By Thomas C. Mountain | Online Journal
One of the best kept secrets in the international media these days is the link between the USA, Ethiopia and the Somali pirates. First, a little reliable background from someone on the ground in the Horn of Africa.
The Somali pirates operate out of the Ethiopian and USA created enclaves in Somalia calling themselves Somaliland and Puntland. These Ethiopian and USA backed warlord controlled territories have for many years hosted Ethiopian military bases, which have been greatly expanded recently by the addition of thousands of Ethiopian troops who were driven out of southern and central Somali by the Somali resistance to the Ethiopian invasion.
After securing their ransom for the hijacked ships the Somali pirates head directly to their local safe havens, in this case, the Ethiopian military bases, where they make a sizeable contribution to the retirement accounts of the Ethiopian regime headed by Meles Zenawi.
Of course, the international naval forces who are patrolling the Horn of Africa know all too well what is going on for they have at their disposal all sorts of high tech observation platforms, ranging from satellites to unmanned drones with high resolution video cameras that report back in real time.
The French commandos started to pursue the Somali pirates into their lairs last year until the pirates got the word that for the right amount of cash they were more than welcome in the Ethiopian military bases in their local neighborhoods. Ethiopia being the western, mainly USA, Cop on the Beat in East Africa put these bases off limits to the frustrated navies of the world, who are no doubt growling in anger to their USA counterparts about why this is all going on.
Now that the pirates have started attacking USA flagged shipping, something that was until now off limits, it remains to be seen what the Obama administration will do. One thing we in the Horn of Africa have learned all too well, when it comes to Ethiopia, don’t expect anything resembling accurate coverage by the media, especially those who operate under the cloak of ‘freedom of the press.’
Stay tuned for more on this from the Onlinejournal.com, the only site willing to expose the truth on matters no one else will touch.
5 thoughts on “Ethiopia, USA, Somali pirates’ cover-up”
the US should bomb the bases in somalia and in Ethiopia.
the most stupid thing I have ever read.
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Yes, Meles Seitanawi cannot feed either the infants of Ethiopia or his standing army. At least the army can feed it self by bulling the lawless pirates of the Somali Land to share the ransom money with them, and in return the army would protect these thieves from being caught and being charged for piracy, but the helpless Ethiopian children could not feed themselves; so where should they go? The lucky ones would end up into the hands of foreigners who adopt them, and the others would perish before they even reach their second birthdays. That is the way it goes in Ethiopia until Ethiopia gets a legitimate government.
Elias, can you send this link to congressman Donald Payne since he just got back from Somalia after discussing the pirates and security situation? This information will be very helpful to see the biggest picture of the problem specially since the congressman did not like the Meles’s anti-human rights record as well as arming some of the warlords in Somalia. I have tried to send some info and this link to his email, however i could not do it since i do not live in the same district of his zip code. Elias remember there was news about woyannes army leaders had been selling back the weapons to the group they were fighting some times ago to get some Arab’s raised money. Now they are supporting and arming the pirates in northern Somalia land.
http://www.house.gov/payne/IMA/email.shtml
this needs to be sent to the main newspapers like Guardian, Times,Telegraph, News Week, etc. to let the public know and challenge their governments.
Stop making excuses for the crooks. This is stupid!