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Week-in-Review SHASNA MediaWatch BOSTON, MA , November 16, 2001 SHASNA
MediaWatch department follows news analysis, commentaries, trends, news
reports and press releases of the week. We pay special attention to
Somali news in general, and to Arab financed and UN supported ‘ARTA
TERROR CELLS’ in particular. We analyze, digest and separate facts
from fiction. With so many news outlets and so many groups, each one
vying for your attention, we will try our very best to fairly analyze
what you have read or missed reading. Washington
DC, USA Kabul,
Afghanistan Mogadishu,
Somalia With
the help of President Bush and the people of the United States of
America, the people of Afghanistan are now about to get their country
back from the Taliban and their Arab imports. For these Arabs and
associates, their strongholds are now falling one by one, and there are
no more places left to hide other than their strategically well suited
caves! Well, with the help of few Daisy Cutters, they can stay there for
eternity! However,
there are other desperate countries in the world that need to be
liberated from this Middle East scourge. High on the list is the country
of Somalia. With the orders of Al-Qaeda, their friends in the Middle
East and Africa, in the past ten years (five years for the Afghanis),
Somalis - just like their fellow Afghanis - have been forcefully blessed
with another version of the Taliban regime. We have been blessed with a
foreign import by the name of Transitional National Government or TNG as
often used by foreigners. This TNG has consumed well over $100 million
dollars - most of it from Saudi Arabia - of which no single penny of
those funds had neither been accounted for nor used to build or repair
Mogadishu’s infrastructure, its schools or police stations, its hungry
populace and or its highly unsafe streets. Where did it go? Mr. Randolph
Kent might have an answer, but as always, we will give you the real
answer and it is as follows: to expand the Al-Itihad infrastructure from
Mogadishu to Kismayo and to Ras Kamboni and then upward to Garoowe,
Boosaaso and to Borama. Unlike
the Mullahs in Kandahar, this gang in Mogadishu is a highly improved
version of the Taliban. The Arab inventors and financiers of the former
Taliban regime are now tacitly supporting their Somali version in
Mogadishu. These Arab countries have also duped the UN to support their
Frankenstein lab tests! These Arab inventors and financiers include such
paragons of virtue and democracy as Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Libya, Yemen
and Egypt. Since they couldn’t improve their lot, they had to bribe
their troublemakers and opposition forces to create hell and havoc in
other desperately poor countries such as Somalia and Afghanistan. Therefore,
it is about time the United States addressed the root cause of Islamic
extremism in East Africa and at the Horn. Again and as always, we have
the answers: this scourge originates from the Middle East and especially
from Saudi Arabia’s religious sects and their heavy petrodollar
wallets! Those
heavy Saudi wallets have bought a four-page spread in the Washington
Post couple of days ago to advertise their pro-American sympathies and
try to prove their innocence. However, what is needed from the ruling
Saudi elite is not advertisement but deeds and promises not extend a
helping hand to world’s terror cells, and especially to those based in
the Horn of Africa nation. We have our doubts! It
is also about tracking and following the money trail to Djibouti’s
notorious banks in the corrupt city-state of Djibouti (see previous
SHASNA report.) Once this lifeline has been shut, including the Saudi
supply line, the terror cells’ oxygen supply will quickly run out; and
from there on, the Somali people will root them out and reclaim their
country from these foreign imports and associates. Justice will be
swift! And
as we keep exposing the truth, nothing but the truth, we wish,
hope and trust that every individual, government and organization that
supports these terror cells will be “stopped and defeated.”
And by gosh, Somalis everywhere will see to it that Sir David Stephen
and Mr. Randolph Kent’s Mogadishu TNG terror cell will belong to “history’s
unmarked graveyards of discarded lies.” Asides The
Hague – The war criminals who directed Siad Barre’s war against all
Somalis, and headed by none other than Mr. AbdiQasim Salad Hassan, related
terror cells and certain entourage in Hotel Ramadan, are also
today directing other crimes against humanity: the massacres of Baraawe
and Kismayo; and the torching of Garasweyne, Hejmacood and Kuunyo-Barrow
villages and where most of the resident were either massacred or chased
away by the terror cells (Islamic court militias) and sub-clan militias.
We hope the UN and their highly regarded political officers pay close
attention to these devastating wars and heinous crimes against humanity
committed by the Arta sub-clan. These men in Hotel Ramadan and many
others, members of the UN pet project, got us where we are today. The UN
should not only pay lip service to human rights abuses, but also should
lead the way and show some action. Unless of course, as always, crimes
against the Blackman and Africans in particular are not considered real
crimes! We sincerely hope it ain’t so. IRIN
– UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, a misnomer,
should be appropriately renamed the UN Office for the Coordination of
instability in East Africa! With
or without the UN’s IRIN redesigned website, all still remains the
same. It is the same UN propaganda machine full of verifiable lies. But,
we do sincerely appreciate your attempts to at least limit the official
propaganda to may be a mere headline a day. According
to Ken Menkhaus, a professor at Davidson College in North Carolina,
“there are no secrets in Somalia.” Well IRIN, there are no secrets
in Somalia and at the Horn. Therefore, given the abundance of details in
Somalia, we wonder, as far as Somalia in concerned, where do these euro
centric UN officials get their facts? Or is it that they are the
all-knowing and the all-guiding Masters of fate in Somalia? Or is
it about the age old European concept about black folks who make little
progress and strive ahead to try to improve their dignities and that of
their families, but the Master is always there reminding them
that their progress is similar to “…dogs walking on their hind
legs; it is just a matter of time before they fall down on all four!”
It reminds us of Sir David Stephen’s comments about the autonomous
Recovery Zones as “clan fox holes” and therefore, according
to him, will sooner or later fall down on all four! Need we say any
further! And
what did IRIN say of Mr. Salad Hassan and about his knowledge of
Al-Qaeda? Osama’s
allies – When did Mr. Salad Hassan know about the existence of
Al-Qaeda? Please say it ain’t so! What about during General Aideed’s
terror reign in Somalia and you were a member of his Mogadishu Supreme
Council? What about your meetings in Khartoum, the Sudan? Or what about
your most recent meetings in Djibouti and in Sharja, UAE? Did we read
that your first experience and knowledge of Al-Qaeda was on Sept 11?
Please say it ain’t so! Garoowe
– First it was the Arta village in Djibouti, and now, again loaded
with money from Arab donors, the people of Garoowe are once again under
the far-reaching tentacles of the Al-Itihad movement; and the bases of
the movement keep growing. It is not the Al-Itihaad group’s first
footsteps in Garoowe, but we hope it will soon be their last. However,
by reading IRIN online, you would never know what is and has been going
on in Garoowe. However, given the desire and the agility of the people
of Somalia and of Puntland in particular, we are quite confident that
they too will also soon overcome the Al-Itihad shackles in Garoowe. BBC
Somali Section – The sub-clan militia and so called Islamic court
radio broadcasters at the BBC Somali Section and their reporters in
Mogadishu are in full alert! Warning: be skeptical of their news
reports, as always, it is an outlet for the sub-clan and other
associated militia fantasies. USA
– Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill: “Millions of dollars have
moved through these U.S. offices of Al-Barakaat. This organization is
now exposed for what it is - a pariah in the civilized world.''
We are indeed pleased about the demise of Al-Barakaat and about
turning their telecom cash cow spigot off. Now, we ask you, ladies and
gentlemen, what about Barakaat’s militia and battlewagons (technicals)
used by Mr. Salad Hassan’s sub-clan TNG that roam the streets of
Mogadishu, Marka, Kismayo and Ras Kamboni? Or, what about their hardcore
defenders in the media, i.e., Mr. Randolph Kent’s SACB, UN’s
OCHA/IRIN organization and Her Majesty’s BBC Somali Sub-clan Section?
We look forward to hearing from Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Prime
Minister Tony Blair and Secretary General Kofi Annan. TO ALL OUR SUPPORTERS AND CONCERNED SOMALIS: Thank
you very much for your support in the ARENA OF IDEAS in these trying
times. The true and tested hard working and devoted Somalis need
leadership and unbiased information. We will try our very best to
provide that. To other Somalis on the fence: the days of one clan
forcefully dominating the other are over. If each one of us doesn’t
clean his/her own house, nobody will clean it for us! For all the young
men and women: don’t waste your time in this clan rubbish. Stay in
school; we may need you someday. For the few who disagree, please be
specific in where we err, if we do at all! SHASNA* Editorial Board *SHASNA is an advocacy group based in Boston, Massachusetts. It stands for the unity and peaceful coexistence of Somali people. It supports the creation of a federal system of governance to safeguard the emerging free markets of the Recovery Zones. SHASNA encourages corporate and individual investments in the Recovery Zones. It has presences in both Puntland (Boosaaso, Garoowe, Buurtinle, Bacaadweyn and Galkayo) and Somaliland (Hargeysa, Berbera and Burco). |
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