US Considering Terror Label for Eritrea

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

US Considering Terror Label for Eritrea

Friday August 17, 2007 3:16 PM

By MATTHEW LEE

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States is considering
designating the Red Sea state of Eritrea a “state
sponsor of terrorism” for its alleged support of Islamist
militants in Somalia, the top U.S. diplomat for Africa
said Friday.

The State Department is now compiling data to legally
back up such a move, which would impose severe
sanctions on the impoverished nation and put it on the
same diplomatic blacklist as Cuba, Iran, North Korea,
Syria and Sudan, said Jendayi Frazer, the assistant
secretary of state for African affairs.

“We are looking into it,” she told reporters. “We have
to put together the case against them, that information
is being collected right now. It will be evaluated through
an interagency process and then decisions will be taken.”

Frazer, speaking at a briefing called to discuss
deteriorating relations between the United States and
the increasingly authoritarian country, said Washington
stood behind a recent report by U.N. experts that found
Eritrea to be the primary source of weapons and cash
for Islamist insurgents in Somalia, some of whom have
suspected al-Qaida links.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6857205,00.html

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Y'know, does this remind you of Joe McCarthy going hog wild, pointing his

finger at anyone and calling them a communist?

Or the Salem Witch Trials when anyone could be designated a witch and consequently a criminal defendant?

[PDJane]

2. Frankly, the US looks like the biggest

Terrorist state in the world.

[niceypoo]

3. The whitehouse are raging bigots...

Is "terrorist" the automatic label for anyone, anywhere, who is a muslim and fighting for any cause, whatsoever? Apparently it is.