Aideed Backpedals Faster Than Muhammad Ali

[michael_ital]

Somalia: Minister backs off early Somalia-Ethiopia union statement
Wed. January 03, 2007 09:04 am.

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Mohamed Abdi Farah

(SomaliNet) Somalia interior minister and Deputy Prime Minister Hussein Mohamed Aideed has strongly distanced himself from a statement quoted by the media in which he was suggesting to append Somalia into Ethiopia with a single passport, unified security forces and no borders between the two countries.

Hussein Aideed held today a press conference in the capital to deny what he called ‘the misquoted and the mistranslated speech’.

“I am totally against the way my yesterday’s speech was translated, I did not say Somalia should be added on Ethiopia but I meant both countries should have deep relationship and change the animosity into friendship and work together to promote each other socially and economically,” Aideed said. “It is absolutely baseless and untrue the words that the media quoted me and they are lying about me,”

He said he wants to inform some of the webpage writers to avoid quoting untrue stories.

But many journalists in Somalia see AideedÂ’s denial as backing out of his earlier words allowing Somalia to merge with with Ethiopia.

The denial came as many Somali intellectuals inside and outside of the country burst into anger when they heard that the government is willing that Somalia should be united with Ethiopia (the historic enemy) having single passport as one nation.

Yesterday, Mr. Aideed who met with clan and traditional elders in the former presidential palace in Somalia capital Mogadishu said since Somalis and Ethiopians are brothers and both countries share 2000 km long border my government would suggest to use a single passport in the two countries and unified security forces because there is blood relations between both communities in Somalia and Ethiopia.

“There are thousands of Somali refugees living in Ethiopia with Ethiopian passports who can travel everywhere in the world,” Mr. Aideed said.

Hussein Aideed said 60% the Somali refugees are in Ethiopia and argued that nothing can prevent us from joining hands with Ethiopia since they came to help us from thousands miles away.

December 10, 2006, some members of the transitional parliament in Somalia put on view publicly a map which they said secretly stolen from the office of Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi in Baidoa. The map shows all countries in African continent with Ethiopia annexing Somalia. But the premier Gedi denied the allegation as false paper.

[biko]

‘the misquoted and the mistranslated speech’.




what he said was there for everyone to hear and understand as he meant it. nothing was misquoted.


the TFG are bunch of coneheads.

[Gedo_Boy]

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[michael_ital]

Seeing as this bufoon never tires of embarassing himself in public, I thought i'd bring this back as a sort of comic relief.