A map of the Sahel region showing where Al Qaeda operates (AFP/Graphic)
Posted on 03/16/2012 12:15:58 AM PDT by JerseyanExile
Ethiopia attacked an Eritrean military base Thursday over the killing of five European tourists on its territory this year, accusing its neighbour of training "hit-and-run terrorists".
Amid international appeals for restraint, government spokesman Shimeles Kemal threatened further attacks against its neighbour as long as it posed a threat to its security and warned Eritrea against any retaliation.
"Early this morning Ethiopian defence forces attacked a military post inside Eritrea," Shimeles told reporters, accusing Eritrea of using the base to train and arm "hit-and-run terrorists".
"These groups are operating in the Afar area in Ethiopia. "We know for certain that the Eritrean government harbours, supports, trains and deploys subversive groups that occasionally launch attacks on infrastructure inside Ethiopia," said Shimeles.
The attack took place 16 kilometres (10 miles) inside Eritrea, but Shimeles did not say what the casualties were on either side.
In January, two Germans, two Austrians and one Hungarian were killed in an attack on the slopes of Ethiopia's famed Erta Ale volcano in Afar.
Ethiopia blamed arch foe Eritrea for the attack on the tourists, a charge that Eritrea denied.
"The recent attack against European tourists is one of the reasons for this retaliation," Shimeles said.
The killing of the tourists had rekindled tensions between the two Horn of African nations, raising fears of another war between them.
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A map of the Sahel region showing where Al Qaeda operates (AFP/Graphic)
That was Haillie Selassie of them.
He said Ethiopia, no Etretria, however his restaurant says it is Eretraian, so I am assuming that is the part of the country he is from.
Looked like beautiful, beautiful country though.
Do I regret not going? Mixed feelings about it. My wife loved Africa when she was there. And turning our back on the money was difficult.
“a story that has already been falsified at many levels, written and produced by known enemies of America”
This makes me angry about my home state. They put a marker up in Annapolis to “mark where Kunta Kinte landed”. And they have a celebration. What a bunch of garbage.
Hey that red area is reachable by cruise missiles from ships...off the coast.
One reporter asked him how he liked Africa and the first words out of his mouth were "Thank God my great-great granddaddy boarded that slave ship! It's so good to be back in America!"
I always preferred to call him Cassius Clay.
But, yeah, he was spot on about his great-great-granddaddy.
I hear those Ethiopians are hard to shoot at especially
when they stand side ways.
Hear about the Ethiopian kid who fell into a pool of
alligators?
He ate two before they could get him out.
“African Moslems ran the African slave trade. Moslems would raid a non-moslem village and, after satisfying their lusts for rape and murder, would take the remainder to sell as slaves.”
I know this is true - but what’s a good reference for this fact? I want that book. I want a reputable website with that information. I want to be able to show that to people.
That is possibly one of the most important pieces of information we need to disseminate.
Ethiopia is the only original non-white Christian nation.
Here’s just a start (Part 1) from oxford University Press.
http://africanhistory.about.com/od/slavery/a/IslamRoleSlavery01.htm
There’s plenty more, if you look.
Here is more.
http://inthenameofallah.org/Islam%20&%20African%20Slave%20Trade.html
It gets worse the deeper you look.
An excerpt from
http://inthenameofallah.org/Islam%20&%20African%20Slave%20Trade.html
From the moment that Muhammad drew his sword to rob and conquer non-Muslims to this very day, Muslims have been taking non-Muslims, and even other black Muslims, as slaves.
Muslims were enslaving black Africans long before any slave ships sailed for the New World. Muslims were taking and making slaves all over the lands they had conquered.
Later, when slave ships were loaded with black slaves, often, a Muslim slave broker had the human cargo all ready to go. American slavers rarely had to go inland into darkest Africa to capture slaves because they were already waiting there, courtesy of many Muslim rulers, and/or slave broker.
In many cases, if the black slaves were not sent to the New World, they were sent to the Mideast to be bought by Arabs; thousands more were sent to India and other parts of the Empire or kept by other black Muslims as slaves.
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