^^ Its good at last for reer woqoyi to get grips with reality and understand to appreciate A/Y the father of puntand. though according to this time they are supposed to play a good role in finding a peace deal to reviving Somalia. Somalia Hanolato.

Saudi are alone on this one So it also means Ethiopia too as the chief financia & investor is Alamoudi non other than a Saudi. So the Woyanes are in deep shi*T It means that Father Paulos should be called in to pray for the Woyanes.

This is good and infact ONLF should continue playing a good role in ensuring that contraband goods are not allowed to flood the Markets of Ethio. Also it will be good to screen illegal immigrants comming from those regions. We dont know who they are maybe some economic migrants or terrorists. I urge the Somali state governor to tighten security especially its northern borders.

Ciidamada PL oo Bangi dhacey 12 Dec 12, 2006, 11:16 Ciidamada Maamul Goboleedka Puntland ayaa maanta dhac xoogan waxa ay u geeysteen Bank-iga Magaalada Gaalkacyo ku yaala. Ciidamadan oo gadood ka ahaa sida la sheegay Mushaaraad ka soo daahay ayaa waxa ay saakay ku waabariisteen Bankiga dhexe ee magaalada Galkacyo, halkaasi oo ay ka dhaceen 70 Million oo sh.som ah. 15 Milyan oo lacagtas ka mid ah ayaa wararku sheegayaan in ay kaga daatay dhulka, iyadoo lacagahaas ay boobeen dad meesha ka ag dhowaa. C/rashiid Xaashi Dhuubane oo GO Khadka Telefoonka kula xiriirtay isagoo ku sugan Galkacyo ayaa sheegay in lagu raad joogo ragii ka dambeeyay falkaasi dhaca u geystay Bank-giga. Ciidamada Puntland ayaa maalmihii la soo dhaafey si hab-qan ah uga soo baxayay jiida hore ee Galkacayo kadib markii ay la soo daristay daryeel la'aan iyo mushaharaadkooda oo aysan qaadan in muudo ah. Cabdi Fatax Axmad,Go Courtesy of: http://www.garoweonline.com/stories/publish/article_6445.shtml

Isayas is also 500 meters away from ethiopia over a 1000 km distance, but wants the ICU to fight for him. He is indeed but the thing is he will be fighting 'Ethiopian' soilders who mostly will be Somalis and Oromos. So to eliminate you guys using them he would use Somalia as the Battle ground as most of the 'Ethio' soilders will just defect if they encounter fierce resistance. what will be left with are top official Tigarus who are mostly obese and unfit physicaly. Best they will do is shout Weyne! Weyne! before they meet their fate.

^^^ ******** am not talking about Woqoyi galbeed and Togdheer so piss off. [ December 14, 2006, 03:30 AM: Message edited by: Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar ]

^^^ Listen even the christian Ethios will wage a crusade against Woyanes let alone the Muslims

^^^ You mean they angered Aba Paulos :confused: Damn

War Degdeg Ah: Addis Ababa Oo Uu Ka Socdo Abaabul Gudi Dowlada KMG Ah Soo Badbaadiya Addis Ababa, 12/12/2006 - War degdeg ah oo hadeer ay ina soo gaarsiiyeen ilo muhiim ah kana tirsan dowlada dhexe ee Itoobiya, waxaa xarunta Madaxtooyada ee Itoobiya laga wadaa shirar qarsoodi ah oo lagu dhisayo gudi loogu magacdaray "Risk Management." Gudigan ayaa ka soo shaqeyn doono sidii dowlada KMG ah ee Soomaaliyeed iyadoo bad-qabtaa loo keeni lahaa magaalada Godey hadii uu dagaal ka dhaco magaalada Baydhabo oo xarun u ah dowlada KMG ah. Gudigan oo noqon doono gudi qarsoon, ayaa wuxuu ka koobnaan doono Saraakiil sarsare oo Tigreey ah iyo kuwo ka soo jeedo Deegaanka Soomaalida ******ya. Gudigan ayaa saldhigiisa ugu weyn uu noqon doonaa magaalada Godey, iyadoo xubno ka tirsana u kala gadhin doonaan magaalooyinka Baydhabo iyo Addis Ababa. Warkan ayaa intaa ku darayo in gudigan uu yeelan doono qoondo lacageed oo gooni u ah, isla markaana awood loo siin doono inay xafiisyada maamulka gobolka Godey ay la wareegi karaan hadii Baydhabo uu dagaal ka dhaco si dowlada KMG ah ee Soomaaliyeed ay ugu sii shaqeyso. Gudigan ayaa sidoo kale waxey awood u yeelan doonaan inay dowlada KMG ah ee Soomaaliya ku qasbaan inay yeesho wax kasta oo ay u arkaan inay iyada ku bad-baadeyso, xitaa hadey noqoto inay Baydhabo ka qixiyaan iyadoonan uu wali dagaal ka dhicin. Wixi ka soo kordhaa gudigan waanu la socon doonaa ee Wabishabeele isha ku hay. Faysal Macalin Wabishabeele Addis Ababa www.wabishabeele.com

^^ why do you like the special quote by Zenawi was he the one that ensured that he will fight to the last Ethio what was the number of tigrays that died for the Ethio/Eri cause i bet only 10 out of the 120,000 who died were Tigray the rest Ethios who were used as cannon fodder. another thing is we share alotin common with Oromia especially him being from Hararge. but we have nothing in common with a blood thirst makelle hyena.

Kamalu ceeb wat do you think will happen when ICU is 'defeated'? You think that silanyo will be named as minister of foreign affairs? 4.5 ensures that somaliland is not given 1:1 share of the the national cake. conclution it seems that your chaps lost life as well as property for just a demotion.

Resolutions Do Not Make Representative Governments, People Do! By Mohamed Mukhtar Hussein The United Nations policy towards Somalia, and for that matter the greater Horn of Africa, oscillated from “stay the course” and “cut and run” during its existence. Over five decades ago, it passed a resolution on the federation of Eritrea to Ethiopia. The resolution on Eritrea was not only ignored, but also legitimized the concentration of government in the hands of the elite of the then imperial regime, which were supported by far away architects of the post-colonial African state. As a result, it removed state building and internal reconciliation from the hands of the contending grass-roots Eritrean and Ethiopian viewpoints. Thousands of Eritrean and Ethiopian people perished fighting different sides of the United Nations’ decision. African solution for African problems never received a fair hearing and interests hidden in the dark alleys of foreign interests dominated people’s agenda. People rallied behind selfcentered views of the few masked as a will of international community. It took the people of Eritrea thirty years to achieve what they wanted. That was then, an era of post-colonial squabbles and of privileged access to information, and this is now, an era of dynamic knowledge creation and sharing, the time for a de-colonized African mind to reign– in short, an epoch where the internet has truly liberated many from the shackles of misunderstanding and suspicion. The UN passed Security Council Resolution 1725, under Chapter VII, on December 6, 2006. The resolution resolved, among others, that the UN decides “to remain actively seized of the matter.” What exactly does this mean? According to Slate (and Michael Byers of the Duke University School of Law), “A small number of international legal experts also consider the phrase a linguistic maneuver to head off unilateral action. The theory goes that the Security Council is actually hinting to various national governments to hold off on, say, sending tanks across the Euphrates River, since the dispute is still being adjudicated. If that is indeed the case, the phrase’s power seems somewhat dubious—nations routinely ignore Security Council pleas to remain idle.” Resolutions under Chapter VII of the UN Charter are instruments meant for the international community to use economic and political sanctions with the possibility of the use of force if the council determines “the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression”. The UN invoked Chapter VII of its charter on the situation of a small number of countries during its existence. These are former Rhodesia, Sudan, former Yugoslavia, South Africa, Somalia, Sierra Leane, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Angola, Eritrea, Rwanda, Haiti, Libya, and Liberia. About twenty percent of the resolutions involved Horn of Africa states, a disproportionately high percentage! Still, the Horn is far from enjoying peace, from achieving its potentiality, and from hoping for a ‘modesty destiny’ controllable to keep the interests of others at bay, or if that is not possible, to build a respectful and mutual collaboration with foreign interests. The UN has done a poor job in its operations in this region since post-colonial and post-imperial states appeared. Perhaps the UN needs to commission an assembly of wise men and mandate them to produce what I would call “The Report of the Horn of Africa Study Group”. Resolution 1725 addresses the situation in Somalia. Among many other things, the UN provides a background of its decision, which is based on the “Deployment Plan for the IGAD peacekeeping mission in Somalia”, and asserts that there is a “lack of clarity of the political agenda of the Islamic Courts”, and that there is an “uncertain situation in Mogadishu”. This claim is not factual. Given that the UN is expected to be impartial and a truth-telling organization, many wonder what went wrong here. In so many times, the Islamic Courts said its political agenda is to get rid of lawlessness, to restore people’s dignified existence, to provide national security services, to negotiate with the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) on power sharing, and to ascertain that no foreign forces are deployed in Somalia covertly or overtly. And they have succeeded in many of these during their short existence. The arguments that the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) has not focused on holding a truly open reconciliation conference in the now liberated Mogadishu or that it ignored to meaningfully engage the technocrats that have been idle in the capital for close to two decades are valid. But the UN denies that the condition of Mogadishu, after more than sixteen years of uncertainty, is now as certain as any city of its size can be. Does anyone believe that there is an uncertain situation in Mogadishu now? Mogadishu seemed hell on earth in the past, but not now. Perhaps, the UN wanted to say that it does not like what it sees in Mogadishu! Why does the UN claim that it would be “seized of the matter” later when it does not want to see the truth now? The Horn of Africa region (primarily Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, Kenya, and Eritrea) is home for many ethnic groups whose people practice moderate Islam, Christianity and indigenous religions. Even though the region is a victim of European colonialsim and cold war rivalry, which forced division and misunderstanding, the people have grown wiser over the years. They have met and lived together not only in the Diaspora, but in their respective homelands. They now read each other’s many online journals. If, in the past, a Somali believed Ethiopians are their eternal enemies, and Eritreans wished to remove their land from the continent so as not to be a neighbor to Ethiopia, the public intelligence is different now. An Oromo and a Somali ****** are now politically mature to reject a despotic Ethiopian government in favor of an alliance with their former Amhara political rivals. In southern Somalia, people revolted against their illiterate warlords and embraced a just umbrella under Islamic teachings. In the Diaspora, Horn Africans (Hornians) rage with anger directed at TPLF and its seemingly wholly-owned subsidiary, i.e. the so-called TFG. Ethiopians and Somalis categorically reject governments whose leaders masquerade as representative leaders of their respective states. An overwhelming majority of the people of Horn of Africa as well as many international groups and states registered their opposition to the recently passed UN resolution. Several reasons for this dissent are further described and illuminated. These include the possibility of religious strife in the region, the proliferation of illegal arms trade, the exploitation of the resources of the region, the lingering shortsighted views of proponents of stability at the expense of public reconciliation and democratization, and the great propensity for the rise of some forms of instability similar to those that have characterized Iraq recently, and DR Congo and the Great Lakes region in the 1990’s. The resolution can be exploited by religious fanatics (Muslims or Christians). In this scenario, the wishes of the majority will be hijacked. As a result, death and carnage can multiply. Because of the ignorance prevalent in the region, society will be sucked into undesirable and confounding directions that make the future uncertain. The claimed objective of the resolution may not be achieved since once a religious strife takes precedence over others, cool minds will be so scarce. Hornians will in the end be the ultimate losers. Already, the TPLF-controlled Ethiopian regime began systematic exploitation of religion among Ethiopians who lived peacefully together for centuries and who have disagreed only on matters of secular politics and governance. Melez Zenawi’s recent dictation to his self-concocted Ethiopian parliament to approve his war-mongering policies demonstrated to all Hornians a mind sprinkled with evil. This is not the first time Melez spoke of an impending Armageddon and the need for invoking sectarian violence to achieve political ends and to avert an imminent genocide. He seems to think of himself as clever when he attempts to disguise his inner self under opportunistic nationalism and piggybacks his determination behind a decision of his clapping parliament. When the people of Addis Ababa organized mass demonstrations against his junta’s theft of the 2005 election, Melez accused certain ethnic groups of planning to repeat Interhamwe-like genocidal acts. So, in a sense, the dark corners of the Melez mind is exposed one more time and it seems to contemplate plans for the exploitation of religion. The argument, if at all Melez’s rants at his personal parliament could be called an argument, goes on as follows. Jihadists declared war on the Ethiopian people. By “Jihadists” he means the public revolution that carried the UIC in Mogadishu into prominence. The TPLF-controlled government of Ethiopia makes itself look ****** when it irresponsibly seeks financial and military support on the basis of terms like “Jihadists”, a term conveniently used in the west to misinform. According to The Guardian (and Derek Brown), ‘The essential meaning of jihad is the spiritual, psychological and physical effort exerted by Muslims to be closer to God and thus achieve a just and harmonious society. Jihad literally means “striving” or “struggle” and is shorthand for Jihad fi Sabeel Allah (struggle for God’s cause). Another level of jihad is popularly known as “holy war”. What is condoned is defensive warfare; Islam does not justify aggressive war.’ So, therefore, it is perfectly legitimate if the people of Mogadishu decided to fight Melez Zenawi’s terrorism in Mogadishu, and to strive to achieve a just and harmonious society. For over sixteen years Zenawi financed, armed, and slept with Mogadishu’s notorious warlords. He also succeeded in misinforming the Americans who sided with thuggish Mogadishu warlords, and their TFG. People finally decided to get rid of Melez Zenawi’s proxy terrorists in Mogadishu. Sixteen years of terrorist oppression was enough! The revolutionary public, under the leadership of the UIC, rightly declared Jihaad against the warlords and chased them out of town. Once defeated, warlords ran into the arms of Melez and demanded more arms and money from him. He not only obliged but promised he will talk with his friends in high places to legalize his covert operations in Somalia. He occupied portions of Somalia in the pretext of defending a TFG whose people do not support! As expected, Melez decided it is time to misinform the world to see UIC declaration of Jihaad on the warlords and Melez forces in Somalia as a declaration of war on Ethiopia. Arms merchants and shadowy business figures are lurking in the shadows and are ready to take advantage of the situation. In this scenario, again, the interest of the people goes into the back burner and once this condition matures, the killing fields will multiply. The region will misallocate sorely needed resources that will now be apportioned for arms purchases. In addition, employment of children in the fights and the arms proliferation that ensues will put less priority on human development than on destruction and mayhem. The world saw the dominance of narrow international agenda in the last few years. The futility of unilateral international action has been shown clearly in the recent release of the report of the Iraq Study Group. Sure, international terrorism is a menace to world peace. To fight terrorism, however, credible powers with genuine interests must not only collaborate, but they must also encourage participation of civil society. To say Melez Zenawi, whose government terrorized its people, can be an ally in the fight against terrorism is to be unrealistic. Melez calls a “terrorist” any political group that disagrees with his irrational execuberance in the creation of ethnic puppets supposedly representing ethnic states. His TPLF is the only nationalist party allowed to freely assemble and organize political views in Ethiopia. According to the Iraq Study Group, “The United States should immediately launch a new diplomatic offensive to build an international consensus for stability in Iraq and the region. This diplomatic effort should include every country that has an interest in avoiding a chaotic Iraq, including all of Iraq’s neighbors. Iraq’s neighbors and key states in and outside the region should form a support group to reinforce security and national reconciliation within Iraq, neither of which Iraq can achieve on its own.” There is no reason to believe this is a bad policy for America’s interests. If the US is moving into a direction of reconciliation and away from obsession with unilaterally and externally supported stability, then why should the international community turn a blind eye when Melez refuses to reconcile with his own people? His negation to talk peace and development with his adversaries such as the ****** National Liberation Front (ONLF), the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD), the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), and others should not be left unchecked and obscured in his Somalia adventure. The danger in the recent Somalia resolution lies in its attempt to allow Melez to invade Somalia, or to “ease into it”, gradually. A free hand for Horn of Africa’s neighborhood bully lessens the importance of good governance and human rights. Transparency, accountability, and participation of people in the affairs of their governments can not be replaced with less important causes such as dictatorial stability, which anyway leads to instability. Ethiopia’s government needs to account for torching Fooljeex in the ******, for the loss of life and property in Oromia, and for the wanton destruction of the lives of almost 200 peaceful demonstrators in Addis Ababa before it is allowed to dictate the outcome in Somalia’s political conflicts. It also needs to tell the truth and admit that it has damaged the nascent democratization process during the 2005 Ethiopian elections. In the end, nonetheless, Hornians must be shown, in good faith, that there are no hidden agendas to loot the resources of Ethiopia and Somalia using Melez as a tool and the UN resolution as the vehicle to legitimize what has been clearly documented as a despotic regime. Reconciliation in the Horn is more important than stability. There are those who believe that Ethiopia is the key to the stability of the Horn of Africa. In their mind, blind support for anyone sitting in Addis Ababa’s Palace or Baidoa’s Villa Somalia, for example, is a sound international policy. No questions on good governance, people’s participation in government, and economic development leadership need to be raised as long a self-serving stability argument can be floated. Instead of helping people get on their feet, it is fancier to claim to have provided such demeaning assistance as food aid. Stability in the Horn of Africa is not dependent on the creation of a mirage, a falsehood, and, therefore, an easily refutable western-supported government shell controlled by a proxy leader who has no mandate from his or her own people. Why insult the intelligence of the more than 120 million people who call the Horn home? The oft-claimed position of the West of supporting democracy and human rights and the resulting “stay the course” policy of accepting dictators as “leaders” has turned into a music played for over fifty years, frustrating the poverty- and fear-stricken people of the Horn of Africa. Dictators bring instability, not stability. Real reconciliation and democratization is what is needed in this region. “I think the choice of doing nothing is really not a choice at all,” John Bolton, US Ambassador to the UN, stressed on the eve of the passage of Resolution 1725. True! But, the choice of arming an unpopular TFG and increasing the support of a TPLF regime, as Hornians suspect the intention of this resolution is, is really not a choice at all! The US and its allies must genuinely start to help democracy-building and to abandon relying on dictators. Superpowers have had enough of befriending dictators in the Horn of Africa during the cold war and the people of the region are really sick of the return of shallow policies that do not benefit them. The international community needs to be seized of the matter – the matter of telling dictators to go, of respecting the real public positions, of taking notice of the emerging cross ethnic solidarity among the Horn people to oppose autocratic rulers, of disarming warlords, and of supporting representative governments and the democratization of the Horn. For, resolutions do not make representative governments, people do! http://www.ethiopianreview.net/blog/?p=68

Meles Zenawi's Minority Regime in Ethiopia Is Lawless and Terrorist Sophia Tesfamariam December 11, 2006 September 2001 and the attacks in the USA brought attention and awareness to the issue of terrorism. The Bush Administration encircling itself with some unlikely “allies” in the fight against terrorism has made “the global war on terrorism” central to US Foreign Policy. As the world moves forward to fight all types of terrorism in a coordinated way, some misguided, misinformed, self-serving US officials, “advisors”, “African experts” and high profile million dollar K Street lobbyists, in an effort to cover up the terrorist and criminal activities of the by the genocidal, flip flopping, minority regime led by Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, and in an attempt to justify their continued diplomatic, financial and political support to the vote rigging minority regime, have been saying: “Ethiopia, the 2nd/ 3rd most populous country, with a population of 70 million people is a US ally in the fight against terrorism”. I totally disagree with their assertion. Meles Zenawi’s minority regime in Ethiopia is not an ally to the United States in the fight against terrorism, but a regime that propagates and advances terrorism in Ethiopia, the Horn region and the world. Here are the facts: I. Terror in Ethiopia • Meles Zenawi's security and military apparatus massacred 44 University students in cold blood in Addis Ababa in 2001. • On May 2002, Meles Zenawi's forces massacred over 100 people in Awassa, his forces committed illegal acts against innocent citizens who were demonstrating against a change in the administrative status of Awassa. Security agents used machine guns mounted on armored vehicles to fire into a group of unarmed peasants, workers, women and children. Twelve of those killed were children. • In what was described then as "Africa's Kosovo", the shameless bigoted leader of the Tigrayan minority regime in Ethiopia, in 1998 and 1999 deported over 80,000 innocent Eritreans and Ethiopians of Eritrean origin and confiscated over a billion dollars worth of their hard earned belongings right under the watchful eye of the African Union, UN and EU Ambassadors. Manifesting his ignorance of Japanese-American history, he had the audacity to say, "The Ethiopian government has the unrestricted right to expel any foreigner from the country for any reason whatsoever. Any foreigner, whether Eritrean, Japanese, etc., lives in Ethiopia because of the goodwill of the government. If the Ethiopian government says 'Go, because we don't like the colour of your eyes,' they have to leave." Nevertheless, he got away with his bigotry and crimes. • Dubbed “Operation Sunny Mountain” by Meles Zenawi and his minority regime, plans to procure Annuak territory, a zone coveted by corporate interests for its oil and gold, were laid out at a top-level cabinet meeting in Addis Ababa led by Meles Zenawi on September 2003. At that meeting, “the militant ethnic cleansing of the Anuaks” was openly discussed and a coordinated military operation to systematically eliminate Anuaks began on 13 December 2003. The minority regime in Ethiopia willfully burned villages, massacred hundreds of Anuaks and Nuers and caused over 15,000 inhabitants of Gambela to flee to neighboring Sudan and Kenya. • Meles Zenawi’s minority regime rigged the May 2005 Elections, stole the people’s votes and ignited the nationwide protests that have plagued Ethiopia for the last 8 months. Having declared a “State of Emergency” on 16 May 2005, and after taking full command of the police, security and army apparatus, the genocidal regime has detained all the opposition leaders, journalists, civil society leaders and opposition supporters on trumped up charges of treason and inciting violence, and detained over 40,000 Ethiopians all over the country while its military and security forces have massacred over 200 people since the elections. • Ethiopian police shot and killed two people and wounded many more during disturbances at celebrations marking the Orthodox Epiphany. Hundreds of riot police were deployed in various parts of Addis Abeba, adding to the terror in the city. • Misusing arms and equipment originally intended to boost Ethiopia's “antiterrorism efforts” along the country's border with Somalia, the US Ambassador to Ethiopia has acknowledged Meles Zenawi’s regime’s usage of “Humvees”, US military vehicles, to harass, intimidate and terrorize Ethiopians. • Advancing its bigoted policies throughout Ethiopia, to day it is propagating a virulent anti-Islam propaganda as it prepares for its war of aggression against Somalia II. Ethiopia’s terrorizing and destabilizing in the Region • Somalia: In violation of international law and the UN Charter, using the pretext of hunting down Al-Itahaad groups, Meles Zenawi’s minority regime has on several occasions’ invaded sovereign Somali territories and still occupies them. Many Somali have been killed and hundreds are languishing in Ethiopian detention dungeons. In order to scuttle the Somali peace talks between the Union of Islamic Courts and the Transitional National Government of Somalia, and to divert the Ethiopian people’s attention away from his domestic problems, Meles Zenawi has now declared war against the people of Somalia using various pretexts, the latest being “to defend Ethiopia’s sovereignty against the jihadists”. • Kenya: Again using the same pretext of “hunting down armed cattle rustlers and rebel groups”, Ethiopian military forces have on several occasions attacked intimidated and harassed neighboring villages in Kenya. The Massacre of innocent Borans by the TPLF regime’s soldiers in Moyale town of Kenya has been widely reported. In violation of international law which guarantees the safety of refugees, the inviolability of international boundaries and in defiance of the UN Charter, in December 2005, Meles Zenawi’s forces invaded sovereign Kenyan territories and kidnapped 25 Oromo refugees from UNHCR camps. AP reported on 19 January 2006 that armed Ethiopians crossed into Kenya from Ethiopia and attacked Kenyan herdsmen to steal their animals. The Ethiopian aggression resulted in the death of 30 raiders and eight Kenyan women and children. • Djibouti: The minority regime in Ethiopia is constantly threatening and intimidating the Government of Djibouti. The threats and intimidations have intensified since Djibouti leased its ports to a Dubai agency. Sudan: The minority regime in Ethiopia pursuing its policy of aggression and territorial expansion occupied sovereign Sudanese territories. The dispute was temporarily diffused when and an Agreement was signed between the minority regime in Ethiopia and Sudan to look into the matter. Today we see increased troop movements in the Ethiopian-Sudanese border. • Eritrea: In violation of the UN Charter and international law, the minority regime in Ethiopia is forcibly occupying sovereign Eritrean territories, including Badme. The minority regime rejecting the final and binding decision of the Eritrea Ethiopia Border Commission (EEBC), and refusing to cooperate with its demarcation directives, orders and procedures, has harassed and intimidated the Border Commission, forcing it to close its office and leave the area. III. Violations of International Law • The minority regime in Ethiopia has rejected the final and binding decision of the Eritrea Ethiopia Border Commission in violation of international law and the Algiers Agreement it willingly signed. • Meles Zenawi’s Tigrayan clique, in violation of the UN Charter, the African Union Charter and international law is forcibly occupying sovereign Eritrean territories, including Badme • Meles Zenawi’s regime continues to harbor, finance and support terrorist organizations including the Eritrean Islamic Jihad. • Meles Zenawi’s regime is also in violation of several UN Security Council resolutions and decisions. How a regime which has can violates international law, commits genocide against its own people, terrorizes its own population and intimidates, threatens and invades neighboring countries, be considered a US ally on the war against terrorism? Sharing his reservations, David Shinn, former US Ambassador to Ethiopia addressing a November 4-6 conference on terror in the Horn of Africa sponsored by Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the World Peace Foundation recognizing that the regime in Ethiopia was in fact itself creating conditions in which terrorism could flourish said: “…It [Ethiopia] has too many inherent weaknesses to be considered a bulwark against terrorism…a serious lack of true power sharing and weak governing institutions…As long as there continues to be alienated groups in Ethiopia that believe, rightly or wrongly, they can not achieve their goals through the political process, these [internal and regional] attacks will continue and may worsen…Ethiopia is not now a center of international terrorism…” Many Ethiopian scholars also echo Ambassador Shinn’s sentiments. An Ethiopian scholar recently wrote: “We appeal to the U.S. government to stop funneling American taxpayers’ money to Meles Zenawi’s brutal regime – a regime that has used those resources for mass killings of the very people it was intended to help. Meles, a terrorist himself, can never be a good ally to any country fighting terrorism.” How can a terrorist regime ever be a US ally in the global fight against terrorism? For all the reasons mentioned above, I would respectfully call on the US State Department to reconsider its diplomatic, political and financial support to the terrorist regime which is undermining US and President Bush’s efforts in the global fight against terrorism and peace, security and stability in Ethiopia and the entire Horn region. The rule of law must prevail over the law of the jungle.

^^^ I agree with you in totality. But their is hardly any rift and the last of the worries is integrating PL n SL as both are sustained and get orders from 1 fella the big boss.

You cannot resist being ignored so let me give you why or what the reason is. ............. I currently do not live in the Somali region, but I trust more the persons who spent have of their adult life fighting with arms and in politics for the right of the somali people. They are now in Addis Ababa and in Jijiga still fighting only politically and peacefully for the peace, development and rights of the somali. You currently dont leave is not an excuse nor so and so told me .....you need to travel and see for your self . Its like mimicing the Derg they claimed that OGden was part of Ethio but were refusing to accept the fact that Somalis are the sole inhabitants of the region reason they were taught in leaturature hence they thought it was like Gojjam or Makelle. when your regime took over they experienced less resistance as compared to other regions as they were seen to be promising. But guess what Habesha is always habesha. They reduced the region into military Garisson and outposts where brutality became the order of the day . In Ethiopia if you want to make habeshas give you part of your rights you have to shed their blood. So sussecion or fedaralism is not the case of the struggle but its a case to survive and fight for your rights to life once given you can look at the next step and succession or Ideal Federalism would be the atmost achievement. When one of the founders of ONLF decides that the ONLF has abondoned its past aims and turned into a racket in the service of other governments and groups, he reconciles with his WSLF colleagues, comes home and informs his people of whats really happening; I listen to him and give him the benefit of doubt more than I give to some internet postings. Thats the reason why. You have to understand that in a struggle their are sellouts just like those during the time of the Derg,how many TPLF memmbers defected to join the brutal mengistu and claimed that those rebels who were fighting were 'evil' even the fact that they the derg were bombing Makelle and led to the Starvation of millions of Tigray. Those ONLF members were demoted as they hardly did any usefull progress and some were found to be Moles from Meles so they made it seem like defection.

RD whether you incorporate islanimo into your ideology. the fact will remain that your neigbours will be your neighbour. they have haq on you. So islanimo to devour your neigbour is hypocricy.

^^ I was replying to Kamalu ceeb on issues regarding success RS is your support towards ICU due to the fact that it will clash with Pland?

^^^ are you on weed or something? The local clan... 5 administative regions and blabla.. they dont add up.

What is Somaliland? what is success the salvaging of the Cement factory in Berbera?

Originally posted by Somali_Friend: quote:Originally posted by Jaylaani: Defend your self where in Baydhabo? You and I both know Ethiopia is doing it for other reasons not to defend its sovereignty How the military tactics and strategy is implemented, we leave it to the military, but if you think the ICU is not after our very core and identity as people, you are mistaken. Here I give you a quote from Elias Redman, the vice chairman of the Ethiopian Islamic Affairs Supreme Council. It will give you a glimpse into what the imposters of Mugadishu are declaring against us: "Here, we were Muslims before the Mecca people, before the Medina people," he said. "We have the original books, and we are sharing the original Islam. They cannot tell us what Islam is." OK, what about the Books that were defaming the religion the book that led to the cold blood murder of students. this is nothing :confused: I guess that 'Sheikh' is out of place. He needs to sort out his place first.

^^ If that sheikh had a voice i dont think he would remain idle and not criticize the military occupation of the Woyanes rather than talking about issues that are non of his concern. This guys abysinaians have gone to the extent of sexually assaulting our livestock,what do you think of the plight of the commoners whats more is left when they start religous tensions countrywide with Jigjiga being hit hardest with the introduction of what seems to be the return of Yohannes.

What we ethiopians did and said was this: I think that is not appropriate. Rather use what our Western Backed regime did was... Or What the Meles feudalists did ......

"Shiek Ahmed Aben said on his part there are 29,600 mosques in Somali state only and added that the jihadists have also declared war on these mosques and the laity who do their prayers in them. According to Sheik Ahmed, the people of Somali state are being administered under a federal system where they have their representatives and have also organized regional government, and on top of that its Sharia Courts are performing better than that of Mogadishu." You seem to be mentally handicapped this guy can hardly talk on the Events in Jigjiga the cold blood murder of Students protesting against what they see as an insult to their believe when the Woyane regime(even the Derg never used to interfere with personal belief) decided to introduce New syllabus of history that etails the vilification of Islam and the caricuture of the prophet. So he has more tasks to accomplish before his words are taken seriously.

'SF' sees somaliaonline as a safe heaven from Medrek an Ethio forum he has been marooned and sidelined and hence feels insecure in that forum as his words makes no sense maybe only to his tigray counterparts. so he feels like at home in Somaliaonline as he is able to get some support from somalis who are oblivious of his danger.

^^ ICU is not Kinjit.