Al-Shabab boycotts the Asmara conference

[ElPunto]

Hayeee!!!!

 

Show em how it's done - you can only expect so much from provincial Burcaawis

[RedSea]

we shall see.

[Libaax-Sankataabte]

This is quite interesting. What all the talk about how the US is trying to add Eritrea to its terror blacklist, it is explicable that Afewerki would play politics and request his friends to confuse the Americans.

 

Grand diversion indeed.

 

Eritrea could not have asked for a better announcement.

[QabiilDiid]

Originally posted by Libaax-Sankataabte:

Afewerki would play politics and request his friends to confuse the Americans.

 

Grand diversion indeed.

 

Eritrea could not have asked for a better announcement.

Also, today, it looks like he has scored some brownie points with the Vatican for sending the leaders of the ex-rebel Eastern Sudanese Front home to take up positions in central government in Khartoum as a result of deal mediated by Eritrea in 2006 (check todays' newswires).

 

Thus, he can argue the reason he is keeping the Somali position groups in Eritrea is not to arm them but as a neighbor who is vulnerable to the burning sparks of Somali civil conflict, he wants to be the mediating and the rational voice of the region if and when the Tigrean militia is redeployed from Mogadishu. With such skillful background expertise in conflict resolution, he might not be seen as aid of terrorists as Washington likes to portrait him.