The NIF supported nearly a dozen Eritrean Islamist and other opposition forces beginning in the 1990’s including the Eitrean Islamist Jihad Movement , Eitrean Liberation Front.  Eitrea Kunma Movement and the Red Sea Democratic Movement.  In retaliation ,  Asmara severed  diplomatic relations with Khartoum permitted the Sudanese opposition, the National Democratic Alliance to open an office in the former Sudanese embassy in Asmara.  Al Qaeda also sought to establish links with other African Islamist parties and armed groups especially in 1992- 96.  The plight of the Moslems of the Ogaden, an area situates South East of Ethiopia , with Kenya to the South,  Somalia to the East, and Djibouti to the North , came to the direct attention of Osama , shortly after he established himself in Khartoum in December 1991.  It is an exclusively Moslem area with a long established history of both hostility and conflicts with "outsiders".  It is an area where both Arabic and Somali languages are spoken.  Because and as a result that is a "lawless" region beyond the reach of government and governmental agencies Osama  was more than quick to establish a vital presence there.

 

 

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Although Al-Qaeda had no hand in supporting or establishing the Islamic Union of the Mujahadeen of Ogaden, it generally more than loant its support to that group. The Mujahadeen of Ogaden group or organization is largely based in the areas of Western Somalia. Gradually over time , and energies , the mujahadin’s capabilities increased and when they struck in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa on July 8 , 1996. In that planned and coordinated attack they had planned to assassinate both the transportation minister and Abdul Majeed Hassan , the Ethiopian’s government representative in the Ogaden. In mid 1997 various Islamist groups formed a five member alliance – Oromo-Somali-Afar Liberation Alliance (OSALA) – also the Islamic Union of the Mujahadeen of Ogaden – which brought together the Islamic groups of Somalia , Western Somalia and Ethiopia. Their stated aims were to "replace the (then) present minority rule with a government of the majority putting to end the centuries of "Christian domination" , and Judeo-Christian ideological hegemony"

 

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