LIBERATION, YES!

OCCUPATION, NO!

In the early 1990s, the rebel Tigrean People´s Liberation Front (TPLF)

led by Meles defeated Mengistu’s dreaded Derg,

and in May 1991 Meles and his forces surrounded the Ethiopian capital,

Addis Ababa

which they spared from

The four horsemen of the apocalypse: war, pestilence, famine and death.

That was the finest hour of Meles Zenawi.

As I now write this

Meles & his forces & the forces of Yay & Ghedi are surrounding Somalia’s capital,

Mogadishu.

If Meles spares Mog

just like he had spared Addis,

I have no doubt that he will go down in world history,

just like Julius Kambarage Nyerere (1922-1999),

as a great hero,

as one of Africa’s few great statesmen,

as a Pan-African leader,

as a symbol of

African hopes,

African dignity,

African unity

African solidarity

African successes.

Nyerere told a correspondent for the New York Times (March 31,1957):

“I am a troublemaker, because I believe in human rights strongly enough to be one.”

That is why in 1979, Nyerere defied the Organization of African Unity

and with his army marched all the way to Kampala

to rid Africa of

the monster

the ogre

the ghoul

the gal

known as Idi Amin Dada

who was raping and robbing the Ugandan People of their human rights.

Nyerere liberated the Ugandan people from the tyranny & and the casual, capricious, and cruel cannibalism of Idi Amin;

Nyerere did not occupy Uganda;

he liberated it!

So Meles, tahrir or liberation, yes!

Ihtilal or Occupation, no!

Uncle Sam, your boss,

whose SOB you chose to become

in the horny Horn of Africa

came to Iraq pretending to be a liberator

and now he is an occupier deeply hated by every Iraqi

just like the Israelis in Palestine.

If you occupy Somalia

every Somali will deeply hate you

every Somali will jihad against you

till kingdom come!

Go away from Somalia as soon as possible

to avoid that fate!

Do not wear out your welcome

just like Uncle Sam has worn out his welcome in Baghdad!

Make it short & sweet

No long good-byes needed!

Hasta la vista!

Ciao!

Tata!

Sayonara!

Adios amigo!

On Thursday, December 14, 2006,

Meles described thus to the Washington Post,

what he is liberating the Somali people from: 

“a group in the Islamic Movement in Mogadishu

that is not interested in democratic secular government in Somalia,

that is hell-bent on establishing a Taliban regime in Somalia…

a group that has clearly demonstrated

that it wants to Talibanize all of Somalia...”

Thank you for freeing us Somalis

From the Tyrants

From theTerrorists

From the Talibans

From the Calibans

From the Cannibals

From the Kalabiin!

That is the group

That is being defeated

That is being disgraced right now in Mog;

it is not Islam.

That is the crazy greedy group

That is being refuted

That is being rejected

That is being ejected out of the Somali body politic right now in Mog:

it is not Islam.

And to drive this point home

the first thing Maquste

should do upon entering Mog

should be

to go to the biggest mosque in Mog

and pray to Allah for granting him

what he wanted

what he waited for

what he waged war for

what he struggled for

for so long:

the presidency of Somalia.

No Somali should allow himself or herself to be

“outmoslemed”

by the Munafiqiin

like Awful Aways or

like Insane Inda’adde!

The worst mistake Yay made was not to say

(Allahu Akbar!)

before Awful Aways

before Insane Inda’adde

before their Dirty Dozen

who tried to reduce

who tried to pervert Islam

into the nihilism

into the narrowism

into the nonsense

of no

of negation

of negativity

of fitna

of fatude

of flapdoodle.

They are now on the run for their very lives.

Meles, thank you for liberating us and Somalia

from Awful Aways

from Insane Inda’adde

from their dirty dozen.

Their alien ideology was extremism in defense of nihilism & fanaticism

which turned out to be foolish and evil and vile and vicious

which finally boomeranged upon their bald pates.

They forgot that moderation in the pursuit of Islam is virtue for Islam is the religion of moderation.

Before the advent of Awful Aways

before Insane Inda’adde

before Shariifka La-soo-gamay!

before their alien ideology

we Somalis adhered to a moderate brand of Islam called

al-Wasatieh (the “middle-way”),

which is

neither radically fanatic

nor totally secular,

which is live and let live for as Prophet taught:

“There are as many ways to God as there are created souls.”

They forgot Prophet Muhammad who said:

“Avoid stubbornness, for like Stupidity, Stubbornness begins in ignorance and ends in regret.

They are now harvesting what they have sown

They have sown the wind and now they are reaping the whirlwind.

In the the words of the poet Sonia Sanchez, I say now,

“Let there be everywhere

our voices,

our eyes,

our thoughts,

our love,

our actions,

breathing hope and victory.”

Somali Hanolato!

Gerald Hanley records in his book

(Warriors: Life & Death Among Somalis)

this touching tableau:

“What do you want most?” I once asked an old Somali.

“To be well governed, but to be left alone,” he told me.

“I often thought of that and found that I agreed with it, but how to get it?”

Meles, thank you. But above all, good-bye!

Yay & Ghedi:

Let us see now

Without being propped up

Without being prompted

Without being promoted

Without being primed

Without being pampered

Without being pimped

Without being bribed

Without being prostituted

By alien foreign forces

Let us see now

If you can stand up now

If you can deliver now

like men

What every Somali wants most

What every Somali needs most:

To be well governed, but above all to be left alone. 

---Mahamud Siad Togane