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Africa Horn

Ethiopia: Oromo Liberation Front leader shot dead

2008-11-08

(SomaliNet) Authorities said on Friday that an Ethiopian rebel leader blamed for blasts in Addis Ababa was lured into a farmer's house in the rural west and then shot dead.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's government, the biggest US ally and military power in the turbulent Horn of Africa, faces a cluster of insurgency movements in its outer regions.

"Legesse Wegi, military commander and central committee member of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), and some of his followers were killed on Wednesday in Kelem district of the western Wellega region," police said in a statement.

It said Legesse, whose OLF has fought for autonomy for the southern Oromo region since 1993, was behind 12 "terrorist" attacks and fatal bombs in Addis Ababa in the last few years.

"He was lured into the home of a farmer to eat food and was then killed by the locals in cooperation with security forces while he was trying to escape," police said. "Some of his followers were also killed, while some others surrendered to security forces, appealing for mercy," the statement added, without giving more details. There was no immediate confirmation from the OLF.

Earlier this week, Ethiopian authorities paraded on TV more than a dozen people they said were captured OLF leaders.

Ethiopia says the OLF and other groups are supported by neighbour Eritrea. Asmara denies that, saying Meles's oppressive policies have sparked resistance movements.

A string of explosions have gone off in Ethiopia's highland capital Addis Ababa in recent years, some killing several people at a time, others just causing damage. - Reuters

Posted by:Fred

#4 Oh yeah! That's what I'm talking about.

Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident 2008-11-08 23:36

#3 Ummm, AP your poetry needs work, lots of wotk.(I've read worse, but not lately)

Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-11-08 22:40

#2 And in the spirit of this little event, I present to you some Bob Dylan lyrics:

I pounded on a farmhouse
Lookin' for a place to stay.
I was mighty, mighty tired,
I had gone a long, long way.
I said, "Hey, hey, in there,
Is there anybody home?"
I was standin' on the steps
Feelin' most alone.
Well, out comes a farmer,
He must have thought that I was nuts.
He immediately looked at me
And stuck a gun into my guts.

I fell down
To my bended knees,
Saying, "I dig farmers,
Don't shoot me, please!"
He cocked his rifle
And began to shout,
"You're that travelin' salesman
That I have heard about."
I said, "No! No! No!
I'm a doctor and it's true,
I'm a clean-cut kid
And I been to college, too."

Then in comes his daughter
Whose name was Rita.
She looked like she stepped out of
La Dolce Vita.
I immediately tried to cool it
With her dad,
And told him what a
Nice, pretty farm he had.
He said, "What do doctors
Know about farms, pray tell?"
I said, "I was born
At the bottom of a wishing well."

Well, by the dirt 'neath my nails
I guess he knew I wouldn't lie.
"I guess you're tired,"
He said, kinda sly.
I said, "Yes, ten thousand miles
Today I drove."
He said, "I got a bed for you
Underneath the stove.
Just one condition
And you go to sleep right now,
That you don't touch my daughter
And in the morning, milk the cow."

I was sleepin' like a rat
When I heard something jerkin'.
There stood Rita
Lookin' just like Tony Perkins.
She said, "Would you like to take a shower?
I'll show you up to the door."
I said, "Oh, no! no!
I've been through this before."
I knew I had to split
But I didn't know how,
When she said,
"Would you like to take that shower, now?"

Well, I couldn't leave
Unless the old man chased me out,
'Cause I'd already promised
That I'd milk his cows.
I had to say something
To strike him very weird,
So I yelled out,
"I like Fidel Castro and his beard."
Rita looked offended
But she got out of the way,
As he came charging down the stairs
Sayin', "What's that I heard you say?"

I said, "I like Fidel Castro,
I think you heard me right,"
And ducked as he swung
At me with all his might.
Rita mumbled something
'Bout her mother on the hill,
As his fist hit the icebox,
He said he's going to kill me
If I don't get out the door
In two seconds flat,
"You unpatriotic,
Rotten doctor Commie rat."

Well, he threw a Reader's Digest
At my head and I did run,
I did a somersault
As I seen him get his gun
And crashed through the window
At a hundred miles an hour,
And landed fully blast
In his garden flowers.
Rita said, "Come back!"
As he started to load
The sun was comin' up
And I was runnin' down the road.

Well, I don't figure I'll be back
There for a spell,
Even though Rita moved away
And got a job in a motel.
He still waits for me,
Constant, on the sly.
He wants to turn me in
To the F.B.I.
Me, I romp and stomp,
Thankful as I romp,
Without freedom of speech,
I might be in the swamp.

Posted by: Alaska Paul 2008-11-08 19:27

#1 was lured into a farmer's house in the rural west and then shot dead.

"but you'll have to sleep in the barn as my 14 yr old daughter's home"

Posted by: Frank G 2008-11-08 06:53

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