From: Haile Abraham (haileab99@msn.com)
Date: Fri Sep 18 2009 - 14:11:58 EDT
Selam Dehai,
Yesterday the Africa's Useless (AU) Commission appealed for sanctions against those "parties" it blames for the on-going violence and illegal arm shipments in Somalia. In its appeal the Chairman of the Useless "stresses the need for renewed efforts by the region, Africa and the international community as a whole, to provide increased support to the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia and to AMISOM, to isolate and take effective sanctions against all the spoilers, and to further the quest for peace and reconciliation in Somalia.”
Unlike in its previous appeal, however, the Useless did not mention Eritrea by name. Even though one may argue that the term "spoiler," which was coined by the now unemployed US official, was methodically and conventionally tied in the past with Eritrea, it appears that the Africa's Useless, as well as other US officials, may have finally regained their senses to admit that all the brouhaha against Eritrea was nothing but a smoke screen to divert attention from the main culprit.
The main culprit in this diversionary tactic is the US government along with some other parasitic individuals who are profiting handsomely at the expense of the poor Somali citizens. So who is arming Somalia? It sure is not Eritrea!
According to Elizabeth Dickinson's article on ForeignPolicy.org on September 11, 2009 under the title of "Arming Somalia," she stated that he United States sent RPGs, machine guns, mortars, and -- in the words of one U.S. official -- "cash in a brown paper bag" to Somalia last spring. She went on to say that late in May, as violence consumed the streets of the infamously violent capital city of Mogadishu, Somalia, packages of ammunition, weapons, and cash began arriving from the United States as part of an attempt to help the country's flailing Transitional Federal Government (TFG) stave off collapse. And as we all my recall, this was at the time when TFG and its cash-hungry cohorts were crying about its collapse "within 24 hrs."
According to the article, the contents of those shipments, not previously reported, included 19 tons of ammunition, 48 rifle-propelled grenades, 36 PKM machine guns (a model of the Russian-made Kalashnikov), 12 DShK machine guns (Russian-made heavy artillery weapons), and 10 mortars (the firing apparatus for shells). The shipment was detailed in a letter from a U.S. official to the U.N. Security Council committee set up to oversee the 17-year-old arms embargo on Somalia.
So who is involved in an international money-laundering, carrying a brown bag of $2 million dollars, and he trying to circumvent the arms embargo imposed in Somalia? The article explains how a U.S. official, Alejandro D. Wolff, deputy permanent U.S. representative to the United Nations, requested an exemption to the embargo, which was put in place in 1992 at the onset of civil conflict. In a second letter to the Security Council, Wolff explained that $2 million was also being sent to the Somali government "for the immediate procurement of equipment (weapons and ammunition) and logistics support (food, fuel, water, engineering services)."
So now after this expose, those who have been using Eritrea as a scapegoat to extend their parasitic life style are now suddenly refraining from accusing Eritrea of shipping arms to Somalia. But for the TFG, this is the evidence and this is the smoking gun, unfortunately the Executioner is playing both the Judge and the Jury role, and thus justice delayed to the Somali people, is justice denied.
Haile A.
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