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Ethiopian playwright fugitive welcomed in the pirates city of Somalia
American Fugitive Roams Free Under US Task Force In The Horn Of Africa

Issue 360
Front Page
News Headlines

Somaliland Leader Accorded Warm Welcome On Arrival In Djibouti

Chasing Pirates Onto Somali Territory Gets Approval From UN  
Abdillahi Yusuf Given Two Weeks Notice

Arms Embargo On Somalia 'Constantly Broken'

Puntland Considers Banning Ethiopian And Kenyan Kat

UNHCR Seeks $92m To Build Somali Refugee Camps

Local and Regional Affairs

Somaliland Offers Port To Fight Pirates

"Somaliland To Be Recognized In The Near Future," Says Ethiopian Former Ambassador

American Fugitive Roams Free Under US Task Force In The Horn Of Africa

German Parliament Approves Anti-Pirate Mission

Human Rights Watch Urges Accountability, Reassessment Of Somalia Priorities

Local Somali Leaders Check For Terror Connections

Some point finger at Jamal over reports on missing Somali men

Security Council Empowers Anti-Piracy Operations On Land In Somalia

Broadcaster Silenced In Islamist-Held City
U.S. Condemns Dispute Among TFG Leadership
Book Review

Fixing Fragile States: New Paradigm For Development

Editor's Choice

Last Domino Standing: On The Fate Of Somaliland

Somebody Is Giving Somali Pirates State-Level Intelligence Information

Features & Commentry

Political Solution Is Needed To Horn Of Africa Piracy

Somalia: Warlords, Pirates and the Politics of Morass
Somalia Nearing Disaster
The Pirates’ Prima Donna

What's It Like To Be A Pirate? In Dirt-Poor Somalia, Pretty Good

Statement on Somaliland’s Progress Towards Consolidation of Democracy Made at the European Parliament

Chinese Ship Fights Somalian Pirates With Beer Bottles

International News
 
Crude Oil Falls Below $40 on OPEC Skepticism, U.S. Supply Gain

Brazilian And Somali Environmentalists Win 2008 National Geographic Award For Conservation

‘Denmark: Somalis Leaving To Fight In Somalia

President Kibaki Urged Not To Sign Draconian Media Bill Into Law

U.S. Takes Backseat in Battle Against Somali Pirates

Atrocity Unlimited: US Seeks To Turn Somalia Into Global Free-Fire Zone

Opinion

Somalia – The End Game
Serious Political Constraints In Somaliland
Somalia: A Glance At The Religious Groups

BBC Somali Service: From News Provider To Another Political Opponent In Somali Affairs

Al-Shabab Of Somalia – A Danger To All

Vultures Gather Again For Carrion...!!!

The Mumbai Attacks Call For A Collective Muslim Outrage

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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