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| Eritrea asks UN for help against terrorists... |
| 2002-09-28 |
| Eritrea's ambassador to the UN has warned that an umbrella organisation - known as the Alliance of Eritrean National Forces - has bases in foreign countries and requested international assistance to counter "terrorist elements". In a speech to the UN General Assembly on Saturday, Ahmed Tahir Baduri said the Eritrean Jihad "terrorist movements" which were "members of the Al-Qaeda network", were part of this Alliance. "The government of Eritrea requests full co-operation and joint action from the countries where these terrorist elements live, plan and launch their operations," he said. He also pledged that Eritrea would "continue to fight terrorism in all its forms". Kofi was saying that the fight against terrorism should be under UN auspices. No doubt he's gonna hop right on this and get them all cleaned out, just to show the UN can do it... The Alliance of Eritrean National Forces - which includes several exiled groups - was established in 1999. According to its charter, it says it "will use all necessary means to overthrow the regime of [the ruling] People's Front [for Democracy and Justice, PFDJ]" and set up a "government of national unity". "National unity" never seems to include the people they're trying to hunt down and kill, for some reason... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 The League of Nations failed in that part of the world, and the United Nations will also fail. It was the small countries that destroyed U.N. credibility with their leaps of faith on behalf of dubious "freedom fighters." It is an ugly world and innocent civilians are in the cross-fire of this ugliness. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-09-28 20:49:17 |