美國`反恐怖戰爭』事與願違，認為智囊團
星期四， 2008年4月24日
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美國「反恐怖戰爭」事與願違，加強極端分子在阿富汗和索馬里和把他們變成合法的政治演員在他們的地方人口眼裡，智囊團今天認為。
Senlis委員會，在阿富汗強烈批評了美國政策從前，是特別騰騰布什政府的「不幸的政策失敗」在索馬里。
它認為空襲，支持為去年攻擊索馬里和一個根本Islamist小組， Al的不合時宜的指定Shabab的埃賽俄比亞的隊伍，因為叛亂成功地利用恐怖分子小組促進補充。
「缺乏戰略敏銳當前在`反恐怖戰爭中』在索馬里和阿富汗實際上使能叛亂的傳播當前在兩個國家中」，理事會總統說Norine MacDonald QC。
「美國是公分母在國家-而不是包含極端元素在索馬里和阿富汗，美國政策促進了AlShabab和Taliban心理掌握疆土的擴展」。
埃賽俄比亞的戰士在摩加迪沙，索馬里，守衛一個貯藏所
ammunitions他們說使用叛亂者在期間
二天重戰鬥。 相片： Mustafa Abdi/AFP/Getty
援助小組認為索馬里，毀壞由無政府狀態，并且暴力數十年，遭受它的最壞的人道主義危機自1993年以來。
民兵與前伊斯蘭教的法院連接了當局，受控摩加迪沙在2006年的下半年，發起游擊戰反對佔領埃賽俄比亞的隊伍和微弱的中央政府。 與小非洲聯合維持和平部隊在交火減少了到外人的角色，幾一千個平民被殺害了從早期2007年。
聯合國，認為一個更寬的維持和平使命太危險，去年認為700,000個人出逃的摩加迪沙。 10英哩舒展路在城市之外現在主持得超過或許200,000個人，人道主義小組說-被偏移的人的最大的集中世界上任何地方。 根據Phillippe Lazzarini，人道主義事理聯合國頭為索馬里， 2.5百萬人民是需要食物或其他援助。
反對這個冷面背景， Senlis委員會，在它的79頁 報告, 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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