Zenawi says favourable to keep Ethiopian troops in Somalia, Endless Occupation.

[Xoogsade]

Addis Abbaba (Sudan Times) – Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said he is against the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops in the current conditions from Somalia. He pointed out that this move means sabotaging sacrifices paid to stabilize the neighboring country.

 

Speaking on Tuesday 23 October at the 4th regular meeting of the House of Peoples’ Representatives Meles said total and immediate pull out of the Ethiopian army in Somalia under the circumstances would have been tantamount to sabotaging the sacrifices paid by the army and also rendering valueless Ethiopia’s contributions for peace in Somalia.

 

Responding to questions concerning the relation of Ethiopia with Somalia, Meles said the Ethiopian army was deployed to Somalia as per a request made by the Transitional Federal Government.

 

"So, rushing to pull out the army immediately would have entailed a situation for the already dismantled forces of terror in Somalia to regroup, and thereby to render void the sacrifices already made by the Ethiopian army." He said

 

Somali troops, with crucial aid from neighboring Ethiopia, drove the Council of Islamic Courts out of the capital and the southern Somalia in an offensive that began late last December. But many Somalis resent the presence of Ethiopian forces. Somalia, a Muslim country, and Ethiopia, which has a large Christian population, fought a brutal war in 1977.

 

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi had announced in January 2007 the withdrawal of its troops from Somalia two weeks after after helping the Somali interim government rout Islamists in a two-week war.

 

The United States and Ethiopia have portrayed the Islamists as linked to and even run by al Qaeda, putting Somalia firmly on the map of the U.S.-led war against terrorism.

 

Somali Islamists took control of the capital Mogadishu in June 2006 and had imposed sharia law across much of the south.

 

Source: Sudan Times, Oct 25, 2007

 

http://www.hiiraan.com/news2/2007/Oct/zenawi_says_favourable_to_keep_ethiopian_troops_in_somalia.aspx

[Castro]

As long as some of us wail over the "occupation" ( ) of practically insignificant towns like Laas Caanood, Zenawi has no incentive whatsoever to relinquish control over the entire country.

 

Come on now. Would anyone let go of their arch enemy, whom they have in a headlock on the ground, while he cries hot tears over his manicured nails being broken?

 

Exactly. I'd stomp the sh!t out of him even more.

[Xoogsade]

^ This occupation is here to stay for a long brutal shameful time to come. Zenawi knows he has somalis by the balls, thanks to Puntland, Somaliland, Jubbaland, and to the Nolander Warlords trying to bring the last citadel(Muqdisho) to its knees.

 

Why don't they name that piece of a sore on the Map a different name so we don't have to be delusional about it? I mean Somalia, it is gone, waa u dhammaatay.

[Castro]

^^^^ No doubt, this occupation will be around for a while. The real occupation, however, is our bondage to clan loyalty. Zenawi is just the symptom saaxib.

[Xoogsade]

^ The clan bondage is here to stay as well for some time to come. Qalbiga soomaalida waa kala dhintay, so ilaahay inuu isku keeno besaa looga bixi karaa Gumeysiga.

[xiinfaniin]

^^A very germane point there…Ethiopia will never be defeated with the current strategy!

[rudy-Diiriye]

i told u that he was gonna be there till his raw-meat azz gets kicked out...very long time ago.

 

now u believe it.

[Fabregas]

And indeed his forces are keeping a getting an asskicking(a very good one). Hence why he can't leave right now!

[-Nomadique-]

Originally posted by Castro:

Come on now. Would anyone let go of their arch enemy, whom they have in a headlock on the ground, while he cries hot tears over his manicured nails being broken?

 

Exactly. I'd stomp the sh!t out of him even more.

LoL.

 

Belated welcome back Castro.

[Fabregas]

Originally posted by Fatah_Al_Soomaal:

And indeed his forces are keeping a getting an asskicking(a very good one). Hence why he can't leave right now!

I wonder if the Ethiopian soldiers are buried and collected or do they leave them to rot in Muqdisho streets?