Puntland, Accupation ,Treason Fish

[XORNIMO5]

BOSSASO, Somalia Apr 2 (Garowe Online) - The president of Somalia’s semiautonomous Puntland regional state, Gen. Mohamud “Adde” Muse, spoke to reporters in Bossaso on Monday after returning yesterday from a weeks-long trip to neighboring Ethiopia.

 

President Adde Muse said he was officially invited to Addis Ababa by the Ethiopian government last month. While in Addis Ababa, the Puntland president met with various Ethiopian government officials and had the chance to visit select foreign embassies there.

 

The Puntland leader said he signed a deal with the Ethiopian government to strengthen relations in the trade and security sectors.

 

According to President Adde, the Puntland region would export fish products to land-locked Ethiopia, while Puntland students would be granted access to institutions of higher education in Ethiopia.

 

 

Ethiopia would also assist the Puntland region in the telecommunications sector.

 

“They [Ethiopia] will help us with security,” said President Adde while addressing last week’s arrival of a fresh contingent of Ethiopian troops in Galkayo, Puntland’s southernmost city.

 

The President said there were “active” members of the ousted Islamic Courts movement inside Puntland, and that the newly arrived Ethiopian troops will help the secure the region from such threats.

 

In addressing a reporter’s question, President Adde Muse said that Puntland is part of federal Somalia but that the region has the legal right to sign agreements in its interest.

 

In mid-2005, Somalia’s weak transitional federal government disagreed with President Muse’s unilateral decision to sign a natural resources exploration deal with a foreign company.

 

The Puntland leader also said that the regional state would attend the upcoming National Reconciliation Conference, to open in Mogadishu on April 16, as a regional government.

He dismissed claims by some Mogadishu-based politicians and elders that Puntland troops were fighting a clan war against Mogadishu locals.

 

Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf, the former leader of Puntland, has repeatedly said that the NRC would be a conference of clans, not regional governments or government officials.

 

 

Source: Garowe Online

[Kashafa]

“

They [Ethiopia] will help us with security,”

said President Adde while addressing last week’s arrival of a fresh contingent of Ethiopian troops in Galkayo, Puntland’s southernmost city.

 

The President said there were “active” members of the ousted Islamic Courts movement inside Puntland,

and that the newly arrived Ethiopian troops will help the secure the region from such threats

Umm, anybody wanna take a crack at this ? It's like a fresh fish waiting to be gutted.

 

 

"Ethiopia is like a mother bear taking care of her cubs: Us, Somaliland, Jubaland, and TFG land. In the warm embrace of hers claws, er, I mean paws, we shall not fear the terrorists who ahh seek to do us harm" said President Cade 'Butac' Muuse. The rotund President later aknowledged, on a off-the-record basis, that he sold the last remaining shreds of his dignity at the popular Dhamanish market in downtown Addis Abba. He said he got a sweet deal: 100 birrs, a original Sony DVD player, and lifelong military support.

 

Reality-as-we-wanna-see-it Gazzette(RG)

Reported by Kooshin Balaq-balaq.

[XORNIMO5]

With all the famine and starvation, deforestation and poverty in one of the world poorest countries, we find the government has the funds to wage a pointless war on both of its borders (Eritrea and Somalia). Just what Africa needs--another war. We can blame the West, who clearly are at the root of it, but we have a brain of our own. Ethiopia has supported every single war campaign from Afghanistan to Iraq II. It begs the question, what deal does Ethiopia have with the West that it worth killing its own people. Destroying lives as opposed to spending money on roads, diversifying crops, housing the Borque, curbing unemployment, housing the countless mothers that sleep on the streets with their infants. Instead this money is spent on a war against another poor nation. Sympathy for Ethiopia slips, but we must remember something, it is not the Ethiopian people fighting the war, it is the US backed dictatorship under the mask of a democratic government that is doing that. First came the denial, that it had aggressive intentions on Somalia, the world was left to believe Somali's Islamic government was "paranoid"--then came the attack! Warmongers always have excuses; offensive war gets a coat of paint and becomes "protecting sovereignty." The war on Islam has to be seen for what it is. If America can't get political support to drop bombs on Somalia; then they send in Ethiopia. We need to remember without bias the reforms that the Islamic courts have brought to Somalia, but reforms and Peace have never been part of the solution for Africa. Even the British Media has commented on the progress and peace these Islamic courts have brought to Somalia, yet they continue to label them as "Islamicist" a term used to drive fear and associations with terror. But again it has never been about a brighter Africa. Islamic courts do not secure profits for Western designs on Africa, but illusions of democracy do.

 

To understand the "real" problem look at some of the Islamic Courts reforms:

 

On August 23, 2006, the Islamic courts issued a directive banning the sale of charcoal, rare birds and rare animals. The ICU asserted that indiscriminate tree cutting was causing major destruction of the ecosystem, soil erosion and water scarcity, and that most of the charcoal was going to the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia, where a bag would fetch about US $15. However, the ban on charcoal was lifted after a month.

On September 21, 2006, the Islamic Courts issued a decree forbidding the sale of khat (a narcotic drug) in the daylight during the holy month of Ramadan. The ICU asserted that khat was destructive of families and led to loss of income, waste of productivity, banditry and drug addiction. On October 2, from Kismayo, the Islamic Courts burnt in public seven bags of Khat imported from Kenya, which led to a riot among Khat traders. The ICU banned the use, sale and transportation of khat altogether, and the Islamic Court of Kismayo banned the sale of cigarettes.

To defend or support and Islamic government is by default to become a terrorist. However to support America or its capitalist agenda is to be a liberator. The Ethiopian government has a long history of oppressing non-Amhara people and Muslims. It was only Haile Selassie that actually tried to restore balance, although he was accused of being for the wealthy (a historical fallacy with all leaders).

 

Serious human right violations in Ethiopia get the classic blind eye, and extreme media control is left out of the discussion. The wealth of technology at Ethiopian security points is testimony to which side of "them or us" Ethiopia has chosen to be on. This data collected by these high tech passport scanning devices is practically the property of the USA, very few countries in the world have this technology, yet poor Ethiopia has this technology-- before the UK. Africa is not for Africans and we need to be clear on this point and wash away all the illusions of "a brighter Africa is in Western interest." in the cold war and now Africa is the backyard for the wars of the west.

 

Where is the UN? The UN in concept is the best idea since sliced bread and the traffic lights, but if it's power and plurality are subjects of Western whims then it is mute and useless. The "new rule" of the world is simple, anyone can have WMD except our enemies, every nation has a right to sovereignty except people we don't like.

 

"Gedi said foreign Muslim fighters had recently poured into Somalia, which he said confirmed the government's accusations that the Islamic courts movement was led by terrorists." he then said Gedi said: "The presence of international terrorists makes this a global issue. These people only want power through bloodshed."

 

The contradictions of our time is there is no shame in the above statement, the unilateral attack, by Ali Mohamed Gedi Ethiopian friends is supported by a statement claiming "power through bloodshed", The presence of Muslims of non-Somali origin means they are terrorist, we have to believe Muslims are not allowed to defend other Muslims, as this is terrorism. How long must the world stay blind to the corruption of our world by an agency of terror, which has no moral religion, and has no geopolitical boundary?

 

source. http://www.africanholocaust.net/news_ah/ethiopia.htm

[Peacenow]

XORNIMO5, you made excellent points. I'm afraid, until Bush remains in power in America, nothing will change, with western support of ethiopia. It's literally will be more than 2 years, before the dynamics can change on this. 2 more years of hell for Somalia.

what bugs me, is why the British press, who are up in arms over Darfur, can ignore the situation in Somalia. The Guardian does a brave job, but even it only writes if there are serious clashes.

The rest of the world is shockingly clueless about what Somalia is anyway. Where is the Muslim world, to create the chrous of jeers i this late hour. Remains to be seen.

[Chimera]

Ethiopia would also assist the Puntland region in the telecommunications sector

assist??

 

 

The President said there were “active” members of the ousted Islamic Courts movement inside Puntland, and that the newly arrived Ethiopian troops will help the secure the region from such threats

protectorate is a political entity (a sovereign state or less developed native polity, such as a tribal chiefstainship or feudal princely state) that formally agrees by treaty to enter into an unequal relationship with another, stronger state, called the protector, which engages to protect it (diplomatically or, if needed, militarily) against third parties, in exchange for which the protectorate usually accepts specified obligations, which may vary greatly, depending on the real nature of their relationship.