Somalia and Wikileaks

There can be no doubt that the release of the U.S. State Department diplomatic cables, by the Wikileaks organisation, is a triumph of journalism. The fact that certain sections of the political establishment inside America are mounting a campaign directed against Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, is a testament to the raw power of this remarkable phenomenon. Assange should be commended, not prosecuted, for his efforts. The fact that Wikileaks has successfully revitalised the art of global journalism, in spite of the mind-blowing incompetence of the American mainstream, in a very short period of time is something very impressive.

The fact is that Wikileaks, an organisation that genuinely pursues the principles of freedom so speech—unlike the bulk of the mainstream media in the West which merely pays lip service to it—has shaken up the corridors of power, by speaking the truth to power. This is indeed an important development. Perhaps, in years to come, nothing remotely like the treasure trove of confidential government documents currently being released by Wikileaks, shall ever be presented to the public as a consequence of the legal backlash that has been stimulated by the noble actions of Mr. Assange and his colleagues.

With respect to Somalia, it is particularly refreshing to see the evidence of the quite astonishing levels of American cynicism that is associated with the recent history of the feeble TFG of Somalia. It is remarkable to see, as a result of the information being released by the Wikileaks organisation, that the U.S. State Department now admits—internally at least—to the fact that the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia in 2006 was a mistake. Also, it is quite amazing to read of the joy and glee of the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates as he congratulates General John Abizaid, of U.S. CENTCOM, on the outcome of the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia, which the prince described as “a fantastic operation”. The poor man could not have been more mistaken. I hope that the prince can now see that the Ethiopian invasion of December 2006 was far from the fantastic operation he described then. Wikileaks provides us with the first documentary evidence that connects the United States of America to the 2006 invasion of Somalia by the Ethiopian army.

Where previously, there had only been speculation fueled by nothing more that circumstantial evidence, Wikileaks has provided us with official government documents which shed light upon the American mindset during this critical period in the history of the Somali nation. This is something which is very valuable, and not just for the people of Somalia. History, unlike the truth, is something which can be easily warped and manipulated. However, the raw data being released by the Wikileaks organisation is allowing the truth to triumph—at this moment in time—over the falsehoods which usually go a long way towards shaping recorded history. In a place like modern Somalia, this represents nothing less than a revolution.

Another American diplomatic cable, recently released by the Wikileaks organisation, documents the strenuous efforts made by the former TFG prime minister Cumar C/rashiid Cali when he had attempted to convince unnamed U.S. military commanders to bomb a Shabaab-Xisbul Islaam conclave which was being held near to Afgooye on the 16th of May 2009. It is documented that Cumar C/rashiid Cali had discussions, by means of the telephone, with the American military men based in Washington D.C. It would appear that the Americans refused to support his idea to attack the Shabaab and Xisbul Islaam officials who were meeting on that day. What is truly shocking is that a man, as inconsequential as Cumar C/rashiid Cali and who is a member of the feeble TFG of Somalia can actually imagine that he can influence the decision making process of the American military's chain of command.

The Americans have never been known to be shy and retiring when it comes to going after a military objective, and it seems highly unlikely—to me at least—that the Pentagon requires the inept TFG of Somalia to provide it with actionable military intelligence at any time. Furthermore, the Americans have carried out military strikes inside Somalia on a number of occasions in recent years. They have never once relied upon the TFG of Somalia for any aspect of the execution of any of these well documented incidents. It is staggering to think that a man, who calls himself a political leader inside Somalia, can calmly call for the bombing of the Somali national territory—as though he was ordering a pizza after a hard day in the office. It is hard to believe that anyone could behave in this fashion and expect to remain a credible political figure inside Somalia. We have Wikileaks to thank for providing us with documentary evidence of the sheer depravity and immorality of men such a Cumar C/rashiid Cali Sharmaarke.

It seems quite clear—especially when we recall that Cumar C/rashiid Cali had been paid approximately US$2,000,000 in return for stepping down as the TFG prime minister in September 2010—that Somalia shall remain in the grips of the ongoing violence so long as the corrupting influence and moral weakness of the TFG is not addressed properly. The Shabaab shall continue to find recruits, and the war will continue, unless genuine Somali patriots take responsibility for the rehabilitation of the Somali state. I have condemned and denounced the TFG of Somalia on many occasions, and I have attempted to demonstrate the dangers inherent in standing by and doing nothing, but the falsehoods being presented by many interested players—quite often players who are manifestly hostile to the legitimate interests of the Somali nation—seem to distract the people very easily. However, the evidence being made available by the Wikileaks organisation represents a mirror for all of the Somali people to look at. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to look at the image being presented to us or not. Somalia must decide to confront the image being presented here, and to respond by making a stand against injustice in a responsible and mature manner.

Somalia and the Deceitful Rhetoric of Axmed 'Tuke'

Hardly a day pass, during recent times, when we do not hear that some senior member of the ghastly TFG of Somalia has travelled away from Mogadishu in order to meet with his handlers in other parts of the world. Today is no exception, for I have just read that the cretin Axmed 'Tuke'—the so-called president of the TFG—has flown from Aden 'Cadde' and is bound for the Ugandan capital city of Kampala.

To my mind, this simple act of travelling away from Somalia—to Uganada on this day—in order to meet the political masters of the AMISOM troops who had, just yesterday, killed dozens of innocent Somali civilians, by means of their indiscriminate shelling of the Bakara market in Mogadishu, demonstrates the fact that the Axmed 'Tuke' is a shameless and soulless traitor who masquerades daily as a God-fearing Muslim.

Today, the imposter president of Somalia shall request the deployment of more Ugandan troops—as had been previously pledged by shamelessly Anglophile Ugandan dictator—in order to further his own personal interests at the expense of the legitimate interests of the entire Somali nation. Today, Axmed 'Tuke', with characteristic cowardice, shall ask the murderous Ugandan leader to further intensify the heinous indiscriminate shelling of the much traumatised civilian population of Mogadishu purely for the benefit of the monstrous TFG of Somalia.

This a great shame, and nothing less than a dreadfully dark stain upon the history of the Somali nation. Once, I should have thought it impossible to imagine that a Somali individual should seek to utilise the force of arms of a manifestly hostile foreign entity against the civilian population of Somalia. However, I am now quite convinced of the fact that Axmed 'Tuke', and others like him shall forever attempt to stoop as low as they can in order to satisfy their own greed and mindless lust for power.

The actions, of this ghastly little man, speak far louder than his painfully deceitful words. It is hard to imagine a being lower than this notoriously shameless man—Axmed 'Tuke', so-called president of the TFG—even when one casts their mind back to the appalling warlord era of Mogadishu! There must come a time, when all of the Somali people become aware of the fact that the monstrous TFG of Somalia is nothing more than a tool of neocolonialism. The monstrous TFG of Somalia trades only on its ability to justify the thousands brutal killing and forced displacement of the civilian population of the entire Somali peninsula on the behalf of foreign powers.

The Somali people must learn to recognise the fact that the vile TFG of Somalia—with its barbaric philosophy that is founded on the principle of collective punishment of the Somali civilian population—is nothing more than a throwback to the era of European expansionism in Africa. It is not difficult to imagine people like the ghastly Axmed 'Tuke', and the other ethnic Somalis who are currently serving the nefarious interests of various manifestly anti-Somali global entities, fawning before their European masters 100 years ago.

These so-called Somali politicians prostitute both themselves and the legitimate interests of the entire Somali nation by their shameful actions; and that is to say nothing of Somali honour itself. Such people flout, on a daily basis, the laws of the Almighty and yet—somehow—they expect the support of the God-fearing people of Somalia despite their manifest wickedness. It is my sincere wish that today, when Axmed 'Tuke' meets with the Ugandan dictator—that mindless barking dog of the West—he dispenses with deceitful rhetoric and openly admits to his crimes by declaring himself a loyal stooge of the agents of neocolonialism and a mortal enemy of the Somali nation!

Somalia and the Ethiopia Militias That Prey Upon the Impoverished Somali Civilians of the Ogaden Region

As had occurred, earlier this year, when rapacious Ethiopian troops had attacked the Somali settlement of Buuhoodle, the people of the Eastern fringes of the Ogaden region have recently been mercilessly attacked by the very same—and extremely brutal—armed forces of the Ethiopian federation.

As had occurred in Buuhoodle—earlier in the year—the Ethiopian troops had subjected the Somali civilian population of the Eastern fringes of the Ogaden region to a violent reign of terror. Not only had the Ethiopians killed scores of Somali civilians, by means of a chilling series of unprovoked extrajudicial killings, they even managed to steal the property of the poor Somali civilian community that had been shattered by their merciless violence.

The Ethiopians, in their frenzied attempts to kill as many Somali people as possible, had managed to grievously injure many Somali civilians instead. So venal and depraved are the Ethiopian troops, they had insisted—just as they had done in Buuhoodle a few weeks earlier—upon taking the trucks of the Somali settlement in question.

The Ethiopians, in their extreme vindictiveness, had stolen the Somali people's vital means of transport; the Ethiopians had stolen the only motorised vehicles capable of transporting vital supplies to this particularly isolated Somali settlement, which is located in the Eastern fringes of the Ogaden region.

This ghastly policy must end. Nothing can justify this form of state-sponsored terrorism. We, the Somali people, must resist these terrible acts of aggression perpetrated against us by the Ethiopian army and their associated militias. This terrible tactic of removing the transport vehicles—which mostly belong to the impoverished Somali civilians of the Ogaden region—must cease.

With faith, and the help of the Almighty, we shall overcome the consequences of this particulary tragic period in Somali national history.

Somalia and the Honourable People of the Sool, Sanaag, and Cayn Regions

'That which does not kill us makes us stronger'
-Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Firstly, let me express my solidarity with the honourable people of the Sool, Sanaag and Cayn regions of Somalia. These people have been treated quite appallingly, in recent years, by the puppet regimes in both Puntland and Somaliland. To make matters worse, the rather thuggish Ethiopian state is now attempting to achieve its nefarious desired objectives directly in North-Western Somalia by extremely violent means, as was the case in recent massacre in the border town of Buuhoodle. There can be no doubt that the Ethiopian regime, in Addis-Ababa, is pursuing a divide and rule policy with respect to the entire Somali peninsula. The Ethiopian state, as has been demonstrated time and again, has no regard for the truly awful consequences of the manifestly anti-Somali policies which it consistently chooses to pursue. Indeed, the shedding of Somali blood is an integral component of the long-term objectives of the Ethiopian state to depopulate the Somali national territory of both the Somali people and their ancient culture.

The honourable Somali people of the Sool, Sanaag, and Cayn regions have courageously thwarted both the evil designs of the brutally extreme Ethiopain army—and its associated militia—and the dastardly plans of the secessionist Somaliland regime of Dahir Riyaale Kahin in Hargesa by refusing to participate in the sham elections of this month(1). The secessionists of Somaliland seem to believe that they shall somehow benefit materially from supporting the profoundly anti-Somali elites of the Ethiopian state. However, by attempting to violently destroy the legitimate interests of the people of the Sool, Sanaag, and Cayn regions, the secessionists in Hargeisa only draw themselves deeper into the malignant sphere of influence of racist Ethiopia.

I call upon the leadership in both Puntland and the secessionist enclave of Somaliland to respect the right to self-organisation of the honourable Somali people of the Sool, Sanaag, and Cayn regions. This includes the right to organise their own economic affairs without fear of extortion or violent intimidation by the wicked security apparatus of the Ethiopian state and its puppet regimes inside Somalia. At the present moment in time, far too many so-called Somali leaders are all too ready to go out of their way in order to serve the best interests of the Ethiopian state(2); and too often at the absolute expense of the Somali people. This must stop. Far too often, people such as the hopelessly weak and ineffective prime minister of the ghastly TFG of Somalia—Cumar Cabdirasiid Cali Sharmaarke—have made statements which condemn the people of the Sool, Sanaag, and Cayn regions simply because—in the eyes of such so-called leaders of modern Somalia—to oppose the Ethiopian state is considered to be something wrong and unthinkable. This is a great pity. I, for one, am deeply disappointed by anyone who can claim to be a leader of the Somali nation whilst simultaneously serving the best interests of the beast Meles Zenawi!

Ethiopia is directly responsible for all of the death and destruction that has been the ruin of the Somali republic during the past 21 years. Ethiopia is the prime beneficiary of all anti-Somali policies ever pursued in the Horn of Africa region—by one power or another—for over 100 years. Ethiopia is an illegal entity which is built upon the illegal partitioning of the Somali national territory a long time ago, and we still live with the dreadful consequences of this evil act to this day. Not satisfied by this historic criminal act, the modern Ethiopian regime seeks to further divide Somalia, region by region, for their own nefarious ends. Ethiopia is an entity built upon the bodies of many oppressed nations and it is sustained by the spilled blood of all of these nations—not least the blood of the Somali nation! I sincerely believe that the road to freedom, for all of the oppressed and long suffering nations of the Horn of Africa, can be found by all those who are able to emulate the strength and courage demonstrated recently by the honourable people of the Sool, Sanaag, and Cayn regions of Somalia. Only then, with the will of the Almighty—when all of us completely reject the manipulative influences of the marionette puppets currently active in the Horn of Africa and their shadowy handlers—may we find peace.

(1)When secessionist terrorist occupiers call their victims names
By O. H. Omar

(2)Re-published integrally from http://www.halgan.net/view_article.php?articleid=13944

Madaxweyne ku xigeenka Puntland Jen.C/samad
Cali Shire oo u baqoolay dalka Itoobiya

Posted to the Web Jun 23, 09:12

Gaalkacyo:-Madaxweyne ku xigeenka dowlada Puntland Jen.C/samad Cali Shire iyo wafdi la socda ayaa saaka waxay safar shaqo ah ugu kicitimeen magaalada Adis ababa ee xarunta dalka Itoobiya.

Wafdi uu hogaaminayo Madaxweyne xigeenka dowlada Puntland Jen.C/samad Cali Shire ayaan waxay la shaacin sababta rasmiga ah oo ay u aadeen dalka Itoobiya balse warar hoose ayaa sheegaya in madaxweyne ku xigeenku uu u aaday dalka Itoobiya si uu u gala soo hadlo baabur laga leeyahay gobalka Ceyn oo ay qaateen ciidamo itoobiyaan ah oo soo galay magaalada Buudoodle ee xarunta gobalka Ceyn.

Wafdiga Madaxweyna ku xigeenka Puntland ku weheliya safarkiisa ayaa waxaa ka mid ah Wasiirka Amniga Gen.Yuusuf Axmed Kheyr, Wasiirka kaluumeysiga iyo dekada Maxamed Faarax aadan, Wasiir ku xigeenka Amniga gudaha Cali Yuusuf Cali xoosh iyo Agaasimaha Madaxtooyada Puntland Cali Jaamac Gibin iyo taliyaha ciidanka daraawiishta Puntland.

Madaxweyne ku xigeenka Puntland ayaa joogi doona magaalada Adis ababa ee xarunta dalka Itoobiya mudo laba isbuuc ah ka dibna waxaa uu uga sii gudbi doonaa dalalka Jabuuti iyo Kenya.

M_M Deeq
Source: (Halgan.net)

Somalia and the Ethiopian Invasion of Buuhoodle

Rather surprisingly, for all Somalis are familiar with this particular foe, it comes as a great shock to discover that the ancient enemy of the Somali people—the Abyssinian highlanders—are still capable of terrorizing the people of the Somali republic with impunity. By what authority does the Ethiopian army have the right to invade the Somali national territory in order to kill innocent Somali civilians as happened in Buuhoole, located in the Cayn region of Somalia, on the 21st of May 2010? The Ethiopian army had massacred many unarmed and defenceless Somali people on that day, and the perpetrators of this ghastly crime must be made to account for their inhuman actions.

The invasion of Buuhoodle must be condemned in the strongest possible terms by all civilised people. All Somali people must learn to recognise this dangerous enemy at the gates. The perfidious Abyssinian highlanders are peerless with respect to their capacity for perpetrating the systematic killing of innocent Somali civilians; with the slitting the throats of sleeping Somali children; with the raping of Somali mothers in full view of their children; with the burning of entire Somali settlements. These are the age-old crimes of the Abyssinians: the invasion of Buuhoodle is but the latest episode in more than a century of Ethiopian abuses inside the Somali national territory.

Whilst any sane person, with a heart, would find it painful to contemplate the full ramifications of the recent Ethiopian invasion of Buuhoodle, the so-called internal security minister of the Puntland State of Somalia—one General Yusuf Axmed 'Kheyr'—went out of his way to apologise to the Ethiopian government after the Ethiopian army had killed and wounded scores of Somali civilians in Buuhoodle. This is something truly remarkable! Does not Mr. 'Kheyr' recognise that it is the entire Somali nation that requires, at the very least, an apology—from the scheming Abyssinian elite in Addis-Ababa—as a result of the carnage in Boohodle. Does not this foolish man recognise the fact that he is not required, either to provide an explanation for—nor to apologise for—the merciless killing of Somali nationals at the hands of the bloodthirsty Ethiopian army? Or is this man—General Yusuf Axmed 'Kheyr'—merely a hired hand; a man who is employed to serve Abyssinian political masters? Is he a man who is more dedicated to the criminal political interests of his Abyssinian masters than he is to the legitimate national interests of the Somali people?

By invading the Buuhoodle settlement—in the Cayn region of Somalia—the Abyssinian highlanders have committed an act of aggression, and any attempts, made by their many servants inside the Puntland State of Somalia administration, or anywhere else, to justify this act of aggression is an act of treason. The time has come for the cur dogs—who style themselves as the political elite of the Somali nation—inside the presidential palace of Garowe to publicly condemn the recent murders that had been perpetrated by the Ethiopian army on Somali soil. We must all learn to recognise the fact that Buuhoodle, and all other settlements inside the Somali national territory are currently being threatened by the rapacious and ferociously anti-Somali foreign policies of the Abyssinian dominated Ethiopian federation.

The time has come, for the Somali nation to resist this age-old Abyssinian impulse to kill Somali people in the prime of their lives: the time has come to remove the like of president Cabdiraxmaan M. 'Faroole' from a position of social responsibility on ground of gross negligence, and by the fact that he had been working hand-in-glove with the Abyssinian high command in Addis-Ababa since he assumed the presidency of the Puntland State autonomous region of Somalia. Such a man cannot claim to be acting on behalf of the people of Somalia, if he is simultaneously collaborating with the merciless Ethiopian security forces on a daily basis; the same Ethiopian security forces who had kill and maimed Somali civilians in Buuhoodle on the 21st of May 2010.

Somalia and the Inherent Dangers of Fiat Money Regimes

What could be more shameful, for a fully grown man, than to find himself being coerced into performing tricks—by manifestly hostile agencies, and against his will—in exchange for an intrinsically worthless object? This is precisely the shameful situation in which the senior members of the monstrous TFG of Somalia currently find themselves. This week we witnessed some truly disgraceful infighting amongst the senior members of the so called TFG executive which culminated in the reinstatement of the TFG prime minister—Cumar Cabdirashiid—just a day after he and his useless council of ministers had been dismissed by the venal president of the TFG, Shariif Axmed.

The cause of the recent conflict which very nearly brought down the TFG, and the strange happenings of the part few days, is a consignment of newly printed Somali Shillings. This money had been printed in the Sudan, and had been transported by sea to the Post of Mogadishu. I have it on good authority that the so-called president of the TFG had personally taken delivery of this consignment of money—seven truck loads worth—in Villa Somalia. It is at this moment in time, when the senior members of the TFG had begun to fight like cats and dogs after they had learned that their so-called president had taken personal charge of this money, and that he would not be sharing it with any of the other members of the perfidious TFG of Somalia—as had been anticipated previously. Much of the TFG had been duped into thinking that the money would be distributed fairly, amongst the senior members of the TFG. Indeed, the shameless TFG president had actually conspired, with the former speaker of the farcical TF parliament, in a bid to cut the other men out of receiving any share in the illusory windfall to come their way. The speaker is said to have received a small share of the newly printed money in exchange for his support of this nefarious TFG scheme.

The important question to ask is why are these men compelled to behave so shamefully as a consequence of the printing of fiat money? The Somali Shillings in question are, in fact, completely devoid of value. Why does the ghastly president of the TFG, Shariif Axmed, feel the need to betray his colleagues within the TFG—not to mention the Somali people in general—for the sake of a mountain of worthless paper?

I would venture to say that these men a currently labouring under the false impression that the fiat money in their possession has some value. I would suggest that these men have been manipulated by their own greed, and the words of their foreign masters, to believe in the illusion that the newly printed notes are notes of great value. These men are unable to see that they are being manipulated; being experimented upon. I should like to think that the common laboratory rat has more sense than the imbecilic members of the TFG of Somalia—the laboratory rat, although it lives in a cage, has a keen sense of what has material value in this world as opposed to the numerous traitors who claim to be working for the benefit of the Somali people at this time. The TFG of Somalia is so inept that its member cannot even conceal their own avarice from the public when they fight amongst each other for a few scraps of worthless paper.

The combination of personal greed and unimaginable moral degradation shall inevitably bring down the monstrous TFG of Somalia. All the fiat money of the world, including the now discredited US dollar, shall not help the evil men who currently inhabit Villa Somalia. This I am sure of.

Somalia: From Emergency to Emergence

It must be stated—first and foremost, by a someone unaffiliated to the Wahabi school of thought—that the Shabaab have hit upon a winning idea when they had recently forbidden the UN World Food Program from operating in Southern Somalia. This is a truly admirable political decision, and any Somali national who disagrees is nothing less than a spineless slave by nature.

The Somali national territory has been a food exporting region of the world for thousands of years—are we, the honourable Somali people, really being asked to stop feeding ourselves for the sake of the narrow minded interests of Western governments?

The world is a curious place if this is the case. Let us all be clear about one thing, the ghastly TPLF elite of the Ethiopian federation—whilst they had been an insurgent movement--had certainly exploited the mass starvation of the Tigrayan people in 1984, for their own tactical ends¹. This coldblooded, and cynical, display of cruelty is the defining hallmark of the current government of Ethiopia: a government that has ruthlessly cannibalised the Tigrayan people—its political bedrock.

Therefore—in light of inhuman behavior on the part of Meles and his legions of ruthless TPLF cadre—how disgusting it is to see so-called leaders of the Somali community being enslaved by the very same Meles who ate his own people?

I am constantly shocked by the fact that, seemingly right-mined, people actually believe the the Ethiopian federation is going to survive, as a viable political entity when the monster Meles steps down.

I imagine the Amhara shall soon make a political comeback in Addis-Ababa. However, I imagine that the newly emergent Somali national consciousness shall overcome the wounds caused by the emergency that had been the invasion of the brutal Ethiopian army in 2007. Somalia still exists; both as a concept and as a geographic feature of the earth. There is nothing that the cannibal Meles Zenawi—lord of the savage TPLF elite of Ethiopia—can do to alter this fact of natural life: for demons only exert influence in hell!

And so, years after literally eating his own people, the monster Meles decided to invade the Somali national territory—with a great deal of support from the politically fickle Americans. For the Americans are selfish to the point where they regularly—and routinely—enslave their own citizens for one reason or another. The Americans both aided and abetted the Ethiopian invasion of the Somali national territory in 2007. For this reason alone, they—the Americans—be they ethnic Somalis or not, they have no business in the Somali peninsula. Their brand of evil has no place on the African continent.

The horrid TFG of Somalia is both a product of American arrogance and Ethiopian venality; a creature born of evil; a creature which serves an evil interests.

The horrid TFG of Somalia must be fought and destroyed, due to the existence of its inhuman bylaws: its monstrously rigid—not to mention divisive—4.5 sectarian agenda!

I believe that the worst is over. The Somali nation has been liberated from the horrendous, and potentially fatal, influence of political subservience to the ghastly Ethiopian regime—guided by the demonic Meles Zenawi—with its Western backers: The Ethiopian state survives on the back of charitable donations from the West.

Today, we see that the Ethiopian backed groups—active inside the Somali national territory—have themselves become liberated from the malignant influence of the TPLF leadership in Addis-Ababa. I say this because, the TPLF lives in dread of the armed men of central Somali, currently calling themselves Alhu Sunna Waljameeca—a Sufi order. The very fact that the Ethiopian state can never trust its so-called Somali allies² is a reason to feel confident that the Somali nation shall emerge stronger with each year that passes. With faith, and a little non-linear thinking, Somalia must surely prevail.

1Mr. Aregewi Berhe BBC Statement, March 2010

2See: The Rise & Fall of Cabdullahi Yusuf Axmed.