” “"This action risks adding fuel to an explosive situation". These are the words of mgr. Giorgio Bertin, bishop of Djibouti and apostolic administrator of Mogadishu, as he voiced to Fides his concern for the attack thrown from a US military aircraft yesterday afternoon, January 8th, on to the village of Badel, in southern Somalia. "I do not think this attack will strengthen Somalis’ support of the fragile transition government and Ethiopia", goes on the bishop. According to the media, the attacks seem to have killed an important terrorist leader who had been assumed to be involved in the terrorist attacks against the US embassies to Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, while other terrorist members seem to have been for some time the targets of the Western intelligence working in the region. They are said to include the people responsible for the murder of Annalena Tonelli, the Italian Catholic volunteer who was killed in 2003. "For years I have been repeating that the instigators of the murder of Annalena Tonelli and other western collaborators had to be looked for in Mogadishu, where some Islamic fundamentalists had settled and carried out a hatred campaign against all that the West stands for", confirms mgr. Bertin. "However, this does not prevents us saying that there may be and there must be other ways to stop fundamentalism".” “
