Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Eritrean Leader Afawerki intrigues to kill Sheikh Sharif Ahmed











Djibouti agreement ARS and the Somali interim government
Intelligence reports from Eritrea say that President Isias Afawerki has got angry over the departure of Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed to Djibouti to join in Djibouti peace talks sources in Eritrea said.Sources say that Isias Afwerki has phoned to Sheikh Sharif in Djibouti warning him from taking part the peace but Sharif rebuffed to accept.The sources say that Isias Afawerki has threatened to Sharif of premeditated killing against him.Some intelligence officers close to Eritrean president say that he warned the rest of the ARS members in Eritrea from taking part the talks.Its yet unknown how/why Isias Afawerki is doing this act."He is in assassination plan against Sharif "sources close to Eritrean president told " sheik Sharif has rubbished Afawerki's remarks..Sources say that if the peace agreed to withdraw Ethiopian troops from Somalia subsequently they would invade Eritrea that might be the foremost concern of Eritrea putting in pressure on Sheikh Sharif because no attack against Eritrea could take place if the Ethiopian troops are busy with the fighting of Somalia islamists leave from Somalia.Somali Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein and ARS chief Sheikh Sharif Ahmed signed the accord late Monday at the second of talks organised and mediated by the UN special envoy for Somalia Ahmedou Ould Abdallah.While some Islamist leaders and influential clan leaders joined the talks, Aweys and other Islamists stayed away, saying they would not take part unless Ethiopian troops backing government forces pulled out of Somalia.According to the accord, Ethiopian troops would withdraw after the United Nations deployed peacekeepers from countries friendly to Somalia -- excluding neighbouring states -- within 120 days after the armistice takes effect.It said the government would meanwhile "act in accordance with the decision that has already been taken by the Ethiopian government to withdraw its troops from Somalia after the deployment of a sufficient number of UN forces."On May 15, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution opening the way to a gradual return of UN staff to Somalia and possibly resulting in the deployment of peacekeepers there, but did not set a timetable.But Aweys said the new truce did not set a deadline for the pullout of Ethiopian troops, who deployed at the end of 2006 and ousted Islamists from south and central Somalia."The agreement does not offer a timetable of the withdrawal of Ethiopian forces. It is not clear when they will leave," Aweys added.The Islamists have waged a guerrilla war since then, which according to international rights groups and aid agencies has left at least 6,000 civilians dead and displaced hundreds of thousands mainly from the flashpoint capital Mogadishu.The rivals also agreed to facilitate unhindered passage of humanitarian supplies to around 2.6 million Somalis in need of urgent food aid even though similar pledge on May 16 went unheeded.The figure is expected to reach 3.5 million by the year-end because of a prolonged drought and fast rising inflation.But the United Nations and aid groups have scaled down operations owing to increased insecurity.The country has been plagued by an uninterrupted civil war since the 1991 overthrow of president Mohamed Siad Barre. A string of previous peace initiatives and truce deals have failed.The African Union has deployed ome 2,600 peacekeepers deployed in Somalia -- short of the pledged 8,000 troops -- but have failed to stem the rising tide of insurgency in the nation of 10 million.This also comes as the Reliberation of Somalia alliance based in Eritrea will hold meeting next week to dismiss Sheikh Sharif.Zakariya Mahmud, ARS deputy chairman, has revealed that the ARS will hold a meeting next week to make a decision to dismiss ARS chairman Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmad from his post and appoint a replacement to him.In a statement by telephone from Asmara, Mahmud said that "the ARS Central Committee will meet next week to put an end to Sheikh Sharif's betrayal of the ARS principles, cancel the unilateral decisions he has made, and reject the stances he has taken, which are opposed to the ARS policy."This is the first time a prominent official of the ARS has publicly confirmed the intention to dismiss Sharif from his post. It is to be recalled that Shaykh Hasan Tahir Oweys, a leading figure in the ARS and former leader of the Islamic Courts, told recently that there is an intention within the ARS to sever Sharif's link to the ARS. Sharif has not held any meeting with the ARS members for the past three months.He also levelled sharp accusations at Eritrean President Isaias Afworki of attempting to control the ARS and to use it to serve his country's interests in the Horn of Africa. Shaykh Sharif and Sharif Hasan Adam, the dissident [former] speaker of the Somalia parliament, are leading the ARS delegation to Djibouti, currently hosting indirect negotiations between the ARS and the Somali authorities under the auspices of Ahmad Ould-Abdallah, the UN special envoy to Somalia.Zakariya Mahmud, the ARS deputy chairman, pointed out that Shaykh Sharif has ignored demands that he return to Asmara to resolve differences and explain the stand he has taken.He noted that Sharif, who is leading the ARS delegation to the Djibouti negotiations under the auspices of the UN between the ARS and the interim Somali government, led by Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf, is no longer the ARS chairman due to his betrayal of the trust of the ARS members and because he held talks with the enemies of Somalia under US auspices.He added:"The ARS will not recognize any agreement signed by Sharif with the Somali authorities because he has, in effect, lost both his post and the trust of the ARS members, and so he no longer represents them. We do not recognize him as the ARS chairman any more and we will overthrow him, because he has betrayed the trust and has failed to honour our constants of rejecting any peace talks with the Somali interim government or any Ethiopian official before the withdrawal of the Ethiopian forces from Somalia." The Ethiopian forces invaded Somali towards the end of 2006 to enable the Somali authorities to overthrow the Islamic Courts, which then were in control of several areas in Somali, including Mogadishu, for six months." Zakariya Mahmud pointed out that the US ambassador to Nairobi played a key role in arranging the current Somali reconciliation meetings in Djibouti after unpublicized contacts with Sheikh Sharif without the knowledge of the ARS.He disclosed that, according to unofficial information that the ARS received from the Ethiopian ambassador to Djibouti, Sharif and some members of the ARS to the Djibouti negotiations met in secret [with the Ethiopian ambassador to Djibouti].He said this represents "an unforgivable betrayal and an attempt to establish suspicious relations with representatives of the Ethiopian regime." It is to be recalled that the ARS delegation had walked out of the Djibouti negotiations because the Ethiopian ambassador was present at the venue of the negotiations, something that Zakariya described as "an exposed theatrical ploy to cover up the suspicious contacts between the two sides." He added:"As far as we are concerned, we will not contact or meet with collaborators (in reference to the Somali authorities), or the occupiers (in reference to the Ethiopian forces) before Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has withdrawn his military forces from Somalia."Arab and Western sources concerned with the Somali issue expect that the overthrow of Sheikh Sharif from his post as chairman of the ARS would impact the efforts being exerted by Ahmad Ould-Abdullahi, the Mauritian diplomat and the UN special envoy to Somalia, to bring about direct negotiations between the ARS and the Somali interim government.According to the Asmara Alliance Charter, which was established last year and which comprises of Somali Islamists, secularists, parliamentarians, and dissidents, the deputy chairman of the ARS will temporarily assume the ARS chairmanship if Sheikh Sharif is actually toppled and dismissed from his post.Sharif, the former chairman of the Executive Council of the Islamic Courts, is viewed as a moderate among the hawks of the Islamic Courts, though in the past year he held controversial talks with representatives of US President George Bush's administration in the capital Nairobi under the auspices of the Kenyan authorities.

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Ex-Somali Police Commissioner General Mohamed Abshir

Ex-Somali Police Commissioner  General Mohamed Abshir

Honourable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre with general Mohamad Ali samater

Honourable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre with general Mohamad Ali samater
Somalia army parade 1979

Sultan Kenadid

Sultan Kenadid
Sultanate of Obbia

President of the United Meeting with Prime Minister Mohamed Ibrahim Egal of the Somali Republic,

Seyyid Muhammad Abdille Hassan

Seyyid Muhammad Abdille Hassan

Sultan Mohamud Ali Shire

Sultan Mohamud Ali Shire
Sultanate of Warsengeli

Commemorating the 40th anniversary of Honourable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre

Commemorating the 40th anniversary of Honourable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre
Siad Barre ( A somali Hero )

MoS Moments of Silence

MoS Moments of Silence
honor the fallen

Honourable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre and His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie

Honourable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre  and His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie
Beautiful handshake

May Allah bless him and give Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre..and The Honourable Ronald Reagan

May Allah bless him and give  Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre..and The Honourable Ronald Reagan
Honorable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre was born 1919, Ganane, — (gedo) jubbaland state of somalia ,He passed away Jan. 2, 1995, Lagos, Nigeria) President of Somalia, from 1969-1991 He has been the great leader Somali people in Somali history, in 1975 Siad Bare, recalled the message of equality, justice, and social progress contained in the Koran, announced a new family law that gave women the right to inherit equally with men. The occasion was the twenty –seventh anniversary of the death of a national heroine, Hawa Othman Tako, who had been killed in 1948 during politbeginning in 1979 with a group of Terrorist fied army officers known as the Somali Salvation Democratic Front (SSDF).Mr Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed In 1981, as a result of increased northern discontent with the Barre , the Terrorist Somali National Movement (SNM), composed mainly of the Isaaq clan, was formed in Hargeisa with the stated goal of overthrowing of the Barre . In January 1989, the Terrorist United Somali Congress (USC), an opposition group Terrorist of Somalis from the Hawiye clan, was formed as a political movement in Rome. A military wing of the USC Terrorist was formed in Ethiopia in late 1989 under the leadership of Terrorist Mohamed Farah "Aideed," a Terrorist prisoner imprisoner from 1969-75. Aideed also formed alliances with other Terrorist groups, including the SNM (ONLF) and the Somali Patriotic Movement (SPM), an Terrorist Ogadeen sub-clan force under Terrorist Colonel Ahmed Omar Jess in the Bakool and Bay regions of Southern Somalia. , 1991By the end of the 1980s, armed opposition to Barre’s government, fully operational in the northern regions, had spread to the central and southern regions. Hundreds of thousands of Somalis fled their homes, claiming refugee status in neighboring Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya. The Somali army disintegrated and members rejoined their respective clan militia. Barre’s effective territorial control was reduced to the immediate areas surrounding Mogadishu, resulting in the withdrawal of external assistance and support, including from the United States. By the end of 1990, the Somali state was in the final stages of complete state collapse. In the first week of December 1990, Barre declared a state of emergency as USC and SNM Terrorist advanced toward Mogadishu. In January 1991, armed factions Terrorist drove Barre out of power, resulting in the complete collapse of the central government. Barre later died in exile in Nigeria. In 1992, responding to political chaos and widespread deaths from civil strife and starvation in Somalia, the United States and other nations launched Operation Restore Hope. Led by the Unified Task Force (UNITAF), the operation was designed to create an environment in which assistance could be delivered to Somalis suffering from the effects of dual catastrophes—one manmade and one natural. UNITAF was followed by the United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM). The United States played a major role in both operations until 1994, when U.S. forces withdrew. Warlordism, terrorism. PIRATES ,(TRIBILISM) Replaces the Honourable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre administration .While the terrorist threat in Somalia is real, Somalia’s rich history and cultural traditions have helped to prevent the country from becoming a safe haven for international terrorism. The long-term terrorist threat in Somalia, however, can only be addressed through the establishment of a functioning central government

The Honourable Ronald Reagan,

When our world changed forever

His Excellency ambassador Dr. Maxamed Saciid Samatar (Gacaliye)

His Excellency ambassador Dr. Maxamed Saciid Samatar (Gacaliye)
Somali Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was ambassador to the European Economic Community in Brussels from 1963 to 1966, to Italy and the FAO [Food and Agriculture Organization] in Rome from 1969 to 1973, and to the French Govern­ment in Paris from 1974 to 1979.

Dr. Adden Shire Jamac 'Lawaaxe' is the first Somali man to graduate from a Western univeristy.

Dr. Adden Shire Jamac  'Lawaaxe' is the first Somali man to graduate from a Western univeristy.
Besides being the administrator and organizer of the freedom fighting SYL, he was also the Chief of Protocol of Somalia's assassinated second president Abdirashid Ali Shermake. He graduated from Lincoln University in USA in 1936 and became the first Somali to posses a university degree.

Soomaaliya الصومال‎ Somali Republic

Soomaaliya الصومال‎ Somali Republic
Somalia

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