For the past eighteen months, the TPLF regime has been flirting with the NIF in Khartoum and propping up "Eritrean Jihad" terrorist groups."TPLF WILL NOT HEED SOFT TALK BUT WILL WOBBLE UNDER PRESSURE," Embassy of Eritrea (Washington, DC), Africa News Service, January 12, 2000.Moreover, Sheikh Al-Amoudi, the TPLF's main financier who owns large monopolistic enterprises in Ethiopia through "joint venture" arrangements with that group, is reported to have solid "links with Bin Laden providing the latter more than three million USD in protection money." (USA Today, 29 October 1999) It is thus the TPLF regime which is today deeply embroiled with fundamentalist and extremist groups.
Wonder if they are mixed up in:
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Flight Simulator Certification (TA) $100,000: TDA provided a grant to Ethiopian Airlines to allow the carrier to the Federal Aviation Administration's costs of certifying the Boeing 767 and 757 flight simulators used for training by a variety of African and Middle Eastern airlines'. (FY 1998)