Addis Ababa, Dec. 26(ENA)--Chairperson of the Somalia National Alliance (SNA), Hussein Aideed accused the Somalia Transitional National Government (TNG) of plunging the country into a breeding ground for the fundamentalist Islamic movements and terrorist activities.

In a lecture he gave on " The Current Situation in Somalia " here on Monday, Aideed said 60 percent of the " Arta group" constitutes Al-Itihaad Al -Islamia (AIAI), an Islamic extremist organization suspected of having a link with the Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.

He said the prime objective of AIAI was to establish an extremist Islamic state in Somalia and to destabilize the neibouring countries especially Ethiopia and Kenya.

" It is not secret that both Ethiopia and Kenya are greatly exposed to Islamic fundamentalist groups particularly to AIAI," Aideed said.

According to the chairperson, as Somalia has now become a save heaven for international terrorism, Ethiopia has much suffered the spillover from that country.

AIAI has launched a series of military attacks on Ethiopia, and also plotted with anti -Ethiopian elements to wreck havoc and achieve its goals under the barrel of the gun, Aideed said.

Aideed has also expressed SNA's readiness to join the emerging global coalition in the fight against terrorism.

Aideed, who is also co-chairman of the Somalia Reconciliation and Rehabilitation Council (SRRC), has called upon neighboring countries to press ahead with their initiatives to help establish a broad-based and an all-inclusive government in Somali.

After the downfall of president Mohammed Siad Barre in 1991, Somalia has become a stateless country controlled by warlords.

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