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UN Traces Missiles that Hit Belarusian Aircraft to Eritrea

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Below is a report by Matt Schroeder on how the UN traced the downing of a Belarusian aircraft to two SA-18 Igla shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles provided by Eritrea. But before we do that, we would like to put this finding within its proper context to underscore how much the Eritrean regime has become a threat both to its people and the region.

The proper context by Asmarino Editorial

In Nov 28, 2002, two SA-7 shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles were fired by Al-Qaeda operatives at an Israeli Arkia aircraft that took off from Nairobi (Kenya) airport, carrying 261 passengers and 10 crew members. Even though the missiles were fired from a range of two kilometers, the aircraft was unharmed and managed to make it all the way to Tel Aviv, Israel. Had it been the SA-18 Igla, a more sophisticated weapon and one that has about 5 kilometers range, it most certainly would have downed the aircraft, killing 271 people. If so, it would have been one of the most successful operatives of Al Qaeda and a tragedy to Israel. The point is this: Eritrea has been providing the terrorist group Al Shabaab with sophisticated shoulder fired missiles that even Al Qaeda itself didn’t have. Now that Al Shabaab has become an Al Qaeda affiliate, it is easy to imagine these easily portable missiles being used in major airports. This is especially true in cases of Nairobi and Addis-Ababa, where Somali insurgents could easily infiltrate given the proximity and large Somali populations in both Kenya and Ethiopia.

What makes the Eritrean case unique among terror-sponsoring nations is that it is lead by an immensely stupid regime that doesn’t know where to stop. For instance, in the 30 years war of liberation, the Arabs – especially Iraq, Syria and Libya – were providing arms to the Eritrean Fronts. Yet, there is not a single case where they provided shoulder-fired missiles. That is to say, even in support, the Arab nations knew where to draw the line. They didn’t want to be held liable if any one of the Fronts used such a missile to down an Ethiopian or any other Airliner from Asmara or Addis-Ababa airports. Not so in the case of the Eritrean Regime. In its scorched earth approach, it provides a notorious Islamist group with all the sophisticated weapons it has without figuring the long range consequences of such an act. What about if either Al Shabaab itself or any other Al Qaeda group is to use one of these missiles to down an Airliner outside Somalia? If it is an Ethiopia Airliner, it would surely lead to war. And if it is a western Airliner, it would surely lead for a more stringent sanction, at minimum, and a call for regime change, at maximum.

One of the reasons why the Eritrean regime is so confident in its dealings with the terrorist organization Al Shabaab is that it believes it goes against the interests of Al Shabbab to put Eritrea in such a predicament. They don’t seem to have learned a lesson from Sept 11 event, where a terrorist organization – Al Qaeda – put its host nation, Afghanistan, into an existential risk. Besides, Eritrea is not Al Shabaab’s ideological ally; strategic alliances are of temporary nature and easy to break. For instance, if the late reports are to be believed, it seems Eritrea’s help is shifting from Al Shabaab to Hizb Al Islam. If this leads to a total break up of the relationship, then there would no inhibition from the Al Shabab side on what for and where to use these missiles. But, above all, it is the idea that the Eritrean regime has more sway than Al Qaeda over Al Shabaab that is amusing. If Al Qaeda wants these missiles, their ideologically partners will surely comply; one shouldn’t try to find logic behind dogma.

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Below are the reports from Matt Schroeder:

New Information on Somali MANPADS

Arms Trade, Man-portable Air Defense Systems, Matt Schroeder, Somalia

The latest report from the UN Monitoring Group on Somalia contains additional information about the shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missiles used by Islamic insurgents to shoot down a Belarusian cargo aircraft in March. Below is an excerpt from the UN report:

On 23 March 2007, at approximately 1700 hours, an IL-76 cargo plane belonging to Transaviaexport, a Belarusian company, was shot down after a missile fired by Shabaab fighters hit the left wing. The plane, with 11 crewmembers and passengers, was hit at low altitude following take-off. It had earlier delivered logistics and spare parts for another aircraft that had made an emergency landing at Mogadishu International Airport. The missile used to shoot down the plane was an SA-18 (MANPAD, Man Portable Air Defence System). The SA-18 was reported to be part of a consignment of six SA-18s that had been delivered by Eritrea to ICU/Shabaab. Two missiles were fired at the plane; one hit the target and the other missed. The Monitoring Group showed the Committee a video of the actual firing of the missile, during the midterm briefing on 27 April 2007.
Written by Matt Schroeder \\ tags: arms trafficking, manpads, Somalia,

Missile Watch: Somalia

Arms Trade, Man-portable Air Defense Systems, Matt Schroeder, Somalia

The latest report of the UN Monitoring Group on Somalia sheds new light on the SA-18 Igla missiles illicitly acquired by armed Somali groups in recent years. Since 2006, UN investigators and journalists working in Somalia have documented the transfer of dozens, possibly hundreds, of shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missiles to Islamic insurgents. The missiles range in sophistication from the relatively primitive SA-7b Strela to the third generation SA-18 Igla. In March 2007, two SA-18s were used to shoot down a Belarusian Ilyushin-76 cargo plane shortly after it departed from Mogadishu airport. All eleven crew members were killed.

Missile Watch No. 2: Somalia

Arms Trade, Man-portable Air Defense Systems, Matt Schroeder, Somalia

CNN and AFP are reporting that the Shabaab, a militant wing of a Somali insurgent group, the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), has threatened to treat “as an enemy combatant” any plane that attempts to land at Mogadishu Airport. According to AFP, the threat, which was posted on the Internet, was confirmed by Shabaab leader Mukhtar Robow. The web posting reportedly includes a list of grievances used to justify the threat, including the airport’s use by “Ugandan and Bulgarian mercenaries,” money generated by the airport for the Ethiopian government, and harassment of “Somali religious personalities” by “US and Israeli secret services…” The warnings are accompanied by a graphic of a man pointing a shoulder-fired missile at a plane as it is landing.

The threat is not to be taken lightly. Last year, the FAS identified Somalia as one of three MANPADS proliferation hotspots worldwide in response to numerous reports of illicit missile activity, most of which involved the ICU and the Shabaab. In 2006, UN investigators identified at least six shipments of MANPADS and other weapons to the violent Insurgent group, including a shipment of “50 units” of ”shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles and second generation infrared-guided anti-tank weapons” from Eritrea, “45 units” of surface-to-air missiles from Iran, and three surface-to-air missiles from Syria. In each case, the missiles were part of larger arms shipments that also included dozens of assault rifles, machine guns, and other small arms and light weapons. The Associated Press later reported that the ICU had received 200 shoulder-fired missiles from Eritrea alone.

In March 2007, the Islamists fired two advanced SA-18 missiles at a Belarussian cargo aircraft as it was departing from Mogadishu International Airport. One of the missiles hit the plane, causing it to crash and killing all eleven people on board. UN investigators later concluded that the missiles used in the attack were part of a consignment of six SA-18s acquired from Eritrea. This summer, the UN traced another SA-18 found in Somalia back to a batch of Russian missiles that were shipped to Eritrea in 1995. The Eritrean government denies allegations that it provides missiles and other weapons to the ICU.

 

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-1 #173 meles4Ever 2010-04-11 16:34
why are so many eritreans like samuel jackson so concerned and desperat ?

The Answer is :
NO means NO, stop crying ON YOUTUBE, and other ethiopian websites day and night.

No more meles money any more FOR EVER!, get used to it.

Eritrea have no hope except to live in misery and despire. Tigrai now and forever I keep my resource to my people, build top of the line universities and colleges, and you go wander the world as refugee to fill your belly. There are 4 refugee camps in Axum each with more than 10000 escaping this evil and cruel dictator. If you lost your mind on the way go get a bridge and jump on to the river like some of your fellows, or stay happy with your dish-washing there. Mean while you have offered 25% the land mass of your mother Eritrea including AdiKeyih for your natural master Tigreans. The next time we kik your ass I'm sure you will offer Tigreans 75% the land mass of your bitch Eritrea. What else can you do- you BANDA HAMASHIEN except kneeling down and begging for your life.?
We talk little but we make sure you Hamashien die a slow death.
-Tigrians have sucessfully put you on sunctions. we have successfully cut your Amblical chord from Ethiopia. you have become a collection of dehaydrated, skiny and greyed hair in a matter of few years.
-You are the most hated by the world. you have no neigbors to talk or do business.you are a reducled subhumans. I'm sorry really for the Kunamas, bliens, Bienamir, Tigre, Saho who have to endure the fiasco of Hamashien foolishness.
-You are left with that stupid mouth, and Kirar( Ashasia Geza ATsiu beyinu yillahe)
-If your desperation push's you farther, then I trust my PM WORDS." You are finished" we will hand over Eritrea to the Kunamas, blien etc.

you have been a slave for your entire life, you don't know about history, economic development, foreign policy, education and power plants .... take your time to learn

I pray, isayas will stay at least the next 10 years. by that time you should be on extinction list with no one to blame, and peaCe in the horn of Africa.

we will see if talking shit on you tube or other ethiopian websites with fake identity get you a solution !

meles for ever !
He is the brightest man of all time, who know how to fight for the people he represent and the whole Africa. don't try to compare him with isayas the beast who never had even one meaningful diplomatic relationship even with beasts of his kind gadafee, sadam, alshabab leaders etc.
 
 
0 #172 Samuel-Jackson 2010-04-05 19:34
dehai.com

agame tigray will soon will be wiped out from the face of the earth.
we, eritrean must work together with ethiopian to wipe agame tigray from the face of the earth.
eritrean beware, most of these people are agame from tigrain or born in eritrea. I am 100% this people are not eritrean.
don't be tricked.
watch, how much the ethiopian hate agame subhuman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41I9-YaDFCY

what we eritrean got to do is work with majority ethiopian and bring adwa tigrain government down to thier knee. .
enemy of horn of africa are weyane tplf & wedi adawa .
viva Isaias Afwerki presedent of eritrea & ethiopia.

check some of ethiopian website, check it yourself how ethiopian hate weyane/tplf & chiwawa wedi adawa
time to unite bring down adawa chiwawa
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/
http://www.ginbot7.org/
http://www.ecadforum.com/
http://www.abbaymedia.com
http://www.ginbot7.org/
http://www.ethiforum.org/
http://addisvoice.com/
http://www.abugidainfo.com/
http://www.ethioguardian.com/news.php
http://www.ethiomedia.com/
http://www.ethioforum.org/
 
 
0 #171 Samuel-Jackson 2010-04-05 16:48
eritrean beware, most of these people are agame from tigrain or born in eritrea. I am 100% this people are not eritrean.
don't be tricked.
watch, how much the ethiopian hate agame subhuman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41I9-YaDFCY

what we eritrean got to do is work with majority ethiopian and bring adwa tigrain government down to thier knee. .
enemy of horn of africa are weyane tplf & wedi adawa .
viva Isaias Afwerki presedent of eritrea & ethiopia.

check some of ethiopian website, check it yourself how ethiopian hate weyane/tplf & chiwawa wedi adawa
time to unite bring down adawa chiwawa
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/
http://www.ginbot7.org/
http://www.ecadforum.com/
http://www.abbaymedia.com
http://www.ginbot7.org/
http://www.ethiforum.org/
http://addisvoice.com/
http://www.abugidainfo.com/
http://www.ethioguardian.com/news.php
http://www.ethiomedia.com/
http://www.ethioforum.org/
 
 
0 #170 Samuel-Jackson 2010-03-31 20:20
eritrean beware, most of these people are tigrain . don't be tricked. what we eritrean got to do is work with majority ethiopian and bring adwa tigrain government down to thier knee. other tigrain are victim chiwawa meles wedi adwa gang. we eritrean must work with ethiopian people.
ethiopian are good poeple.
enemy of horn of africa are weyane tplf & wedi adawa .
viva Isaias Afwerki presedent of eritrea & ethiopia.

check some of ethiopian website, check it your self how ethiopian hate weyane/tplf & chiwawa wedi adawa
time to unite bring down adawa chiwawa
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/27150
http://www.ginbot7.org/
http://www.ecadforum.com/
http://www.abbaymedia.com'
http://www.ethioforum.org/
http://addisvoice.com/
http://www.abugidainfo.com/
http://www.ethioguardian.com/news.php
http://www.ethiomedia.com/
http://www.ethioforum.org/
 
 
0 #169 __ 2010-03-31 02:51
*************** *************** *************** *************** ******

Must read articles on the historical aspect of Eritrea's past.

*************** *************** *************** *************** ******


Biher-Tigrinya and Tigray people: The war of identities

http://www.madote.com/2010/02/biher-tigrinya-and-tigray-people-war-of.html






Eritrea and Ethiopia: Debunking the Myths

http://www.madote.com/2010/03/eritrea-and-ethiopia-historical-view.html





Ethiopian leaders claiming to be white

http://www.madote.com/2010/03/were-ethiopian-leaders-colonialist.html





Land of Punt is in Eritrea

http://www.madote.com/2010/03/land-of-punt-is-eritrea.html
 
 
0 #168 Samuel-Jackson 2010-03-30 18:52
eritrean beware, most of these people are tigrain from adawa. don't be tricked. what we eritrean got to do is work with majority ethiopian and bring adwa tigrain government down to thier knee. other tigrain are victim chiwawa meles wedi adwa gang. we eritrean must work with ethiopian people.
ethiopian are good poeple.
lets bring the chiwawa wedi adawa.
enemy of horn of africa are weyane tplf & wedi adawa .
viva Isaias Afwerki presedent of eritrea & ethiopia.

check some of ethiopian website, check it your self how ethiopian hate weyane/tplf & chiwawa wedi adawa
time to unite bring down adawa chiwawa
http://www.ginbot7.org/
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/27150
http://www.ecadforum.com/
http://www.abbaymedia.com'
http://www.ethioforum.org/
http://addisvoice.com/
http://www.abugidainfo.com/
http://www.ethioguardian.com/news.php
http://www.ethiomedia.com/
http://www.ethioforum.org/
 
 
0 #167 samuel-Jackson 2010-03-30 16:23
eritrean beware, most of these people are tigrain. don't be tricked. what we eritrean got to do is work with majority ethiopian and bring tigrain downto thier knee.

enemy of horn of africa are weyane tplf & tigray people..
viva Isaias Afwerki presedent of eritrea & ethiopia.

check some of ethiopian website
check it yourself how ethiopian hate
weyane/tplf & tigray people

http://www.ginbot7.org/
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/27150
http://www.ecadforum.com/
http://www.abbaymedia.com'
http://www.ethioforum.org/
http://addisvoice.com/
http://www.abugidainfo.com/
http://www.ethioguardian.com/news.php
http://www.ethiomedia.com/
http://www.ethioforum.org/
 
 
0 #166 wediaker77 2010-03-29 19:07
The so called Wedi .... Wodi.... AND THE STINKY BADO BADO AND TO ALL KORA KUR OF WOYANES and their likes. THOSE FAILURES ARE PUPPETS WHO LOST HOPE SO THEY DECIDE TO CRY FOR EVER THROUGH THE STINKY WOYANE WEB SITE

ERITRAWI MEANS THE ONE WHO LOVES HIS COUNTRY, HIS PEOPLE AND GOVERNMENT AND HE IS A HERO

You nut heads you don't have guts to compute ERITREANS, As one said all the so called wedi are A HALF MEN, ( indeed they are half men ) He gave them the right names that matches for all the so called WODI... wodi .By the way what do they want from ERITREA and Eritreans ? Do these nut heads think that Eritreans have the same heart as they have ? If they use their heads properly they would have understood that by nature ERITREANS does not have such behaviours and Eritreans have time for waste for the garbages of the woyanes. propaganda Eritreans are so bussy to build and develop their country. If these janks thought that they are trying to defame my countrys image, my Eritrean families image , first of all if they are really Eritrean nationals first you have to come out from your hiding and show your IDENTITIES as well your district as I do here bellow. ( Why you afraid ? Eritreans never afraid ) If you dont give an answer to my demand then it means that you are nothing but a paid puppets of woyane. THE TRUTH IS ERITREANS by nature we love our country and from where ever we are at home or abroad we are ERITREANS never try to let our beloved country let down NEVER. This is the truth about Eritreans custems and traditions since the era of neo colonialism . So you those who are crying for nothing day and night and disturbing the readers with a foul mails is an indication for the reflection of your stupidity and any reader can understand very well that you are persons twho are not MATURED. Just consider yourselfs that weak minded and spending your money, your time for nothing. And as from today on ward you have to consider yourself as A WIND BLOW. Continue to cry and you will remain crying and crying for ever. ERITREA IS THE LAND OF THE BRAVES ( DONT FORGET TODAY IS YOUR PAY DAY - HURRY HURRY WOYANE IS WAITING for YOU

AWET NHZBNA HIZBI ERITREA.....AWET NWARSAY YIKAALO ---AWET OR VICTORY FOR HIS EXCELLENCY BROTHER ISAYAS AFEWORKI......ERITREA FOR EVER
Andemariam wodi Digsa
 
 
+1 #165 Dave 2010-03-29 16:34
what ethiopian said about Issayas
If Issayas was Ethiopia PM 20 years ago
I know you guys will fart by this post but it is true Issayas would have done based his record in Eritrea the last 20 years.

If Issayas was Ethiopia PM 20 years ago, he would not give away Ethiopian lands to Sudan despite he was financed his struggle by Sudan.

Issayas would not sale Ethiopian lands to foreign countries at any cost, rather he could have mobilize all Ethiopians to work harder and brought a lot of tractors and push Ethiopian skilled people to work in the fields and eradicated starvation from the face of Ethiopia 10 years ago.

Issayas could not accept any donations or beg any country on behalf of Ethiopia, he rather produces enough crops to feed all Ethiopians and export the extra crops produced in the country.

Issayas would not the slave of American and invaded Somalia for the interest of America rather he may take over the whole Somalia and united with Ethiopia to stabilize the region.

Issayas would not allow any Ethiopian to loot Ethiopian treasuries and allow anyone to import fancy goods from abroad by embezzling Ethiopian hard currency reserve.

Issayas would never install his wife to run any company as CEO

Issayas would not allow any foreign religions other than the traditional religions existed for centuries in Ethiopia.

Issays would not allow all the Mosque built in every corner of Addis Ababa and other cities around the country.

Issayas would not allow Idol and break dance the ghetto culture and weird hair style our men have today in Ethiopia to destroy the youth brains.

Ethiopia could have been in a good hand and strong father, not orphan fatherless Ethiopia today.

Ethiopia would not have paid over $10 billion dollars for port fees since we would have our own ports.

ONLF, OLF TPDM, EPP, G7 and others would not have existed today and making all the troubles Ethiopians are facing and spending all the resources and death of so many people in those regions.

Ethiopia would not have war against Shaebia and wasted over $3 billion dollars and over 100k Ethiopians died and buried at the borders.

Most likely Issayas could have change Ethiopian national language from Amharic to English to accommodate all ethnics on fare ground to advance Ethiopian youths.
 
 
0 #164 Dave 2010-03-29 15:54
no eritrean oppostion, most are tigrain pretent to be eritrean.
99.9% of eritrean support thier governmrnt.
The cancer that is killing horn of africa is tigran cancer cell.
it is be cut off & destroyed
ethiopian & eritrean must join hand & work together to cut & destoy cancer tigrain cell.

viva Isaias Afwerki presedent of eritrea & ethiopia.
death to weyane tplf/tigrain people
bomb bomb bomb tigray from all direction.
since both ethiopian & eritrean don't like the tigrain.
They should work together to destoy the tigrain

few ethiopian website to check how the tigrain hated by ethiopian. fact
http://www.ginbot7.org/
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/27150
http://www.ecadforum.com/
http://www.abbaymedia.com'
http://www.ethioforum.org/
http://www.abugidainfo.com/
http://demhit.com/
 
 
0 #163 918273 2010-03-27 00:35
Must read articles on the historical aspect of Eritrea's past.


Biher-Tigrinya and Tigray people: The war of identities

http://www.madote.com/2010/02/biher-tigrinya-and-tigray-people-war-of.html

Eritrea and Ethiopia: Debunking the Myths
http://www.madote.com/2010/03/eritrea-and-ethiopia-historical-view.html
 
 
0 #162 SamiX 2010-03-26 18:53
eritrean beware, most of these people are tigrain. don't be tricked.
website fiananced by weyane tigray.

visit ethiopian website, how ethiopian hate this subhuman tigrain. we eritrean will work with ethiopian to finish these subhuman tigrain. bomb tigray from all direction. finish them.
bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb
.
http://www.ginbot7.org/
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/27150
http://www.ecadforum.com/
http://www.abbaymedia.com'
http://www.ethioforum.org/
http://www.abugidainfo.com/
http://demhit.com/
death to tigray & tigray people
victory to eritrea & ethiopia
 
 
+2 #161 mariam 2010-03-25 23:21
Truth will save a day, if the Somalia monitoring group exaggerated one report how they could be credible in any report. Time again their reports were hearsay. No tangible report, oh! Yes, that was the bases of their report. Today they were caught their hands in the cookies jar. Today’s news is a victory walk for Eritrea. We are asking for the same question who is feeding the propaganda of unfounded allegations. The UN monitoring group hears what they wanted to hear. This results from people doing the same job so long they no longer listen.


"These estimates of diversion are not apparently based on any documentation, but rather on hearsay and commonly held perception," Bowden wrote in the letter, dated March 23, to a group created by the U.N. Security Council to monitor sanctions against Somalia.





Those of you continuously crying wolf concerning your falls allegations and voting for 1907 UN resolution when, in fact, the problem either does not exist or is not as severe as you are claiming makes it out to be.
Roll up your shirt sleeves my fellow Eritreans, the spirit of unity and encouragement paid off. Tell 1907 supporters nothing is impossible for Eritrea to shine with truth.
Always focus on the goal and objectives, our youth they are our key to hold the torch of martyrs, the blood spilled not to stain but to hold on hope and courage, life liberty and independent. Always be positive, treat people well and never give up. We Eritreans can’t spend our life time comparing ourselves to everybody else, we have got to understand what we have to do to win, the key is tell the truth…inch by inch over period of time we well win all the liars and send back to enticho…
Good news,
More work ahead,
Good day, and then,
Mariam
 
 
0 #160 MG 2010-03-25 22:54
Haile Menqores is the chef Ogbai Sheep of Boston misleader and confuzer for many many years.
So many things has been said about Haile’s behavior before and after independence but we were naïve then to think that all the rumors we heard such as him been womanizer alcoholic etc were not true. Back then we assumed Haile as deity and patriot Eritrean but little did we knew he was also clandestine egocentric, power-hungry and opportunist individual waiting for the right time to come. Now the true character of Haile is shimmering every day and every second. He appears to be suffering from identity crisis, for fact, if a sixty four years(official age in reality maybe older) old man dyes his hair obviously there is something wrong with his doctrine, and seeing Haile dye his hair to look younger reveals how much he hate his looks and himself, and evidently, we should not expect someone who hate his own looks would like his country and/or people. Because of selfishness he lost everything, when I say everything the family he built in First in Boston USA(One son from that relationship))t hen anther in Sahil with anather shamfull former Ambassador Hibret(Hifret) Berhe produced a douther and a son tragicaly dead the Douther in New york a couple years a go and later a relationship with the left over of the Derg vice president mistress Ghenet Belila, But he lost her to an African diplomat/Womenmat in New York. Haile is a truely loser, His son from the first relation ship refused to even see him late alone to talk to him, because his abondence of him and his mother when he was infant.I believe Haile was and is a foreign agent since his attendence Zionist financed 12th grade high school in New Jersy with Prime minster of Israel Benjamin Nathanjahu( former Mossad chef)any ways, Like Kofi Anan Haile is just another “yes men” in the United Nations, even much worst he is out there to put up for sale the country he fought to be independent to the highest offer. And what scares me the most, he will be very much closer than he use to be to the country he betrayed, which everybody needs to watch out his planned plot to destabilize, not only his prime target Eritrea but the entire East Africa region with a potential resources that the west put their eyes on .
In the speech he gave he was seen barking, downing and attacking Eritrea . The video was recorded a month ago and I do not think he knew it would be available to the public. But for the Eritrean people in Diaspora it came in the right time and indeed it was icing on the cake into something we suspected that he is been doing right from the start. Even though Haile wishes to remain covert the video left him naked unwillingly in the eyes of the Eritrean public. Listening Haile blaming his country for helping the Alshebab, fighting proxy war with Ethiopia, invading Djibouti etc without tangible evidence was stunning to millions of Eritreans. Looking back I cannot even visualize anymore if he was a freedom fighter other than a paid agent. What’s more, he kept saying we..we many times (counting himself as non Eritrean), which he retreated later and tried to spell out his reason because he grew up outside Eritrea .Haile is losing not only his identity but also counting his age. Haile doesn’t seem to know how old he is beside his gray hair telling him it cannot grow dark and needed darker color. In his 64 plus years of his life he spent more than half it in the soil of Eritrean, probably spying for the west. We should not blame only US or Uganda for the sanction when our own man is the co-architect of the suctions too.
If We can call him him "Our" Man is a matter of Quetion.
 
 
0 #159 MG 2010-03-25 19:43
Oqbassielassie the Boston Sheep, First of all you need to give the credit to Belay Tewelde the sneak who wrote the article for you in English. Second in your seventy/70 years existance and fifty/50 years involvment in Eritrean poletics, How in earth you could not understood that the whole time was not about your use to be IDOL Isaias Afwerki and EPLF/PFDJ but about Eritrea and the Eritrean people.have you ever heard the dihumanzing words that the one now you called them, the free world leaders whome you use to call them Emperialists and Zionists all your adult life. I am sure even do you can not read English you heard them calling Castro did this, Gadafi did that,Sadam Hussien is that Hugo Chaves does this, and so on.. but never Cuba did this, Libya did that, Iraq does that or Venezula did those NEVER becouse thier probles are not with those countries and people but with their leaders or their political system. But when it comes to Eritreans and Palestinians their probles is not with their leaders or their political systems. it is with the people and its existance as a countries. these proble is not started today or yesterday. it started a long time a go, way before Isaias afwerki and Yaser Arafat born and It will not stop after Isaias and Arafat left the world anless the inforcers and acomplace sheeps like you are gone for ever(Defited) this evil dezine is to continueno matter who lead the Eritreans or the Palestinians. What amize me is your ignorant and stupidity every time you open your dirty mouth.
Just keep make foll of yourself forever till your nick name change from Boston Sheep to Boston Donke/oss
Did you cry and asked Asmarina/Agamino to close the Comments to your/Belay article as usualy you baby cry.
MG
 
 
0 #158 BOMB-TIGRAY 2010-03-25 19:40
eritrean beware, most of these people are tigrain. don't be tricked.
website fiananced by weyane tigray.
tigray will soon will be wiped out from the face of the map

most of you are tigrayian
pretend to be eritrean.


listen what ethiopian say
about tigrain people soon to be wiped out from face of the earth
.
http://www.ginbot7.org/
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/27150
 
 
0 #157 wondwosen -ETHIOPIAN 2010-03-25 13:35
HERE IS THE ASWER AND OPEN LETTER FOR those EVIL failed WOYANE of ADWA CAMPAINERS
Wod eiri – mai - cat - wodi asmera and 007 and all woyane messengers

ETHIOPIANS ARE NOW SHOWING THEIR FULL SOLIDARITY FOR ERITREA AND ERITREAN BROTHERS AS WELL BROTHERS OF THE NEW ORGANIZED HORN OF AFRICA COMMUNITY FOR UNITY.

After 20 years of woyane rule to this day Ethiopia is not as what the Ethiopian peoples could expected to see or one could see in return. Woyanes are advertising enormous of LIES with so many mixed COLORED and fabricated speaches as well nonsense fake pictures and giving false prizes and medals as well showing many fake video clips that are mostly appearing through their media WTV (the Woyane TV) is one of their main public brain washing propaganda machinery that serve for the woyane millionaires and for their few supporters living in a supper deluxe vilas – high rise buildings at the places with in the range of Addis Abeba only.

But the majority of Ethiopian cities except MEKELE all are shrinking down without any visible movements for improvements of change. One openly can see or feel the differences on the ground. What one can see is BEGGARS lying down in every 3 meters across the cities of Ethiopia? Yes seeing the woyane smelling buildings and some roads inside some places of the city in Addis Ababa one can not justify the woyane because of their dirty propaganda of LIES they propagate through their TV – ( Not Ethiopian TV ), To day Ethiopia is not as it was former Ethiopia when compared with to days of woyane. So as seen other Ethiopian cities under woyane are staying in poverty and complete Dark Age, because woyane were exploiting the donors countries by collecting more than enough money and financing very small amount for the development and the remaining is distributing among the woyane clan, sharing among them and swelling their pockets, and half of it used to buy armamaments that helped them to fight with the state of Eritrea during 1998 – 2000 foolish war of woyane.

The whole world knows that Ethiopian cities has not things that are needed for the necessary public services, such as NO medication if there is it is limited – Every city has NO abundant clean potable water - NO proper school facilities – Public sector has NO enough variety of foods and things that are available are supper expensive - NO enough energy or ELECTRICITY through out the city as well through out Ethiopia - Except very few inside the capital city NO proper asphalted roads - NO spare parts for the public requirements - NO public toilets specially to day in many Addis Ababa districts are contaminated with a foul smell blowing in every corner of the districts of the city - City municipality are not functioning properly - AIDS epidemic spreads so rapidly among the country’s population. The prostitution is becoming a booming industry and it is growing very rapidly and the epidemic is continuous spreading rapidly among the population in the villages and cities.

Therefore this is what Ethiopia looks like under woyane of Adwa – The woyane Adwa clan are not well educated with no previous political experience they are not matured . Today Ethiopia is almost the same as it was during the era of Haileselasie, therefore what one can conclude is under woyane nothing has been changed to this date. As we see yes there are incomparable but few buildings It is the matter of time at this particular moment my unfortunate country Ethiopia under woyane finds itself as if it is in a Dark Age.
Wondu
 
 
0 #156 BOMB-TIGRAY 2010-03-24 00:15
eritrean beware, most of these people are tigrain. don't be tricked.

most of you are tigrayian
pretend to be eritrean.
we eritrean not stupid.
we are your master
eritrean support Isayas 100% .
tigray will be wiped out from the face of the earth

listen what ethiopian say about tigrain people.
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/27150
http://www.ginbot7.org/

death to tigray people
long live eritrea
long live ethiopia
 
 
0 #155 BOMB-TIGRAY 2010-03-23 23:58
most of you are tigrayian, pretend to be eritrean.
we eritrean not stupid. we are your master
ethiopian & eritrean support Isayas 100% .
tigray will be wiped out from the face of the earth
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/27150
http://www.ginbot7.org/

death to tigray people
long live eritrea
long live ethiopia
 
 
0 #154 Zfeltzeka 2010-03-23 23:55
Oqbassielassie the Sheep, First of all you need to give the credit to Belay Tewelde the sneak who wrote the article for you in English. Second in your seventy/70 years exixtance and fifty/50 years involvment in Eritrean poletics, How in earth you could not understood that the whole time was not about your IDOL Isaias Afwerki and EPLF/PFDJ but about Eritrea and the Eritrean people.have you ever heard the dehumanzing words that the one now you colled them, the free world leaders whome you use to call them Emperialists all your adult life. I am sure even do you can not read English you heard them caling Castro did this, Gadafi did that,Sadam Hussien is that Kim Youwng this, and so on.. but never Cuba did this, Libya did that, Iraq does that or Venezula did that NEVER becouse thier probles are not with those countries and people but with their leaders or their political system. But when it comes to Eritreans and Palestinians their probles is not with their leaders or their political systems. it is with the people and existance as a countries. this proble is not started today or yesterday. it started a long time a go, way before Isaias afwerki and Yaser Arafat born and It will not stop after Isaias and Arafat left the world anless the inforcers and acomplace sheeps like you are gone for ever(Defited) this evil dezine is to continue. What amize me is your ignorant stupidity every time you open your dirty mouth.
 

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ICER Alert on Afar

ICER Alert on Afar

There is human catastrophe unfolding in Yemen  at this very minute. Two hundred and forty four Eritreans ninety five percent of whom are Afar citizens of Eritrea are in prison some for almost one year. Their crime is simply for entering Yemen without document. Their claim for political asylum until situation at home is improved was completely ignored by the Yemeni authorities and the UNHCR is on the sideline simply watching helpless.

As it is true with most Eritreans, this particular ethnic group is driven out of their traditional areas, prevented from leading their subsistence existence which is fishing on the Red Sea and forcibly conscripted in the open ended military National Service which has become scourge ....

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Desperate Situation of Eritrean Afar Refugees in Yemeni City of Al-Hudeyda

Desperate Situation of Eritrean Afar Refugees in Yemeni City of Al-Hudeyda

Regrettably, the 300 Afar refugees are languishing in Al-Hudeyda prison where their lives are trapped in a serious threat. Apart from consistent warnings of forcible return to Eritrea, they are facing communicable diseases caused by contaminated food and water. Amongst them are around 50 Afar refugees are in a grave danger of losing their lives to this disease outbreak.

Unfortunately, the ongoing political uncertainty in Yemen exasperated the situation of Red Sea Afar refugees. Going on almost a year in captivity, they haven’t had any access to UNHCR and Human rights organizations, representatives of Yemeni government or any access to medications and basic needs, which is guaranteed to them under UN Geneva convention on rights of refugees.

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On Saturday, May 12, at 12:00 PM (Los Angeles Time) or 21:00 (Berlin Time) Yosief Ghebrehiwet will give a presentation at Smerr Paltalk. The topic is "The Fallacies of the Democracy Project and Nationhood in the Eritrean Context" In this presentation, the following points will be discussed:

  1. What is wrong with the Democracy Project as practiced by the Opposition? On this part, more than a dozen fallacies will be discussed.
  2. After discussing the notion of "nationhood" in the Eritrean context, this question will be addressed: What is being done to hold Eritrea together as a nation?
  3. After looking at the rationale of the past (the Eritrean revolution) and the present (the opposition) movements regarding (1) and (2), we will look at this question: Given the above fallacies and failings, how do we anchor the Eritrean nation in the future?

 

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ICER APPEAL: Save Eritrean Refugees from Human Smugglers

ICER APPEAL: Save Eritrean Refugees from Human Smugglers

The International Commission on Eritrean Refugees (ICER) would like to appeal to all the political groups in particular to those whose operational base is Ethiopia to give focus on the issues affecting refugees in particular to the shady operation going on in the refugee camps. Frankly, since their base of operation is located stone throw away from Eritrea where the bulk of the refugees originate from we believe they are better placed than most of us to influence events, at least in as far as regulating the flow of persons from the refugee camps in Ethiopia and the Sudan. ...

This being the case, therefore, why is it so difficult for the political parties and in particular those operating from Ethiopia where part of the illegal activities is occurring cannot act in earnest to stop it?  Is it because  they are too preoccupied dealing with the more burning issues, for example, the overthrow of the unrepresentative regime and replacing it with democratic one? ...

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Gebre's Story - an Eritrean Refugee's African Odyssey

Gebre's Story - an Eritrean Refugee's African Odyssey

Mai-Aini Refugee Camp, Ethiopia — They crossed the border at midnight, grief-stricken at the death of their daughter the previous day. Gebre's two-year-old girl Arsama perished from the flu. The night after they buried her, Gebre, 28, and his wife Teka, 25, decided to make their way to Ethiopia.

Arsama's death was just one reason for their escape. Gebre was exasperated with seven years in the military - part of Eritrea's obligatory decades-long national service - with not even enough money to pay for food for his family. There seemed no end to the misery, Gebre recalled, here in Ethiopia.

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Eritrea Ranked as Most-Censored Country by Journalism Group

Eritrea Ranked as Most-Censored Country by Journalism Group

Eritrea is the world’s most-censored nation, ahead of countries including North Korea and Syria, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.

The three countries are joined in the top 10 by Iran and Equatorial Guinea, the New York-based organization said in a report on its website today. Reporters in Eritrea, a nation in the Horn of Africa which won independence from Ethiopia in 1993, are conscripted into their work and handed instructions on how to cover events, the group said. The last accredited foreign correspondent was expelled in 2007, it said.

“No foreign reporters are granted access to Eritrea and all domestic media are controlled by the government,” the committee said. “Ministry of Information officials direct every detail of coverage.”

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Eritrea, the most repressive nation on Earth

Eritrea, the most repressive nation on Earth

It might seem a daunting challenge to determine which of the world's repressive nations offers the least-free news media. We have so many to choose from - Iran, North Korea, Belarus ...

But you might be surprised by the unanimity among organizations that study such things, like Reporters Without Borders, a French group. The consensus choice is Eritrea, a tiny nation most people cannot even pinpoint on a map.

Eritrea, a desperately poor desert state about the size of Pennsylvania, lives in an ugly neighborhood on the Horn of Africa, between Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia. But as tyrannical as the neighbors might be, Eritrea is in a league of its own. Conditions there are so bad that an estimated 25 percent of the population has fled over the past 20 years, even though the government classifies emigrants as "traitors," and border guards are ordered to shoot them on sight.

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ICER Action Alert: 600 Eritreans held hostages near Shegerab refugee camps

ICER Action Alert: 600 Eritreans held hostages near Shegerab refugee camps

*Reliable source informed ICER that over 600 Eritrean, children, men and women are kept in a ‘slave holding lots’ few kilometers west of Shegerab refugee camps. The story told by an Eritrean who is tirelessly fighting to stop the human trafficking by alerting new arrivals of the dangerous situation awaiting them if they are not careful and also by informing Sudanese authorities of the illegal activities  going under their nose. His information sources are the escapee and animal herders around the holding areas where he has good rapport.  It is known that the victims are held in about 12  homes, under shade of trees and in mountain caves guarded by Sudanese, Hadendwa and Beni Amer guards. The past two weeks human smuggling have become so brazen that it is done in daytime, at coffee shops and public places with no one to stop it. There are two reasons for that according to our source.

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Eritrea says its president is "fit as a fiddle"

Eritrea says its president is

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Eritrea has sought to quash speculation about President Isaias Afewerki's health, saying he was "fit as a fiddle" and lambasting the United States for spreading "lies" over his condition.

Rumors have been rife in the past few years that Isaias, 66 and in power since 1993 after leading his country to independence from Ethiopia, was in poor health and required regular trips abroad for treatment.

Speculation about his health has stirred up debate over who might eventually replace the reclusive leader. Isaias has no obvious successor but the opposition says he might be grooming his son, Abraham, for the top job.

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South Sudan: Rebels Armed By Sudan, Eritrea - Small Arms Survey

South Sudan: Rebels Armed By Sudan, Eritrea - Small Arms Survey

Juba — Rebels fighting the South Sudan government are receiving weapons and ammunition from Sudan and Eritrea, says a report by Small Arms Survey; an independent research project in Geneva. ...

"In addition to Khartoum, Asmara [Eritrea] is emerging as a likely source [...] for weapons supplied to Southern rebels," the report claims.

Ammunition confiscated by the SPLA from the late George Athor's SSDM forces in Jonglei were identical to rounds were also found with Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) reportedly supplied by Eritrea.

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Amid a trail of corpses, little doubt that Sudan, South Sudan are now at war

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HEGLIG, Disputed Sudan -- Nine months after Sudan split into two nations in search of a peace brokered by the United States, it is now clear that the two sides are at war.

Diplomats discussing the armed conflict talk of skirmishes and dustups, but a visit to this border region shows that what is taking place here is no accidental exchange of fire by troops confused about where the border lies. Instead, what’s happening is a headlong mobilization involving not just thousands of Sudan’s and South Sudan’s best forces and heaviest equipment, but heavily armed rebels from the distant Darfur region fighting alongside the South Sudanese troops.

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Detained Eritrean journalist admitted to hospital in serious condition

Detained Eritrean journalist admitted to hospital in serious condition

Reporters Without Borders has learned that the journalist Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu, in custody since her arrest in February 2009, was admitted to hospital in the Eritrean capital Asmara earlier this year. The organization is extremely worried about her state of health and concerned about the conditions under which she is being held. ...

“The government of President Issaias Afewerki has already permitted the death in detention of at least four journalists. It issues no information on several others and it is not known whether they are still alive.  Today, it is the life of Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu that it is playing with.” ...

According to information reaching Reporters Without Borders, Mebrahtu is in serious condition in Asmara’s Halibet hospital.

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Migrants left to die after catalogue of failures, says report into boat tragedy

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Council of Europe investigator says deaths of migrants adrift in Mediterranean exposes double standards in valuing human life. ...

Errors by military and commercial vessels sailing nearby, plus ambiguity in the coastguards' distress calls and confusion about which authorities were responsible for mounting a rescue, were compounded by a long-term lack of planning by the UN, Nato and European nations over the inevitable increase in refugees fleeing north Africa during the international intervention in Libya.

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Eritrean leader says U.S. behind Ethiopia raids

Eritrean leader says U.S. behind Ethiopia raids

"We have seen several attacks, not just one. We prefer not to talk about it and don't intend to be involved in provocations," Isaias told Eritrean state TV in an interview late on Sunday that was later broadcast on the Internet.

"The military incursions were plotted by Washington with the aim of diverting attention from implementing the boundary commission's decision," he said.

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