Wikileaks Ethiopia Files: Ethiopia Bombs Itself, Blames Eritrea

by Thomas C. Mountain

September 16, 2011

Recently released Wikileaks Ethiopia files expose how Ethiopian security forces planted 3 bombs that went off in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on September 16, 2006 and then blamed Eritrea and the Oromo resistance for the blasts in a case that raises serious questions about the claims made about the bombing attempt against the African Union summit earlier this year in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

In a report from 2006 marked “Secret ; Subject: Ethiopia: Recent Bombings Blamed on Oromos Possibly the Work of GOE [Government of Ethiopia]” “Classified By: Charge [d’Affairs] Vicki Huddleston”, “An embassy source, as well as clandestine reporting, suggests that the bombing may have in fact been the work of the GoE security forces.” (Cable reference id: #06ADDISABABA2708.)

At the time, the western media reported the Ethiopian National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) claims that the bombs were “part of a coordinated terror attack by the OLF [Oromo Liberation Front, the oldest national liberation movement in Ethiopia] and Sha’abiya (Eritrea) aimed at disrupting democratic development”.

The Wikileaks report goes on, “a typically reliable information source” who “contacted Post to report that” the bodies of three men found at the bomb sites “had been picked up by police a week prior, kept in detention and tortured. He said police then left the men in a house and detonated explosives nearby, killing 3 of them.”

This exposes the history of how the Ethiopian regime has planted bombs and then blamed Eritrea and the Ethiopian resistance. The lies that make up the official version of this alleged terrorist attack raises serious questions about the credibility of the recently released report by the UN via its US State Department affiliate, the Monitoring Group for Eritrea and Somalia, which blames the Eritreans and the OLF for the January bombing attempt at the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Identical lies about a nearly identical “terrorist attack”, all accepted as fact by the western media. This should also deliver another body blow to the Obama White House and its claims that Eritrea supports terrorism in the Horn of Africa.

So once again the bellowing against Eritrea by the USA and it lackeys at the UN going back to 2006 is exposed as complete bunkum and an identical frame up of Eritrean and the Oromo resistance in Ethiopia that has been regurgitated by the UN and its truth challenged Monitoring Group on Eritrea and Somalia must be subject to a more critical scrutiny. Based on this expose’ it can only be hoped that the UN inSecurity Council, which has yet to decide whether to pass severe sanctions against Eritrea, will refrain from doing so.

31 Responses to Wikileaks Ethiopia Files: Ethiopia Bombs Itself, Blames Eritrea

tud ras

October 23, 2011 at 6:07 pm

this is not true
Welabu Ebisa

October 31, 2011 at 1:07 pm

This report is the real fact what we are sense befor the rlease of report discoverd during the attak happend in Addis Ababa ,and many more inocent people victemed by TPLF horabel action to get poletical benfit shame strategy of EPRDF regime
barim welaku

November 18, 2011 at 10:33 am

this is true the world should know how the ethio goverment is working hard for distortions well helped by the US officials!
Abebe

December 1, 2011 at 2:57 am

We Ethiopians knew it way before Wikileaks exposed it. To my understanding, western powers also know all the terrorist tactics of Meles Zenawi. It is ironic that the west is at war with terrorism, but at the same time supports terrorists like Zenawi.
habeshaw (z.k)

December 2, 2011 at 10:22 am

Those who believe this fabricated story is true,they do not know EPRDF.Playing such silly games belongs to Shaebia (Eritrean fake state) gambling technicians. by Habeshaw (z.k)
men kem

December 3, 2011 at 3:38 pm

The clock is ticking against your false acusations against this inocent small country in size but famouse,big,intact,selfConfident and very proud of it’s intity that does not neel down or give up it own right to live free and even to go farther a country that dose not accept aid with pre-conditions.
my advice to you all those who are attempting to undermine this country are not going to achieve your an fair decisions.(reconsider your decision)
there is always an alternative and better way of solving problems.
Leboch

December 9, 2011 at 11:58 am

I remember the same rumor across the whole city when this happened. There is nothing people do not know. It is known by the people long before wikileaks exposes this secret cables. There are lots of other issues not reported by the US embassy.

How sadistic is it to blow people alive with a bomb??

As time goes by, be sure to get the unspoken deeds of the so called Woyane. They came to power with lots of lots of crimes at the back and are still doing a lot more so they can stay on power.

GOD SAVE ETHIOPIA FROM THE HANDS OF THE BANDA!
Pharma

December 10, 2011 at 11:59 am

This is not just more than assumption of ordinary individual.The important thing is that we are growing.