Dr.Abdullahi Mohamed (Deputy Editor Geeska Afrika Online) — Mogadishu (HAN) April 15, 2008- Somali Islamist leader charged Ethiopian Secret agents inside Somalia were behind the deaths of the British female teacher and the Kenyan, who were killed in Beledweyne,” Mukhtar Robbow, a spokesman for the Islamist rebels told HAN and reported to GeesskaAfrika Magazine. The killing was a blow to the Baladweyne District administration and the Somalis in the region.
The Ethiopian Military Base in Mogadishu on Monday denied involvement in the assassination of three foreigners have been killed in Beledweyne, rejecting allegations from the Islamist guerrilla group that Ethiopian was behind the killing.
“Ethiopia is looking into the reports from Somali TFG or from Baladweyne Regional Adminitartion regarding the deaths of the three foreigners, and is learning for the first time the details being reported in the media in the past few hours,” Ethiopian Prime Minister Malez Zenawi’s office said.
“Ethiopia rejects the attempt by the Islamist terror groups to attribute to it any involvement in this incident. We have nothing further to add,” read the statement form the Ethiopian FM spokesman. “These people make a lot of internal enemies. So it doesn’t necessarily have to be Ethiopia or Al-shabab Islamist,” Baladweyne Regional Administrator.
Ethiopia’s defense ministry, declined comment, though Ethiopian military official said he learned of British female death from the Geeska Afrika Magazine news reports while on a working visit to the region - Southern Somalia.
Meanwhile: THE attack on the CMA CGM’s cruiseship Le Ponant and has brought the worsening piracy problems in Somalia sharply back into the limelight. The Somalia Prime Minister Nur Adde’s office said, the Islamic fighters loyal to Al-Shabaab, a terrorist group linked to al-Qaeda, shot the four people in an assault at the Hakab Private English School in the central Somali town of Beladwayne. “Local people are terrified because people who are involved in educating our people were killed last night,” local resident told us.
Al-Shabaab - known as the Islamic Youth Movement – is described by the U.S. as a “violent and brutal extremist group with a number of members affiliated with al-Qaeda.” It seems that the group became known for raids on Somali cities, as the violence is part of a dispute in central Somalia between Islamist militia and government troops backed by Ethiopian soldiers. Al Shabaab controlled the capital of Mogadishu and much of central and southern Somalia up to 2006. According to the AP, the Islamists regrouped in Eritrea, Ethiopia’s principal enemy.
Sources: Geeska Afrika Magazine, IGAD2020 and HAN staff Reporter In Mogadishu
April 15th, 2008 at 8:42 am
It’s obvious the British secret service already knows who did these crimnal killings. The undercover TPLF agents were seen around the compound of the school before the shooting started, the question is are the British government couragious enough to come forward with it’s findings and the available evidences to challenge the henious TPLF sponserd crime? how long the west give a green light to TPLF(ETHIOPIAN REGIME) in the name of fighting terrorists in the horn? when does the British government stands with the will of the people? It has been in palistaine now it’s in Somalia were state sponsed terror being waged,we all those who struggle peace in the region must come to our real senses,to see the plight of million people,the real trerrorists are the invaders and the child killers like Mr. Zenawi of Ethiopia.
April 15th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
To Omer
You said a great point, the only thing I want ot keep in mind is do not forget that Zenawi did not represent the ethiopian people,he is a dictator so do not say Zenawi of ethiopia,
April 16th, 2008 at 5:54 am
megere
I appreiace your comments ,what the Tplf gangs are doing is not the name of the majority of Ethiopians,zenawe is a criminal who has massacred innocent civilians in addisababa ,gambella,oromia,ogaden and now he is massacring those who brought him in arat-kilo,the somalians.I hope in the near future we will bring him infront of the jusice and he will be hanged in meskal square.The ethiopian people needs justice .
April 16th, 2008 at 5:55 am
megere
I apprecieteተ your comments ,what the Tplf gangs are doing is not the name of the majority of Ethiopians,zenawe is a criminal who has massacred innocent civilians in addisababa ,gambella,oromia,ogaden and now he is massacring those who brought him in arat-kilo,the somalians.I hope in the near future we will bring him infront of the jusice and he will be hanged in meskal square.The ethiopian people needs justice .
April 16th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Gambella, the dog barks where it get ferefari. In the first palce , nobody was from Amhara as a leader of ethiopia. So many eviles have done their business in the name of Amhara. second, let us say, Amhara was in power for 100 years,1, the adwa victory 2, tele communacation, 3, rail way, 4, post office 5, ethiopia’s air lines, 6, ethiopia;s air force, 7, ethiopia’s amry, 8, most ethiopia;s got higher eduaction with out discrimination , like melese, kemale bedri with his two brothers, one in AAU ECONOMICS lecturer, the second one is black lion MD, sebehat nega, and dr merera gudina, dr beyene , and other , ethiopians were free to go and live hwere ever they want to live, like berekete’s parents from eritrea to wollo, more over gabella, haileselse , minilk and mengistu were from oromom. ante dekama narrow minded agame. your bloody foreign mecernaries have stolen 100 of millions of dollars from starved ethiopian’s people. they have arrested some 40,000 —50,000 oromo’s now , there are over 40 adwa agames ministers. aba dulla gemada oromo’s president but teger,. addisu leggsse, amahra’s president but teger, kassu elala, guragy represetative but tegere, berekete simon amhara represetative, but eritreawi, kumssa medikssa, oromo’s general, but amhara,, you shamless banda you can not compare these foreign mecerenarries with any one in ethiopia. this mischivious TPLF’s election is the last one. in the next election they will be in qality
April 18th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
DEAR Omer, i agree with your comment. but i am not agree with your statement like ” ethiopia’s regime” you know very well TPLF has never and will never reprsent ethiopia and ethiopians. 95% OF ETHIOPIA’S PEOPLE ARE AGAINST THE PROXY WAR AGAINST INNOCENT SOMALIANS. TPLF has already colonized somalia for more than two years with out ethiopia’s support to protect USA’s interst in somalia, but TPLF could withstand the somalia’s partriouts. they have been giving a good lesson to TPLF. Ethiopians do not have any problems with our africa’s brothers and sisters in somalia. AS you know there are millions of somalians haev been living in ethiopia with out any problems. WE, ETHIOPIANS KNOW VERY WELL THERE IS A GENOCIDE IN SOMALIA. INNOCENT SOMALIANS ARE BEING KILLED IN THEIR OWN VILLAGES BY TPLF’S KILLERS. SOMALIANS HAVE UN LIMITED RIGHT TO USE SHARIA LAW IN THERE OWN COUNTRY, ETHIOPIA AND ETHIOPIANS DO NOT HAVE ANY PROBLEMS WITH THAT. SO ALL SOMALIANS SHOULD KNOW , TPLF’S INVASION IS UN POPULAR AND UN SUPPORTED BY ETHIOPIA’S PEOPLE. WE ARE WITH THE SOMALIA’S PEOPLE. MELESE HAS BEEN LIVING STILL WITH SOMALIA’S PASSPORT AND SOMALIA’S NATIONALITY.
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:45 am
Good people
I am not god at English but i must say that no one can accuse to the majority of ethiopians ( if i am not wrong the majority of Ehtiopians are offer of these cruel gangs supported by USA) of what this evil regime of tigreans did in somalia. It is time that the people of east africa should stand to their rights and resist any foreign interventions.