<p>The prizes offered by an Islamic broadcaster in the port of Kismayo were designed to "encourage the population to fight", according to the report by independent Radio Garowe radio station.<br /><br />It quoted Sheikh Abdiwali Mohammed Aden, financial head of the radical Islamic al-Shabab militia, which seeks to depose the moderate Islamic interim government of Sheikh Sharif Ahmed.<br /><br />Kismayo port is controlled by al-Shabab, which the US and several other countries have black-listed as a terrorist organisation with links to Al Qaeda.</p>
<p>The prizes offered by an Islamic broadcaster in the port of Kismayo were designed to "encourage the population to fight", according to the report by independent Radio Garowe radio station.<br /><br />It quoted Sheikh Abdiwali Mohammed Aden, financial head of the radical Islamic al-Shabab militia, which seeks to depose the moderate Islamic interim government of Sheikh Sharif Ahmed.<br /><br />Kismayo port is controlled by al-Shabab, which the US and several other countries have black-listed as a terrorist organisation with links to Al Qaeda.</p>