At an Israeli request and with Emirati funding, Israel wants to establish a military base in Somaliland, in exchange for recognizing Somaliland as an independent state, and the United Arab Emirates is pressuring Somaliland to sign a joint cooperation agreement and establish an Israeli military base on its territory.

I am 59 years old, and I would rather die by assassination than by Corona, a stroke, or a heart attack, the greatest gift the enemy can give me is martyrdom.

I said and I repeat that if we fear death, then we fear dying in our beds resting as a camel dies, we fear dying in traffic accidents or from a stroke or a heart attack, but we do not fear being killed for the sake of our religion, for the sake of our homeland, for the sake of our sanctities, and our blood and souls are not more precious than the blood and souls of the youngest martyr who gave his or her life for the sake of this country, this religion, and these sanctities.