It’s not the world. It’s the US. And they don’t care about Assab, or badme or any of that. They’re doing a little arm twisting to get Eritrea to cooperate in their global conquest. In other words, it’s blackmail.
I saw the documentary the EPRDF released about the so called car bomb plot which was supposed “turn addis ababa into Baghdad”. It was a comedy. According to the documentary, Isayas gave the OLF an assignment to create havoc in addis on the day of the summit. When things didn’t go as planned, Isayas made an agitated phone call to the bombers demanding “Whats taking so long!? Blow something up!” lol Reinforcing the theory among “Ethio patriots” that Isayas is a mad man alcoholic with a short temper.
Ethiopian intelligence officials uncovered the plot to set off multiple bombs in Addis Ababa at the AU summit, an event typically attended by more than 30 African leaders, in January this year.
The UN report said all but one of the people arrested received all their training and orders directly from Eritrean officers. The other detainee was also in regular contact with an Ethiopian rebel group, the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF).
"Although ostensibly an OLF operation, it was conceived, planned, supported and directed by the external operations directorate of the Government of Eritrea, under the leadership of General Te'ame," the report said.
The equipment seized included C4 plastic explosives in food sacks, gas cylinders, detonators and a sniper rifle.
General Te'ame told one of the plotters that the plan was to make "Addis Ababa like Baghdad", according to the report.
However, in an interview with UN investigators, one of the men arrested, Omar Idriss Mohamed, said the aim was not to kill African leaders but to show them that Ethiopia was not safe.
"By so doing, some people may start to listen to what Eritrea is saying about Ethiopia. Some Arab States will be sympathetic to this view," he was quoted as saying.
According to the UN report, Omar is an OLF member who was approached by the Eritrean security services though Colonel Gemachew. Omar, who visited Eritrea in 2009 and 2010, became the Addis team leader for the plot.
The UN report included a letter from Romania confirming a sniper rifle found in the possession of one of the bomb plotters had been sold to Eritrea in 2004.
The report included payment slips to the plotters in Addis Ababa through money transfers. The plotters told the UN that an Eritrean colonel had arranged for the transfers via intermediaries in Sudan and Kenya.
Ethiopia routinely accuses Eritrea of supporting rebel groups. Zenawi, the prime minister, declared in April that his country would support Eritrean guerrillas fighting to overthrow Isaias Afewerki, the Eritrean president.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/afric ... 06810.html
Them echoing this story is just a form of blackmail.