resisted the arrest," a senior police officer told AFP of the arrest on Saturday.