CNN reports indicate the militants want to Talk.

Is the govt willing to negotiate with terrorists, In my opinion they should negotiate and subdivide the country into several states.

Rink??

"The time to ask Kenya to stop war has passed. The only option is to fight them. Kenya, you have started the war and so you have to face the consequences," Sheikh Muktar Robow Abu Mansoor, a top al Shabaab official, told a demonstration.

"The Kenyan Mujahideen who were trained by Osama in Afghanistan, stop throwing grenades at buses. We need a huge blow against Kenya. Hand grenades hurled can harm them but we want huge blasts," he told hundreds of people gathered in Elasha, near the capital Mogadishu.

I don't think it's propaganda. Kismayu port controls billions of $$ and I'm sure they would not want it disrupted, that and the fact that Somali citizens are against the al Shabaab ideology.

http://radioalfurqaan.com/4006501058%20Daawo%20Sawirada.html

Cannot tell whether this is also propaganda from the Al Shabbab - you be the judge.

However, if true, then there are many things the State is not telling us