WASHINGTON — The United States should add Eritrea to a terrorism blacklist over its support for an Al-Qaeda-linked group tied to last week's deadly bombings in Uganda, a senior US lawmaker urged Tuesday.
Representative Ed Royce, the top Republican on a House subcommittee on terrorism, nonproliferation and trade, urged US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a letter to designate Eritrea a state sponsor of terrorism.
"The time to tackle state support of Shebab is now, before this menace becomes even more potent and reaches our shores," he said, referring to the group that has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
"That response must include an honest recognition of the destructive role the government of Eritrea is playing in the region by designating it as a state sponsor of terrorism," said Royce.
The designation -- currently only applied to Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria -- carries a range of economic and diplomatic sanctions.
The strikes in Uganda were the deadliest attacks in the region since the 1998 bombings against the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam also linked to Islamist militants.
At least 73 people, including one American, were killed in the two attacks, which targeted people watching the World Cup final.
The Shebab group said the attacks were in retaliation for the presence of about 3,000 Ugandan troops in an African Union force deployed in Somalia to prop up its fragile Western-backed transitional government.
Shebab has vowed further attacks, including on Burundi, which has around 2,500 troops in the embattled AU mission in Somalia (AMISOM).
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DIA's foreign minister Osman Saleh and his boss are convening in kampala, uganda for an African Summit this week.The grand motive of this unexpected move by the regime is a political manouver and postery.What ever is the resultant ,time can only be the strory teller.However,the community in uganda in general and the youth in particular ought to show their backlash by condemning the very reason of their misery by channting slogans infront of the summit.This is high time.They should cryout by telling the leaders od Africa that DIA is not a representative of the Eritrean people any longer.Le's seize the opportunity and show the real backlash in kampala.
'' ኣንታ ኣበሓጎይ እምበርዶ ክሓልፈልና እዩ ካብዚ ዘለናዮ ናብራ ?''በለ ሓጎስ
'' ኣቦኻ ሰለስተ ኣሕዋቱ ሓዲጉ ሰንኪሉ ምስ ተመልሰ ተመርዕዩ ንዓኻን ንሓውኻ ተኣምራትን ወሊዱ ፤ እዝጊ ይተሓወሶ ኮይና ተሪፋ በዓል ሓውኻን ብጾቱ ደቂ ሳዋን ድኣ ገለ ጌሮም ራህዋ ተምጽኡልና እምበር ካብ ካልእ ምጽባይ ሱቕ ኢልካ እዩ..የርህዎ '' ኢሎም ዘረብኦም ደምደሙ ፡፡
ቁሩብ ዓመታት ይገብር ኣብ ሓንቲ ቁሸት ገለ ዕጡቓት ሰባት ይመጹ ፤ ኣብቲ ደንበ ሓደ ወዲ 13 ዓመት ይጸንሖም ምስኡ ኸኣ ዕላል ይጅምሩ ፤ ኣቦይ ዓንዱ ድምጺ ሰሚዖም ይወጹ፡፡ ርእይ ምስ ኣበሉ ኸኣ
" ሓጎስ ምራኽካ ሒዝካ እቶ እዚ ወደይ'' ምስ በሉ ፤ ወዮም ዕጡቓት ሰተት ኢሎም ይኸዱ፡፡
" ኣበሓጎይ... እንታይ ኮንካ ድኣ እቶ ንገዛ ኢልካኒ '' ምስ በሎም፤
'' እዚኦም ተኸኽ ዘበሉና ቦለቲከኛታት እዮም '' በሉ
'' ከመይ ጌሮም '' በለ ሓጎስ
'' 36 ዓመት ይገብር በስመራ ዝመጹ ሓለፍቲ መገዲ ኣብዚ ቤትና ማይ ክሰትዩ የዕርፉ ፤ ሓደ ካብኦም ኣትን ኣደይ ንዓባይካ እዚ ቤትክን ክንደይ ይጸሪ ኢሉ ይሓታ ንሳ ኸኣ ትቕብል ኣቢላ ' ሳላ እዞም ደቅና ' ትብሎም፤......ይቕጽል
Thanks for your support. Obviously you are an intelligent person.
Cuba gets its oil from Venezuela at a lower price. South Africa is a relatively rich country to subsidize local oil consumption. Kenya gets help from the West.
Your examples are not good.
SOCIALIST: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
A COMMUNIST: You have two cows. The government seizes both and provides you with milk.
A FASCIST: You have two cows. The government seizes both and sells you the milk. You join the underground and start a campaign of sabotage.
A HGDF : You have no cows . You have no children . You do not have anything. Everything belongs to ME ,I am HGDF.
No milk nothing , if you have money buy dumudumu.
I agree 100% with u!!! And the more u get disapproval from many people in this site just know u r speaking the truth.
Cheers!
u r right the blatant baseless accusation of Eritrea being terrorist supporter and urge to add it to the list of ''terrorist countries'' is rejected by the group u mentioned.I was just reading about it,,,,
God Bless Eritrea
The man called the PIA brought nothing to Eritrea and Eritreans but suffering and nothing better.
What goes in the mind of this diseased person is Hate. HATE the Amharay, HATE the Tigraway, HATE Ethiopia, HATE Haileselassie, HATE PMMZ, HATE Djiboutian, HATE the Yemeni, HATE the Sudaneese, HATE the Somali, HATE the IGAD, HATE the UN, HATE the USA, HATE Israel, HATE CIA, HATE the G15, HATE the Sri Lankan, HATE Asmarino.com, HATE EVERYONE out there....And we happen to respond to his plea for HATE and here we are...shifting BLAMES.
We are dead wrong about this man, it's time to take ACTION!
It was everyone's dream that dHri gezana zella ila may gedifa petrol ktnet'E:: :) Thanks to hgdef and Issu Afaf, it is not even springing water but only red blood.
For your information, Eritrea is the closest nation to the oil producing nations be it in Port Sudan or Jizaan but it charges the highest money to its own citizens, i.e. $9.59 per gallon, to Eritrean businesses and individuals. Oil affects the price of almost everything because it is the primary source of electricity and transportation in Eritrea.
This has a lot of negative multiplier effect overall economy such as hard currency exchange, inflation ... and many.
Kenya, South Africa and Cuba produce no oil and a gallon of petrol costs $4.31, $4.01 and $3.64 respectively.
What, do you want to buy petrol for 2 dollars a gallon? That is going to happen when dHri gezana zella ila may gedifa petrol ms nete'Et:: ab Hilmi derho malet 'yu wedi Adey!!!
ASMARINO people :
What they need ?
what they are expecting ?
what are they going to do different ?
And most of all I do not know which war are they
talking about ? Is it the war that stopped 10 years ago ?
Are they still stuck in it ?
Are they deceived and disoriented from what is really
going on in Eritrea by the Ethiopian govt. war propaganda
machine from rebuilding and contributing to their country.
"Take Asmara, Eritrea. Drivers in the East African nation's capital city pay $9.59 for a gallon of regular. You read that right. That is the highest price in any of the 34 cities surveyed by Associates for International Research (AIRINC), a Cambridge, Mass.-based research firm that provided new global gas price data exclusively to DailyFinance. For $153.44 -- what it would cost you to fill a 16-gallon tank in Asmara -- you could buy a plane ticket, a week's worth of groceries or possibly pay the monthly note on a modestly priced car."
average of $6.89 a gallon.
You can see how worthless the Eritrean currency - Nakfa - has become. Is this Eritrea's economic destruction in action? One of the reasons for young people to leave Eritrea in droves?
We thank you President for life Isaias Afaf.The second-most-expensive gas city was Oslo, Norway, where drivers pay an average of $7.41 a gallon. Copenhagen, Denmark, came in at No. 3 with an average of $6.89 a gallon.
Otherwise, looking at the way Libya and Egypt are treating our ppl, any normal governmet would have delclared diplomatic war against those two worthless Arabic countries. It is also worth mentioning that the main two reasons PIA is mad at the rest of the world are: 1) the world is generally sympathetic to Eritrean refugees - the special refugee status given to Eritreans is a case in point. 2) and of course the "refusal" of the world to force Ethiopia out of Badme.
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