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Somali Islamists regrouping in Saudi Arabia, Eritrea: US official LONDON AFP 01/02/2007 08:15 The United States believes that Somali Islamists who had, until recently, been running parts of the country, are regrouping in Saudi Arabia and Eritrea, the US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs said in an interview with the Financial Times. Jendayi Frazer also told the business daily that it was going to be a while before it could be confirmed who had survived the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia in December, and the subsequent US air strikes in the country, and who had not. "It is going to take some time for the fog of war to clear up and we have an ability to see who is still operating and how they are operating," she was quoted as saying by the FT. Speaking from Addis Ababa, she did say, however, that she was "very concerned" that elements of the defeated Islamists were "trying to reconstitute themselves either out of Saudi Arabia or Eritrea." "We have to engage with the Saudi government and their services to try to prevent that from happening as well as engage regionally." Frazer also said that Eritrea was a "source of regional instability." "Eventually Eritrea will see the limits of its actions to destabilise the Horn" of Africa, she said. Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin said on Wednesday that a long-awaited 8,000-strong African Union peacekeeping force would be deployed to Somalia within a month, thus avoiding a security vacuum there. The force is meant to take over from Ethiopian troops who entered Somalia in December and helped a weak transitional government, which had been previously confined to a provincial backwater, topple hardline Islamists who had been running the capital Mogadishu for the previous six months. Somalia has been the scene of a near endless cycle of violence since the toppling of dictator Mohamad Siad Barre in 1991 but key international players have said recent events provide a window of opportunity to restore stability. +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
