Beberapa hari belakangan ini Amerika menyerang Somalia, suatu negeri
miskin tapi strategis di tanduk yang memiliki banyak sumber daya alam. Serangan
yang dilakukan dengan pesawat pembom canggih ini jelas membunuh banyak kaum
muslimin di sana diklaim AS sebagai serangan sebagai basis Al-Qaeda (baca
pasukan Islam dari The Union Islamic Courts), dan setelahnya akan diikuti oleh
penempatan 'pasukan perdamaian' dari Uni Eropa.
Jelas sekali bahwa Amerika menyerang pasukan The Union of Islamic Courts,
suatu kelompok Islam yang mendapat dukungan luas dari rakyat Somalia dan telah
terbukti keadilannya dan berkeinginan membebaskan Somalia dari pengaruh asing
dan kesukuan. Ini tidak diinginkan AS, maka datanglah AS dan dengan meminjam
tangan Ethiopia, yang Kristen, yang datang dengan 'undangan' pemerintah boneka
Amerika Somalia, memukul kelompok Islam itu dan rakyatnya sendiri.
Amerika tidak ingin Islam berkuasa di sana dan dimanapun di bumi ini. Di
Palestina Amerika mengadu domba antara Fatah yang penguasanya pro AS dan Hamas
hingga terjadi pertumpahan darah, di Irak antara Sunni dan Syiah yang diangkat
sebagai penguasa di sana.
Inilah yang terjadi karena adanya persengkongkolan pemerintahan boneka dan
penjajah AS.
Tulisan berikut semoga bisa menambah wawasan kita tentang apa yang terjadi di
Somalia.
wass,
rz
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Monday, 08 January 2007
The Islamists were the one hope for Somalia
The Times
Martin Fletcher
My colleague Rosemary Righter wrote last week that the defeat of Somalias
Islamic courts by Ethiopian forces was the first piece of potentially good
news in two devastating decades.
As one of the few journalists who has visited Mogadishu recently, I beg to
differ. The good news came in June. That is when the courts routed the warlords
who had turned Somalia into the worlds most anarchic state during a 15-year
civil war that left a million dead.
I am no apologist for the courts. Their leadership included extremists with
dangerous intentions and connections. But for six months they achieved the
near-impossible feat of restoring order to a country that appeared ungovernable.
This was not done by suppressing, with draconian punishments, what remained of
personal freedoms unless you count banning guns and the narcotic qat, which
rendered half Somalias menfolk senseless. The courts were less repressive than
our Saudi Arabian friends. They publicly executed two murderers (a fraction of
the 24 executions in Texas last year), and discouraged Western dancing, music
and films, but at least people could walk the streets without being robbed or
killed. That trumps most other considerations. Ask any Iraqi.
The Islamists have now been replaced with Washingtons connivance by a
weak, fragile Government that was created long before the courts won power,
that includes the very warlords they defeated and relies for survival on
Somalias worst enemy.
For the sake of the long-suffering Somali people I hope it can impose its
authority. But Washington has taken a big gamble, and nobody should be
surprised if the warlords are soon plundering Somalia again or the Islamists
are waging guerrilla war.
The Governments appeal for Somalis to hand in their vast arsenal of guns has
flopped. The courts militiamen have mostly melted back into the population,
much as Saddams army did after the US invasion of Iraq. Mogadishus powerful
Hawiye clan regards with deep suspicion a Government led by a Darod, President
Abdullahi Yusuf. An African Union peacekeeping force is far off and Somalis
will not tolerate the presence of troops from (Christian) Ethiopia for long.
Washington backed military intervention by Ethiopias unsavoury regime because
it regarded the courts as a new Taleban, and accused them of harbouring
al-Qaeda terrorists. It would surely have done better to try engaging the
courts.
The US has a record of confronting Islamic movements. It backed Israels
disastrous war against Hezbollah last summer. It never accepted the
Palestinians election of a Hamas Government. It cold-shouldered Iran even when
the relatively moderate Mohammed Khatami was President. In each case it
succeeded only in boosting the extremists.
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