On the heels of the Istanbul Conference this week, there are two important developments which have necessitated this major international conference on
Indeed, it is quite pitiable to see that Amb. Ould-Abdallah is trying desperately to now paint himself as a “born again diplomat” and someone ready to work impartially with any Somali stakeholder. However, the consistent history of Ould-Abdallah has seen him act as nothing but serving the opportunistic Ethiopian regime; as well as personally acquiring an insatiable appetite to embezzle Somali aid money.
In fact, the Obama administration at the behest of Amb. Ould Abdallah continues to push the failed Bush era Ethiopian-centred TFG policy of foreign AMISOM occupation and war crimes on Somalis. Ould-Abdallah also bamboozled the
Two years on, the result has been colossal failure for the
Yet, has anyone at the US State Department or UN cared to ask how why “a military stalemate “persists when the world was told by the same Amb. Ould-Abdallah at the UN Security Council meeting in 2009 that the newly minted TFG President Sharif would divide the resistance, maximize upon previous ICU credentials, all with an aim of bringing the whole of Southern and Central Somalia into the Ethiopian orbit?
Why Sharif Chose to Become An Ethiopia- AMISOM Stooge!
Today, the undeniable reality turned out that Sharif is a very weak, isolated and dismal lackey; a true foreign warlord stooge whose basic survival is solely dependent on the bloody Ugandan-Burundi AMISOM killing. The same AMISOM butchers who get paid for committing mass murderers under the bogus pretext of “protecting the TFG.”
Even as the figure head of the non-existent TFG ( itself a warlord-stooge entity), Sharif persistently and arrogantly dismissed the advice of the respected clan elders and community leaders such as Hajji Aboukar Adani in 2009 to engage with Somali Resistance and not turn into another bloody cover for the Uganda-Burundi and Ethiopian mass murder of Mogadishu civilians ( which continues unabated!)
Sharif, similar to the previous TFG clannish war criminal Abdallahi Yusuf Ahmed, also roundly rejected EU proposals to establish peace talks with Somali Resistance leader Sheikh Hasan Dahir Aweys in 2008 while preparing for the
Sadly, Sharif has only self- deluded himself on Amb. Ould Abdullah’s earlier promises of grandeur in
Presently,
For Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, his fate was sealed when he chose to run and hide inside the Ugandan-Burundi bunker at Villa
What state grandeur can there even be for a self-respecting Somali person calling himself “president” to serve only as a cover for the heinous foreign crimes against humanity inflicted upon innocent Somali civilians daily in Mogadishu and throughout Southern Somalia?
Advice to Western Diplomats on new Somali leadership
Sincere advice to the US and EU diplomats who are currently debating on the next replacement of Sharif Sheikh Ahmed as President of any new Unity Government which comes out of the Istanbul Conference process: Look beyond mercenary personalities!
What the Somali people and the West truly need is well educated, credible and pragmatic Somali leadership that will work to better this nation and deal with current emergencies of security, reconstruction, and communal reconciliation.
If the spectacular failure of the current TFG head Sharif Sheikh Ahmed is any indication, the US relying on Ambassador Ould-Abdallah’s failed logic— whereby he picks those loyal only to himself, even if they happen to be incompetent and mercenary individuals— in order to “sell” the Western agenda, then we shall see in Istanbul only a recipe for further disaster as in Nairobi (TFG 1) and Djibouti (TFG II).
Instead, what the Western diplomats in Istanbul should be concern with in regards to establishing a potential Post-TFG National Unity Government for Somalia in 2010 is drawing up a basic criteria of Somali leadership (similar to those that currently are used for post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Lebanon, Nepal.)
In other words, what specific qualifications and skills does an individual Somali have (to contribute individually or as member of clan collectively) in making a unity government successful in
Dr. M. Omar Hashi
Courtesy Hiraan