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INSIGHT -- ETHIOPIA -- on ONLF attacking army base

Released on 2013-08-06 00:00 GMT
Email-ID 946909
Date 2010-05-19 14:57:04
From colibasanu@stratfor.com
To analysts@stratfor.com, africa@stratfor.com
Code: ET005
Publication: if helpful
Attribution: STRATFOR source in Ethiopia (is a foreign media correspondent
in Addis Ababa)
Source reliability: C
Item credibility: 4
Suggested distribution: Africa, Analysts
Special handling: keep internal
Source handler: Mark

I asked him about the veracity of yesterday's report of the Ethiopian
rebel group ONLF attacking an army base in the north-east, killing 94
soldiers:


As always, hard to say on the ONLF, but my sources in the region seem to
think this is credible and, yes, probably timed to get maximum exposure
for them. Don't buy that it's the government raising the security level.
Have chatted with ONLF people.