From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Thu Jun 04 2009 - 08:20:52 EDT
Selam Mr. Lebam,
Those who know Sammy G very well will find this statement "So, it is wise to
do your home work first, before making a disparaging remarks on our
government" very amusing.
The fact is there is a huge difference between "Zakahrov" and "Sakarov".
Googling the words "zakharov eritrea" yields the following results
instatntly:
Eritrean opposition divulges sensitive government secretsDec 10, 2008 ...
Zakharov's partner from the Eritrean side was Brigadier General Ta'ame (aka
Mekelle). Brig.-General Ta'ame was one of the guys who was ...
www.ethiomedia.com/aurora/9222.html - 15k - Cached - Similar pages -Arab
states trained Al-Qaeda men to fight in
Somalia - Times OnlineFeb 18, 2007 ... When Zakharov discovered the
Eritreans' real use of the plane was for arms shipments and for flying the
masked men from Somalia, ...
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1400655.ece -
Similar pages -shabait.com - Eritrean News
Source - Martin Plaut's Deliberate ...Nov 28, 2008 ... When Zakharov
discovered the Eritreans' real use of the plane was for arms shipments and
for flying the masked men from Somalia, ...
www.shabait.com/staging/publish/article_009113.html - 38k - Cached - Similar
pages -American Chronicle | Martin
Plaut´s Deliberate Misrepresentations ...When Zakharov discovered the
Eritreans´ real use of the plane was for arms shipments and for flying the
masked men from Somalia, he cancelled the contract… ...
www.americanchronicle.com/articles/83150 - 33k - Cached - Similar pages -
But googling "Sakharov eritrea" yields a single result and that is the very
press release that was posted on Shabait this week.
shabait.com - Eritrean News Source - Press Release: The "Sakharov ...Jun 2,
2009 ... The CIA recently disseminated a story through some "Satellite
channel" concerning the Sakharov story and its mafia networks, as well as
the ...
www.shabait.com/staging/publish/article_009997.html - 21k - Cached - Similar
pages -
Given the fact that not every body is lebam like you they will need a
refrence point to start from, the press release provided nothing. A
government press release is something to be taken seriously and if you are
left in the dark after reading such a document you seek explanation. The
press release was made available for the public and as a member of the
public If you can't find anything that would shade light on the subject in
question you voice your opinion about it, which is what Sammy G and Berhan
did. But Mr. Lebam, in your infinte wisdom, are telling us to just shut up
and do our home work and if we can't find any thing it is because we are
asha/halay.
Oh well ...
Biniam
*From:* Biet (*biet@getmail.no*<biet@getmail.no?Subject=Re:%20[DEHAI]%20Re:%20(MFA%20-%20Eritrea)%20Press%20Release:%20The%20"Sakharov"%20Fiction&In-Reply-To=<003b01c9e4b3$71a5f3f0$54f1dbd0$@no>>
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*Date:* Wed Jun 03 2009 - 21:26:11 EDT
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Berhan Sium and Sammy G!
<-Sammy G. wrote>
<if MoFA were to respond to every daily CIA & Woyane-financed>
< false propaganda on Eritrea,>
< it'd not have enough employees or time to get around to it.>
This is not ” daily CIA & Woyane-financed…”, but the CORE of Eritrea’s
problems. For example think of…
Jendayi E. frazier’s, countries sponsoring terrorism list, SC resolutions
condeming Eritrea,
Djibudti, IGAD,AU, Eritrea "supports the Al-Shabab Islamic Movement Group",
etc..etc
It is all based on it and MoFA is trying to defend Eritrea and,as they put
it, to expose the liars and propagators.
THINGS ARE NOT ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM!
So, it is wise to do your home work first, before making a disparaging
remarks on our government.
On this subject(The "Sakharov" Fiction) you both remineded me of a tigrigna
proverb(misila)
Which goes like this:
nlebam amitelu kindeyenay keysiHto, niaesh deguHalu kindeyenat keyrido
Anyway, read excerpts on the subject - The "Sakharov" Fiction
Since I have been collecting information on Somalia for over a year, it was
not hard to find the 18 February 2007 Sunday Times report
(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1400655.ece)
by Jon Swain and Brian Johnson-Thomas who were reporting from Johannesburg,
South Africa. They reported a very interesting but at the time a very
puzzling story about a man, Evgueny Zakharov, the owner of Aerolift who
claimed he was transporting Eritreans to Somalia. It didn’t make sense then,
but it does now. Here is an excerpt from that news report:
Zakharov said his involvement began after he was approached by a General
Tambi of the Eritrean People’s Defence Forces… Tambi offered to buy
Zakharov’s Ilyushin 76 transport aircraft carrying the Kazakhstan
registration number UN 76496 for $1.5m (£770,000), even though the normal
price for an aircraft of that vintage and condition is just $1m…Zakharov
went ahead despite the unusual contract conditions that stipulated secrecy.
He insisted the contract should specify that the new owners were not to use
the aircraft to make arms flights…However, he said last week that the
Ilyushin made three sanctions-busting arms flights to Somalia from the
Eritrean port of Massawa, bringing out the masked men on the return
legs…When Zakharov discovered the Eritreans’ real use of the plane was for
arms shipments and for flying the masked men from Somalia, he cancelled the
contract…Contacted last week, Tambi denied all knowledge of the deal.
However, The Sunday Times has a copy of the contract signed in Moscow and
Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, between Aerolift and Eriko Enterprise of
Asmara on July 21…”
At the time, Eritrean American’s such as myself were puzzled; the name
‘Tambi’ did not sound Eritrean. It was not much later that we discovered the
name belonged to John E.Tambi of Sierra Leone, one of the experts hired by
Kofi Annan to monitor the embargo on Somalia
(http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=11744&Cr=somalia&Cr1=
But why did he present himself as an Eritrean? Was he trying to implicate
Eritrea? Why is the UN not questioning Tambi’s involvement in this sordid
affair?
The report includes a copy of a bill of sale for the Ilyushin-76 UN-76496,
once of Viktor Bout's GST Aero Air Company, which according to the Group was
sold to Eritrea by the same Evgeny Zakharov of Aerolift Ltd, a Virgin
Islands company. Obviously this man is not a credible source and inclusion
of the bill of sale by the group in their second report as proof of Eritrean
culpability is not only suspect but also raises even more disturbing
questions about the Group, the credibility and integrity of their report and
not to mention the efficacy of the UN which is seems to be catering to State
Department officials once again, to effectuate US policy.
Read the whole article at:
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/37228
Somalia: Monitoring Group's Credibility and Integrity Questioned
By Sophia Tesfamariam
September 10, 2007