Somalia’s Civil War, UN, AMISOM, USA, EU, Russia, and China

Duplicity, cynicism, bribery and lies succeed to each other, when unadulterated criminality, cruel murder, and utmost inhumanity are not employed by the colonial powers against Somalia.

A week before the last TFG president Abdillahi Youssef’s resignation, the TFG pseudo-parliament members would have thunderously rejected to accept the then ARS Djibouti based faction leader Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed as their next president. Even worse, a similar suggestion would trigger their overwhelming indignation.

Few days later, things changed, and Sheikh Sharif was miraculously voted by the majority of the TFG parliament members as their ‘president’. One may ask why?

The answer is to be found in a report released by European Voice and re-published in the Somali portal Mareeg; according to this illuminating Report "France has proposed that EU member states join it in training Somali security forces in neighbouring Djibouti, starting this September with a battalion of around 500 men".

France has persistently tried over the past year to increase its evil presence in the Horn of Africa region. French diplomats tried to arrange the availability of Euro-funds for the criminal colonial state of Abyssinia (Fake ‘Ethiopia’) in order to prevent the much desired total disintegration of the African state-prison. French diplomats reached out to Asmara-exiled Sheikh Sharif, and suggested him to get rid of Eritrea President’s Afeworki influence, move to Djibouti, a postcolonial territory totally controlled by France, and rise to power under the conditions that they indicated to him. More recently, the French demonstrated cultural worries and established a French Institute at Hargeisa, the capital of the breakaway and unrecognized tyranny ‘Somaliland’.

After the first contacts and agreements have been completed, the French explained to the gullible Sheikh Sharif that his partner and representative of the French colonial involvement in the forthcoming game would be the Mauritanian origin French Freemason Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, a pseudo-Muslim (like all the Muslims who have been initiated in the mysteries of the Apostate Freemasonic Lodge). The naïve sheikh thought that the French were telling him the truth; he still believes that Ahmedou Ould Abdallah speaks to him frankly and honestly. So easily susceptible Sheikh Sharif is that he even imagines as possible for a Freemason like Ahmedou Ould Abdallah to possibly tell the truth to a non "initiated" person.

The French infiltration in Somaliland and the TFG infrastructure has been counterbalanced by the English infiltration in Puntland and the emergence of the so-called Somali piracy, a London-related affair. The American infiltration is clearer at the technological level, particularly in the case of several CIA operatives among the Shabaab organization of the Somali Opposition.

Sheikh Sharif – What the Somalis can expect from him

By now, all the Somalis know what they can expect from Sheikh Sharif. The TFG president can only deliver the following:

- Presence of foreign, non-Muslim, soldiers of countries that have been overtly inimical to Somalia (AMISOM)

- Presence of Abyssinian agents who are allowed to uninterruptedly bribe Somali elders and clan leaders of provinces near the Abyssinian border without any repercussion

- Permanent division of Somalia into three or four zones or pseudo-states. No one has ever heard or noticed this comical president’s possible ideas about Somalia’s reunification. For a multi-divided country, this is tantamount to acceptance of disaster. In fact, it is a shame that this person is still allowed to act in that position.

- Continuous colonial involvement, particularly due to Sheikh Sharif’s pathetic incapacity to envision, let alone suggest, an international solution for the piracy phenomenon

- Perpetuation of fratricidal conflicts, notably because of his - totally unacceptable for all Somalis -docile and servile stance toward Somalia’s most evil enemies, the racist regimes of Abyssinia and Kenya, and the criminal colonial powers, England, France and America.

Islamic Opposition Should Eliminate TFG Infrastructure At All Costs

In front of this situation, it is urgent for Somalia’s patriotic forces, Islamist or not, to coordinate their efforts against Somalia’s new traitor, the gullible and subservient, corrupt and deceitful Sheikh Sharif, and eliminate him as soon as possible.

Precisely because the pathetic and imbecile Sheikh Sharif fails to understand that he serves his colonial masters mostly as bait for others, and as tool for further deterioration of the sociopolitical, economic and environmental conditions of Somalia, and because he is being used by the colonial powers as reference to Somalia’s political legitimacy (which is an aberration), the Somali Opposition must target Sheikh Sharif personally, and as soon as possible abduct him or make him disappear.

This would terminate the illegitimate and unrepresentative TFG tenure on which the colonial powers have placed all their hopes for further intrusion and promotion of their calamitous plans.

TFG as Piece in the Global Supremacy Game of the Colonial Powers

The physical elimination of the TFG infrastructure and / or its head is also critical for China’s interests in the Horn of Africa region. Beijing has to try hard to cancel the European and American efforts to make of a desolate, deserted, quasi-uninhabited Horn of Africa a great military basis geared to contain, isolate, threaten, and ultimately defeat the expected landmass empire(s) of Asia and the Middle East.

Encircling Asia from the South consists in an element of advanced European geo-strategic considerations; in and by itself, it can explain recent (after 1991) developments in many parts of the world: the failed union of North and South Yemen, the shameless support and preservation of the racist and totalitarian Abyssinian state, the unwavering dissolution of Somalia, the continuous support to the regimes of Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand, the colonial involvement in the Maldives, the Philippines, and Timor-Leste. Associated to these geo-strategic considerations is also the notorious narrative of the North Korean nuclear arsenal.

In fact, colonial Europe has been promoting with far greater concern than America an Anti-Russian and Anti-Chinese policy that helps only create a rivalry, a clash, and a world war. The premeditated effort to ostracize Russia from the European Union (already carried out during the Yeltsin years – despite Italian Premier Berlusconi’s wise advice) and the parallel reluctance to fully offer European perspectives and NATO membership to Ukraine and Georgia, the exhortation of Azerbaijan to either clash with or demonstrate docility (and accept annexation) to Russia, and the maneuvers exercised in order to encourage Iran into a more radical stance toward the West, everything hinges on a European policy of mounting confrontation with Russia whom the Western powers seem to prefer to China as central or premier representative of the Asiatic landmass.

This is due to the fact that the colonial West knows Russia and the Russian policy making very well, and they repeatedly confronted Moscow with great success, turning the Russian ‘Middle East’ or ‘Southern Harbour’ dreams to nightmare.

Russia

To European eyes, Russia represents (not only the best known representative of the Asiatic landmass but also) the weakest one; England and France have ceaselessly deployed sophisticated and multifaceted efforts to outmaneuver other – higher – attempts to set up alliances (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) and/or shape unions of states (Turkic Countries Union). This should be extensively analyzed by China because it risks creating serious problems to Beijing’s calculations for an Asiatic landmass alliance to oppose the US – EU – NATO axis.

To accurately identify the problem, we have to refer to a typically Russian combination of rogue attitude, urgency for fast gain and territorial advance / expansion, and disastrous disrespect for any long perspective approach to expansion.

China should truly study comparatively the Oriental policies of England, France and Russia during the last Ottoman century. The three colonial powers’ target was certainly Jerusalem – due to its importance for the World Christianity.

Although England and France were located faraway, having no borders with the Ottoman Empire, the pathetic and inflexible Anti-Ottomanism and Anti-Islamism of the tsarist empire drove the Sultan to an alliance with his worst enemies, France and England, against Russia. Thus, the minor territorial advances of the Russian army in WW I served in nothing, because the Ottomans were defeated in Mesopotamia (Basra and Baghdad) and Syria – Palestine (Jerusalem and Damascus) by the English and the French but finally stopped the Russians in the north-easternmost confines of the collapsing caliphate.

A repetition of the Russian pathetic approach to the concept of territorial expansion has been attested more recently in Africa, and more particularly, in the Bab al Mandeb area and the Horn of Africa region. Before the collapse of the Soviet regime, the USSR had two strong allies in the area, notably Abyssinia and South Yemen.

It is beforehand noteworthy that the atheist Soviet Union pursued in Africa a typically tsarist policy (alliance with the Amhara Monophysitic – Tewahedo – Abyssinian tribe that consists in a tiny minority and - in parallel - disrespect of the subjugated Kushitic nations that have been terrorized for many decades before the rise of the pro-Soviet Amhara regime of Mengistu); it is astounding that the Soviet Union did not feel the need to consider for a moment how to forcefully implement Lenin’s approach to the problem of the nations in that area.

Because of the inhuman stance of the Soviet regime toward the gravely persecuted Oromos, Afars, Sidamas, Ogadenis and so many other nations, today’s Russia’s chances to influence developments in Abyssinia are nil.

Similarly, the pathetic reproduction of the Pan-Arabist dogma (earlier fabricated by the French and English academia) by the Soviet and Russian universities, academies and research centers drove the Soviet diplomats and academia in South Yemen to calamitous choices, namely arabization campaigns and cultural genocides in Mehra and Socotra where lies the heart of Yemen’s authenticity.

As the Soviets failed to assess the critical importance of the notion of historical continuity, cultural identity, and national integrity, they did their ingenious best to destroy the only tool that could help them make Soviet / Russian presence in South Yemen permanent: imposition of Mehri (modern offspring of the Ancient Yemenite) as the only official language in South Yemen. As they failed to understand that this was the first measure they had to take in order to detach the country from the evil colonial Pan-Arabist fallacy, South Yemen is still today annexed and tyrannized by the militaristic gang of Ali Abdallah Saleh, the shameful puppet of the Saudi terrorists and the American promoters of the Al Qaeda terrorism.

After years of docility to the Saudis and the Americans, after renouncing to Yemen’s rights to Saudi-occupied Najran, and after triggering a civil war against the country’s Shia majority, Ali Abdallah Saleh imagined that he was "free" to shape his country’s foreign policy at will and indirectly announced that he would be willing to offer naval bases to ….. Russia.

Soon afterwards, we started noticing a plethora of articles depicting Yemen as about to be decomposed and split to pieces. We can be sure that Russia – because of its own mistakes – will never have naval facilities in Yemen in the future.

Even worse were Soviet Union’s Somali and Ogaden policies. To prefer underdeveloped, impoverished, and tyrannical Abyssinia (prison of numerous persecuted nations) to maritime, open-minded, progressive Somalia is simply paranoid. The alliance with the criminal Amhara regime of Haile Mengistu against the liberation of Ogaden and the rightful formation of a United Greater Somalia put a dead end to any chances of Russia in Eastern Africa whereby Moscow is today rather viewed as an elite made out of the world’s most hated and reviled diplomacy, a rogue and ineffective militaristic establishment, a corrupt plutocracy, and a verbose but otherwise useless academia (unable even to diffuse Russian worldwide).

All this should be taken into consideration by China – not because of the importance of the past but because History has the tendency of being reproduced. Only a few months ago, a secondary event, namely the seizure of a Saudi Oil tanker made the Russian ambassador to NATO hint at a common "coastal land operation to eliminate the pirates".

What business is it of his to …. eliminate the pirates?

Russia has always been a poor conceptual thinker; Russian diplomats have been accustomed to think tough and rogue, without considering the consequences of their words – let alone acts. Beyond the success of the English and the Americans to induce the Russians to their customary rogue acts in the Caucasus region and in the vast region of Central Asia, which has almost made the Shanghai Cooperation Organization void, the induction of the Russians into tough and purposeless reactions and into rogue and self-destructive suggestions in the Red Sea – Horn of Africa area must become a matter of political analysis and due action for Beijing.

In fact, Somalia offers China the opportunity to go beyond the trap of the Islamic Terrorism that poisoned Russia’s attitude toward Islam (notably in Chechnya and Azerbaijan). Instead of imitating Moscow and getting involved in a confrontation with Muslims living in Eastern Turkistan (China’s northwestern province – also known as Sin kiang), Beijing should enter into an alliance with the Somali Islamic Opposition, and through them effectuate a major approach to Islam in order to detach numerous Muslim regimes entrapped into a pro-American or pro-European policy. China must however act fast.

To terminate the present article I republish a feature concerning Moscow’s paranoid, rogue attitude toward Somalia, and several reports published in the Somali portal Mareeg about the recent developments in the Somali South.

Russia to NATO: Let’s Invade Somalia
By Derek S. Reveron
http://www.acus.org/new_atlanticist/russia-nato-let%E2%80%99s-invade-somalia

The latest seizure of a Saudi oil tanker by Somali pirates presents an opportunity to improve relations between Russia and NATO. Russia's ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, has called for an international ground military operation to better combat rampant piracy in the region. "It's up to the European Union, NATO and others to launch a coastal land operation to eliminate the pirates…naval action alone will not be enough to liquidate the threat of piracy." Rogozin is right: there are limits to providing armed escorts or security teams for merchant ships.

Somalia: Witnesses say UN offices in Jowhar ransacked

http://www.mareeg.com/fidsan.php?sid=12164&tirsan=3&PHPSESSID=f02c884a3d5947cdce6f2a11f8cf2277

London (Mareeg)—Witnesses in Jowhar, the regional capital of Lower Shabelle region, said Unicef and UNDP offices in the town have been looted by some fighters of al-Shabab.

Al-Shabab seized Jowhar on Sunday from the pro government Islamic Courts Union.

One of the UN staff, who refused to be named, said Al-Shabab militia took the most valuable gadgets from the offices of UNDP and UNICEF in Jowhar.

The equipment taken includes computers, cars, and many other valuable things.

Al-shabab officials who spoke to the people of the town the day they captured the town said they would return the equipment, but so far no action has been taken.

Reports from Jowhar say that the militias are still looting the offices.

Most of the staff of the UN offices fled from Jowhar in fear for their lives.

By Farah, Ahmed Mohamed
amsomalia@mareeg.com

Somalia: Insurgents launch heavy attack on AMISOM bases

http://www.mareeg.com/fidsan.php?sid=12163&tirsan=3&PHPSESSID=f02c884a3d5947cdce6f2a11f8cf2277

Mogadishu (Mareeg)—At least one civilian was killed and five others were wounded after Islamist rebels have launched heavy attack on two bases of African Union troops in Mogadishu overnight, witnesses said on Wednesday.

The two sides have used anti aircraft machine guns, mortars, and rockets which frightened the civilians who remained in the capital.

The Insurgents attacked Jalle Siad Academy and former Somali University building in south Mogadishu, bases of Burundian troops from African Union peace keepers.

The fighting lasted for about two hours and the sound of gun fire could be heard in many parts of the capital.

The Islamist rebels who are fighting against the Somali government have vowed they will continue the fighting till the government collapses and the African Union troops leave the country.

By Farah, Ahmed Mohamed
amsomalia@mareeg.com

Somalia: France asks for help to train security force for Somalia

http://www.mareeg.com/fidsan.php?sid=12156&tirsan=3&PHPSESSID=f02c884a3d5947cdce6f2a11f8cf2277

Dhibouti (Mareeg)—Military forces would be trained in Djibouti, but EU member state concerns over loyalty.

France has proposed that EU member states join it in training Somali security forces in neighbouring Djibouti, starting this September with a battalion of around 500 men.

The proposal was made on Monday (18 May) at a joint meeting of EU foreign and defence ministers in Brussels. It received a broadly positive response, according to a French government spokesperson.

France, which maintains a military base in Djibouti, made a commitment to train a battalion at a donors' conference for Somalia held on 23 April.

It now wants this effort to become a fully-fledged mission under the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) and is looking for other member states to contribute experts, money or logistical support. The mission would be labelled as a ‘non-executive' programme for security sector reform, similar to an existing EU mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The EU's peacekeeping mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina is also set to be changed to such a model, most likely later this year.

Militias

In a discussion document submitted to the ministers, the French estimated that training a battalion would require around 150 experts and cost around €1.5 million. The ministers charged Javier Solana, the EU's foreign policy chief, and the European Commission with looking into options for an ESDP mission.

But some member states are cautious about the idea. One of the aims behind building a Somali army is to absorb and control the various militias that have ravaged the country since its central government collapsed in 1991.

There is broad support that the militias need to be brought under some form of centralised control if peace and stability are to be established. But a European diplomat said that his government was still studying whether the units that are to be trained in Djibouti would be loyal to the transitional government once they return to Somalia.

The United Nations is preparing a phased build-up of a UN-led peacekeeping operation, Alain Le Roy – the UN's peacekeeping chief – told the Security Council last week (13 May). Several countries had already responded positively to a request for troop contributions, he said. The Security Council is to decide on the matter by 1 June.

EU member states are also studying expanding the area of operations of the EU's anti-piracy mission off the coast of Somalia all the way to the Seychelles, where pirate attacks have been reported.

Leading contributors to the Atalanta naval mission – Germany, Spain and France – support the move. Member states are likely to approve an expansion in the coming weeks, according to a diplomat.

The idea will be discussed on Tuesday (26 May), at a meeting of member states' ambassadors for security issues.

Source: European Voice.

Somalia: Government soldiers wounded in a blast in Mogadishu

http://www.mareeg.com/fidsan.php?sid=12150&tirsan=3&PHPSESSID=f02c884a3d5947cdce6f2a11f8cf2277

Mogadishu (Mareeg)—Three Somali government soldiers and a civilian have been injured in a blast that targeted a pick up truck of government soldiers in 21 October, Street in Mogadishu, witnesses said on Tuesday.

The responsibility of the attack has been claimed by al-Shabab. www.alshabaab.net the website of al-Shabab claimed that three government soldiers were killed in the explosion.

There is no word from the government about the explosion which targeted the government soldiers.

The Islamist rebels control large parts of the capital after they got territorial gains in recent fighting with government soldiers in the capital.

The African Union troops in Mogadishu known as AMISOM are protecting key areas in the capital including the port, sea port, and the presidential palace.

Note
Picture: the Euro-Asiatic Land mass and Somalia
From: http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/docs/rst/Sect6/Sect6_14.html