Abdullahi Yusuf is a warlord......the guradian

[GENERAL_SNM]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... 30,00.html


The UN estimates that 173,000 people have fled Mogadishu, the war-torn capital of Somalia, in the last three weeks alone. Add that to the 330,000 people who have already fled the capital this year and it amounts to a humanitarian disaster that rivals or exceeds Darfur. Somalia's transitional president, Abdullahi Yusuf, a British- and US-backed warlord, wants the city to empty. He said in Nairobi that Mogadishu's civilians can either choose to fight the Islamist insurgents or consider themselves targets in his war on terror. Eleven months after inviting the Ethiopian army into Somalia, the Transitional Federal Government (which is neither transitional nor federal, nor a government) is wreaking savage revenge on a population whether or not it shelters insurgents.

The sad truth is that, as long as the international community averts its gaze from the plight of hundreds of thousands of refugees living under trees within 30 kilometres of the Somali capital, the war can last indefinitely. Up to two divisions of Ethiopian troops are camped around the city, and a further 10,000 TFG militiamen hold key points and junctions. But when the Ethiopian convoys move through the city they are often ambushed. They reply with indiscriminate shelling, house-to-house raids and hostage-taking.

Human Rights Watch reported on the consequences of an ambush near the livestock market in Huriwa in the north of the city on November 8, when the body of an Ethiopian soldier was dragged through the streets. The Ethiopians replied with an offensive which left bodies scattered over a wide area -16 in Huriwa, two in another neighbourhood, seven in another. Did they die in the crossfire or were they the victims of summary executions? We may never know, because the TFG accompanies its military onslaught with a similar one against the media and aid agencies. Four radio stations, the only source of news in Somalia, have been closed down and journalists are regularly killed by both sides.

Lack of information helps, of course. It allows Britain, which backs Yusuf, and shelters members of his "government", to claim a convenient degree of ignorance. But the insurgency, meanwhile, is gathering pace, fuelled by popular anger. It is a combination of hardline Islamists in the Shabaab youth movement, and the Resistance, who regard their primary enemy as Ethiopia. At some point they will split, but for now graphic pictures of Somali suffering fill jihadi websites in the same way that Palestine and Chechnya once did. It is becoming a fighting cause. Britain should reassess its support for a warlord who has brought mayhem and havoc back to the streets of Mogadishu.

[Alchemist]

Beginning of the end for Abdullahi Yusuf..

Soon enough the west will betray tfg just like it had done many times before to many other regimes so not to share blame...

[galia]

They called the old Mj fool a warlord, walahi that biitch got used and abused by everyone especially the habesh.

[Ashlee]

That wasn't an actual article written by the Guardian, it was an opinion/comment piece. Flip, I'm sure I could write one of my own.

[MJ-Pride]

And the award for stating the obvious goes to: The guardian. This is soo obvious that even my 10 yrs old knows that A/Yusuf is a warlord

[Ashlee]

How dare you sully the name of our great leader, Abdullahi Yusuf!? He isn't a warlord, he is the leader of the great nation that is Somalia.

[MJ-Pride]

Ashley you have to admit that How he braught Hawiye to their Knees and how many Hawiye leaders that are carying his shoes. Warlord leads a bunch of warlords and he is doing so..

[GENERAL_SNM]

You miss the point as soon as they start putting warlords and terorist after your name your time is up......

Ashlee thats what makes it worse the comment represents the rich white liberal view....these are the views of people who run the country.

[*jr]

GENERAL_SNM

Trying to pull the wool over our eyes? What an idiot you are!

[The_Emperior5]

war general snm cabdilahay yusuf wa madaxweynaha qarranka somalia

hawiye na waa xukumaya maxaad adiguu ku diidantahay

[GENERAL_SNM]

Jr..... sorry for stateing the obvouise.....You already new his days were numberd you should share that information with the rest of majerteen.

Empreor......Go ask uncle sellasie for some weed.

[The_Emperior5]

general snm maad kala jeceshay adiug mejeerteeen iyo somalida inteeda kalle

mejeerteen inbaddan baa laga qayliye laakin haday konfoorta dawlad oo sameyaan

maxaad ku diidii

tigrayga doonaan ha so kaxaystan abgaal na wa la socda

marka wa siyaasad ka weyn willka habarjeclo