Somali Faction Leader Says He Has Hired German Mercenaries

A Somali factional leader, who claims to be the legitimate pre
sident of Somalia, has confirmed media reports that he has hired a security firm in Germany to provide more than 100 former German soldiers to work for him in Somalia.
Factional leader, Abdinor Ahmed Darman, says the private security company, Asgaard German Security Group, has agreed to help train military and security personnel in Somalia and to help fight piracy.
Darman says, under the terms of the contract, former German soldiers deployed by Asgaard are also required to help defend him and his supporters against attack by troops loyal to Somalia's U.N.-backed Transitional Federal Government and 5,300 African Union peacekeeping troops protecting the government in Mogadishu.
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