Eritrea tried to attack an African Union summit in neighbouring Ethiopia in January and is bankrolling al-Qaeda-linked Somali rebels through its embassy in Kenya, a UN report has revealed.[...]
The plan was to attack the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, with a car bomb as African leaders took breaks, according to the report.
The attackers also planned to blow up Africa's largest market to "kill many people" and attack the area between the office of Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia's prime minister, and the Sheraton Hotel where most heads of state stay during AU summits.
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Araya Desta, the Eritrean ambassador to the UN, told Al Jazeera on Thursday that the report is "a [work of] fiction", calling it a "fabricated drama" which is "outrageous and ridiculous".
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He said that the report shows the UN monitoring group's bias against Eritrea and that it is "part of a wider scheme to push for more sanctions on Eritrea".
These guys were part of the “Coalition of the Willing” – the COW – that attacked Iraq to fight terrorists at our insistence. And bribery, no doubt. I wonder how many troops they actually had in the bargain (I'm guessing zero), and how much we paid them to say they were part of the COW.
Of course, ambassador Desta could be right. It could all be a big UN snow job. That is not entirely implausible.
I just can't wait until we become mired in African wars. And we will.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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