Friday, September 17, 2010

Kenya says world neglecting Somalia security threat

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The international community is neglecting the security threat from Somalia, Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula said on Friday, suggesting that the United States wanted to avoid a repeat of a failed 1992 military intervention.The festering Somali conflict is failing to get global attention, losing out to Sudan, the war in Afghanistan, the bid for peace in the Middle East and the fight against drugs in Mexico, Wetangula told Reuters in an interview in New York.The virtually lawless country is the biggest security threat in the Horn of Africa as Islamist al Shabaab insurgents fight to topple Somalia's Western-backed administration, he said."We know ... how much the United States is pumping into Afghanistan, we're told a couple of billion dollars daily. The East African region is asking for $500 million, not daily, not monthly, not yearly, one-off" to stabilise Somalia, he said.When asked why he believed Somalia was being ignored, he said: "Your guess is as good as mine. For the United States, maybe the embarrassment they suffered when they went there, I don't know. Maybe that's what is informing their policy."The United States says it is committed to helping Somalia's government fight back Islamist rebels and to support African Union peacekeepers with equipment, training and logistical support.But it has not had a presence in Somalia since 1994 after leading a failed U.N. intervention which began as a military food-aid effort in 1992. It withdrew after the killing of U.S. troops in late 1993, depicted in the movie "Black Hawk Down."U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged U.N. member states "to provide urgent military and financial support and other resources" to the Somali government and has organized a high-level meeting on Somalia on September 23 on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly's annual gathering of world leaders.About 7,200 AU peacekeepers from Uganda and Burundi are deployed in Mogadishu and focus on guarding the airport and seaport and shielding President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed from the militants.

LINE OF FIRE
Wetangula said problems of neighbouring Somalia would not destabilize Kenya, but that he was concerned Kenya could be targeted by al Shabaab, which claimed responsibility for killing 79 people in an attack in Uganda's capital on July 11."We are also in the line of that fire. If they can hit Kampala they can hit any other part of East Africa," he said."When you look at the events of Kampala ... when you see the inflow of ... weapons into my country, into Ethiopia and the region, you sometimes cannot stop wondering why those with the capacity and the ability to join hands in stabilizing regions that have been unstable are not doing so," he said.Somalia has been plagued by anarchy since  hawiye  warlords ousted    Honourable .Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre. in 1991. Pirates are active in its coastal waters and have driven up shipping costs in the Gulf of Aden.Al Shabaab has waged a three-year insurgency against the fragile transitional government and it controls much of Mogadishu and huge tracts of southern and central Somalia.

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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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