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Author: Shuun Ishaq
Nairobi, December 15, 2008 – United States Anti-Terrorism Task Force
based in Djibouti may claim to be aware of Al-Qaeda, but wanted American
fugitive embarrassingly escapes justice under their watchful eyes.
A serial rapist and American paedophile who escaped punishment after
escaping trial to Dubai has finally settled in the comforts of the city
state of Djibouti as a guest of honor by the dictator president Omar
Guelleh.
The disgraced former poster boy of Somalia's military junta before its
break up in 1991 walks freely in front of US military men
and officials despite a world wide arrest warrant by Hennepin County
Court. Mahamud Abdulahi Isse also known as Sangub, formerly an American
citizen and now decorated with a Djiboutian passport by the Djibouti
president to promote 'Somali Culture' and often employed during rallies
to organize endless streams of singers along roads has emerged
untouchable and difficult.
Sangub is currently on assignment in Somalia's pirate city of Bandar
Qasim along with two prominent Djiboutian playwrights as a goodwill
gesture from the Djibouti president. Bandar Qasim's warlords committed
to an agreement to establish the Djibouti port as the sole exporter of
livestock to the Middle East. Local traders were banned to export
independently without having to transfer their livestock to Djibouti's
USAID built livestock quarantine centre. Djibouti with hardly any
commodities of its own to export is greatly pleased with this
arrangement.
Djiboutian public were initially alarmed and shivered in fear of
association with Sangub, but later were surprised by American idiocy:
'If the Americans cannot do anything to him, how can they claim to be
protecting the world from terrorism when they can't even protect their
children back home' said Gimra Essin, a local truck driver.
Sangub is a veteran of escaping justice from the age of 15 having been
saved by his collusive mother willing to protect her rapist child from
Ethiopian law. In a last-ditch attempt to save her son, she sent him on
the road from Dhegahbur of Ethiopia to Hargeysa now in Somaliland. He
had built a new life as a poet and song writer, galvanizing the Somalian
public into joining his tribal campaign to continue the military junta's
oppression against the Isaaq ethnic group. His career was brought to an
end after the liberation of former British Protectorate of Somaliland in
1988 as he sought safety in Mogadishu. He later joined the ever
increasing flow of refugees into Kenya as Siad Barre's regime finally
collapsed, eventually finding himself sponsorship from family members in
Minnesota.
Sangub and the rest of his group checked into the International Village
Hotel in Bender Qasim, enjoying an official circuit of tribal chiefs,
journalists and warlords sympathetic to his past glory during the
military junta's era. The failed Siadists later declared themselves
'Puntland State of Somalia' comprising of presumptuous tribal
territories across the borders of Somalia, Somaliland and Ethiopia.
'Puntland State of Somalia' currently serves as recruitment and a safety
haven for pirates.
Source: PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria
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