Nairobi — The United States repeatedly warned Eritrea last year that it would be held accountable for any attack on the US by Somalia's Al Shabaab militants, a leaked diplomatic cable reveals.Eritrea is in a very perilous situation, US ambassador Ronald McMullen is said to have told government officials in Asmara."Support for Al Shabaab makes Eritrea at least partially responsible for Al Shabaab's actions, yet Eritrea does not control it," the February 2009 cable state
"Based on recent history," Mr McMullen asked Eritrean officials, "How do you think we would react to a major Al Shabaab terrorist attack against the United States?"Phrasing the warning that way "seems to have driven home the point to our Eritrean interlocutors," adds the message to Washington published last week on the WikiLeaks website.
The US envoy reports at another point in the cable that key Eritrean officials had been told to expect "a strong and swift American reaction" to any Al Shabaab attack against the US.
An unnamed senior Eritrean official had insisted, however, "If there was anything we could do to prevent a terrorist attack on the United States, we will do it."
The same official did acknowledge Eritrean contact with Al Shabaab, but claimed it was "infrequent and indirect," the document notes.
These exchanges took place in the context of what another cable terms a "charm offensive" that Eritrea had directed at the United States around the time of Barack Obama's inauguration on January 20, 2009.
Eritrean officials apparently hoped the then-new Obama administration "will for some reason reverse US government opposition to the regime's regional meddling and domestic oppression," a March 2009 cable observes.
An "American Mafia" composed of Eritrean leaders who had lived in the United States were driving the effort to improve relations with Washington, the US envoy added in the February 2009 document.
He noted that Eritrea had sent a congratulatory letter to Mr Obama and had ordered a halt in the "daily diatribes" that state-controlled media had been hurling at the United States.
Mr McMullen recounted a luncheon to which he had been invited at the family farm of Hagos Ghebrehewit, the ruling party's economic director and, the secret cable adds parenthetically, "architect of Eritrea's imploding economy."
Other leaked US diplomatic documents include strongly negative descriptions of Eritrean leader Isaias Afeworki and say conditions in the country are getting "worse and worse."
An unnamed "leading Eritrean businessman" is said in a message from the Asmara embassy to have characterised Afeworki as mentally "sick."
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Honourable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre and His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie
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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
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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.
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.
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