Hassan6734 Posted August 28, 2008 Ethiopia to leave Somalia 'urgently' Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:19:36 GMT Zenawi confirmed the news about the urgent withdrawal of Ethiopian troops from Somali. Ethiopian troops are to leave Somalia and withdraw their support for the country's interim government urgently, says the Ethiopian premier. The Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi confirmed the news about the urgent withdrawal adding that the pullout was bound to take place even if the Somali government was incapable of standing on its own two feet, a Press TV correspondent reported. Backed by the US, the soldiers invaded Somalia in 2006 in an attempt to sustain Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) which was beleaguered by runaway insurgency. Zenawi has arranged for a meeting with the tribal elders from ******, the most influential Somali clan, so he can plead for safe passage for the troops. The minister added that they felt sorry that their long-standing support for Somalia's overly weak administration had been of no avail. The apparently self-congratulatory remarks, which were made as if the troops had fully braved the insurgents, however, failed to take into consideration the various counts of murder and plunder they have been blamed for since the 2006 invasion. Meanwhile, the Ethiopians' Pasta base in the northern district of Huriwa in the capital, Mogadishu came under the insurgents' attack that killed 11 of the soldiers. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NASSIR Posted August 28, 2008 Sorry to prick your speculative bubble, there is no clear time table for the complete withdrawal of Ethiopian troops from southern Somalia. I, like many others, have been disappointed by the absence of genuine political engagement and financial committment from the international community to pave the way for the deployment of AU troops. This is a comment I made back in January 2008, Had U.S supported TFG genuinely, it would have made great strides, but as usual the U.S. goverment is seemingly acting in a way that is quite double standard. I probably think that the infamous CIA is the de facto representation of the ideal U.S. policy in Somalia. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NASSIR Posted August 28, 2008 Doesn't this article of early 2007 sound the same as this current one. Ethiopia promises to withdraw from Somalia as soon as possible Visiting Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin said on Thursday in Khartoum that his country's troops entered Somalia only for defending itself and they will withdraw from the state in the Horn of Africa as soon as possible. He made the remarks following a meeting with Sudanese Vice President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, during which he delivered a letter from Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir. Mesfin told reporters that the Ethiopian troops went to Somalia because of repeated threats made by the Somali Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), a militant Islamic group which was ousted from the Somali capital Mogadishu a few days ago, against his country. He said that the UIC had threatened to launch a holy war on his country and had extended open and continuous supports for the elements attempting to destabilize the situation on the Ethiopian- Somali borders. The Ethiopian foreign minister stressed the urgent need of deploying in Somalia peacekeeping forces of the African Union (AU) according to the decisions which had been adopted by the AU, the Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) as well as the United Nations Security Council. Warning against a vacuum of sovereignty which could return Somalia to the anarchy in the past, Mesfin said that what Ethiopia had done was to create a suitable atmosphere to help the Somali government stand on its feet and stabilize the situation in the country. Helped by Ethiopia, troops of Somalia's interim government had routed the UIC, which had controlled most of southern Somalia, in the past two weeks. Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi has said that he believes major fighting was over, but the UIC has declared it would keep fighting. Somalia's interim government has been in wars with the UIC for over one year. Ethiopian troops officially entered Somalia on Dec. 24, joining fighters loyal to Somalia's interim government to repel an Islamist assault on the government stronghold of Baidoa. Source: Xinhua Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hassan6734 Posted August 28, 2008 Warya the dirty ethiopians have already started pulling out since last week. Read this link and make sense of it all. http://www.presstv.ir/Detail.aspx?id=66854§ionid=351020501 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ilax Posted August 29, 2008 Good news, however, will that garuntee to stabilise Somalia? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Juje Posted August 29, 2008 Originally posted by Ban-tured: Good news, however, will that garuntee to stabilise Somalia? No, but it certainly guarantees the utter oppositte. The Somali are more fragmented than they were before - the presence of Ethiopian troops does not, mind you, create stability among them but rather creates a bigger enemy than the enimity among them. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Qorax Posted August 29, 2008 War amxaaro meel aay usocoto ma jirto ee ha is dalinina. Xaggey aadaa marka intaas oo kun oo askari uga dhimatay danteediina aysan weli wada gaarin. Is tartiibsha bowyaal. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ilax Posted August 29, 2008 Originally posted by Juje: Originally posted by Ban-tured: [qb] Good news, however, will that garuntee to stabilise Somalia? No, but it certainly guarantees the utter oppositte. Than, JUJE, you are saying fadhido waa rabteddii. If it is so , then I ask my self, are Somalis seruos baout this:a compromise for their mere existence ? then I say, Somalis have snowball's chance in hell of getting back their dignity. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
