What a filthy load of hogwash. First and foremost ICU was filled with the most extremists. The people you call “moderates” weren’t really moderates they were more like enablers. They fully knew the extremists they were in bed with like Hassan Dahir Aweys who had been listed as a terrorist by the West in 2001. He led the ICU military wing which was Al Shabab. Then you have Al-Turki who was another military leader of ICU who went on to form the Ras Komboni Militia terrorists after its fall.
From the mid 90s to the early 2000s the ICU was just a series of courts based in 1 part of Mogadishu. Then Sheikh Sharif came and they started their wars against the clan militias that had controlled Mogadishu. After finally defeating all the clan militias in mid 2006 they declared ownership of Mogadishu. It’s simply a lie that ICUs early history had no violence. They had brutal battles against the Hawiye militias which included extra judicial killings.
It’s impossible to say what ICU government would have turned out like for sure since they only had power in Mogadishu from June - December 2006. They still had other parts of southern Somalia they were looking to control before they could implement their policies but one thing is for sure with the terrorists controlling its militia its logical to deduce the “moderates” were just figureheads.
The ICU was linked with Al Qaeda through Hassan dahir aweys and Al-Turki. It's agreed by the international community that the ICU was a terrorist organization and the fact you and
@towerheist support terrorists means that you are terrorist sympathisers.