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Somali President Hits British-Inspired Move To Further Balkanize Somalia
31 October 2011
Somali President Shariff Sheikh Ahmed on Oct. 24 denounced the Kenyan ongoing military incursion into southern Somalia against the radical Islamic Shabaab group because it will undermine the African Union peacekeeping force which was approved by the UN. President Shariff said the Kenyan operation was beyond the boundaries of agreed cooperation for Somali security as worked out with the AU. It is under the auspices of the African Union (AU) that soldiers from Uganda and Burundi are serving as AU peacekeepers in Somalia. He said Somalia had agreed to allow Kenya to offer military training to the Somali forces but was not allowed to carry out operations on Somali soil. President Shariff sees the Kenyan move as an attempt to create an autonomous area in southern Somalia. Creating such an autonomous region in southern Somalia as a buffer plays directly into the hands of the extended London-centered financial network and Obama, as they drive for permanent conflicts throughout Africa. On March 21, 2011, Shariff asked Kenya President Moi Kibaki, in a written communication, not to deploy 2,500 young Somali soldiers who had been trained and equipped in Kenya, to the border region inside Somalia. Shariff wanted them sent to the Mogadishu area, to help in the fight against Shabaab. Shariff fears that Kenyan troops will bring in the Somali youths it has trained into the border area, and noted this week that the Kenyan troop incursion violated the agreement that Kenya would logistically support Somali troops. The British origin of the operation is demonstrated by the fact that the Somali youth who were trained in Kenya were recruited from a particular clan of Somalis which would make them more amenable to working with circles in Somalia who would be in favor such an autonomous zone. Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli this past week said that Somalia had no agreement with Kenya to send troops into Somalia. Some pro-government Somali regional militias have supported the Kenyan move, seeing it as a move that will help them gain leverage against the weak central government. A spate of bombings and kidnappings have taken place in Kenya in recent weeks, and have been used as the justification for the Kenyan troop incursion. The quick arrest and trial of one Kenyan who, claiming to be a member of Shabaab, threw a grenade in a discotheque early this past Monday, Oct. 24, and was discovered to have a supply of stored weapons, has the markings of being suspect. |
