Anti-Eritrean Paroxysm. Origins, Dimensions, Applications

The incessant Anti-Eritrean literature that has been worldwide diffused over the past years is not an isolated phenomenon and does not hinge exclusively on the colonial (US, UK, French) involvement in the wider Eastern African region and the support offered by the three colonial regimes to the tyrannical administration of Abyssinia (fake Ethiopia).

Limiting the analysis of the Eritrea-related facts and developments to the wider area of the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa region is rather a false contextualization. Not only it does not help achieve an accurate and holistic understanding but it also reduces the chances of an effective policy making.

In fact, Eritrea´s war with Abyssinia because of territorial dispute does not matter for the colonial regimes of London, Paris and Washington.

Some may suggest that Eritrea´s extended but not continued, real but not effective help to the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somali first and the Hizbul Islam later is the reason for the colonial capitals´ apprehension. This assessment is either a lie or the result of a misunderstanding. If the latter is the case, it is due to a terrible oversight.

What Eritrea did in support of Somalia´s Islamists is a minimal fraction of the US promotion of the Shabaab to local rulers of Southern Somalia.

Who sent Abu Mansoor al Amriki to Somalia, greatly publicizing the event and subsidizing the American spies who, disguised as ´converts´, conquered the initially moderate Shabaab movement and from the inside managed to transform it into a radicalized gang – perfect tool for the US-UK global policies?

The main reason for the colonial obstinacy against Eritrea is other; one can better assess the situation by properly contextualizing it at the global level. The terms used against Eritrea, the type of accusations for which Asmara is held responsible, and the political measures taken against the small but independent state constitute a mere copy of the colonial policies against many other states.

Eritrea finds therefore its real counterparts in Belarus, post-coup Mauritania, Iran, Venezuela, Syria, North Korea, Bolivia, Myanmar, etc. These states have been systematically defamed and depicted as undemocratic. An innocuous observer would however fail to realize for what reasons these states are accused as undemocratic – and not Saudi Arabia, Bulgaria, Morocco, Abyssinia, Colombia, Armenia and Tunisia.

There is no difference between the two aforementioned groups of states, and undemocratic processes can be attested everywhere, including several Western European countries. The reasons for which the former group of countries have been methodically vilified are other. It pertains to the nature of the real authority exercised per country.

The colonial regimes of Paris, London and Washington are in fact controlled by a secret organization that permeates the private and the public sectors whereby members of this organization are appointed and secretively communicate among them in order to promote the specific per case, time and place agenda of the organization. This is the Apostate Freemasonic Lodge that from global pariah in the 16th century rose to global predominance, following the colonial era and the two world wars. Every state ruled by administrations that reject the global organization´s tactics of infiltration and control is therefore mercilessly targeted as enemy.

For any failed attempt of infiltration (or rejection of cooperation proposals), a myriad of subordinate organizations (active at the economic, political, social, educational, academic, military or religious levels) are ready for action as soon as they get the signal ´go ahead and attack´.

The new edition of the Missile Watch (Volume 3, Issue 1 - February 2010) reflects precisely this method. Missile Watch is a quarterly publication by the Arms Sales Monitoring Project at the Federation of American Scientists. The February edition contains sizeable paragraphs about Eritrea and Myanmar, only to carry out the said vilification project against the two countries. It is however odd why the Report does not refer to the Russian methods of oppression that have been implemented in Chechnya and Daghestan, to the merciless persecution of the Baluch population in Pakistan, to the missiles used by the Abyssinian army against innocent indigenous civilians at Ogaden, to the deliberate genocide carried out in Darfur by the Pan-Arabist regime of Khartoum, and to the tyrannical practices of the Pan-Arabist regime of Algiers against the Berber resistance in Kabylia.

I herewith republish the Contents, the Overview and the paragraphs on Eritrea and Myanmar. I want to both, make the biased Missile Watch text known, and show the need for close cooperation and solidarity between Buddhist Myanmar and Muslim / Christian Eritrea. Both countries need to cooperate against the regional puppets and unrepresentative dictators who are supported by the Freemasonic elites of Paris, London and Washington.

Missile Watch, Volume 3, Issue 1 (February 2010)

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Contents

8 Spain: Failed Assassination Attempts underscore the risks for Terrorists of relying on black market missiles

8 United States: Congress to Receive DHS Report on Anti-missile Systems for Commercial Airliners in February

9 United States: Documents from trial of the "Prince of Marbella" contain additional information on shoulder-fired missiles

9 United States: No New International MANPADS Sales since 1999

10 Venezuela: U.S. receives "assurances" from Russia regarding controls on shoulder-fired missiles sold to Venezuela, but questions remain

11 Additional News & Resources

12 About Missile Watch

12 About the Authors

2 Global Overview

3 Afghanistan: No Recent Discoveries of Shoulder-fired, Surface-to-air Missiles in Insurgent Arms Caches

3 Eritrea: UN Slaps Arms Embargo on Major Missile Proliferator

4 Iraq: Fewer Public Reports of Seized Man-portable Air Defense Systems in Iraq, but Shoulder-fired Missiles Still a Threat

5 Ireland: Alleged plot to shoot down a police helicopter may have involved surface-to-air missile

5 Myanmar: 300 Shoulder-fired missiles in insurgent arsenal, claims Thai Colonel

6 North Korea: North Korean Arms Shipment included MANPADS, Thai Report

Confirms

7 Peru: Igla missiles stolen from Peruvian Military Arsenals, claims alleged trafficker

Global Overview

This issue of Missile Watch features big news out of Thailand. A North Korean arms shipment seized by Thai officials in December contained "five crates of MANPADS SAM[s]", according to an official Thai government report. The report, which was obtained by Bloomberg News in late January, appears to confirm North Korea as an illicit source of shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missiles. Depending on the origins and model of the missiles, this case could have profound implications for international efforts to curb missile trafficking. Also notable are reports of a Peruvian trafficking ring that stole at least seven Strela and Igla missiles from government arsenals and sold them to Colombian rebels, and of insurgent arsenals in Myanmar that contain 300 missiles – a stockpile comparable in size to the holdings of many small states. These reports illustrate the continued availability of illicit missiles to armed groups despite a decade-long international campaign to strengthen export controls and secure government stockpiles.

The news isn´t all bad, however. Recent reports suggest that most armed groups continue to rely – often clumsily – on older first-generation infra-red seeking missiles, which are difficult to use effectively and often malfunction, as evidenced by the Basque terrorist group ETA´s failed attempts to shoot down the Spanish Prime Minister´s plane in 2001. This is not the first failed terrorist missile attack, and it will not be the last. In 2002, for example, an al-Qaeda affiliated group in Kenya armed with two SA-7b missiles missed an Israeli airliner as it was leaving Mombasa. The more of these spectacular failures that come to light, the less demand there will be amongst armed groups for first and second generation missiles. Or at least that is the hope. In those comparatively rare cases when terrorists are able to acquire and effectively use newer missiles, modern anti-missile technology may provide an effective last line of defense, as illustrated by the recent "multiple IR MANPADS" engagement thwarted by the missile defense system on a Chinook helicopter reportedly operating in Iraq. 1

Whether this last line of defense will be extended to commercial airliners will be determined, in part, by Congress´ reaction to Department of Homeland Security´s long-awaited report on its Counter-MANPADS program, which will be delivered to key congressional committees this month.

Also encouraging are recent actions taken against missile trafficking and the governments that facilitate it. The same month that the Thai government moved against smuggling in their country, the UN Security Council imposed an arms embargo on Eritrea, the supplier of thousands of weapons, including surface-to-air missiles, to the militant Somali group al Shebab. The embargo comes none too soon. A spokesman for the group recently threatened to come to the aid of their "Muslim brothers" in Yemen, 2 an apparent reference to the al Qaeda affiliate responsible for the failed attack on the US-bound airliner in December. Extensive involvement in Yemen´s civil war by al Shebab would be very bad for the Yemeni government and its western allies, especially if the militants bring their missiles. It remains to be seen if the embargo will motivate Eritrea to stop arming Somali militants, or at least stop arming them with sophisticated light weapons.

Notes

1 David Fulghum, "Laser Saves Helo in Multi-SAM Ambush," Aviationweek.com, 7 January 2010.

2 "Yemen slams Shebab pledge to send fighters," AFP, 2 January 2010.

Eritrea: UN Slaps Arms Embargo on Major Missile Proliferator

After years of supplying weapons to Somali militants in violation of UN Security Council resolutions, the UN has slapped an arms embargo on the government of Eritrea. Resolution 1907, which was approved by a 13-1 vote in the Security Council in December, 5 imposes a ban on the international transfer of arms to and from Eritrea. It also authorized UN member states to inspect cargo crossing their territory if a violation is suspected, and to seize and dispose of any illicit weapons that are discovered.

Eritrea ranks high on the list of MANPADS proliferators. In recent years, UN investigators have documented shipments containing dozens of MANPADS from Eritrea to Somalia in violation of a long-standing UN arms embargo. In 2007, an SA-18 missile "delivered by Eritrea," according to UN investigators,

6 was used by Somali militants to shoot down a Belarusian cargo aircraft departing from Mogadishu. The Eritrean government has denied the accusations, but additional evidence collected by investigators in recent years appears to support the earlier claims. An SA-18 Igla missile "found in Somalia" by UN investigators, for example, was later traced back to a shipment of Russian weaponry delivered to Eritrea in 1995. 7

Notes

5 Colum Lynch, "U.N. Security Council orders arms embargo on Eritrea," The Washington Post, 24 December 2009.

6 Report of the Monitoring Group on Somalia, S/2007/436, 18 July 2007, p. 15.

7 Report of the Monitoring Group on Somalia, S/2008/274, 24 April 2008, p. 24-25.

Myanmar: 300 shoulder-fired missiles in insurgent arsenal, claims Thai Colonel

A Thai military official interviewed by the International Herald Tribune in November claimed that the United Wa State Army, a Burmese insurgent group, possesses 300 "shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles" 14 – a stockpile that is comparable in size to those of many small states. No additional details on the missiles were provided.

According to Jane´s Information Group, the Wa´s missile holdings consist of older SA-7s from "Cambodian black market sources," and more sophisticated Chinese HN-5Ns from China. 15 These reports appear to be a decade old, however, so it is possible that the composition of the Wa´s current missile stockpile is very different.

If Colonel Peeranate´s estimate is accurate and the missiles are operational, the Wa´s missile stockpile is one of the largest non-state arsenals in the world. Little is known about the security of the Wa´s weapons, but the general lack of accountability and formal controls on insurgent arms caches and the size of the stockpile raises concerns about theft, loss and diversion, and the possibility that some of the missiles will end up on the black market.

Notes

14 "A Rebel Stronghold in Myanmar on Alert," International Herald Tribune, 6 November 2009.

15 "United Wa State Army (UWSA)," Jane´s World Insurgency and Terrorism, updated 11 November 2009 and Anthony Davis, "Myanmar heat turned up with SAMs from China," Jane´s Defense Weekly, 28 March 2001.

About the Authors

Matt Schroeder is the Manager of the Arms Sales Monitoring Project at the Federation of American Scientists. Since joining FAS in February 2002, he has written more than 80 books, articles and other publications on US arms transfers, arms export policies, and the illicit arms trade. He is a co-author of the book The Small Arms Trade (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2007), and is a consultant for the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey.

Matthew Buongiorno is currently serving as a Scoville Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists where he is working on small arms issues, U.S. nuclear policy issues, and Iranian nuclear issues. In addition to his work with FAS, Matt is staffing the 2010 National Model United Nations, a conference in New York that draws over 4,000 students and aspiring diplomats. He earned a B.A. in economics and political science from Texas Christian University in 2009.

About Missile Watch

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Note

America´s two faces: Kismayu-based CIA operative Abu Mansoor al Amriki and Washinton-based US president Obama promote extreme radicalization of the Somali South to prepare a pretext for a forthcoming, partly occupation of Somalia by US and NATO.