Tourists Killed in Afar counter accusations by Ethiopia & Eritrea War Clouds in The Red Sea

By Prof. Muse Tegegne, on January 20th, 2012

Gunmen in Ethiopia’s arid north attacked a group of European tourists, killing five, wounding two and kidnapping two Germans. Two Ethiopians were also taken hostage. Two Germans, two Hungarians and an Austrian were among the five killed. Two Belgians were seriously hurt and two Italians escaped unharmed.
Ethiopia accused Eritrea as her proxy groups executed the attack. Both countries have been harboring proxy fighters to do their dirty jobs in the name of liberation movement, since their war that started in 1998 but never finished.
Today many in the West even suspect the Ethiopian dictator himself perpetuated the attack to have the upper hand when recently Eritrea was cleared of accusation delivering three planes full of arms to Al Shabab in Somalia by the UN.
The only door out left for the Ethiopian dictator is to topple his frère enemy Isaias Afewrki from power in Asmara by putting his Puppet regime if not tempted to make an outright annexation of her ex Provence.
War and cloud of war is on the air. This new rummer of war between the two old enemies could risk blocking the principal water rout of the Red sea at a time the world is menaced by Iran on the closure of the Straight Straits of Hormuz. In 2012 the world may risk two of its main energy and trade passage closed indefinitely by the war of the dictators…