I am writing in response to an article posted by Somali Transitional Federal Government’s Prime Minister Mr. Omar Ali in New York Times on 19 January under the title” Make Somalia a Priority” in which the Prime minister deliberately misled your readers .
Mr. Omar’s feeble government is confined to the AMISON bases (African Peace keepers) with the media serving as its only live link to the outside – like a computer virus it only exists on the web pages and in the radio air waves. The International community’s material and diplomatic aid so far given, failed to make any changes on the ground and any future aid will just end up in a black hole as it is the wrong vehicle to deliver.
It takes weeks or some times more for the American Government, with all its facilities and specialities at its disposal, to identify a culprit or a cause of casualty but half a day is more than enough for Mr. Sherif and Omer to identify the alleged bomber. The facts that the body of the accused Mr. Abdirahman, unknown man in Mogadishu, lay unclaimed for hours is sufficient prove for the prime minister to conclusively identify him as the bomber. The American forces after they captured President Sadam Hussein didn’t release any information until they identified and established through DNA and other tests that he is really the president of Iraq but not a look alike.
The young Danish man, the Prime Minister, has falsely accused to have blown himself up and took with him 22 people; was sadly one of the casualties of the barbaric attack of the dark Thursday. The information collected from independent sources stands unfortunately in stark contrast to the claim of the Prime minister. Pictures rolled out from some of the survived cameras and the witness statements from the survivors who were lucky enough to tell their stories paint a completely different scenario.
It is not possible that the alleged bomber went out and came back disguised as women and then positioned himself in an empty seat at the front row an hour and half after the ceremony commenced. It is also equally incomprehensible that no one saw the bomber in action as it is very unlikely to miss a person who is blowing out himself in front of every one unless the congregation were all blind and dumb. It is also incredible that the Danish youth quickly changed back to his T- shirt after he detonated the bomb. It is also extraordinary to find recognisable body of a bomber wearing an explosive of a yield of that magnitude. The information so far in hand only points to one cause – planted bomb detonated by remote control. For further details of this mystery please see The Bomber is Alive: Shamo Carnage Revisted
As you can see from the picture the accused looks cool and relaxed. He also appears little sleepy or bored which is not the type of emotions one should rationally expect from a person who is sure to die in 20 minutes. He is wearing a thin sort of a casual black stripe T - shirt which is the same shirt his body was found in after the explosion- The pictures shows the suspect dressed casually in black striped summer T- shirt neither in black Burkah nor wearing anything that can conceal a suicide bomber’s vest. No one of the multitude of survivals so far attested to have seen the alleged women in black and even Dr. Dufle ( the countries former health Minister) who was at the podium, which gives a full view of the venue, failed to conclusively point out whether it was a planted bomb, artillery shell or a suicide bomber.
The Prime Minister should apologise to the grieving parents of Mr. Abdirahman , to your readers and to the Somali people. The Prime Minister should understand that according to the universally accepted norms, Somali constitution and Islamic jurisprudence that it is felony to pronounce some one guilty before the facts are established
Mr. Abdikarim Haji Abdi Buh
The author is a Political analyst based in London and a contributor of the Somali web magazine WardheerNews.com.
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