Why Egypt Always Gets Her Way?

The UN Security Council sounded a warning Friday over reports that Eritrea has supplied weapons to the rebel forces that attempted last week to overthrow the transitional government in Somalia. Following a closed-door discussion of the situation in Somalia, the Security Council voiced concern that "Eritrea has supplied arms to those opposed to the transitional federal government of Somalia, in breach of the UN arms embargo."

The Security Council asked a monitoring group to investigate, and said it continues to support the transitional government in Mogadishu, which survived attacks by AL-Shabab fighters. The UN reported earlier this week that foreign fighters were among the rebel forces trying to topple the government. The Security Council gave support to the political process being conducted by the transitional government to rally all parties in the war-torn country. The council had received information from security experts and diplomats that Eritrea has continued to arm AL-Shabab fighters. The government in Asmara has rejected the allegations.

After the Ethiopian troops have left Somalia, and Islamic radicals have Started closing in on the town as a result. The previous Somali TNG President Mr. Abdillahi Yusuf has resigned and new government was elected. While some factions of the Islamic radicals are willing to work with the new elected government of Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, the more radical factions (particularly the AL-Shabab and part of previous wing of Somali Court Union) are pushing for the establishment of a religious dictatorship and to enhance their command control to Puntland and Somaliland.

The international community is desperately hoping that some kind of miracle will happen in Somalia, and that the new government will smoothly crushed, enforce law and order, and put the pirates out of business. More realistically, everyone expects the piracy to go on until the United States, or someone else capable of the job, can be convinced to go ashore in Somalia and shut down the pirate bases. That's the only way to stop pirates, by going to where they live and capturing, killing or intimidating them. This is an unpopular fact, and world governments and media have been playing it down because, in the case of Somalia, the implications are so very unpleasant.

The recent captured of Somali Pirates have not changed greatly the business outlook of piracy in Somalia and that is due to lack of strong Somali government. Also, the return of Sheikh Hassan Dahir in Mogadishu, Somalia has ignited the ignition switch of the current battle between the Somali Government and Sheikh Hassan Dahir Militia gunmen. Another obstacle for Sheikh Sharif government is also AL-Shabab Group who has been armed by Egypt and Iran through Eritrea. This is also true that Sheikh Hassan Dahir and his supporters are getting help from Egypt through Eritrean channels.

The Ethiopians, like so many others in the region, and the world, could not survived the growing pressure of Somalians and finally become fed up to cope with the political, economic, social anger inside Somalia. What the Ethiopians has done was probably to pull their troops back to bases just across the border in their Ogaden province, and continue to send in raiding parties when and if Somali factions come raiding. Ethiopia sent troops to Mogadishu two years ago at the behest of the United States, to drive out Islamic radicals (the Islamic Courts Union) and that makes the Islamic Radicals to find an outside sweet-home at Eritrea which they have established their military and support base which they are still is using as a strategic and logistic channel of getting their military needs and assistance from Egypt and Iran thru Eritrea. This is not for Islamic Court Wing only but also Al-Shabab and other extreme radicals.

Furthermore, the better organized, and motivated, Islamic radicals take control of more towns. These militias are only a minority of the armed groups that exist throughout the country. The non-religious warlords (mainly the Transitional National Government, or TNG) are unable to unite sufficiently to suppress the religious groups (the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia, which is the successor to the Islamic Courts Union.

 There are more radical groups showing up in Somalia, and apparently they are leading a terror campaign against the only two peaceful territories of (Puntland and Somaliland) as they have done suicide attacks to Somaliland Presidential Palace in Hargeysa, United Nations office in Hargeysa, Ethiopian Diplomatic Relation Office in Hargeysa and Heart of Puntland Markets and shops.

In Conclusion, after the recent government of Sheikh Sharif Ahmed has elected, they moved quickly their peacekeeping mission to the capital of Somalia-Mogadishu and immediately moved as well the parliament and all government Institutions to the city to implement law and order. The government also has passed through legislation that the Islamic Religion will be the Islamic Law of the country, thereby the president has signed to make it official.

The recent war that broke up between the previous wing of Islamic Court leading by Sheikh Hassan Dahir and the Somali Government-leading Sheikh Sharif Ahmed has caused by unwillingness to listen and negotiate of the side of Sheikh Hassan Dahir and his supporters. They are getting great help from Egypt and Iran through Eritrea and they have convinced through their imagination that they will be taking the control of Somalia soon.

We urge that all competing groups to stop the fighting and senseless death and destruction and to come to the negotiating table to have an intelligent discussions and solve the existing problems which can lead a further lost of lives and return the country the state of dark ages or dark era. I also would like to emphasize that Egypt has special interest not to recognize the Somaliland and the existence of Somali government and they are responsible all the recent death by arming the Somali Radicals both All-Shabab and others. We hope the United Nations and the International Communities must intervene and put a complete stop to Egyptian Government and refrain from them not to put their long nose any government affairs.

Best Regards,

Dr. Shacabi

shacabi@yahoo.com

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