Islamic Extremism in Somalia: due to TFG ‘President’, Neo-Nazi Abyssinian Death Squads

By: Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
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[ Posted On: 2008-05-13 ]

It is only ludicrous for the current US administration to imagine that with some rockets and with the presence of – deeply loathed by all the Somalis – Abyssinian thugs (who are misleadingly called national army of 'Ethiopia') Islamic Extremism will be eradicated from Somalia. It will only be promoted.

There are some simple, basic realities and the US and the UN will have to accept them if their real interest is to contain and not to further diffuse Islamic Extremism in Somalia.

Point 1 – No suicide bombers in Somalia

The first point is that, despite irrelevant literature published because of bribes paid by the unrepresentative pseudo-diplomats of 'Ethiopia', there is very, very limited dose of Islamic Extremism in Somalia, and this is due to the tolerant and broadminded mentality of the average Somali. There is only one reality: there have never been suicide bombers in Somalia.

If pathetic and ignorant analysts like Peter Pham and the perversely anti-American Ass. Secretary Jendayi Frazer want to hand over to the next US president 1 million suicide bombers in Somalia, the present situation will have to continue for some months.

What will be thus produced is the formation of an Islamic terrorist front that will function across the board, involving Somali, Ogadeni, Oromo, Afar, Tigray and Amhara Muslims, in an effort to turn the entire Eastern Africa into a huge Taliban style country spanning between Madagascar and the Mediterranean.

If this is rather undesired, the focus should be on how to avert deterioration. Here everything becomes simple.

Point 2 – Every solution presupposes earlier removal of the Neo-Nazi Abyssinian Death Squads

The second point is that the Neo-Nazi Abyssinian Tigray and Amhara pseudo-soldiers on Somali soil are absolutely unacceptable by the totality of the Somali Nation; they have to pack and go before the situation turns to extremes. Soon, any suicide attack against the their camps will be praised by every Somali, which will be an extraordinary change.

That moment will be the point of no return for the Horn of Africa region, and one would have to find some millions of foreign soldiers in order to keep an unrepresentative and loathed president in place.

So, a UN Security Council decision should immediately order the Abyssinian soldiers out; a UN peacekeeping force is rather advisable.

Point 3 – TFG government and 'president' are nothing.

The third point is that the US and the UN must come to terms with the reality that the TFG government does not represent any authority, does not have any power, and does not enjoy the slightest portion of respect among Somalis.

The same would be true for any authority that would tolerate the presence of the historical enemy of Somalia, the racist anti-Somali Abyssinians, on Somali soil.

The insignificant, irrelevant and unrepresentative TFG president proved to be unable to prevent repeated slaughters of Somalis by the inane, criminal and inhuman Abyssinians, incapable to avert the displacement of ca. 1 million of Somali, and incompetent enough to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe.

One has to realize that in the area of Southern Somalia where the aforementioned number of Somalis have been displaced, the homeless form approximately one third (1/3) of the population. This is huge.

Point 4 – An International All-Somali Conference

The fourth point is that this shadowy and powerless 'president' cannot by definition be a trustful partner in any deal, and a representative interlocutor in any occurrence.

At the most, he can be convoked – as just one among many participants – in an International Conference where all the representatives of the existing Somali groups, parties, fronts, alliances, organizations and associations have their rightful place.

The UN and the US must come to terms with the idea that only a democratic approach can function and help solve problems existing among the various factions of a democratic nation. Any dictatorial solution imposed 'from above' will only exacerbate the problems and worsen the situation.

Point 5 – Current Balance of Political Power among Somalis

The fifth point is related to the balance of power and the political choice of the Somalis; at this moment, it seems plausible that if free, democratic elections for a Constituent Assembly were to take place throughout Somalia, the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS) of Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed would be the predominant party (eventually without absolute majority).

It would be very wrong to consider ARS as the extreme left of the Somali political spectrum. The Shebab organization may prove to be a strong rival at the extreme left; this means that every development that contributes to the exacerbation of the average Somalis will be profitable only for those seeking further radicalization and will help increase the role of the extremists. If things go to that direction, one would find the balance of political powers in today's Somalia almost similar to that of Portugal after the Carnation Revolution – when the Communists (extreme left) became very powerful.

Point 6 – Somaliland standalone is Casus Belli

The sixth point that particularly the US has to understand very clearly is that in an International Conference for Peace in Somalia, all parties, fronts and organizations from Somalia's Northwestern provinces have to be also summoned, the unrecognized Somaliland government included.

No further credibility should be given to that government, as it resorts to tyrannical practices and represents only one minority group in that part of Somalia.

Point 7 – Prerequisite for Peace, Freedom and Democracy in Africa: the obliteration of the Colonial Tyranny of Abyssinia – 'Ethiopia'

Last, the seventh point concerns Abyssinia, fallaciously re-baptized 'Ethiopia'. The US and the UN have to realize that the key to success in every pacification project in the Horn of Africa area is the elimination of 'Ethiopia' from the picture.

Any contact between Somali political heads and Ethiopian 'diplomats' and administrators must be averted; a UN force must be deployed in Ogaden (occupied Somalia) and an investigation commission must focus on the Crimes against the Mankind that have reportedly taken place there.

Similar measures must be implemented in the occupied Oromia, Afar Land, Sidama land, Anuak Land and other territories. To eradicate Islamic Terrorism from Eastern Africa, one has to eliminate first the reason that provokes it: the racist, Neo-Nazi, totalitarian regime of the Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic Abyssinians (who do not represent more than 18% of the entire country).

I publish here two documents that clarify various points of the aforementioned approach: a statement issued by the Somali Community of Greater Washington D.C under the title 'Protest Against Somali Warlord President at the U.S. State Department', and a Press Release issued by the Somali Diaspora Network, under the title 'U.S. Policy on Somalia: A Recipe for Self-fulfilling Prophecies'.

Both documents demonstrate very clearly that there is no Somali ready to accept as his the TFG president of the Abyssinian occupying forces; at the same time, the two documents express the worries of the Somali expatriates for the rise of Islamic Extremism in Somalia as a consequence of the Neo-Nazi Abyssinian invasion and the improper US Africa policy.

Protest Against Somali Warlord President at the U.S. State Department

(among others: http://state-department-news.newslib.com/story/85-3228457/)

Over two hundred Somali-Americans gathered in front of the US State Department to express their outrage about the blatant war crimes and human rights violations committed at the hands of the Ethiopian forces in Somalia.

They are equally outraged by the State Department's misguided approach which is creating a wide spread anti-Americanism in the Horn of Africa.

There is an utter lack of integrity and moral authority on the part of the U.S. State Department because it provided tactical support the invasion and the subsequent occupation of Somalia and has remained silent about the war crimes and human rights violations committed at the hands of the Ethiopian forces.

Human Rights Watch and United Nation confirm that, in the past 16 months, the Ethiopian troops repeatedly shelled civilian neighborhoods.

In violations of the international laws governing conflict and occupation, the Ethiopian occupation forces ignored United Nation's warning to cease the continued shelling and deployment of military forces to residential area.

In less than a year, over 800,000 civilians have been displaced from Mogadishu due to the random shelling, killing, and insecurity in the city as the Ethiopian forces and militias loyal to the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) callously prevented the delivery of food aid to the displaced civilians.

This forced exodus has now resulted in a grave and rapidly deteriorating humanitarian disaster.

Former warlord President Abdullahi Yusuf's November 20, 2007 speech in Baidoa, Somalia demonstrated the President's animosity towards the International aid agencies.

He accused the aid organizations of helping fund the rebels by monetizing food aid and that the World food Program (WFP) executives in Nairobi were stealing the food aid.

This week, over 80 Somalis are dead, the leader of the nonviolent Sufi sect (i.e., Tabliq) and several of his colleagues were "slaughtered" in a mosque, and over 40 children and students of a Koranic school were abducted by the Ethiopian forces.

The US State Department added insult to injury. Its spokesman's response to such atrocities was "We are going to continue to work with the Transitional Federal Government, with the Ethiopians, with the AU and others who are interested in trying to help bring peace and stability to Somalia and improve the situation in that country and give the Somali people a better future.

" When did the killing of religious leaders in their house of worship become "trying to help bring peace and stability to Somalia …"? This is the epitome of Orwellian newspeak.

The United States and the United Nations must end their support for the blatant gross human rights violations in Somalia and demand accountability for these war crimes so that any peacekeeping force would be seen by the Somali public as neutral and beneficial to Somalia. The Ethiopian forces must withdraw without preconditions.

The United States and United Nations must take the lead in a multifaceted humanitarian assistance to avert the disaster in the making.

Besides food and potable water, the availability of basic health services and sanitation facilities are very crucial.

Lack of these facilities is causing a huge and preventable number of deaths to the population of children under five.

In order for a lasting peace to take hold in Somalia and restore the Somali State, a genuine and carefully prepared process of reconciliation and peace conference must take place.

Such a conference must ensure the full participation of all stakeholders including the TFG, Islamic Courts, members of the Free Parliament, civil society organizations inside the country and those of the Somali communities abroad.

For Immediate Release Contact:
Somali Community of Greater Washington D.C
Somalidiaspora@gmail.com

U.S. Policy on Somalia: A Recipe for Self-fulfilling Prophecies
(http://www.waagacusub.com/news/23.04.08.7.htm)

Fairfax, Virginia, USA, April 2008: Fifteen months into the Ethiopian invasion and occupation of Somalia and the country has seemingly fallen off the edge. Somalia is now witnessing the worst humanitarian crisis in Africa with over one million internally displaced and facing "a staggering scale of need," (Refugees International, 03/31/2008).

According to the United Nations, thousands have been killed and many more wounded since the occupation began, while the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) which arrived on the tanks of the invading troops is now on the verge of collapse (New York Times, 03/29/2008). Neither the support of the United States (U.S.) nor the military power of Ethiopia has helped it achieve any meaningful acceptance. Somalis rightly view the TFG as a government imposed upon them by an historic archenemy and legitimacy, evidently, can neither be purchased with money nor coerced through bombardment.

Many Human Rights groups have also documented the impunity with which Ethiopian troops have operated in Somalia in the past year. In August 2007, Human Rights Watch released a major report titled Shell-Shocked: Civilians under Siege in Mogadishu documenting the crimes against civilians committed by all the warring factions during March and April of 2007.

The report specifically documented the deliberate shelling by Ethiopian troops of densely populated areas including hospitals, the looting of private property and the mass arrests and detentions of civilians. Since then, two-thirds of Mogadishu's population has been displaced and the resistance to the occupation has grown largely in response to the war crimes and injustices committed against civilians. Furthermore, the disproportionate and heavy-handed use of force by Ethiopian troops has left little doubt in the mind of many Somalis that Ethiopia is indeed the enemy they perceive it to be.

In addition to supplying Ethiopia with logistical, financial and political support, the U.S. occasionally takes matters into its own hands. In early March 2008, the United States dropped several missiles on Dobley, a small Somali village near the Kenyan border. The alleged target was a man suspected of terrorist attacks in Kenya a decade earlier. As with similar bombing campaigns conducted by the U.S. in Somalia, at least four since early 2007, this one missed its target. This shoot-first approach has once again taken the lives of innocent villagers and others who found life in Mogadishu unbearable. These reckless bombings of dubious legality have so far achieved nothing but stoke the ire of a population already under siege.

In their opinion piece (Los Angeles Times, 03/28/2008), Jennifer Daskal, senior counter-terrorism counsel for Human Rights Watch and Leslie Lefkow, senior researcher on the Horn of Africa for Human Rights Watch attribute the predictable and "unsurprising growth in anti-Western and anti-American sentiment among Somalis who never supported radical Islamist movements before" to the callous U.S. bombings and "Ethiopia's blank check to commit abuses." The authors further warn that "eliminating a few alleged terrorists will not solve these deeper problems," but that "an effective counter-terrorism policy must address the underlying human rights and humanitarian tragedies that are fueling the crisis."

The policies of targeted killings and unwavering support for Ethiopia's brutal occupation are proving to be detrimental to Somalis and undermining U.S. policy in the Horn of Africa. In addition to hampering reconciliation efforts, these policies clearly undermine the TFG itself, the very government the U.S. purports to support. The Somali people justifiably see an imposed government of warlords and their cronies, a brutal and callous occupation and the world's only superpower stubbornly and recklessly pushing the country over the edge.

The Somali Diaspora Network urges the United States to:

Immediately withdraw its military and political support for Ethiopia's illegal occupation of Somalia

Support the investigation of war crimes and human rights abuses committed against the civilian population by advocating the establishment of a war crimes tribunal for Somalia

Conduct a congressional investigation of U.S. military assistance to Ethiopia to determine its full adherence to U.S. law

Support UN Security Council action demanding that Ethiopia withdraw its troops from Somali territory without delay

Support the reconciliation efforts among all Somali stakeholders from within and without the TFG

Somali Diaspora Network

About Somali Diaspora Network (SDN) – SDN is a grass-roots organization committed to advocate on critical policy matters pertaining to Somali-American interest and issues of concern through communication and information sharing, raising public awareness, and educating the public and government officials.
http://www.somalidiaspora.org/

Note: Somalia pacified and re-unified is the only way to eliminate Islamic Terrorism from the Horn of Africa and the wider area of the Indian Ocean. A myrrh tree personifies the Value of Eternal Somalia.
Read: http://www.whitelotusaromatics.com/newsletters/myrrh.html

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About The Author: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis - is Orientalist, Assyriologist, Egyptologist, Iranologist, Islamologist, Historian and Political Scientist. Dr. Megalommatis, 51, is the author of 12 books, dozens of scholarly articles, hundreds of encyclopedia entries, and thousands of articles. He speaks, reads and writes more than 15, modern and ancient, languages.

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