The Four Somali-American Janjaweed
The Four Somali-American Janjaweed
By. Dr. Farah Ahmed Jama, Email: farahj60@gmail.com
Peace and stability in Somalia and the East Africa region are being undermined by a group of people based in the United States of America whose assets, safety, and family are firmly protected by the US government. Fully aware of this protection these people have go on to use their safe haven to raise funds, arm young, raise militias, and direct them to engage in murder, police station bombings, assassination of judges, pillaging, and forced displacement of population in previously peaceful villages in Somalia and Ethiopia. The US government and the United Nations have remained silent. They have done nothing to top it and said nothing about these war crimes. Why?
Specifically, since 2010, two successive organizations were established in the Northwest of Somalia (Somaliland) by the same group of people: first the SSC, and then Khatumo to replace in early 2012. Both organizations have attacked civilian villages, killed scores of people, pillaged private property, and forced displacement of population in previously peaceful villages on Somalia and Ethiopia’s border. Much of the evidence of their work is online for anyone to see as they boast (picture and videos as proof) about their attacks, assassination and successes against Somaliland and Puntland State’s law and order authorities.
See:
http://www.voanews.com/somali/news/Safarka-Madaxweyne-shariif-ee-Maraykanka.html
http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2011/433
Who are the leading US genitors of this group, the “Founding Fathers”? :
- Ali Khalif (aka. Galeyr), a former minister in the military government of President General Mohamed Siyad Barre where he was shortly the Minister for Industries and fled into exile into the US right before he was to be indicted for stealing millions in US dollars intended for the acquisition of new factories; He returned a decade later to become a Prime Minister in the Transitional Government under President Salat, who destitute him of his functions for corruption, and fled back to the US. For the last three years he has been raising funds in Europe and the US to fund his private militia in the Northwest in order to become President of Somalia through force or the elections to be held in August 2012. Why are there no charges in the US against the leader of this terrorist organization when al the evidence is online on the internet for all to see is strange and irresponsible!
- Abdikarim Hassan Jama, a former minister under the short-lived administration of Prime Minister Formajo of the TFG in 2011, and currently the Executive Secretary General of Daljir Forum a breakaway political forum formed by former Muslim militant better known to Somalis under the Ala-Sheikh name. The Ala-Sheikh were described by the UN SRSG Mahiga as an extremist group bent on spoiling the Peace Process in Somalia. While he was a Minister Abdikarim Jama has illegally sold for US 12 million dollars the Somali government’ s internet address rights to a Japanese and German concern , he pocketed the licensing and interconnection fees of Somali Telecom firms in 2011 (estimated to be at US$ 20 million), he brought white mercenaries SARACEN to Somalia and skimmed millions of their contract, and he pocketed the US 5 million dollars proceeds from the of the sale of the Washington residence of the Somali Ambassador. Jama is the second leader and founding member of Khatumo. Why are the UN sanctions committee not setting sanctions on this individual for violating international law and UN Security Council resolution is strange and irresponsible!
- Ali Isse Abdi is a retired IMF employee with NGO (HESPI) based in Addis Ababa, and he has been responsible for international links establishment and fundraising for the military campaigns of the Khatumo militia from the Diaspora. He has also been involved with the Finance Ministry budget ting and disbursement, in cooperation with Mr. Jama, and they have both colluded with former Minister of Finance and Speaker of Parliament Sharif Hassan to steal over US 100 million dollars from the Somali Treasury, as the June 2012 World Bank report details. Some of these funds are US government and funds. Why is the US government and the UN silent and allowing this criminal activities to continue? US laws and UN Security Council Resolutions are being broken repeatedly for all to see!
- Garad Jama Ali Jama, a tradition Clan leader of the North West has been providing the tribal cover and camouflage for the criminal activities of the Khatumo militia. He has been a founding member of Khatumo and its predecessor SSC militia. All US and European fundraising and weapons acquisition from abroad are done through him.
In conclusion, if the UN in Somali has been co-opted, and is not willing to stop this, the US government, hopefully, has not.
The above mentioned four men (Mr, Ali, Mr. Jama, and Mr. Abdi) are US citizen and they are breaking US criminal when on US soil, and when abroad. They should be indicted for their crimes or the Somali people should be told they are on official a US government mission.
By. Dr. Farah Ahmed Jama,
Email: farahj60@gmail.com