"After being forced from power by the Ethiopians Sheik Sharif was listed by
the USA as an “Al Queda linked terrorist” and was on a most wanted list of
international criminals. Then the world went to sleep one night with Sheik
Sharif a terrorist and woke up the next morning to the announcement that he was
now the “democratically elected President of Somalia”, elected in Djibouti that
is by a hand picked mob of “Members of Parliament” under the watchful eye of
the CIA and the US Army in Djibouti’s Camp Lemmoniere.
Apparently the irony that Sheik Sharif was once an “Al Queda linked
terrorist” unfit to hold office in Somalia and then overnight transformed into
the “democratically elected President of Somalia” was cause for the sort of
selective amnesia the international media practices when it comes to the Horn of
Africa and Somalia in particular." (thanks Shih-Yu)