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Date: Sun May 23 2010 - 04:35:40 EDT


Demeaning And Insulting To The Security Council

 

Eritrea Profile, Saturday 22nd of May, 2010

 

Their anxiety mounting as their

lies and deception continue to be

exposed, the TPLF regime and its

masters as well as those quarters that

are always ready to entertain the

adventurism of these groups have

recently submitted a "case" before

the Security Council accompanied

by much hype. Following is the

full content of the cheap and pitiful

attempt at a political game which can

only be considered as a demeaning

and insulting the Security Council:

 

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs

of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia

pursuant to the resolutions 751

(1992) and 1907 (2009) has the

honor to submit herewith part of

the information with regard to the

list of individuals and entities that

should be subjected to the measures

of the aforementioned resolutions.

The Ministry would further like to

inform the Committee that Ethiopia

looks forward to visit at the earliest

possible time so that full information

including interviews with some

relevant individuals could be made

available.

List of Eritrean offi cials engaged

in the destabilization of Somalia,

the TFG and threaten the peace and

security of neighboring countries.

I- Military Commanders

1- Full Name: General Sebhat

Ephrem Amanuel

Age: 63

Place of Birth: Hmasen/

Embarda/

Passport No: 0321325;

DP02911

Position: Minister of Defense of

Eritrea; Military Number 72775

Role in the destabilization of

peace and security of Somalia,

TFG and the regional countries:

. He is engaged in the design

of strategy and tactics to be

employed by militant groups,

decides on necessary training and

arms supply to their activities. He

closely monitors and follows up

and provides support to military

activities of subversive forces

operating in the region.

2- Full Name: Brigadier General

Negash Tesfatsion

Age: 73

Place of Birth: ------------

Passport No: --------------

Position: Deputy Commander

of Eritrean Military Training and

Head of Strategic Studies

Role in the destabilization of

peace and security of Somalia,

TFG and the regional countries:

. provides support in military

trainings and coordinates activities

of subversive forces operating in

Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and other

neighboring countries

. Following the decision of

President Isaias and under direct

order of Mr. Yemane Gebreab and

in collaboration with Col. Taeme

Goitom he has established a terrorist

military training camp around Assab

where he has trained and armed Al-

Demeaning And Insulting To Th e Security Council

Shabaab and Hizbul Islam terrorists

and Yemeni government opposition

forces.

3- Full Name: Major General

Teklai Habtesellassie

Age: 55

Place of Birth: Hamsen (A/

Nefas)

Passport No: ----------------------

Position: Head of Eritrean Air

Force; Head of Military training.

Chairman of "wefri warsai" that

could loosely be translated as

campaign for forced labor of the

youth.

Role in the destabilization of

peace and security of Somalia,

TFG and the regional countries:

. As Head of military trainings,

he trains terrorists in different

military skills, provides arms and

coordinates air transport services

for subversive missions abroad.

4- Full Name: Brigadier General

Fitsum G/Hiwot

Age: 56

Place of Birth: Hamsen (Tsaeda

Christian)

Passport No: -----------------

Position: Deputy Commander in

Chief of Eritrean Navy

Role in the destabilization of

peace and security of Somalia,

TFG and the regional countries:

. As Deputy Commander in Chief

of Eritrean Navy, he coordinates

and facilitates the sea voyage of

terrorists, foreign and Somali

extremist forces to Somalia and

neighboring countries.

5- Full Name: Col. Tewolde

Habte Negash

Age: -----------------

Place of Birth: ----------------

Passport No: --------------

Position: An offi cer under report

to Yemane Gebreab and Col.

Taeme

Role in the destabilization of

peace and security of Somalia,

TFG and the regional countries:

. He plays a key role in

supporting Somali terrorists since

2006. This year he has entered into

Kenya crossing through Djibouti

and Uganda and has provided

fi nancial and arms support to Al-

Shabaab, Hizbul Islam and Raas

Kaambooni. He was responsible for

the transportation of explosives and

fi nancing of the suicide bombing

operation that claimed the lives

of Col. Omar Hash, Ambassador

Abdulkarim Lacino and other TFG

offi cials and twenty elders in the

city of Beledweine.

. Although, Col. Tewolde Habte

is known to have been deported to

Eritrea after having been detained

and investigated by Kenyan police

in 2009, there is evidence that he

is responsible for the June 2009

terrorist act that claimed the lives

of Col. Omar Hash et al.

. It is possible to get further

information on Col. Tewolde Habte

from the Kenyan Police.

II- Heads of Eritrean

Government Security

Institutions

1- Full Name- Brigadier General

Abreha Kassa

Age: 57

Place of Birth: Deke Mehare

(Sessah)

Passport No: --------------

Position: Chief of Eritrean

Security

Role in the destabilization of

peace and security of Somalia,

TFG and the regional

countries:

. Provides high-level leadership

and dispatches Yemeni, Djibouti

and Ethiopian extremist forces for

engagement in the destabilization

of Somalia and the region.

. He plays a major role in

coordinating, networking and

providing operational leadership to

Somali, Yemeni, Djibouti, Sudanese

and Ethiopian extremists.

. He takes orders from President

Isaias and Mr. Yemane Gebreab.

. He gives direction to people

to lead subversive activities in the

region. These include Col. Gaim T/

Michael, Col. Taeme Goitom a.k.a.

Mekelle, Col. Simon G/Dengel,

Col. Fitsum, Brigadier General

G/Kidan a.k.a. Wediminey, Col.

Tewolde Habte Negash, e.t.c.

. Under instructions from the

President and Mr. Yemane Gebreab

and in collaboration with Brigadier

General G/Kidan a.k.a. Wediminey,

Head of Immigration, he facilitates

travel documents (passports, visas)

to Al-Shabaab and other extremist

groups. For instance, he has provided

passports and travel permits through

his Intelligence offi cer Col. Alem

Negash, to major leaders of terrorist

groups like Hassan Dahir Aweys

and Mukhtar Robo, who operated

terrorist activities in Ethiopia,

Djibouti, Yemen, Sudan, apart from

Somalia.

. He oversees and coordinates

the terror networks and their

supporters' activities in Yemen,

Djibouti, Somalia and Sudan.

2- Full Name: Colonel Taeme

Abraham Goitom a.k.a. Mekele

Age: 53

Place of Birth: Akele Guzay

(Shemejena)

Passport No: Laissez-Passer

02154

Position: Head of Eritrean

External Intelligence Operation

Role in the destabilization of

peace and security of Somalia,

TFG and the regional countries:

. He has participated in organizing

and giving direct leadership to Al-

Shabaab and other Somali terrorists

as well as Djibouti and Ethiopian

extremist opposition groups. This

is confi rmed by three Eritrean

offi cers, who were taken prisoner

while engaged in military activities

in Somalia and have testifi ed that in

2006 they were engaged in terrorist

activities in Mogadishu along

with him taking direct orders and

leadership from him for terrorist

operations.

. This person uses different

passports and has close ties to

President Isaias and engages in

illegal arms and drug traffi cking in

different countries.

. He directly reports to the

President and Mr. Yemane

Gebreab.

. From 1998 to 2000, he devoted

his full time to arms traffi cking in

Kenya and Somalia. He has provided

leadership and coordinated terrorist

activities of Al-Itihad in Somalia.

. Since 2000, he is engaged in

organizing and dispatching Al-

Itihad and Al-Shabaab operations.

He is also currently engaged in

coordinating the activities of

Al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam

in destabilizing the TFG and in

mounting attacks against AMISOM

(African Union Mission in

Somalia).

. Col. Taeme uses different

aliases and spends more than 75%

of his activities outside Eritrea,

particularly in Somalia, Kenya,

Dubai, Uganda and until recently in

Djibouti.

. Col. Taeme uses Hassan Dahir

Aweys and others as key terror

operatives. However, after he lost

the service of Yusfu Endade, he has

been reduced to relying mainly on

Hassan Dahir Aweys for continuing

to threaten the peace, security and

stability of Somalia and AMISOM

forces.

. Col. Taeme is engaged in arming

and distributing funds to terrorists.

It is known that he uses Eritrean,

Djibouti, Somali and Kenyan

passports. It is also suspected

that he carries a forged Ethiopian

passport.

3. Full Name: Brigadier General

Gebrekidan a.k.a. Weldimney

Age: 67

Place of Birth: Hamasen

(Digdiq)

Passport No: ___

Position: Head of Immigration

and Citizenship

Role in the destabilization of

peace and security of Somalia,

TFG and the regional countries;

. Prepares false Eritrean

passports to terrorists who operate

in different countries of the region,

also provides various types of false

passports to Eritrean offi cials who

are dispatched to carry out different

subversive operations in Somalia

and in other parts of the region.

. Provides Eritrean Diplomatic

and ordinary passports to leaders

of terrorist groups operating in

Somalia and the region and gives

legal cover to their activities.

. Facilitated travel arrangements

to members of terrorist groups

operating in Somalia and the region

through Eritrean Embassies in

Kenya, Sudan, Dubai and Yemen.

4. Full Name: Colonel Fitsum

Yishak a.k.a. Lenin

Age: 51

Place of Birth: Hamassen (Adi

Gebrai)

Passport No: __

Position: In charge of

coordination of Ethiopian Extremist

Opposition

Role in the destabilization of

peace and security of Somalia,

TFG and the regional countries:

. Coordinates and organizes

Ethiopian extreme opposition

organizations based from a place

called Harina.

. He has provided explosives to

be used for terrorist activity in Addis

Abeba during the 2008 African

Union Summit and has directly led

the operation from Djibouti.

. Dispatched by the Eritrean

Government, he carries out terrorist

operations in Ethiopia and the

Sudan.

. He organizes, trains and

dispatches terrorists to Somalia.

. There is ample evidence that

shows that he is responsible for a

series of bombings that took place

in different parts of Ethiopia over

the last few years.

5. Full Name: Colonel Wedi

Kidane

Age: 56

Place of Birth: ___

Passport No: ___

Position: Former Coordinator

of Somali and other terrorist

groups; currently he is operational

offi cer of the Eritrean "National

Intelligence".

Role in the destabilization of

peace and security of Somalia,

TFG and the regional countries:

. In 2006 he entered Mogadishu

and coordinated the activities of Al-

Shabaab and Hizbul Islam forces.

. He was coordinator of Somali

terrorists in Somalia and Kenya.

At the time he liaised with Colonel

Abraham Teame a.k.a Mekele and

Mr. Yemane Gebreab on these

activities.

III Presidental Offi ce Staff

1. Full Name: Yemane Gebre

Meskel Hadush a.k.a. Charlie

Age: 57

Place of Birth: Akelogezay

Hazemo (Unaqobay)

Passport No: 0329465

Position; Spokesperson of the

President

Role in the destabilization of

peace and security of Somalia,

TFG and the regional countries:

. As spokesperson and as the

right hand man of the President, he

has played a key role in destabilizing

Somalia and the neighboring

countries. He is a conduit for

important messages and instructions

going from the President to the

various personalities engaged in

carrying out the President's orders

targeting the different countries of

the region, including Somalia.

2. Full Name: Colonel Tesfalidet

T/Selassie

Age: 52

Place of Birth: Akelogezay

(Gura'e)

Position; Head of the President's

Offi ce

Role in the destabilization of

peace and security of Somalia,

TFG and the regional countries:

. Works immediately under

President Isaias and Coordinates

major activities in security area,

including activities designed to

destabilize Somalia and other

countries of the region.

IV. Offi cials of the People's

Front for Democracy and

Justice (PFDJ)

1. Full Name: Yemane Gebreab

Tesfazgi

Age: 56

Place of Birth: Hamasen

(Sheketi)

Passport No: 0275422

Position; Head of Political

Affairs of PFDJ, Senior Advisor to

President Isaias

Role in the destabilization of

peace and security of Somalia,

TFG and the regional countries:

. Plays a key role in providing

direct political leadership and

consultation to Somali terrorists

and armed Sudanese and Ethiopian

extremist forces.

. Coordinator of neighboring

Countries' terrorists and extremists

(for example Al-Shabaab, Hizbul

Islam and extremist forces of

Ethiopia, Yemen, Sudan, Djibouti)

. In 2007 when the ARS

(Alliance for the Re-liberation of

Simalia) headed by Hassen Dahir

Aweys began to organize itself in

Asmara with the aim of creating

havoc in Somalia, it was Yemane

Gebreab, who more than anyone

else, took major responsibility in

organizing, arming and dispatching

the ARS to Somalia.

. Mr. Yemane is a high ranking

Eritrean offi cial who, until the

Djibouti process, had direct contacts

with Muktar Robo and Yusuf

Endeade, through Co. Hash; who

was later assassinated. He led the

terror campaign raging in Somalia

by allocating the necessary budget

as well as military equipment.

. When the group in Asmara led

by Sheikh Sherif Sheik Ahmed

denounced terror and headed to

Djibouti to make peace with the

TFG, a splinter group advocating

violence and terror led by Hassen

Dahir Aweys and the following

accomplice transported arms to

Mogadishu to incite terror. These

include Osman A. Hassan Eden

Bedriya, Ali A. Mohammed, Dahir

Hussein Hassan, Kahir S. Ali,

Mohammed S. Ali, Jeyresu Abdi

and others. This was arranged

by leasing an airplane from

Capital Airlines Limited (Tel.

25420502280) based in Nairobi,

through the Eritrean Embassy

there. The arms were destined

to Mogadishu and arrived at km

50, an airstrip near Mogadishu,

on 22 April 2009, (See Annex

2: confi dential memo of Capital

Airlines) All these activities were

planned, directed and executed by

Mr. Yemane Gebreab.

. When Yemane Gebreab found

out that Col Omar Hassan, who

was initially recruited for terrorist

activities by him, chose the peaceful

way, he infi ltrated a covert terror

coordination offi cer Tewolde Habte

Negash into Nairobi and Simalia

last year. He was behind the suicide

bombing that claimed the lives

of the then Security Minister,

Col. Omer Hassan, Ambassador

Abdulkarim Lacino, and 20 other

elders. Details of this information

could be ascertained from Kenyan

Security Offi cials.

. Most of the time Yemane

Gebreab dispatched terror

operatives together with Ali Abdu,

Minister of Information and Col.

Teame Goitom. Thus, Mr. Yemane

Gebreab is a major player in terrorist

activities in Eastern Africa.

2. Full Name: Abdella Saeed

Jaber

Age: 62

Place of Birth: Afabet

Passport No: Laisse Passer

23542 DP0285432

Position; Head of Political and

International Affairs of PFDJ

Role in the destabilization of

peace and security of Somalia,

TFG and the regional countries:

. Engaged in organizing Somali

and Sudanese extremist forces to

plot and commit various subversive

activities.

3. Full Name: Hagos Gebre

Hiwot Measho a.k.a Hagos Kisha

Age: 56

Place of Birth: Akelogezay

(Senafe)

Passport No: 0316542

Position: Head of Savings and

Economic Affairs of PFDJ

Role in the destabilization of

peace and security of Somalia,

TFG and the regional countries:

. Raises funds and coordinates

fi nancial support for terrorists and

armed forces operating in the Horn

of Africa, particularly in Somalia.

. He procures, through different

illegal ways, money and military

equipment from Eritrea and abroad

and disburses to terrorists operating

in the Horn of Africa. He avails and

coordinates Eritrean Government

trading transport institutions to

be utilized by terrorists. He uses

the names and networks of these

institutions as a legitimate cover to

funnel funds to terrorist groups in

Somalia and the region.

. Numerous evidences exist

that prove that since the beginning

of 2008, Mr. Hagos used to pay

terrorists 40,000 to 50,000 USD per

month and 60,000 USD per month

to those groups like Al-Shabaab,

Hizbul Islam and Raas Kaambooni,

who have especially demonstrated

success in their atrocities. This was

coordinated through the chain of

command of President Issaias, Mr

Yemane Gebreab and Col. Teame

Goitom.

. The following are some of

those leaders of terrorist groups

and others who received payments

laundered through Eritrean trading

and fi nancial institutions.

* Mukhtar Robo, terrorist leader,

is also known as Karinbunu,

is a former leader of the Raas

Kaambooni terrorist group,

imprisoned in Kenya in 2009

* Mohammed Woll Sheikh

Ahmed Nur, leader of Gedo Al-

Shabaab and later leader of Hizbul

Islam.

o Yusuf Endeade, currently

Minister of Defence of the TFG, also

appears to have received funding

from him as could be confi rmed

by himself should interviews be

arranged with him. (See Annex 1)

4. Full Name: Ali Abdo Yunus

Age: 50

Place of Birth: Keren

Passport No: ___

Position; Minister of Information

of Eritrea

Role in the destabilization of

peace and security of Somalia,

TFG and the regional countries:

. Provides psychological

and moral support to terrorists

by availing the services of the

Eritrean media for dissemination

of disinformation in different

languages of the region. He

glamorized destructive activities

of terrorists and armed forces

by providing giving vast media

coverage and encourages them to

continue their activities. In addition

to this, two Eritrean journalists

dispatched by him to Somalia in

2006 to cover news of destruction

are being detained.

. Provides diplomatic and

political cover to terrorist forces.

. He is devoted to the

destabilization agenda of the

Eritrean government in Somalia and

the region at large. In consultation

with Mr. Yemane Gebreab and

taking direct orders from the

President, he is involved in all

terrorist activities that are directed

by Yemane Gebreab.

Annex-1

Leaders who were earlier in

Eritrea and who could testify before

the United Nations Sanctions

Committee

1. From Transitional Federal

Government of Somalia

1.1 Mr. Yusuf Endeade

. Currently Vice Minister of

Defense of the TFG

1.2 Haji Mohammed Haji Ahub

. Head of National Intelligence

of the TFG. He has an intimate

knowledge of the close relations

between Eritrean government and

terrorists. When he was in Eritrea

he was advised and deployed for

operation by Mr. Yemane Gebreab

et al.

1.3 President Sheriff

. Not only during the stay of

ARS in Asmara, but also since 2006

he has an intimate knowledge of

what sort of support was delivered

to terrorist and extremist forces by

Eritrea.

1.4 Sheriff Hassan

. Currently he is Deputy Prime

Minister of the TFG. When he was

in Asmara he knows the kinds of

advise and military equipment

that he received from the Eritrean

government through Mr. Yemane

Gebreab to destabilize the

organization.

2. Some of the following

and others whose names are

not included were slated to be

interviewed by the United Nations

Sanctions Committee delegation

if it had completed its mission to

Ethiopia

2.1 Terrorist Groups from

Ethiopia

2.1.1 OLF (Oromo Liberation

Front) Leadership

2.1.1.1 Mr. Fuach Bekira

. A member of OLF leadership,

he had stayed in Asmara for a longtime

and has detail knowledge of

Eritrean government's fi nancial

commitment to terrorist activities.

He could provide testimonials.

2.1.1.2 Mr. Abdi Sac Wariyu

. Member of OLF leadership

who used to get support from

Eritrean government and offi cials

for their terrorist activities.

2.1.1.3. Mr. Kanu Jirmo

. A long-time member of OLF

leadership, before peacefully

rejoining the society. With his

accomplices, they used to get

leadership and support from Eritrea

for their activities that threaten the

peace and security of the region. He

has insider knowledge of Eritrea's

policy of threatening the peace and

stability of the region and could

provide details on the situation in

Eritrea.

2.1.2. ONLF (Ogaden National

Liberation Front) Leadership

2.1.2.1. Abdullahi Ahmed

Ibrahim

. A member of ONLF leadership,

he has informed us that the

Eritrean government has provided

them with training, logistics and

leadership support for their antipeace

activities.

2.1.2.2. Mr. Aden Suf Tali

. As a member of high-level

leadership of the ONLF who used

to be based in Asmara for his antipeace

activities between Eritrean

government and terrorism.

2.1.2.3. Hersi

. As long-time member of

ONLF leadership he could testify

what he used to receive in person

as well as as an organization from

the Eritrean Government for his

anti-peace activities.

2.1.3. UWSLF (United

Western Somali Liberation Front)

Leadership

2.1.3.1. Mr. Ahmed Neshad head

of UWSLF Meshura

2.1.3.2. Mr. Abdelkarim head of

UWSLF Military

V. The following two institutions

have played and continued to play

a very critical role in the provision

and transfer of fi nance including

the laundering of foreign currency

for facilitating the activities of

terrorist groups such as Al-Shabaab

and Hizbul Islam.

1. Red Sea Corporation (PFDJ)

2. Himbol Financial Services

(PFDJ)

 

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