IlBy:-Ismail Warsame.
Who can tell us where the meeting was held between Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, NISA Director Sambolooshe, and CIA Director William J. Burns, or took place in Mogadishu recently, given a red wall background or a prefabricated container in the picture void of any symbols of statehood like flags?
It seems to us that President Mohamud was informed to present himself to Halane International Camp at Airport, indicating how untrustworthy, dangerous, and precarious place it is to hold high profile International meetings at today’s President Mohamud’s Villa Somalia. Compare this with a similar meeting below with CIA Intelligence Chief in Cairo. Compare it also with the meeting of Late TFG President Abdullahi Yusuf in Villa Somalia with Late Ethiopian prime minister Melez Zenawi many years ago, 2007, in the height of Al-Shabab military offensive against fledgling Somali government then.
Look at how many government assistants the Egyptian President had allowed to take part in the meeting with the US CIA Director at State House. What is it that HSM is hiding from his own government or the Somali people? Or is it that HSM’s government is compromised and infiltrated by Al-Shabab and other not trustworthy officials and personnel? How uncomfortable would one be to work for and with the current Somali Administration?
Compare it with President Ruto’s meeting with Mr Burns in the Kenyan State House before arriving Halane Campound in Mogadishu.