Somalia warlord government courts RussiaMedeshi 2008-10-02 - Western backers of current imposed parachute government for Somalia were suddenly made redundant and their influence over heinous warlords left in tatters.
Somalia's ailing government struck a unilateral deal with Russia rendering western naval ships and future plans for Africom useless in an effort to free one hijacked Ukrainian ship carrying thirty odd tanks to the Ethiopian military.
Current "Transitional Federal Government" for Somalia enjoyed unconditional support riding USA waves of "war on terror" and its pogroms. In return, western allies enjoyed complete
control of air, sea, and food securities in the now defunct former Somali Republic. America bombed at will, slaughtered at will and still continues to arrest and detain Somalis at will even in their homeland.
Despite warnings from security experts in American circles such as J Peter Pham of University of Virginia once warned of "Russian bear's return to Africa". Russia's political surge coupled with the increased intensity to seek foreign collaborations might have been dismissed by NATO, but is now a reality in parts of Africa.
Speaking to sympathetic local media from the tribal fiefdom of Majertenia, the president of "Transitional Federal Government" for Somalia commented discouragingly on the illusive "Islamic extremism" than the current terror which his fiefdom has unleashed on the seas.
Russia's new deal to use force in Somalia just as its western counter parts had done so will be difficult to assume. However, if lessons are learnt from past Russian interventions in releasing hostages; it will be a bloody attempt.
More daringly, "Transitional Federal Government" for Somalia's appointment ambassador to Russia suggested his government's will to recognise the new states of Abkhazia and South Ossetia after deservingly escaping from the clutches of the crippled infantile Georgia. South Ossetia and Abkhazia remain isolated by the rest of the world except Russia who shows interest in their rights to survival.
Ambassador Handule, a reader of Russian arts and culture is a prominent member of Somali intellectuals united in finding alternative solutions to Somalia crisis than current myopic state of affairs giving precedence to warlords over the long suffering civilian population.
Exactly what the skeleton ghost country of former Somali Democratic Republic would add to Abkhazia and South Ossetia is unclear, but the warlords intensions to juxtapose its sponsors may begin from here just as many Somalis lost faith with the west pushing them to extreme forms of anti-America affiliations.
Author:Shuun Isaaq
PRI-Inside
