“Like many of my countrymen who tasted the brunt of brutal suppression in the most cynical Machiavelli style rule under Meles Zenawi, I do know that what he touches or where treads will not be peaceful. On the contrary, what he does in collusion with the big powers of the world, may turn Somalia into Africa’s Lebanon, and Ethiopia into Africa’s Syria.So,I am afraid the bombs will go on to wreak much havoc.”

May 22, 2007 on The New Vision letter column, Kiflu Hussain