MOGADISHU, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Somali Islamists on Tuesday said they refused a government offer to surrender after a two week war that drove them out of their strongholds.

"We cannot accept the government offer for surrender," Islamist spokesman Abdirahim Ali Mudey told Reuters by phone from a hideout.

"If the world thinks we are dead, they should know we are alive. We will rise out of the ashes."

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