Almotamar.net - SANAA- A few hours following the call of the second man in al-Qaeda organization Ayman al-Zawahii calling the Somalis to Islamic Courts militias to fight against Ethiopian forc4es, a terrorist attack resulted in killing one person in an attack with a hand grenade targeting the Ethiopian soldiers in Mogadishu. Media reports quoted eyewitnesses as saying the Ethiopian soldiers opened fire on the attackers.

A government official said one pedestrian pelted a hand grenade at a villa where about one hundred Ethiopian soldiers were stationed and it went off at the entrance without injuring anyone.

The Middle East quoted the Somali official as saying an Ethiopian soldier responded by opening fire but the attacked could escape, adding it was believed as one of the Islamists who had escaped and were hiding in the city.

The Somali ambassador to Sana'a has played down the importance of al-Zawahiri's call on the stable situation in Somalia, clarifying the situation in the country was at present better than the period that prevailed the country during the Islamic Courts presence in the capital Mogadishu and some other Somali areas. The Saudi Al-Watan newspaper quoted the Somali diplomat as saying members of the Islamic Courts are now at large and no one knows where they will be heading and maybe they will escape to neighbouring countries.
Meanwhile the American navy force ships continued their watching operations offshore Somali coasts inside Somali territorial waters to prevent fighters of Somali Islamic Courts from escape.

The Yemeni foreign ministry has meanwhile renewed its adoption of dialogue between leaderships of Islamic Courts who arrived recently in Yemen and the transitional Somali government with the aim of exploring a conciliatory outlet for the crisis experienced in Somalia at present. Foreign minister Dr al-Qirbi expressed his hope that leaderships of the Islamic Courts realize that solving the tragic situations in Somalia cannot be achieved through more violence rather than by dialogue and reconciliation among all parties as an only road to come out of the circle of violence Somalia is experiencing at the present. In an interview to Al-Khaleej newspaper of the United Arab Emirates the foreign minister stressed Sana'a interest in stability of the situations in Somalia and indicating to Yemen's suffering from Somalia's instability impact and flux of Somali refugees into Yemeni territories.