Crying wolf

28 05 2008

Since the advent of the new millennium, we have been hearing about the terrorizing terror news everywhere. Terrorism has always been implemented by one group or another throughout history but what makes the terrorism acts of our time different is some people are using it not only for fear mongering but also for a calculated political maneuvering like it has never been done before.

After America’s big allocation of money to fight terrorism both at home and abroad following the 9-11 terror attack, Meles Zenawi, the number one terrorist in the horn of Africa has been crying wolf several times. Just in the last couple of years only, there have been at least half a dozen bomb blasts if not more on public transportations in Addis Ababa and other cities in Ethiopia.

A close investigation would reveal a peculiar trend to these blasts. Some of the first blasts were around the time of the formation of Alliance for Freedom and Democracy (AFD) to label this alliance of democratic forces as terrorists. There were also some, right before Meles set out on an adventure in Somalia to scare the public that Islamist terrorists from Somalia are coming to blow them from the face of the earth. Ethiopian information ministry, which should be renamed as misinformation ministry for obvious reasons, periodically sends out press releases vaunting of foiling some “terrorist” activities right before some highly anticipated events like the African leaders’ summit or Ethiopian millennium.

All these false alarms are purposefully preplanned and perpetrated by Meles Zenawi and his hatchet men. Killing few people here and there on mini-buses in Addis and immediately pointing their index fingers to their arch enemy Eritrea and OLF is now their habit. In his lunatic mind, Meles thinks this serves him multi purposes.

First and for most he salivates to tap into that anti-terrorism cash from America which actually has worked in his favor. Secondly, he thinks he could easily paint freedom fighters of OLF as terrorists and hence expects tough measures on OLF from America. Third, taking advantage of the current unfriendly relationship between Eritrea and America, Meles keeps pushing America to put Eritrea in its terror sponsoring states list. Last but not least, the main purpose of these bomb blasts is to keep the same people who are the victims of these terrorist acts in constant fear so that he could rule them using Micavillian tactics.

After all these attempts, the Meles terrorist regime is still not successful neither in keeping civilians in fear nor damaging the image of the political opposition groups. Out of desperation now, it extended its terror to foreign nationals in Ethiopia. The recent news that one of the victims of the latest explosition in Addis Ababa is an Israeli-American professor, attests to that. This is a deliberate and another fraudulent act of terror being commited by the Meles criminal gang in hopes of duping Israeli and American officials.