Somaliland: CID Investigating Abusive SMS to Minister Hirsi

By: Yusuf M Hasan

HARGEISA (Somalilandsun) – A woman is in police custody for purportedly sending an abusive SMS message to minister Hirsi of the presidency. CID headquarters has been the home of Ms Nadra Mohamed Jama for the last six days as investigations are underway concerning an abusive SMS message she is alleged to have sent to Minister Hirsi H Ali of the presidency. While Hornnewspaper attempts to contact the CID has been unfruitful sources indicate that the lady was arraigned in a Hargeisa court which refused to handle the issue for reasons yet to be divulged thus her return to police custody. NOW, the confounding dilemma of this case is that a citizen is custody maybe as a result of the newly enacted intelligence law that gives security officials the carte blanche authority to arrest on whim. On the other hand almost all SIM cards are owner registered with the various providers thus the issue of investigations is hogwash as the identity of the send is clear even to a kindergarten pupil. At the same time the when of the message is suspicious considering that minister Hirsi has been out of the country for not less than a week, first in Djibouti to bury that country's central bank governor and now in Dubai to sell the Berbera port. We ask the police not to became another vessel to be used by some powerful individuals in the administration against innocent LANDERS as the Election commission was By the way did Hirsi receive the message while in Dubai? Do our Telesom and Somtel simcards have connection in the UAE?

WARGALIN MUHIIM AH: Jaaliyadda Djibouti ee Ottawa, Canada oo baroordiiq u sameyneysa marxuun Jaamac Maxamuud Xayd, January 27. 2013

Waxaa dhamaan la ogeysiinayaa Jaaliyadda Djibouti ee Ottawa iney ka so qeyb

galaan BAROORDIIQ loo sameyn doono ALLE ha u naxariistee Gudoomiyihii Bangiga Dhexe ee Djibouti Marxuun Jaamac Maxamuud Xayd. Jaamac Qabriigiisa ILAAHAY ha u nuuro oo janooyinkiisa ha galiyo, wuxuu ahaa shaqsi xushmad iyo maamuus weyn ku lahaa mujtamaciisa Jamhuuriyada Djibouti, guulo wax ku ool ahna u soo hooyey dalkiisa iyo shacabweynaha reer Djibouti. Madaasha baroordiiqda waxaa lagu soo bandhigi doona taariikh nololeedka Jaamac Maxamuud Xayd iyo kaalintii wayneyd ee uu ka qaatey horumarka dhaqaale iyo bulsho ee dalka Djibouti. Waxa kale oo Umadda Muslimiinta ah ee Munaasibada ka soo qaybgalaysaa u ducayn doonaan marxuunka in EEBE u naxariisto, qabriga u waasiciyo, janooyinkiisana galiyo. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaamiiiin aaaaaaaaamiiiin 

Location: Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West

Time: Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 5pm

Contact Person: Abdiqadir Sonkorleh : (613)600-9058

MADAXWAYNE KA SAAR MADAXDA AAD U DIRTAY SAYLAC ABIID DIIRIYE NUUR (IABIID TIMACAD)

ABIID TIMACAD, WAXAA UU WADANKA KU LEEYAHAY SUMCAD IYO SHARAF LAKIN WAXAAD KU  SHAANBADAYSAY, ARINKII WAXSHINIMADA AHAA EE SEEMAAL, KAAS OO UU BARI KA AHAA,
MARKII DANBANA AANAD WAX CADAYN AH SOO BANDHIGIN.

SI KASTA HA AHAATEE ARINTA SAYLAC WAXAY U BAAHAN TAHAY INAAD U DIRTO CUQAAL IYO CULIMADA DALKA IYO SIYAASIYIIN  KASOO JEEDO GOBOLADA KALE EE DALKA.

MAAHA INAAD HOR GAYSO MUUSE BIIXI, OO LA YAQAANO HADALADISII TURXAANTA BADNAA, IYO ABIIB DIIRIYE OO AAD KU QANCISAY WAX MA GARATADA KANAA KA DANBEEYAY  KADIBNA ISKA SII DAYSAY, SI BILAA NAXARIISANA ULA DHAQANTAY, ILAAHAY AYAAN KA BARYAYA INUU ILAHAY NABAD WAARTA KALA DHAX DHIGO NABAD DADKA WALAALAHA AH.

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Dawladda Koonfur Afrika Oo Prof. Iqbal Jhazbhay Safiirkii Somaliland U Fadhiyey Dalkeeda U Magacowday Safiirkeeda Dalka Eretria, Markii Xukuumada Siilaanyo Si Foolxun ula Dhaqantay

Safiirkii hore ee Somaliland u fadhiyey dalka Koonfur Afrika Iqbal Jhazbahay oo Wasiirka arrimaha dibada Maxamed Cabdilaahi ka joojiyey kharashkii safaaradda sabab aan la oegyn awgeed ayaa dhawr jeer oo is xig xiga wuxuu waraaqo u soo diray wasiirka uu ku waydiinayo sababta ay xukuumadda Somaliland u xidhay xafiiska maadama oo ay ahayd inay laban laabto dedaalka diblomaasiyadeed, ayaa Wasiirka oo qoraal ugu jawaabay yidhi “Waanu ka maaranay waxaana la dhimay kharashkii”

Ambasador  Prof. Iqbal Jhazbhay 

Markii uu talada dalka Somaliland hayay  ALLE haw naxariistee Madaxwaynihii hore Marxuun Maxamed Ibraahim Cigaal ayaa Somaliland dalka Koonfur Afrika ku yeelatay Safaarad taasi oo albaabada loo furay sanadkii 2001, iyadoo durbadiiba safaaradaasi noqotay il dublamaasiyadeed oo muhiim u ah siyaasada aramaha dibada Somaliland taasi oo uu suurto galiyay Prof. Iqbal Jhazbhay oo si fiican looga yaqaano Midowga Afrika ahna khabiir ruugcadaadi ku ah xidhiidhka caalamiga isla markaasina ka mid ah xubinaha sarsare ee Xisbiga haya talada dalke Koonfur Afrika. Xidhiidhka dublamaasiyadeed ee u dhexeeya Koonfur Afrika iyo Somaliland ayaa xiligaasi gaadhay halkii ugu saraysay, waxana taasi ka marakacaysa iyadoo sanadkii 2002 markii uu xanuunsaday Cigaal la geeyay cibitaalka Ciidamda ee ku yaala caasimada Pretoria, sidoo kale  sannadkii 2004-kiina ay wasiirkii hore ee arrimaha dibadda Somaliland Marwo Edna Aadan Ismaaciil ay hadal u jeedisay golahii baarlamaanka ee dalka Koonfur Afrika ayaa waxaa nasiib darro noqotay in xukuumadda Siilaanyo ay albaabada u laabto gabi ahaanba Safaaradii Somaliland ku lahayd dalka Koonfur Afrika oo ah dalka ugu miisaanka weyn siyaasadda qaaradda Afrika isla markaana sannadkii 2003-dii ay wasaaradda arrimaha dibadda ee Koonfur Afrika olole u gashay sidii Somaliland uga mid noqon lahayd ergooyinka ka qaybgalaya Shirwaynahii Midawga Afrika taasi oo keentay in sannadkii 2006-dii ay Hargeysa yimaadaan wefdi uu hogaaminaayey Guddoomiye ku xigeenkii Midawga Afrika Patrick Ogera oo warbixintii ugu horaysay ee Qadiyada Madaxbanaanida Somaliland taageeraysa laga hor jeedayey kulankii midawga Afrika yeesho.

Markii Maxamed Cabdilaahi Cumar uu joojiyey xafiiskii diblomaasiyadeed ee Somaliland ku lahayd Koonfur Afrika ayaa muddo kooban ka dib waxaa safiirkii Somaliland u fadhiyey markiiba u yeedhatay dawladda Koonfur Afrika oo u Magacowday safariirkeeda dalka Eratariya.

Xidhiidho dhinaca Email-da ah oo dhex maray Wasiirka arimaha dibada iyo Safiir Iqbal oo la helay ayaa muujinaya in wasiirka arimaha dibada Somaliland ka dhago-adeygay baryo iyo qaylo dhaan badan oo in muddo ah kaga imaneysey safiir sharafeedkii JSL u fadhiyey Koonfur Afrika Professor Iqbal oo weydiisanaya Wasiirka Arimaha Dibada Somaliland   in uu bixiyo kharashaadkii xafiiska JSL ee Koonfur Afrika ee miisaaniyadda wasaaradda ugu jirteyna uu sii dhakhso ah u siiyo, balse nasiibdaro safiirku ayaa kala kulmey jawaabo qalafsan, isku dhiidhiibid badan, kuwaasi oo magac xumo iyo ceeb weyn u soo jiiday siyaasadii arimaha dibada Somaliland.

Kharashaadkaasi oo muddo laba sano ku dhowaad ah laga haystey Safiir Iqbal Jhazbhay, si foolxunna wasiirku u warwareejinaayey, ayaa niyad jab weyn ku abuurtey safiir sharafeedka kuna kaliftey safiirka inuu amaah ka qaato qaraabadiisa iyo baan ku yaala Koonfur Afrika sidii uu danaha qaranka JSL ugu fulin lahaa, isagana bixin lahaa daynta xafiiska.

Safiir Iqbal oo ah diblomaasi iyo aqoonyahan caan ah in mudo ahna xilkaasi hayey, dawladihii hore ee Somaliland soo mareyna mudnaan iyo sharaf kala kulmey, qaranka Somalilandna hawlo badan oo culus u qabtey kaalin weyna kaga gudbanaa JSL ayaa wasiirku ku yidhi “kharashaadkii xafiisyada JSL ee dibedda waa la dhimey” kharashaadkii loogu talo galey xafiiska Koonfur Afrika wasiirku safiir Iqbal ku wargaliyey in la dhimey oo $1000 kun dollar laga dhigey, inkasta oo la sheegay in miisaaniyada ay bishiiba ugu jirtay lacag gaadheysa $5000 shan kun oo dollari.

Safiir Iqbal oo niyad jab weyni ka muuqdo ayaa u soo jawaabey wasiirka una sheegay inuu arrintaasi aad uga xunyahay, iyadoo ay Somaliland maanta u baahantahey lagana sugayey inay wasaaradu kordhiso xafiisyada JSL dibedda ku leedahay iyo kharashaadkoodaba maadaama ay tahay aqoonsi raadis, balse cidii go’aankaa agaasintey aanay maskax caafimaad qabta ku fekerin.

Hadaba markii uu wasiirku ku war geliyey safiir Iqbal isbedelka miisaaniyada xafiiskiisa Koonfur Afrika ayuu siduu qoraalkani cadeynayo safiirku duuduub ku qaatey, balse aanu haba yaraatee wasaaradda arrimaha dibedda aanu ka helin kharashaadkii xafiiskiisa kuna kaliftey inuu baryootan iyo qoraalo quus iyo niyad jab badani ka muuqdaan wasiirka u soo gudbiyey, taasoo wasiirku mar walba ilduufaayey oo aanu si mudnaan leh uga jawaabaynin qoraalada safiirka.

Markii ay ogaadeen Madaxwaynaha Koonfurta Afrika Zuma iyo xukuumadiisu Bahdilaada iyo dhaca ay dawlada Somaliland u gaysatay Prof. Iqbal Jhazbhay oo ka mid ah xubnaha sare ee xisbiga haya talada dalka Koonfur Afrika ayaa markiiba Madaxweyne Zuma u magacaabay safiirka dalka Koonfur Afrika u fadhiyaya dalka Eretria, iyadoo ay sanadkii miisaaniyada safaarada Asmara ee loo magacaabayna ay ka badan tahay $ 9 milyan oo dollar.

Halkan Ka Akhriso Iimaylada dhex Maray Wasiirka iyo Safiirka Prof. Iqbal Jhazbhay

From: Prof. Iqbal Jhazbhay < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

Date: 20 October 2010 08:56

Subject: Follow-up from Iqbal on our Telephonic Chat

To: uk omar < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

Walaal Mohamed,

I am glad we could briefly speak on the phone, recently. I raised the following:

1. I shall be happy to help in every way with President Silaanyo’s visit to Addis.

I suggest you inform me of the dates of the visit to Addis and I shall fly over to give you all the back up support.

2. I am seriously considering taking leave from the University for 2 years, so that I can help SL and you to advance the case of recognition and international investment.

This will entail a focussed programme of work and action. Kindly keep this at the back of your mind, so that we can explore this in detail.

3. Walaal: Has there been any movement on the monthly allowance for the Somaliland Liaison Office in South Africa?

Kindly note that the monthly allowance for July, August, September, and October is outstanding ($16 000). Is there a person in your Ministry I could call and follow-up with? Or should I call Govornor Abdur-rahman Duale?

Kind regards, Iqbal

Iqbal Jhazbhay

Professor, University of South Africa

>Director on the Board of the Institute for Global Dialogue.

>Author: Somaliland: An African Struggle for Nationhood and International Recognition (Johannesburg: IGD & SAIIA, 2009)

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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 08:14:37 +0200
Subject: URGENT Follow Up: Fwd: Follow-up from Iqbal on our Telephonic Chat
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Walaal Mohamed,

My best wishes for the President’s up-coming visit. When in Addis, please let me know if you need support? I wonder if the mail below of 20 October reached you.

I know you must be busy. Is there a person in you ministry I can call regarding

the monthly allowance for the Somaliland Liaison Office in South Africa?

Regards, Iqbal

On 3 November 2010 09:08, Mohamed Omar < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > wrote:

Hi Iqbal,

The visit to Addis is still pending on the availability of the Ethiopian Prime Minister, as soon as we get dates we will go. I will let you know if there is a need for additional support. Regarding the allowance, please contact our financial director on 4424775. But I can tell you that as a result of a budgetary review, a decision was made to reduce our liaiason offices aabroad and to cut the allowance. the maximum allowance from 28 July 2010 will be $1000 (one thousand) US. Our office in South Africa does not include those offices that are going away but the new allowance rate will apply.

Mohamed

From: Prof. Iqbal Jhazbhay < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >
Date: 3 November 2010 09:52
Subject: Re: URGENT Follow Up: Fwd: Follow-up from Iqbal on our Telephonic Chat
To: Mohamed Omar < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >

Thank you for your up-date below Walaal Mohamed.

The news below is sad at, clearly, a critical time when more is required to advance Somaliland on the international front. In this respect,

1. Can you please get the financial director to act on the outstanding allowances (June & July 8000, August, Sept, Oct, Nov 4000 = total 12000 US)?

2. It’s a pity and unfair that I am being informed so late about this, as this has implications on the current office expenses (rent, phone, salary etc), which was advanced as part of a monthly contract for the past 4 months. This means I have to carry this debt, for the difference of 3000 US for the past 4 months (August, Sept. Oct, Nov)?

In this context, may I point out I shall with regret and a heavy heart, not be able to continue with my formal role here. I will need to undertake another project, for the time spent and to supplement my current monthly income.

I hope you will accept that the situation is unsustainable, unless another format is formulated for the Somaliland Office in SA, possibly the support of big business such as Ophir Energy SA or Telesom, etc.

I understand the budgetary constraints, but this seems to send a bad message that the government is not serious of its international relations. The current slim budget for offices should have been increased.

I await your advice to advance this crucial matter.

Kind regards, Iqbal

Iqbal Jhazbhay
Professor, University of South Africa
>Director on the Board of the Institute for Global Dialogue.
>Author: Somaliland: An African Struggle for Nationhood and International Recognition (Johannesburg: IGD & SAIIA, 2009)

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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:58:23 +0200
Subject: Fwd: URGENT Follow Up from Iqbal on our Telephonic Chat with Minister Mohamed Omer

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18th November 2010

Greetings Walaal Mohamed,

I gather you on the road with the President. Warm wishes for success. May I know if the e-mail below of 3 November was received and your Financial Director is acting on it? I need to know the path ahead, so that I may plan accordingly.

I await your response soon.

Regards, Iqbal
–Iqbal Jhazbhay
Professor, University of South Africa
>Director on the Board of the Institute for Global Dialogue.
>Author: Somaliland: An African Struggle for Nationhood and International Recognition (Johannesburg: IGD & SAIIA, 2009)

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On 18 November 2010 22:24, Mohamed Omar < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > wrote:

Dear Iqbal,

I apologise for the delay. Yes, I have instructed our financial director to sort out the payment. As I said in last email, we want to keep a representative in South Africa, but if you are unable to continue as you have hinted on in your email, please let us know.

Mohamed

On 18 November 2010 22:58, Prof. Iqbal Jhazbhay < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > wrote:

Thank you Walaal Mohamed for your reply below. Apologies accepted and, I understand your busy schedule.

I am glad Abdi Karim of Telesom was here and he was pleased to attend the Cape Town Telecoms conference on investments. Also, arrangements were made for the SL Ministry of National Planning’s 8-person delegation to attend a Public Administration Conference in South Africa.

In light of your e-mail below, I suggest:

1. The Ministry’s Financial Director settle the outstanding allowances. It is correctly from July to December 2010, as was anticipated and contracts concluded. $ 4000.00 x 6 months = 24 000 I will settle the expenses (rent, phone, salary etc) and discontinue the contracts from January 2011. In terms of South African law, 30 days notice needs to be given, so the rental, salary contract is discontinued. I will give notice tomorrow to discontinue the contracts. With December Christmas approaching, please prevail on to act on the money transfer at the soonest.

2. As for continuing as SL representative, I will hold the flag for the moment and will need to give this serious thought and planning, as to how I can possibly continue under this new arrangement. I will keep you up-dated.

Kind regards, Iqbal

From: Prof. Iqbal Jhazbhay < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it >
Date: 11 December 2010 10:19
Subject: Re: URGENT Follow Up from Iqbal: Somaliland-South Africa Office
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11 December 2010

Greetings Walaal Mohamed,

I hope all is well? I am glad to see that your UK visit worked out well.

Sorry to bother you again.

May I alert you since my e-mail below of 18th November, there has been no

movement whatsoever from your office to transfer the outstanding money below of $24 000. With Christmas approaching most offices close next Friday 17 December. I am under pressure to pay those outstanding bills and received a legal notice of 14 working days for payment.

PLEASE, urgently, let me know how your Ministry plans to settle this outstanding amount.

I noticed the Antonov plane, impounded with South African private security contractors. I have informed the SA government of this.

Kind regards, Iqbal

Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:38:17 +0200
Subject: Fwd: URGENT Follow Up from Iqbal: Somaliland-South Africa Office

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May I know if the e-mail below of 11 December reached you safely?

I am keen to round up this file this week.

Iqbal

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Date: 12 December 2010 22:17
Subject: RE: URGENT Follow Up from Iqbal: Somaliland-South Africa Office
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Dear Iqbal

The director of finance of the ministry of foreign affairs has already processed this work and it is now in the hands of the ministry of finance. And we are following it closely.

Today is 12 December 2010.

Mohamed

Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:18:53 +0200

Subject: Fwd: URGENT Follow Up from Iqbal: Somaliland-South Africa Office
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16 January 2011

Greetings Walaal Wasiir Mohamed,

Since your e-mail below of 12th December 2010, may I alert you

there has been no movement whatsoever from the Finance Ministry or the Govornor’s office, in making the required transfer. I am confident you will appreciate that this delay is inconvenient.

I took a loan to settle the outstanding bills in December 2010 and promised a friend this matter will be settled within 3 weeks.

Can your office URGENTLY check with the Finance Ministry and the Govornor’s office if the money was transfered? If so, when was the transfer done, and by whom?

Regards, Iqbal

Iqbal Jhazbhay
Professor, University of South Africa

>Director on the Board of the Institute for Global Dialogue

>Author: Somaliland: An African Struggle for Nationhood and International Recognition (Johannesburg: IGD & SAIIA, 2009)

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On 17 January 2011 19:49, Mohamed Omar < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > wrote:

Awaale,

Can you please ensure that this issue is dealt with urgently and report to me directy about the outcome.

Mohamed

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Subject: Re: FW: URGENT Follow Up from Iqbal: Somaliland-South Africa Office

19 January 2011

Waxa bishii January ee sannadkii 2011-kii albaabada loo laabay xafiiskii diblomaasiyadeed ee Somaliland ku lahayd dalka koonfur Afrika, iyadoo wasiirka arrimaha dibadda Maxamed Cabdilaahi Cumar aanu bixin mushaharkii safiirka iyo kiraddii xafiiska isla markaana dalbaday in la xidho, sida ku cad iimaylo ay isdhaafsadeen Safiirkaasi.

MADAXWAYNE KA SAAR MADAXDA AAD U DIRTAY SAYLAC ABIID DIIRIYE NUUR (IABIID TIMACAD)

CJA Statement on New Somali Government

 Somalia’s Next Phase Should Include Accountability for War Criminals

Resolution of SEP (UK) Congress: “Defend Julian Assange and WikiLeaks”

1. The Socialist Equality Party salutes the courageous stand of WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange and demands an end to their persecution. Assange and WikiLeaks are the victims of an international conspiracy in which the British government is playing a leading role. Its aim is to intimidate and silence all those who seek to counter the wall of official lies used to conceal or justify war crimes and conspiracies against the peoples of the world. We insist that the defence of Assange and WikiLeaks must be the spearhead of a campaign to safeguard basic democratic rights.

2. Assange is the victim of a transparent frame-up, concocted by the Swedish authorities in concert with Washington. The allegations of misconduct against him were made by two women who sought him out and consented to sex on a number of occasions over several days, including after the alleged incidents that led to their complaints. The women had initially gone to the police, after conferring with one another, to insist that Assange take an HIV test. They did not allege rape. An initial investigation was dropped and an arrest warrant against Assange cancelled because prosecuting authorities did not accept any “reason to suspect that he has committed rape.” A warrant was only reissued after the intervention of Swedish Chief Prosecutor Marianne Ny on September 1, 2010, on the pretext of questioning Assange.

3. Even now no charges have ever been laid against Assange. The arrest warrant is meant solely to provide a pseudo-legal basis for getting him to Sweden and to facilitate his subsequent transfer to the United States, where the Obama administration has had a secret Grand Jury indictment prepared since December 2010 under charges of treason. This has been facilitated by the Australian Labor government, which is conspiring with the US against one of its own citizens.

4. Due to the efforts by the British government and the judiciary, Assange has spent almost two years in prison or under house arrest, fighting extradition, only to see every appeal rejected right up to the Supreme Court. He would have already been extradited had he not been granted diplomatic asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on June 19, 2012. The Swedish authorities turned down an offer to question Assange on embassy grounds, proving that their intention is to hand him over to the US rather than investigate allegations of sexual misconduct.

5. Assange remains under immediate threat. Britain’s contempt for fundamental democratic principles and its naked imperialist arrogance were exemplified by the Conservative-led coalition government’s threat to withdraw recognition of the Ecuadorian Embassy and send police to storm its premises and seize Assange. Foreign Secretary William Hague baldly declared, “The United Kingdom does not recognise the principle of diplomatic asylum.”

6. Those who are guilty of conducting wars of aggression in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, waging a covert war against Syria, planning war against Iran and carrying out targeted assassinations, rendition and torture have no compunction in trampling on fundamental precepts of international law. Vice President Joseph Biden has described Assange as a “high-tech terrorist” and secret US Air Force documents have branded WikiLeaks and Assange as “the enemy”, placing them on a legal par with Al-Qaeda. WikiLeaks’ Internet domains have been shut down and its financial operations blocked by numerous US corporations.

7. As the fate of alleged whistleblower US Private Bradley Manning demonstrates, designation as “the enemy” threatens Assange with indefinite detention without trial and even death under the US Espionage Act of 1917. The supposed crime for which Manning stands accused is the leaking of confidential documents pointing to war crimes on the part of US imperialism. For this he has been imprisoned in a military brig for more than two years and subjected to inhuman and abusive treatment.

8. Feigned moral outrage over Assange’s personal behaviour, centring on unproven allegations, has been used to denounce anyone who defends his democratic rights as a “defender of rape”. The common refrain, led by the liberal media, is that the allegations against Assange must be taken at face value, or the integrity of all victims of sexual abuse is thrown into question. In contrast, Assange’s well-founded fear of political persecution and concern for his own integrity is dismissed as self-aggrandisement.

9. The absence of any commitment in ruling circles to basic democratic rights is demonstrated by the ability of the US, British and Swedish authorities to rely on so-called liberals and pseudo-lefts to sanction their efforts to railroad Assange. The Guardian, having secured the right to selectively publish and edit WikiLeaks cables documenting US war crimes, turned on Assange and led the attempts to blacken his name. For its part, the Labour-controlled National Union of Students Executive has banned Respect MP George Galloway from its platforms and slandered him as a “rape denier” for denouncing the “reign of intellectual terror” whipped up over allegations of sexual misconduct in order to vilify Assange. In a blatant attack on free speech, the NUS extends a blanket ban on anyone defending Assange by stating that it will refuse a “platform to speakers who are rape deniers or apologists, or support events where such individuals speak”.

10. Britain’s pseudo-left groups echo the propaganda of the liberal media that the allegations of sexual assault have nothing to do with the efforts of the US, Britain and Sweden to silence Assange and destroy WikiLeaks. For more than a year, the Socialist Workers Party and the Socialist Party refused to defend Assange. They finally broke their silence only for the SWP to argue that he “must face rape charges” and the SP to state that the accusations against him “should be properly investigated” and “taken seriously”.

11. Just as spurious humanitarian considerations serve as the means for these layers to sanction imperialist war, so too have genuflections towards feminism provided the ideological justification for an assault on essential legal precepts such as the presumption of innocence. Notwithstanding worthless appeals to the Swedish authorities to guarantee that Assange will not be extradited to the US, the pseudo-lefts’ weasel words amount to support for the WikiLeaks founder’s extradition. Both organisations have long been in agreement with the campaign to tar Assange as a sexual criminal, but were initially reluctant to say so publicly. Just as these organisations openly lined up behind imperialist intervention in Libya and now Syria, so too they have come out in support of the efforts to silence the exposure of western war crimes by Assange and WikiLeaks.

12. The campaign against Assange has provided a devastating indictment of identity politics based on gender, race and sexual preference. Long held up as a progressive alternative to the supposedly crude class-based politics of socialism, the essentially right wing character of the fixation on lifestyle politics has been demonstrated by events. It has provided the chief mechanism through which a privileged and self-satisfied middle class layer has been integrated into the structures of official bourgeois politics.

13. The petty-bourgeois groups are wholly indifferent to the broader ramifications of the persecution of Assange. Never once have they made the essential connection between his threatened extradition and the anti-democratic procedures that now determine the fate of so many others. The European Arrest Warrant is only one example of how extradition can be carried out almost at will, based only on “suspicion” of criminal activity. It is part of a battery of anti-democratic legislation enacted under the guise of the “war on terror” that has established the legal framework of a police state. This includes detention without trial—in the case of Babar Ahmad for up to eight years prior to his extradition to the US—and the shoot-to-kill policy operated by the Metropolitan Police that led to the brutal slaying of Jean Charles de Menezes by plainclothes officers.

14. The fate of Assange stands in stark contrast to the kid gloves treatment of Chilean fascist dictator and mass murderer General Augusto Pinochet, whose extradition to Spain was rejected by the previous Labour government. Held from October 1998, Pinochet spent more than a year in the UK, living in luxury, before being allowed to return to Chile on the grounds of ill health.

15. The political representatives of the financial oligarchy are spurred on by the global breakdown of capitalism to ever more brazen acts of criminality in their defence of the indefensible—a system that plunges billions into abject poverty and brutal oppression so that a few can live lives of unparalleled and even depraved luxury. In the next period, the police state methods used to persecute Assange will be directed more broadly against masses of working people as they enter struggle against austerity and the drive to war.

16. The defence of Assange, Manning and WikiLeaks, and of democratic rights more broadly, cannot be waged through the hollowed out institutions of British parliamentarism or appeals to the powers that be. It demands the independent political mobilisation of the working class on a socialist programme for the abolition of the profit system. Only the formation of a workers’ government, the reorganisation of society on the basis of human need, not private profit, and the establishment of genuine democracy in every aspect of economic, political and social life can safeguard civil liberties and avert the danger of war and reaction.

US recognized the most world failed State Somalia But, does Washington knows the first beneficiaries:

Within couple of weeks or months the US state department will receive official letters from top leaders of Federal Government of Somalia. 

The letters are seeking and request US government to drop US Court trails against perpetrators of most war crimes and crimes against humanity in Somalia during 19i80s and 1990s incuidng Genral Mohamed Ali Samantar, Colonel Magan and Colonel Tuke. 

If US would agree the current Somali federal government request of dropping the US court cases against former brutal government of Siad Barre’s officials, then the Americans would be the evils on the earth

Somali War Criminal Number 1: General Mohamed Ali Samantar

What Do You Know About Julian Assange Fast Facts

By CNN Library

January 18, 2013 -- Updated 2219 GMT (0619 HKT)

 

(CNN) -- Here's a look at the life of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Personal:
Birth date: July 3, 1971

Birth place: Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Mother: Christine Assange

Timeline:

2006 - WikiLeaks is founded by Julian Assange.

2007 - WikiLeaks posts the procedures manual for Camp Delta, the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo.

September 2008 - WikiLeaks posts emails from vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo account.

April 5, 2010 - WikiLeaks posts a video showing a U.S. military helicopter firing on and killing two journalists and a number of Iraqi civilians in 2007. The military claims that the helicopter crew believed the targets were armed insurgents, not civilians.

July 25, 2010 - WikiLeaks posts more than 90,000 classified documents related to the Afghanistan war.

August 20, 2010 - Swedish prosecutors issue an arrest warrant for Assange based on allegations of sexual assault from two female WikiLeaks volunteers.

August 21, 2010 - The Swedish prosecutor's office announces it is rescinding the arrest warrant.

August 31, 2010 - Assange is questioned by Stockholm police and told of the charges against him.

November 20, 2010 - The Stockholm Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Assange.

October 22, 2010 - WikiLeaks publishes classified military documents from the Iraq war.

November 28, 2010 - WikiLeaks begins publishing diplomatic cables from U.S.

embassies. The site says the documents will be released in stages "over the next few months."

December 7, 2010 - Turns himself in to London authorities. Assange is remanded in custody.

December 16, 2010 - Is released on bail and put on house arrest.

February 24, 2011 - A judge rules in support of Assange's extradition to Sweden. 

Assange's lawyers file an appeal.

April 24, 2011 - WikiLeaks begins releasing classified military documents providing details on the behavior and treatment of detainees being held at the U.S. Navy's detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

September 2, 2011 - WikiLeaks releases its archive of more than a quarter million U.S. diplomatic cables.

November 2, 2011 - Appeals court judges in London rule in favor of Assange being extradited to Sweden.

November 15, 2011 - The UK Judicial Office announces Assange has applied to take his appeal against extradition to Sweden to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

December 5, 2011 - The British High Court approves Assange's application to have his case against extradition to Sweden heard by Britain's Supreme Court.

May 30, 2012 - The British Supreme Court denies Assange's appeal against extradition to Sweden, but grants him two weeks to file an appeal. This is unusual, because rulings are supposed to be final.

June 14, 2012 - The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom dismisses an application filed by an attorney for Julian Assange seeking to reopen his appeal against extradition to Sweden.

June 19, 2012 - On its Twitter page, WikiLeaks writes that Assange is currently at the Ecuadorian embassy in London and has requested political asylum. An official of Ecuador confirms this.

June 20, 2012 - London's Metropolitan Police announce that Assange is subject to arrest for breaking the terms of his bail after attempting to claim asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.

June 21, 2012 - The Metropolitan Police announce that Assange will be arrested if he leaves the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Diplomatic protocol prevents police from entering the embassy to arrest him.

August 16, 2012 - Ecuador announces it has granted asylum to Assange.

August 19, 2012 - Makes a public address from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, demanding that the United States drop its "witch hunt" against WikiLeaks.

September 26, 2012 - Delivers a speech, via satellite to a full conference room at the United Nations, asking the U.S. government to end its actions against him and his website. The event was held by the Mission of Ecuador on U.N. grounds, but was not officially sponsored by the world body.

November 2012 - Julian Assange's book, "Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet," is released.

Sea Shepherd Founder Captain Paul Watson Granted Original Nation Passport

Jan. 21, 2013 – MELBOURNE, Australia — Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Founder, Captain Paul Watson, has been honoured with an Original Nation passport in a ceremony in Melbourne.

Captain Paul Watson
Photo: Billy Danger/Sea Shepherd

On Friday January 19^th, Sea Shepherd representatives (Anna Gordon and Jordan Crooka) accepted the passport on behalf of Captain Watson who is currently aboard Sea Shepherd’s flagship vessel, the SSS Steve Irwin. Having recently stepped down from Sea Shepherd U.S. and Sea Shepherd Australia, Captain Watson has remained on board the vessel to document Sea Shepherd’s ninth Antarctic Whale Defence Campaign, Operation Zero Tolerance.

Coordinated by Jabbir Jabbir and Nyul Nyul man Rodney Augustine (from the Kimberley region), and signed-off by Tent Embassy Customs Officer Robbie Thorpe from the Krautungalung people of the Gunnai Nation, the traditional owners of Lake Tyers, the passport is a show of solidarity between the First Peoples of Australia and Captain Watson. At a time when leaders of many nations have left Captain Watson without assistance, it is an acknowledgement by the First Australians of the years he has spent looking after the planet and the creatures that call it home.

Mr. Thorpe said, “We appreciate what environmental warriors like Paul Watson do. Anyone out there defending our flora and fauna is welcome to Country. We look forward to welcoming Paul ashore with a Welcome to Country smoke ceremony, at which time we will give him an official indigenous name.”

Accepting the honour, Captain Watson made the following statement: “I am proud beyond measure to receive a passport from the First Australians, an indigenous community that continues to remain unbroken from the connection between the laws of nature and our species. When the Aboriginal people look upon the whales, they see a mind and a spirit akin to themselves and they feel that same relationship that has also guided me since 1975 when I first looked into the eye of a dying whale and saw another reality. There are very few within the anthropocentric society that truly understand what we do, and why we do what we do to defend the whales. But there are many amongst the bio-centric community who do see, listen, smell and feel the kinship between all of us who dwell on this planet within the continuum of life, from the past through the present into the future. I know the Krautungalung of the Gunnai Nation and all First Australian Nations know of what I speak. Thank you Rodney Augustine, Robbie Thorpe and all involved for your most honoured support.”

Captain Watson is the second high-profile activist to have received the honorary Original Nation passport, after WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, who received the accolade in September last year.

Former Greens leader, Operation Zero Tolerance co-campaign leader and member of Sea Shepherd Australia’s Board of Directors, Bob Brown, said, “The Original Nation passport given to Paul Watson recognises this great conservationist’s unparalleled contribution to saving Australia’s whales. First Australians issuing this passport will be backed by most Australians who will want to see Watson in Australia and safe from harassment by Japanese political pressure.”

Last year, Sea Shepherd launched its first Australian based campaign, Operation Kimberley Miinimbi, to oppose the controversial gas-hub at James Price Point on the Western Australian Kimberley Coast. Led by Bob Brown and Sea Shepherd Australia Director, Jeff Hansen, under invitation from the
Goolarabooloo people whose country the proposed gas hub would be built upon, the operation is raising awareness of the Kimberley coastline to show the world what we all stand to lose if the development goes ahead.

“The Indigenous peoples of Australia’s connection to land and sea country is what Captain Paul Watson and Sea Shepherd is all about,” said Sea Shepherd Australia Director, Jeff Hansen. “Living in peace and harmony with the natural world and all its inhabitants. Any crime against nature is a crime against humanity, simply because we cannot sustain life on this planet without a healthy land and sea environment. Acknowledging Captain Paul Watson in this way further cements the notion that the majority of Australians are against whaling. We should all honour the man that has been leading the fight for Australia’s whales in Australia’s territory by granting him safe passage into Australia.”

The passport will be delivered to Captain Watson on his return from Operation Zero Tolerance.

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About Captain Paul Watson

Sea Shepherd Founder Captain Paul Watson is a world renowned, respected leader in environmental issues. He was a co-founder of Greenpeace, has won countless awards for his decades of conservation work, and in 2000 was named one of Time Magazine’s Top 20 Environmental Heroes of the 20^th Century.

About Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Australia
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Australia is a non-profit conservation organization whose mission is to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world’s oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species. Sea Shepherd Australia uses innovative direct-action tactics to investigate, document, and take action when necessary to expose and confront illegal activities on the high seas. By safeguarding the biodiversity of our delicately balanced oceanic ecosystems, Sea Shepherd Australia works to ensure their survival for future generations. Visit www.seashepherd.org.au for more information.