Another Islamist leader quits the game rather than die a martyr..
He knows where all the bodies are buried….he is being debriefed as we speak.

Top Somali Islamist ’surrenders’
Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed
The US says Somalia’s government should talk to Mr Ahmed
One of Somalia’s Islamist leaders has given himself up to the Kenyan authorities, a Kenyan police source has told the BBC.

Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, seen as a moderate, surrendered in the north-eastern Kenyan town of Wajir, the policeman said.

The US and the UN have urged the Somali government to seek reconciliation with moderate Islamists, such as Mr Ahmed.

The Islamists were driven out of the capital, Mogadishu, last month.

Ethiopian forces helped the government oust the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), who had taken control of much of southern Somalia.

But the government says some 3,500 Islamist fighters remain in Mogadishu.

POSSIBLE PEACEKEEPERS
Nine battalions proposed - up to 9,000 troops:
Uganda: 1,500 troops offered, subject to parliamentary approval
Malawi: Up to 1,000 troops offered
Tanzania: Considering
Nigeria: Considering
Rwanda: Considering
South Africa: Considering but forces stretched

Mr Ahmed is the first Somali Islamist leader to be captured since the UIC was ousted in December. It is not clear whether he was on his own.

He has been flown to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, where he is reportedly under police guard in a hotel.

It is understood that the Kenyan authorities are in discussions with the United States about what should happen to him now.

But the US denies it is questioning him.

“The US government is not holding or interrogating Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and was not involved in his capture or surrender,” a US embassy official said, reading from a prepared statement.

The US accused Islamist hardliners of working with al-Qaeda - charges they denied.

The US supported the Ethiopian and Somali drive against the UIC.