美国`反恐怖战争’事与愿违，认为智囊团
星期四， 2008年4月24日
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美国“反恐怖战争”事与愿违，加强极端分子在阿富汗和索马里和把他们变成合法的政治演员在他们的地方人口眼里，智囊团今天认为。
Senlis委员会，在阿富汗强烈批评了美国政策从前，是特别腾腾布什政府的“不幸的政策失败”在索马里。
它认为空袭，支持为去年攻击索马里和一个根本Islamist小组， Al的不合时宜的指定Shabab的埃赛俄比亚的队伍，因为叛乱成功地利用恐怖分子小组促进补充。
“缺乏战略敏锐当前在`反恐怖战争中’在索马里和阿富汗实际上使能叛乱的传播当前在两个国家中”，理事会总统说Norine MacDonald QC。
“美国是公分母在国家-而不是包含极端元素在索马里和阿富汗，美国政策促进了AlShabab和Taliban心理掌握疆土的扩展”。
埃赛俄比亚的战士在摩加迪沙，索马里，守卫一个贮藏所
ammunitions他们说使用叛乱者在期间
二天重战斗。 相片： Mustafa Abdi/AFP/Getty
援助小组认为索马里，毁坏由无政府状态，并且暴力数十年，遭受它的最坏的人道主义危机自1993年以来。
民兵与前伊斯兰教的法院连接了当局，受控摩加迪沙在2006年的下半年，发起游击战反对占领埃赛俄比亚的队伍和微弱的中央政府。 与小非洲联合维持和平部队在交火减少了到外人的角色，几一千个平民被杀害了从早期2007年。
联合国，认为一个更宽的维持和平使命太危险，去年认为700,000个人出逃的摩加迪沙。 10英哩舒展路在城市之外现在主持得超过或许200,000个人，人道主义小组说-被偏移的人的最大的集中世界上任何地方。 根据Phillippe Lazzarini，人道主义事理联合国头为索马里， 2.5百万人民是需要食物或其他援助。
反对这个冷面背景， Senlis委员会，在它的79页 报告, directly accused the US of undermining reconciliation efforts by backing the hardline president, Abdullahi Yusuf, instead of the more moderate prime minister, Nur Hassan Hussein.
According to the security thinktank, the US government in February disrupted negotiations with opposition parties - including hardline Islamists - by exerting pressure on the prime minister to exclude certain groups and individuals from a reconciliation process, particularly those on a US list of designated terror suspects.
The council urged Bush to end all bombing operations in Somalia, back a phased withdrawal of Ethiopian troops who are shoring up Yusuf, and create a UN stabilisation force to neutralise the power of Yusuf’s transitional federal government.
“President Bush has the perfect opportunity to adorn the twilight of his final term in office with a success story in his self-proclaimed war on terror – a fast track ’surge for peace’ to end the current Somali crisis,” the council said.
Yusuf personally heard calls to lead a reconciliation effort during a visit to the US. Norm Coleman, a rightwing Republican senator, yesterday urged the Somali leader to reach out to “all stakeholders not associated with terrorism”.
“The president said he took my words very seriously, and would maintain his commitment to reconciliation,” said Coleman, who represents Minnesota, a northern state where more than 10,000 Somalis have settled.
Last month, the Bush administration granted Somalis living in the US under temporary protected status an extra 18 months as conditions in Somalia remained “dire”.
As for Afghanistan, the Senlis Council said the resurgent Taliban provided a bleak example of how the US-led war on terror had failed there as well.
It said: “The Taliban and al-Shabab are successfully exploiting policy mistakes such as aerial bombings, ongoing poverty, and aggressive foreign military presence to the extent that they are increasingly viewed by local populations as representatives of their legitimate political grievances.”
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