The BBC Somali Service correspondents in Mogadishu include: Hassan Barise, Farhiyo Ali Qajo and Yussuf  Hassan Mursal; Yussuf Garad Omar, the editor of the BBC Somali Service, visits Mogadishu occasionally and produces some programs favoring to the Islamists and luring Somalis to rally around the hardliners. All those journalists belong to the same tribe as the Mogadishu hardliners “Hawiye”. 

October 20, 2006, Hassan Barise was interviewing Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the chairman of the executive committee of the Union of the Islamic Courts (UIC). Sheikh Sharif presented two papers, which he said they were identification cards belonged to two Ethiopian officers which Sheikh Sharif claimed they were captured in Mogadishu; Hassan Barse did not ask Sheikh Shafir if the UIC officials could show the media those captured Ethiopian officers. Instead, Hassan elaborated Sheikh Sharif’s words as if he was the presenter of the case. 

Finally, on Friday, October 27, 2006, at 14:00 GMT, the BBC Somali Service aired one hour program, from Mogadishu and hosted by Yussuf Garad, which intended to get Islamists’ agenda across and earn for the UIC the hearts the minds of the Somalis. The program was about university students, in Mogadishu, questioning Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. The majority of the students were pre-selected group dancing to the jihadists. The means used for spreading that, throughout the Somali speakers, was the BBC reputation and the British people tax money.