DU'A IS POWER ! THOSE OF US WHO CANNOT JOIN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE ETHIOPIANS SHOULD MAKE DU'A FOR THE MUJHADEEN.

Tigre is the tribe in power in Ethiopia and Tigrinya are their language. But sometimes they are used interchangeably.

Wonderful poem, brother!

Originally posted by king_450: Now USA will really go to war . The war in Iraq really was about Sadam refusing to trade or exchange US Dollar instead choose to use Euro and look what is happening to Iraq, Now the same will happen to Iran. But Iraq was at its weakest when invaded though still trashing them. Iran is robust and much stronger than ever. Don't think they will dare to attack Iran.

Iran seeking Washington's attention ?! When you've got nothing to say, it's a virtue to say nothing.

That's why I said you are a simpleton. You forget too easily.

For somebody like you, who's got a complete grasp of the obvious but nothing else, it means nothing.

The end of Dollar Supremacy 12/19/2006 5:00:00 PM GMT http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/review/article_full_story.asp?service_ID=12635 The U.S. Dollar Dominance is Coming to an End The Iranian government has finally developed a new weapon that can destroy the financial system underpinning the American Empire. The U.S. dollar dominance is coming to an end. A hundred years ago the U.S. currency’s dominance was refered to as “dollar diplomacy”. After the end of the Second World War, and the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, that policy evolved into “dollar hegemony.” But after all these many years of great success, this “diplomacy” or “hegemony” seems to be coming to an end soon. Iran announced yesterday ordering the central bank to direct foreign transactions and transform the state's dollar-denominated assets held abroad to the single European currency instead of the U.S. currency. "The government has ordered the central bank to replace the dollar with the Euro to limit the problems of the executive organs in commercial transactions," government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told reporters. The switch will include not only in the budget but also foreign as well as oil trade, and assets abroad, ending Iran's dollar dependence. “Some banks abroad are also willing to go Euro in dealing with us and there is no problem if some others want to do business in other exchanges based on their preference,” said governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), adding that the country’s FRF stands at $10 billion, indicating a 35 percent growth over last year. It has been said that he who holds the gold makes the rules. Will other oil producing countries in the Middle East, members of The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), follow the suit? A switch by OPEC members from the U.S. currency to the Euro could enhance the value of the Euro, the new official currency of the European Union (EU) which first came into existence on Jan. 1, 1999, further, ending the U.D. Dollar supremacy. And despite a claim by Monica Fan, currency strategist at RBC Capital Markets’ that the news from Iran had little impact on the market "as it had already been announced by the Finance Minister on Dec. 4 and an estimated 70% of Iran's $45.5 billion reserves are already held in non-dollar assets," the impact of Iran’s move on the dollar has immediately been felt. Yesterday the dollar was slightly lower against its major counterparts, reversing early gains. Fan however, warned that the "more bearish effect" from Iran is that "the market will suspect this is the precursor to similar moves by other Middle Eastern governments". Combined, the foreign-exchange reserves of Libya, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, Kuwait, Yemen, Jordan, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain carry a total of about $170 billion, Fan said, according to MarketWatch. A day before Iran announced converting its dollar-denominated assets held overseas into Euros, Sultan Nasser al-Suweidi, the United Arab Emirates' central bank governor, said that "we're waiting for a clear trend to emerge before converting our reserves into Euros or any other currency." The bank holds 98% of its reserves in greenbacks but plans reducing its dollar holdings to between 50% and 90%. Analysts aroused fears over Iran’s move, warning it would prompt another U.S. war in the region. When other countries, like Iran, sought payment of oil in other currencies, most notably Euro, the punitive action was in order. The American President George W. Bush's Shock-and-Awe in Iraq was not about Saddam's nuclear ambitions, or the alleged link to Al Qaeda network which the U.S. blames for September 11 attacks, it’s about defending the dollar, and setting an example that anyone who seeks payment for oil in currencies other than U.S. Dollars, which is what Saddam did in 2000, would be likewise punished. But if the U.S. decided to commit the same mistake it made in Iraq again; i.e. invading Iran, it will definitely bring an end to its political hegemony not just the hegemony of its currency, in the region and the world. History teaches that an empire should go to war for either defending itself or benefiting from war; otherwise, as Paul Kennedy stated in his The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, "a military overstretch will drain its economic resources and precipitate its collapse".

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http://www.ethrev.com/2006/dec/12202006_meles_zenawi_ploy.html By Stephanie McCrummen Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, December 20, 2006; A18 ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- War or no war with Somalia, Mulunesh Abebayhu wants out. Out of her teaching job, where Ethiopian security forces constantly harass her because of her political views. Out of this city, where hundreds of protesters were killed by police bullets after disputed elections last year. And, if she can manage, out of this country that she believes has plunged into the abyss of dictatorship at the hands of its prime minister, Meles Zenawi, a staunch ally of the United States in the vulnerable Horn of Africa. "He confuses the Westerners so that he can keep ruling," said Abebayhu, 54, an opposition member arrested along with an estimated 30,000 others in the sweeping post-election crackdown last year. "Our party does not believe in this war. Our priority is to eradicate poverty, not go to war. Meles knows this war is a way for his system to survive." As Ethiopia and Somalia's Islamic Courts movement inch closer each day to all-out conflict, a widespread view among people here in the capital is that Meles is using the conflict to distract people from a vast array of internal problems and to justify further repression of opposition groups, including ethnic Somalis in Ethiopia. In particular, opponents of war say he is playing up the claim that there are al-Qaeda operatives within the Islamic Courts in order to maintain the support of the U.S. government, which relies on a steady flow of Ethiopian intelligence that some regional analysts say is of dubious value. A recent attempt by Congress to sanction the Ethiopian government for widespread human rights violations failed after former Republican House leader Richard K. Armey (R-Tex.), lobbying on behalf of the Ethiopian government, argued that the United States needs Ethiopia in order to fight terrorism. "We don't know why the Americans let them get away with it," said Abebayhu, who was denied her request for a U.S. visa and who said she receives death threats regularly. Meanwhile, Meles has become so disliked in the city that people compare him unfavorably to the former dictator known as "the Butcher of Addis Ababa," Mengistu Haile Mariam, who was convicted last week of genocide after a trial lasting 12 years. Around Victory Square, one of many roundabouts in this city of a thousand cafes and tin-patch markets, passersby offered opinions similar to that of Nemera Bersisa, 35, a record-keeper on his way home from work. "I believe the Dergue regime is better than this one, even if they killed people," he said, referring to Mengistu's rule. "This regime is democratic only in words. They kill people without any law, and they arrest people without a reason. This government is trying to stay in power by using different mechanisms, like claiming the Somalis are invading. But this is not the case. Meles is trying to externalize his problems." And those problems are vast. After 12 years in power, Meles presides over a nation that still does not produce enough food to feed its own people, relying on the U.N. World Food Program to supplement struggling farmers. The number of people infected with HIV is rising every year: At least 500,000 Ethiopians are living with the virus now, according to government figures. At least half of the population lives on less than $1 a day, which is not enough to buy a single meal. A smattering of new skyscrapers have gone up in Addis Ababa lately, and in recent years, the gaudy Sheraton Hotel was built, a fortified palace of marble and brass and $100 Scotch set amid a rusting neighborhood of leaning, one-room shacks. Locals call it Paradise in Hell. Last year's elections began with high hopes and degenerated into a bloodbath. Opposition groups, who made significant gains but did not win a majority according to the national election board, accused the government of rigging the tally and flooded the streets to challenge the results. During the rallies in May and November last year, unarmed protesters were sprayed with bullets while others were hunted down, killed inside their homes and in their gardens, in front of children and neighbors. Though the official government report released in October listed 197 demonstrators killed, some members of the government's own commission and human rights groups have estimated that the number could be as high as 600. Seven police officers were killed. Since then, the mood around the capital has been grim. "After the elections, the government is ruling Ethiopia by military force and propaganda, we all know that," Bersisa said. "We're dead after the election." While most of the 30,000 prisoners taken after the election have been released, several hundred opposition leaders remain in jail, including the elected mayor of Addis Ababa, Birhanu Nega, who was a professor in the United States, and Haile Miriam Yacob, who served on the U.N. commission settling a border dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Four private newspapers have been shut down. A reporter for the Associated Press was expelled. And random arrests on the streets of Addis Ababa continue daily, people say. Residents of a largely Ethiopian Somali neighborhood called Rwanda say that government security forces have been rounding up people who refuse to swear allegiance to Meles' ruling party, a charge the government denied. "Their main target is Ethiopian Somalis," said Reagan Dawale, 30, who left his home in the Somali region of Ethiopia because of the tense atmosphere there, only to find a similar situation in the capital. In a recent interview, Meles, a former Marxist guerrilla who shed his fatigues for tailored suits when he took power in a 1991 coup, referred to the opposition as leading an "insurrection" intent on overthrowing the government by violent means, a charge opposition leaders deny. Meles has introduced a few words into the Ethiopian vocabulary. Someone who is out of line is a "fendata." Dissatisfied, unemployed workers who must be controlled are the "adegnabozene." A "bichameberat" is a person who has crossed into the danger zone. Meles said he retains U.S. support when it comes to defending Ethiopia against the Islamic Courts movement, which now controls much of Somalia, including Mogadishu, the capital. Meles said the Islamic Courts have already attacked Ethiopia by arming secessionist Ethiopian Somali groups in the ****** region along the Somali border, a claim opposition leaders believe is both exaggerated and hardly a justification for war. "Our argument is that all the governments we've known since 1960 say they want the ******," said Beyene Petros, leader of the main opposition group, the Coalition for Unity and Democracy, referring to Somalia. The Islamic Courts say it is the Ethiopians that have invaded Somalia. While Meles has repeatedly denied having troops there, the United Nations and regional diplomats estimate that at least 8,000 Ethiopian soldiers are in Somalia, backing the weak and divided transitional government. Petros said Meles is poised to make precisely the same miscalculation in the Horn of Africa that critics say the United States made in invading Iraq: that a vastly superior military force can crush an ideologically driven guerrilla campaign. "We should defend our borders, but I don't believe in a hot-pursuit campaign inside of Somalia," Petros said. "And I don't think this war is going to change the hearts of the Ethiopian people."

A/Y is being a quick learning Meles Zenawi slave. How bad if we are gonna have two Meles Zenawis in the Horn as if the Tigree Shaitan is not enough.

http://www.somaliweyn.com/pages/news/Dec_06/18Dec14.html Somalia's government struck a tone of reconciliation on Sunday by suggesting it would still be open to negotiations with rival Islamists who have threatened to attack if Ethiopian troops do not leave the country by Tuesday. Raising war fears to a new high, the Islamists last week gave Ethiopian troops backing the government a seven-day ultimatum to leave, while President Abdullahi Yusuf said the door was closed for negotiations with the religious movement. But a government spokesman in Baidoa - the only town aYusuf's Western-backed interim administration controls in its own country - said the president's words had been interpreted too dramatically by media tracking the Somali crisis. "The door of talks was not shut by the government, which is a reconciliation government, but by the Islamic Courts," Information Minister spokesman Mohamed Abdulkadir Ahmed said. "That's what the government said. Some media houses misinterpreted that," he added. Diplomats said those words suggested the government may in fact be keeping open the option of a return to talks with the Islamists that stalled in Sudan last month. And giving a further ray of hope to those believing the momentum towards war can still be halted, moderate Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed said on Saturday the Somalia Islamic Courts Council (SICC) was still committed to dialogue. Puntland behind government On the ground, however, the military face-off remained tense over the weekend, witnesses said. Islamist fighters continued to dig in at positions on three sides of Baidoa, with government troops just a few kilometres from them at one point. The Islamists took Mogadishu in June and spread across south Somalia after that, challenging the Yusuf government's aspiration to restore central rule to the Horn of Africa nation for the first time since warlords ousted a dictator in 1991. The government says thousands of foreign radicals have bolstered the Islamists' ranks, while Washington last week accused the movement of being run by an al Qaeda cell. The Islamists, for their part, say the government, formed in Kenya in 2004, has no popular legitimacy and has allowed more than 30,000 "invading" Ethiopian soldiers into Somalia to prop them up in Baidoa. In a boost for the government, the president of the semi-autonomous north Somali region of Puntland, Mohamud Muse Hirsi, visited Baidoa on Sunday apparently to express his support for Yusuf's government. Speaking to reporters after Yusuf met Hirsi, Puntland's health minister would not give details of their talks. But he implied the region would be loyal to Yusuf. "Puntland is part of the administration under the interim federal government," Abdirahman Said Mahamud said. Puntland is Yusuf's homeland and is also believed by experts to be hosting thousands of Ethiopian troops. Separately, a pro-Islamist Web site reported another 200 government soldiers defected to Islamists in Diinsoor, south of Baidoa, at the weekend, following the desertion of 100 to Mogadishu earlier in the week. That could not be confirmed. Source: Agencies

SOMALIA: Ethiopia Troops Never Been Invited- Somali MPs http://www.somaliweyn.com/pages/news/Dec_06/17Dec10.html MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Counter to Ethiopia rulers' ceaseless claims to the contrary, Somalia lawmakers that have gathered in the nation's capital Mogadishu said on Friday that Ethiopian troops were never "invited" to enter their country by the interim Somali government (Garowe Online). "MP Omar Hashi said that top officials in the Somali government unilaterally invited Ethiopia to deploy ground troops into the country." "The Somali Parliament did not vote for neighboring countries to enter Somalia," said MP Hashi, who is among more than 65 legislators including the speaker and leader of parliament, who are currently in Mogadishu to oppose the presence of Ethiopian troops in Baidoa, where the interim government is based." "MP Hashi said the parliament voted for a peacekeeping force that specifically excluded troops from Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti." Early on, Ethiopia (Woyané) rulers were claiming that the presence of their troops in Somalia was in line with IGAD (Regional organization composed of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, and Uganda) resolution that reportedly called for support and defense of the feckless interim government. When that didn't fly, the Woyané rulers of Ethiopia started telling the world that their troops have invaded Somalia by invitation of the nominal government of Somalia, which the MPs have now dismissed as preposterous and a lie. Source: AP

We should both say istagfirullah. We should not be like Duke and his uncle. Without the Reuters stunt we recognize A/Y as a muslim, however misgided he might be.

Which of the three is Meles Zenawi ?

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2006/71301.htm Local authorities in the northern town of Axum, a holy city for the EOC, continued to deny Muslim leaders' repeated requests to allocate land for the construction of a mosque, even though the constitution provides for freedom to establish institutions of religious education and administration. Tigray regional government officials chose not to interpret this provision liberally in the town of Axum, and the Federal Government did not overrule them. Muslims have had access to land since the country became a republic in 1995. In 2003, a group of Muslims attempted to build a mosque in Axum, but it was torn down by a local mob because it was built without permission from the regional government. Local officials ordered the Muslim community not to resume construction.

Somali_Friend, Also you haven't answered me why the Tigree government haven't allowed Tigree Muslims to construct thier own Masgid with minaraa? Of course, the fact that Tigree muslims have to make thier ibadaa in row houses in Axum is an open secret.

Originally posted by Somali_Friend: quote:Originally posted by Oromia: [qb] quote: Originally posted by Somali_Friend: 3. If a federal system can be set up in ethiopia, the Somali will set up self government and build all the structures of a self governing peoples and land, so has a self standing government, institutions, police, militia as a state and participate in the ethiopian federation. You at least admit there is no federal government in ethiopia now. I don't know wether to laugh or smile. why don't you read first. WSLF 1984 that to me is 22 years ago. Your own fault mr. It is a language problem on your side. Don't laugh, go to school. You should have written: 3. If a federal system can (could) be set up in ethiopia, the Somali will (would) set up self government and build all the structures of a self governing peoples and land, so has a self standing government, institutions, police, militia as a state and participate in the ethiopian federation.

Originally posted by Somali_Friend: 3. If a federal system can be set up in ethiopia, the Somali will set up self government and build all the structures of a self governing peoples and land, so has a self standing government, institutions, police, militia as a state and participate in the ethiopian federation. You at least admit there is no federal government in ethiopia now. I leave the rest for Bilal 07 to debunk.

http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=12/16/2006&Cat=2&Num=005 ASMARA (Reuters) -- Eritrea said on Friday it had sent an envoy to Iran to establish diplomatic and economic ties with Tehran as its relations with Western nations sour over a border dispute with Horn of Africa neighbor Ethiopia. Both Iran and Eritrea have routinely criticized the United States and the United Nations over what they say is foreign meddling in their affairs. Andeab Meskel, head of Afro-Asia-Pacific desk at Eritrea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Iran had responded positively to initial efforts to establish ties. Tehran had no comment. The Red Sea state has also begun to strengthen ties over the last few months with Sudan and Libya, both of which have been highly critical of western nations. Andeab denied that an anti-western agenda was behind Eritrea's blossoming relations with Iran, Libya and Sudan. "It might seem like that, but no, we are not joining forces against the United States and we don't have any intention to do that," he said. Analysts say Eritrea has in a matter of years gone from being a U.S. ally to a front man for rival interests from Muslim north Africa and the Middle East. Eritrea has lambasted the West for complicity with Ethiopia's rejection of a 2002 final and binding border decision delimiting their shared border. The neighbors fought a three-year war over scrubby plains and dusty towns. A 2000 peace deal ended the conflict, but the nations soon became locked in a diplomatic stalemate after an independent border commission gave the flashpoint town of Badme to Eritrea.

Originally posted by Juje: [QB] SOMALIA: HEARTS, MINDS & HOLY WAR Robin Barnwell and Aidan Hartley provide an eye-opening account of the most successful Islamic revolution to happen in the world since 9/11, and the setting up of a new Taliban-style state which threatens to export war to the entire horn of Africa Why do they always exonerate/free Ethiopia from exporting wars to her neighbours? Their dogs of war are in Somalia territory, they have repeatedly crossed into Kenya in 'pursuit of Oromo fighters, and they are terrorizing thier own population in Somali Galbeed and Oromia. Their logic is easy to understand: whatever Muslims do is blameworthy even when they fight occupiers.

Originally posted by Taliban: quote:Originally posted by Kamalu Diin: Osman Bin Laden his follower including Dahir Awes will go to Jahanama. How do you know who will go to Jahanama? Wonderful question. Where is the answer ? I don't really believe Al Qa'eda exists. I believe it was 'projected'/ created as a pretext to attack 'serious' Muslims everywhere and seize their resources. If the US was really threatened by Al Qa'eda, among other things how come their southern borders remained open to date allowing entry to 2,000 people daily ?

Yesterday Duke was trying to say the Oromos allegedly fighting with ICU are not Muslims. When I turned his argument's tide around to questioning him and his uncle A/Y's allegiance to the Deen or to the Xabasha-Amerika alliance, he came up with A/Y's salaa pictures. Hmmm...praying for reuters.