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Ethiopian troops and Somali government forces have seized control of a key rebel-held town in Somalia after battling al-Qaida-linked militants.
Somali officials say the fighting began early Saturday after Ethiopian and Somali forces attacked positions held by al-Shabab, an Al-Qaeda affiliate, fighters on the outskirts of Beledweyne, about 30 kilometers from the Ethiopian border.
A resident of Beledweyne told the French news agency that 18 people, most of them militants, died in the fighting.
But al-Shabab denied it was defeated and said many Ethiopian troops were killed in the clashes. The militant group said it carried out a planned withdrawal from Beledweyne after the fighting.
Saturday's assault on Beledweyne marks the third location in Somalia where militants have been challenged. Control of the town has changed hands often in recent months as different militias push to seize control of it.
African Union troops have mostly forced al-Shabab out of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, and Kenyan troops are battling militants in the south.
Somalia has been mired in anarchy since warlords toppled military dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991.
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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Monday, September 05, 2011
Ethiopia to South Africa Human Trafficking RIng
Most Ethipians in this trafficking network were looking for work, but Some Ogaden Somali's may become part of the South African Islamist network unpon arrival. Some will likely have trained with al Shabaab, and may become militant trainers in planned future South African Islamist militias. This is how Boko Haram in Nigera, the recent UN bombers , were trained by AQIM.
Shimron Issacahr
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EAC urged to fight human trafficking
The man, who was found with the passengers in his lorry by Ethiopian police, is believed to be the mastermind of a human trafficking ring operating between the two countries. He operates between Isiolo and Moyale.
Eastern police boss Marcus Ochola said he was yet to be briefed on the arrests. He, however, said the Ethiopian authorities had been very cooperative in the war against human trafficking.
“They have a lot of information and for the last two months they have assisted us a lot in arresting the perpetrators,” said Mr Ochola.
The Counter Trafficking in Persons Act, 2010, spells out stiff penalties for such offences. Conviction carries a 30-year-jail term or a Sh30 million fine.
In Mombasa, police arrested 19 Ethiopians believed to be on their way to South Africa via Nairobi. The group was planning to enter Tanzania through panya routes, it was said.
Working on a tip-off, the police raided a bus booking office at Mwembe Tayari where the Ethiopians were waiting to board a morning vehicle for Nairobi.
The shocked foreigners were ordered to remove their luggage from the bus and accompany the officers to Central Police Station where they were locked up.
Speaking at the station, local police boss Kipkemoi Rop expressed concern over the number of Ethiopians passing through the country.
“Every week, we are arresting roughly between eight to 10 Ethiopians on transit and this is worrying,” he said adding they were liaising with their counterparts in Kilifi and Lamu to know the point of entry.
Meanwhile, sixty (60) street families arrested on Saturday night in Mombasa town will on Monday appear in court to answer different charges.
Police raided street families on Digo, Moi, Nyerere and Haile Sellassie roads.
Mr Rop said the police would work with the Mombasa Municipal Council to rid the town of street families.
At the same time, police recovered two firearms and arrested two suspects in Eastleigh, Nairobi, on Saturday morning.
Buruburu police boss Hassan Barua said police got information from the public that some people were hiding firearms in their house.
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EAC urged to fight human trafficking
The man, who was found with the passengers in his lorry by Ethiopian police, is believed to be the mastermind of a human trafficking ring operating between the two countries. He operates between Isiolo and Moyale.
Eastern police boss Marcus Ochola said he was yet to be briefed on the arrests. He, however, said the Ethiopian authorities had been very cooperative in the war against human trafficking.
“They have a lot of information and for the last two months they have assisted us a lot in arresting the perpetrators,” said Mr Ochola.
The Counter Trafficking in Persons Act, 2010, spells out stiff penalties for such offences. Conviction carries a 30-year-jail term or a Sh30 million fine.
In Mombasa, police arrested 19 Ethiopians believed to be on their way to South Africa via Nairobi. The group was planning to enter Tanzania through panya routes, it was said.
Working on a tip-off, the police raided a bus booking office at Mwembe Tayari where the Ethiopians were waiting to board a morning vehicle for Nairobi.
The shocked foreigners were ordered to remove their luggage from the bus and accompany the officers to Central Police Station where they were locked up.
Speaking at the station, local police boss Kipkemoi Rop expressed concern over the number of Ethiopians passing through the country.
“Every week, we are arresting roughly between eight to 10 Ethiopians on transit and this is worrying,” he said adding they were liaising with their counterparts in Kilifi and Lamu to know the point of entry.
Meanwhile, sixty (60) street families arrested on Saturday night in Mombasa town will on Monday appear in court to answer different charges.
Police raided street families on Digo, Moi, Nyerere and Haile Sellassie roads.
Mr Rop said the police would work with the Mombasa Municipal Council to rid the town of street families.
At the same time, police recovered two firearms and arrested two suspects in Eastleigh, Nairobi, on Saturday morning.
Buruburu police boss Hassan Barua said police got information from the public that some people were hiding firearms in their house.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Shabaab Still Refuse Aid Agencies as Vlilages Die of Drought
Thousands of Somalis trek to Ethiopia every day, but camps are now also forming inside Somalia itself. Camps of people fleeing East Africa's worsening drought have started forming inside Somalia, says medical aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres. One camp had more than doubled in size in a matter of days, and now holds around 5,000 people.
The aid agency can provide medical help, but has no food to give them.
Until now Somalis have been pouring across the borders to Ethiopia and Kenya, arriving at giant refugee camps which are severely overcrowded.
Joe Belliveau of MSF told the BBC the development of camps inside Somalia was a "most desperate and vulnerable moment."
This is a rare glimpse of the situation inside Somalia itself.
MSF is one of a few aid agencies still managing to operate in those areas of Somalia controlled by the militant Islamist group, al al-Shabab.
Continue reading the main story
"Just about a week ago, the number there was about three hundred families in that camp. Within the space of a few days that has jumped to eight hundred families," he said.
Mr Belliveau explained that when people left their homes and their wider families and begun to cluster in camps it indicated that their ability to cope had been exhausted.
"And that's why you see such an outflux also into Ethiopia and Somalia because people have just reached the point, which is the most scary point, where they no longer are able to cope with backup measures for survival," he said.
Mr Belliveau said the recent statement by al-Shabab lifting its ban on aid agencies working in areas it controls was welcome, but so far it had made no difference on the ground.
MSF is having the greatest difficulty in getting permission from al-Shabab to airlift materials into Somalia and bring in expatriate staff.
The aid agency can provide medical help, but has no food to give them.
Until now Somalis have been pouring across the borders to Ethiopia and Kenya, arriving at giant refugee camps which are severely overcrowded.
Joe Belliveau of MSF told the BBC the development of camps inside Somalia was a "most desperate and vulnerable moment."
This is a rare glimpse of the situation inside Somalia itself.
MSF is one of a few aid agencies still managing to operate in those areas of Somalia controlled by the militant Islamist group, al al-Shabab.
Continue reading the main story
"Just about a week ago, the number there was about three hundred families in that camp. Within the space of a few days that has jumped to eight hundred families," he said.
Mr Belliveau explained that when people left their homes and their wider families and begun to cluster in camps it indicated that their ability to cope had been exhausted.
"And that's why you see such an outflux also into Ethiopia and Somalia because people have just reached the point, which is the most scary point, where they no longer are able to cope with backup measures for survival," he said.
Mr Belliveau said the recent statement by al-Shabab lifting its ban on aid agencies working in areas it controls was welcome, but so far it had made no difference on the ground.
MSF is having the greatest difficulty in getting permission from al-Shabab to airlift materials into Somalia and bring in expatriate staff.
By Martin Plaut
Africa editor, BBC World Service
Africa editor, BBC World Service
Monday, September 06, 2010
Ogaden, Ehtiopia Issues
Note that the ONLF only let al Jazera got in....
Recent Speech to US disppora by Abdifatah Sheikh Abdullahi in reference to the Ogaden
Recent Speech to US disppora by Abdifatah Sheikh Abdullahi in reference to the Ogaden
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Eritrea Preparing to Attack Ethiopia?
Is Eritrea planning an attack on Ethiopia to try and get them to withdraw from Sudan?
In the last 24hours they are denying fuel to Peackeepers on the Border, who may have to withdraw.
When the UN gets its 26,000 member force in Sudan, Islamists waging a decade old campaign in North Africa will be outgunned.
This may be the next chess move after the Sudan backed Rebel assault on Chad last weekend.
-Shimron
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Eritrea has ignored a U.N. deadline to grant peacekeepers on its border with Ethiopia access to badly needed fuel, but U.N. troops fear war could break out and have not begun leaving, a U.N. official said.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon set a Wednesday deadline for Eritrea to allow the U.N. peacekeepers to refuel, saying they faced a fuel crisis. But the U.N. official said on Thursday that Eritrea had ignored the deadline.
In the last 24hours they are denying fuel to Peackeepers on the Border, who may have to withdraw.
When the UN gets its 26,000 member force in Sudan, Islamists waging a decade old campaign in North Africa will be outgunned.
This may be the next chess move after the Sudan backed Rebel assault on Chad last weekend.
-Shimron
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Eritrea has ignored a U.N. deadline to grant peacekeepers on its border with Ethiopia access to badly needed fuel, but U.N. troops fear war could break out and have not begun leaving, a U.N. official said.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon set a Wednesday deadline for Eritrea to allow the U.N. peacekeepers to refuel, saying they faced a fuel crisis. But the U.N. official said on Thursday that Eritrea had ignored the deadline.
- "The U.N. cannot afford to leave because it would create the conditions for a resumption of the conflict," a U.N. official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. "Abandoning our positions would sanctify a resumption of the conflict."
- He said that the U.N. peacekeepers were acting as a buffer between two neighbors, both of which have amassed troops on their borders.
- It was not clear how long the peacekeepers could stay put with only meager fuel supplies. If Eritrea continues to deny them fuel, they eventually will have to pull out, using their emergency fuel supplies to evacuate, the official said.
- Last week the U.N. Security Council renewed the mandate of the U.N. Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea, or UNMEE, for six months. The council also urged Eritrea to end its fuel blockade of U.N. staff.
- But Eritrea, which contends that a continued U.N. presence on the border would be tantamount to an occupation, ignored the demand, prompting a stern warning from the council on Monday.
The 1,700-member U.N. force went to the border in 2000 at the end of a two-year war between the two countries in the Horn of Africa that killed 70,000 people.
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
The following is an excerpt from the Testimony before the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs on 2 October, 2007 by Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Jendayi E. Frazer. She was speaking on the State of Ethipoian Democray....
-Shimron
THE SITUATION IN THE OGADEN, Ethiopia
"In a reflection of the challenges encountered throughout Ethiopia, the conflict in the Ogaden region is complex. In early September, I had the opportunity to visit Gode, a bleak and desolate area of the Ogaden, to see first hand the problems and what more needs to be done to bring relief to this region."
"The GOE is facing a genuine security concern in the Ogaden region and has an obligation to respond. An increasingly violent insurgency is operating from the Ogaden, where Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), the United Western Somalia Liberation Front (UWSLF), extremists affiliated with the Ogaden faction of al-Ittihad al-Islami (AIAI), and terrorists affiliated with the extremist al Shabaab militia and remnants of the Somali Council of Islamic Courts (CIC) are stepping up their attacks against government targets."
"While this is not a new conflict, in fact it dates back to before the Meles government took office, in the last year the ONLF has become more aggressive and violent. In April 2007, the ONLF conducted an attack that killed nine Chinese oil workers and 77 Ethiopians, many of whom were civilians."
"Regrettably the actions of rebel groups, extremists, and government troops alike have all taken a damaging humanitarian toll on the local civilian population. The challenge for the GOE and international partners is to mitigate the civilian impacts of these events."
"The current situation in the Ogaden reflects the combined result of continued humanitarian crisis and years of conflict driven by a violent insurgency and fighting between government and rebel forces, as well as government restrictions on commercial trade and on mobility of civilians and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), recurrent drought and flooding, and general insecurity."
"Ethiopia’s Somali Region, which includes the Ogaden, has a population of approximately 4.5 million people, of which approximately 1.8 million live in five zones (Degehabur, Fik, Gode, Korehe and Warder) with severe humanitarian needs. Unfortunately, three of these zones – Degehabur, Korahe and Warder – are also where the insurgent activities are the most prevalent."
In May 2007, in response to the increase in ONLF attacks, the Ethiopian military initiated a new counter-insurgency campaign. The Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) conducted military operations, restricted humanitarian food aid and commercial traffic to certain areas, and restricted movement of rural communities. The ONLF has also planted landmines throughout roads, impeding large scale movements and disrupting the commercial trade in food and humanitarian assistance. On July 29, three aid workers were killed when their vehicle struck a landmine, which was placed by the ONLF. "
"The United States has seen allegations of human rights abuses conducted by all parties, including reports of burned villages and population displacements. While we cannot confirm these incidents, it is clear that the local population is suffering from the insurgency and counter-insurgency campaigns."
"The United States has raised our strong concerns in this regard with the leaders of the GOE, including Prime Minister Meles. The GOE is working with the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission to investigate allegations of human rights abuses in the Ogaden. The United Nations has also recommended that an independent probe be undertaken into alleged human rights violations in the region."
-Shimron
THE SITUATION IN THE OGADEN, Ethiopia
"In a reflection of the challenges encountered throughout Ethiopia, the conflict in the Ogaden region is complex. In early September, I had the opportunity to visit Gode, a bleak and desolate area of the Ogaden, to see first hand the problems and what more needs to be done to bring relief to this region."
"The GOE is facing a genuine security concern in the Ogaden region and has an obligation to respond. An increasingly violent insurgency is operating from the Ogaden, where Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), the United Western Somalia Liberation Front (UWSLF), extremists affiliated with the Ogaden faction of al-Ittihad al-Islami (AIAI), and terrorists affiliated with the extremist al Shabaab militia and remnants of the Somali Council of Islamic Courts (CIC) are stepping up their attacks against government targets."
"While this is not a new conflict, in fact it dates back to before the Meles government took office, in the last year the ONLF has become more aggressive and violent. In April 2007, the ONLF conducted an attack that killed nine Chinese oil workers and 77 Ethiopians, many of whom were civilians."
"Regrettably the actions of rebel groups, extremists, and government troops alike have all taken a damaging humanitarian toll on the local civilian population. The challenge for the GOE and international partners is to mitigate the civilian impacts of these events."
"The current situation in the Ogaden reflects the combined result of continued humanitarian crisis and years of conflict driven by a violent insurgency and fighting between government and rebel forces, as well as government restrictions on commercial trade and on mobility of civilians and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), recurrent drought and flooding, and general insecurity."
"Ethiopia’s Somali Region, which includes the Ogaden, has a population of approximately 4.5 million people, of which approximately 1.8 million live in five zones (Degehabur, Fik, Gode, Korehe and Warder) with severe humanitarian needs. Unfortunately, three of these zones – Degehabur, Korahe and Warder – are also where the insurgent activities are the most prevalent."
In May 2007, in response to the increase in ONLF attacks, the Ethiopian military initiated a new counter-insurgency campaign. The Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) conducted military operations, restricted humanitarian food aid and commercial traffic to certain areas, and restricted movement of rural communities. The ONLF has also planted landmines throughout roads, impeding large scale movements and disrupting the commercial trade in food and humanitarian assistance. On July 29, three aid workers were killed when their vehicle struck a landmine, which was placed by the ONLF. "
"The United States has seen allegations of human rights abuses conducted by all parties, including reports of burned villages and population displacements. While we cannot confirm these incidents, it is clear that the local population is suffering from the insurgency and counter-insurgency campaigns."
"The United States has raised our strong concerns in this regard with the leaders of the GOE, including Prime Minister Meles. The GOE is working with the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission to investigate allegations of human rights abuses in the Ogaden. The United Nations has also recommended that an independent probe be undertaken into alleged human rights violations in the region."
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Ehtiopia Acuses Norway of Destabilizing the Horn of Africa
OSLO (Reuters) - Ethiopia's foreign minister has accused Norway of financing soldiers in neighbouring Eritrea and terror groups in Somalia and Sudan, turning up the heat in a diplomatic row, daily Aftenposten reported on Wednesday.
Norway rejected the accusations. Oslo says it has tried to promote peace in the Horn of Africa, where relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia have sunk to their lowest levels since a 1998-2000 war that killed an estimated 70,000 people.
"Soldiers in Eritrea are fully financed by Norway," the paper quoted Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin as saying in an interview in the Ethiopian capital. "By supporting those who destroy the peace process in our neighbour land, Norway is undermining the Ethiopian government's work to achieve peace ... Also in Somalia and Sudan, Norway supports terror groups."
Addis Abba last month accused Norway of undermining security and spreading instability in the Horn of Africa and ordered six out of nine Norwegian diplomats to leave Ethiopia by September 15.
Norway has been involved in peace-brokering efforts in both Sudan and Somalia. The country shares the chair of the international contact group for Somalia with the United States.
Norway contributes development aid to all three impoverished African countries, but Oslo has said its direct aid to Ethiopia would be cut by about a third, or by around $5.3 million, as its embassy will not have the manpower to manage the full amount.
"Norway has supported insurgents and sponsored their weapons," Mesfin said, according to Aftenposten. "In this way, Norway undermines the countries' own government forces and
destabilises the whole region."
Norway has said Ethiopia was upset by its efforts to arrange a meeting this month of the Ethiopia-Eritrea border commission.
Addis Ababa and Asmara have been in a bitter dispute over their 1,000 km (620 mile) frontier since Ethiopia rejected a 2002 ruling by the independent border commission giving Eritrea the key town of Badme.
Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Raymond Johansen rejected Mesfin's accusations in comments to the newspaper.
"Nothing that he says is true," Johansen said, according to Aftenposten. Johansen was unavailable for comment, but a spokesman confirmed he had been accurately quoted in the paper.
"Norway still hopes that there can be a meeting at the political level with Ethiopia in connection with the U.N. General Assembly in New York later this month," he told Aftenposten. "We do not want to contribute to escalating this."
The Rest @ Reuters Africa
Norway rejected the accusations. Oslo says it has tried to promote peace in the Horn of Africa, where relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia have sunk to their lowest levels since a 1998-2000 war that killed an estimated 70,000 people.
"Soldiers in Eritrea are fully financed by Norway," the paper quoted Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin as saying in an interview in the Ethiopian capital. "By supporting those who destroy the peace process in our neighbour land, Norway is undermining the Ethiopian government's work to achieve peace ... Also in Somalia and Sudan, Norway supports terror groups."
Addis Abba last month accused Norway of undermining security and spreading instability in the Horn of Africa and ordered six out of nine Norwegian diplomats to leave Ethiopia by September 15.
Norway has been involved in peace-brokering efforts in both Sudan and Somalia. The country shares the chair of the international contact group for Somalia with the United States.
Norway contributes development aid to all three impoverished African countries, but Oslo has said its direct aid to Ethiopia would be cut by about a third, or by around $5.3 million, as its embassy will not have the manpower to manage the full amount.
"Norway has supported insurgents and sponsored their weapons," Mesfin said, according to Aftenposten. "In this way, Norway undermines the countries' own government forces and
destabilises the whole region."
Norway has said Ethiopia was upset by its efforts to arrange a meeting this month of the Ethiopia-Eritrea border commission.
Addis Ababa and Asmara have been in a bitter dispute over their 1,000 km (620 mile) frontier since Ethiopia rejected a 2002 ruling by the independent border commission giving Eritrea the key town of Badme.
Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Raymond Johansen rejected Mesfin's accusations in comments to the newspaper.
"Nothing that he says is true," Johansen said, according to Aftenposten. Johansen was unavailable for comment, but a spokesman confirmed he had been accurately quoted in the paper.
"Norway still hopes that there can be a meeting at the political level with Ethiopia in connection with the U.N. General Assembly in New York later this month," he told Aftenposten. "We do not want to contribute to escalating this."
The Rest @ Reuters Africa
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Arabs Weigh in on Sudan
There was an interesting meeting this last weekend, alegedly called by and occuring in Tripolli, Libya. It was a sort of public "intervention" With Sudan on Darfur. Egypt Commited troops to the Peace keeping force. All good, But at first glance it looks more like Arab cover for Sudan. First pass at the Rehortic shows that the Libya and other Arab sates are setting themselves up as mediators between Sudan and the rest of the world as the world gets ready to bring Real Sanctions.
...I think it will get Sudan more time to accomplish its goals..Were there any more clandesined arms shipments into Northern Africa during this conference?
Algeded Attendees were Representatives from:
...I think it will get Sudan more time to accomplish its goals..Were there any more clandesined arms shipments into Northern Africa during this conference?
Algeded Attendees were Representatives from:
- Libya
- Sudan
- Chad
- Egypt
- Eritria
- the five permanent members of the UN Security Council
- the European Union
- the League of Arab States
Intersting but not surprising to note that neither Ethiopia nor Uganda was there. This was an Arab party, the EU and UN were guests.
Muammar Gaddafi Opened the session and
- Accused Darfur rebels of seeking to internationalize the conflict.
- Cautioned the international community against too much intervention in the Darfur issue.
The 2 Day meeting ended and they released a communique, the Tripoli Consensis
Gaddafi again sets himself up as the Arab Link to Africa, and puts himself in position to intervene diplomatically in the future if the UN troops get too close to the Janjueed.
A good article from China net
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Al Qaeda Trying To Take the Pan African Jihad to the Next Level
Ethiopia
- Ethiopia is now surrounded on three sides by Regimes supporting Jihad or Jihad Rebels.
- Ethiopia's support of the transitional Somali government in the current civil war in Somalia war reflects that understanding. Their move was a preemptive strike.
- The Union of Islamic Courts, (UIC) the Somali rebel group, using an Ethiopian Muslim Rebel Group, The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF)who has been fighting along side them in Somalia just attacked a Chinese oil field in Eastern Ethiopia, with 200 soldiers.
- They killed 74 Ethiopian workers and kidnapped 7 Chinese workers.
Somalia
- This is a counter-Attack, trying to retake the initiative they lost when they were attacked by Ethiopian-reinforced government troops before they could attack. (The Union of Islamic Courts had been massing on the Ethiopian border before they attack)
- The UIC, directing the ONLF, will try and leverage the 7 Chinese Hostages to get two things:
1) Chinese pressure on the Ethiopian Government to withdraw from the Somali civil war
2) Freedom to secede from Ethiopia.
- The ONLF will claim it only wants Independence
- If Successful, They will then join Somalia on the side of the UIC to continue their offensive Against Ethiopia.
- The plans are that Somalia, once again controlled by the UIC will once again become the staging are for the Jihad underway against North Africa.
- Recruits will again be brought in, trained and assigned to units in Somalia
Nigeria
- The recently botched elections in Northern Nigeria will be used as Justification for the Muslim Uprising in the North
- Jihadists will try and bring in forces that have been training in under governed areas of Niger and Mali just for this moment.
- The 12 states under Sharia law in the North will then try and launch a civil war, or use the presence of al Qaeda rebels in Northern Nigeria to get concessions
- If they get the concessions they are looking for, They will use these al Qaeda units to attack Western CHAD
CHAD
- Sudan, already in Eastern CHAD, needs a place to move their genocidal forces as the UN Troops come in.
- They will try and send the units across CHAD, supported by government Aircraft, to cut the country in half
- They will try and join up with Jihadist forces coming in from North Eastern Nigeria.
Al Qaeda, now free to recruit and train Jihadist in both the East and the West will then try and launch a new, strengthened call for the Next Caliphate, and ask for recognition for new Islamic republics- In NOrthern Nigeria and Southern Chad. Al Qaeda in Iraq, Somalia, Eriteria, and possibly Madagascar would liekly recognize them.
Prevention: Things that could stop the plan
- If China decides that they need to make a statement, and sends a hostage rescue team to get their oil workers-things could get complicated for their plan.
- If The US sends forces against al Qaeda units as they move as they did in Somalia
- If the Nigerian government decides not to negoitate but attack Northern Nigeria
- A significant Act of God, as has happend before, that thwarts the plan
- Shia movement in Africa that interferes with this sunni plan.(Iran, Hizballa, etc)
My Point is:
Do you guys see the same thing?
Comment
Monday, January 15, 2007
Sudan's assault on its neighbors continues
CHAD- Today 1/15/07
Sudanes Military planes flew into Northern Chad to protect Janjueed militia as they resuppklied and rearmed.
read more m1/10/07
CAR and CHAD- the UN wants to move "a peace keeping mission of 2500 soldiers. They do not yet know if they would be connected to the hoped for mission in Darfu, Sudan
read more
CAR 1/8/07
North-western CAR has been beset by rebel groups who seek to overthrow the regime of President François Bozizé and the situation has been compounded by a spill-over of the civil war from Sudan's Darfur region.
read more
Sudan has supported and encouraged the LRA and alowed them bases in Southern Sudan During this time the LRA led a bloody campaign in Northern Uganda. Now that the LRA is negotiating peace, it has been told it must leave Southern Sudan.
Read more
Sudanes Military planes flew into Northern Chad to protect Janjueed militia as they resuppklied and rearmed.
read more m1/10/07
CAR and CHAD- the UN wants to move "a peace keeping mission of 2500 soldiers. They do not yet know if they would be connected to the hoped for mission in Darfu, Sudan
read more
CAR 1/8/07
North-western CAR has been beset by rebel groups who seek to overthrow the regime of President François Bozizé and the situation has been compounded by a spill-over of the civil war from Sudan's Darfur region.
read more
Sudan has supported and encouraged the LRA and alowed them bases in Southern Sudan During this time the LRA led a bloody campaign in Northern Uganda. Now that the LRA is negotiating peace, it has been told it must leave Southern Sudan.
Read more
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