Will Somali Shebab liberate Ogaden and Somalia?
A most preoccupying report published today in the leading Somali portal Mareeg ushers us into a new phase of the Somali – Abyssinian fight. The Shebab, namely the Youth, the most radical part of the Islamic spectrum of the Somali political life, fighting for Somalia´s liberation, after liberating several Somali provincial towns and villages, entered Abyssinia. They seized Ferfer, a town in Ogaden. If the event initiates a coordination between the Shebab and ONLF, the mainstream liberation front of all the Ogadenis, the formation of an Islamist platform will be easy and it will include Oromos, Afars, as well as Amhara and Tigray Muslims (among the most tyrannized and discriminated populations of Abyssinia). Then, Africa will have its own Khomeini – far more ominous than his Asiatic / Middle Eastern counterpart and predecessor. Recommendations To fast offer an exit, the US and Europe should First, support the Alliance for Re-liberation of Somalia and Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed in his eff
