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Somalia: President Is Shielding Pirate Leader, U.N. Report Says

July 17, 2012 · 322878 Comments2012-07-18+03%3A24%3A01goth+Mohamed

President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, left, has shielded a top pirate leader from arrest by issuing him a diplomatic passport, according to a United Nations investigation, which criticizes the “climate of impunity” enjoyed by pirate kingpins in Somalia and abroad.

The United Nations Monitoring Group on Somalia said in a report to the Security Council that senior pirate leaders were benefiting from high-level protection from Somali authorities and were not being sufficiently sought by international authorities.

The group said a diplomatic passport had been provided “with the authorization of” Mr. Ahmed to Mohamed Abdi Hassan, a pirate leader also known as Afweyne, who presented it to authorities in Malaysia on a trip there in April.

The report said Mr. Ahmed said the passport was “one of several inducements” for Afweyne aimed at dismantling his pirate network. Mr. Ahmed, in a letter to the chairman of the Security Council Sanctions Committee, called the report “one-sided” and described its contents as “unsubstantiated allegations.”

By REUTERS

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By goth Mohamed

saalim abdi says:

What nonsense you can buy diplomatic or non diplomatic passport in kenya eastlight kenya $300.

i know a lot of somaliland folks buy it to go abroad. mr gaafow The minister of immigration TFG and small group print This passport.

So i don’t see any point retuers reporting This sort history They know & we know somalia currently NO legament accountable goverment in somalia.

Issuing passport decument in somalia not That hard, untill strong reliable accountable goverment in place This corruption will continue unabated. definitely There will be soon in somalia strong goverment.

2:07 am on July 18, 2012

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mu says:

yep nothing new even human body parts are avialable we all agree but how we goner stop huuaaa don,t know

2:37 am on July 18, 2012

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- saalim abdi says:
  
  We have not reach yet to That point”human body parts” unlike india or ethiopia.
  
  2:47 am on July 18, 2012
  
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mu says:

i just been in northen somalia n we have to keep kids on eye i have been warn there are poeple who nik kids 4 PARTS .

4:53 am on July 18, 2012

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- saalim abdi says:
  
  may you-yourself looking human body parts cause strange name”MU”.
  
  8:21 am on July 18, 2012
  
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- saalim abdi says:
  
  may be you-yourself looking human body parts cause your strange name”MU”.
  
  8:22 am on July 18, 2012
  
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mu says:

woow man no am only sayin what i seen in the northern somalia,i assume same in the south

8:57 am on July 18, 2012

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- saalim abdi says:
  
  watch out The ethiopians, our close relative as They say in somaliland They are into human body part business.
  
  3:44 am on July 19, 2012
  
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