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PRESIDENT EOAL SPEAKS ON MYSTERIOUS BOMB BLAST
SOURCE: LONDON BBC WORLD SERVICE IN5 GMTANEXT:
FROM THE -FOCUS ON AFRICA" PROGRAM
FBIS TRANSCRIBED TEXT THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS THIS WEEK OF MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSIONS IN THE REMOTE EASTERN REGION OF THE SELF-DECLARED REPUBLIC OF SOMALILAND. THEY APPARENTLY OCCURRED IN DECEMBER. BUT BECAUSE OF THE REMOTE NATURE OF THE AREA HAVE BEEN SLOW COMING TO LIGHT. THE BLASTS HAVE BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO VARIOUS CAUSES FROM UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS, UFO'S. TO ROCKET TESTS. WELL, SOMALILAND LEADER, MOHAMED EGAL. HAS BEEN LOOKING INTO THE
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MATTER. ON THE LINE TO HARGESA, TIMOTHY ECOTT ASKED HIM WHAT HE THOUGHT HAD BEEN GOING ON.
BEGIN RECORDING EGAL WE HAVE THESE MYSTERIOUS REPORTS FROM OUR NOMADIC POPULATION THERE. AND THEN. I OOT-MAN COMMISSION, TWO DOCTORS.ETERAN DOCTOR. AND CNE MINISTER, AND THEY HAVE SUBMITTED TOEPORT. WHICH IS VERY, VERY ALARMING. THEY SAID THAT THEY WENT THEREORTNIGHT AFTER THIS THING HAS TAKEN PLACE AND THEY FOUND MOST OF THE ANIMALS IN THE AREA ARE STILLORTEMENTED STAGE. THEY WERE NOT GRAZING, THEY WERE JUST STAMPEDING ALL OVER THE PLACE.
ECOTT YOU SAID THE ANIMALS WERE DEMENTED. WHAT ABOUT THS PEOPLE LIVING THERE?
EOAL SOME OF THEM, WHO WERE VERY CLOSE TO THE AREA. HAVE GOT SKIN RASHES. AND SOME OF THEM ARE HAVING VERY. VERY BIG PROBLEM. THEY ARK ALMOSTHEDDING THEIR OUTER SKIN], THERE ARE WORDS INDISTINCT BOILS ALL OVER THE PLACE. AND SOME OF THEM ARE HAVINO STOMACH ACHES. YOU KNOW, AND VERY UNUSUAL MOTIONS -- STOMACH MOTION -- OT OF SYMPTOMS HAVE BERN REPORTED. WE ARE SENDING BACK SOME DOCTORS TO ACTUALLY EVALUATE TKE HUMAN DAMACF. AND THE ANIMAL DAMAGE THAT HAS BEEN DONE.
ECOTT DID ANYONE GET AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF WHAT THIS EXPLOSION MIGHT HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY?
EGAL THE PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE, YOU KNOW, THE STORIES THEY TELL IS THAT THEY HEARD NO NOISE. APPARENTLY WHATEVER EXPLODED WAS MOVINGUPERSONIC SPEED, BECAUSE THERE WAS NO PRIOR NOISE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. YOU KNOW, THEY JUSTERY. VERY, VERY LOUD EXPLOSION WHICH HAS TAKEN PLACE AND THE LIGHT. YOU KNOW, THE LICKT OF THE EXPLOSION IN THE AIR. THE AREA IS SO BIG THAT THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE CAPABILITY OR THE TIME TO INVESTIGATE THE WHOLE GROUND AND TRY AND PICK UP ANY DEBRIS THAT MIGHT HAVE FALLEN. THEY HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO DO THAT.
ECOTT WHATEVER YOUR AUTHORITY IS CLAIMING THAT THIS MIGHT HAVE BEEN, SOME OF THE NEWS AGENCIES ARE TALKING ABOUT UFO'S.
EGAL NO, NO. NO, NO, WS ARE NOT MAKING ANY CLAIMS OF THAT OR AMY FANTASTIC CLAIMS LIKE THAT. YOU KNOW. WHAT WE THINK HAPPENED IS THAT THERE MUST HAVEISSILE FIRED FROM SOMEWHERE. WHICH HAS EXPLODED EITHER DELIBERATELY OVER OUR COUNTRY OR WHETHER IT HAS EXPLODED INADVERTENTLY. WE CAN'T TELL. SO, WHAT WE ARE ASKING NOW. PEOPLE LIKE TKE ENGLISH. AND FRENCH, AND ESPECIALLY THE AMERICANS WHO MONITOR THE WORLD, THEY MUST KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. YOU KNOW. THEY DEFINITELY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, THEY ARE MONITORING THE WHOLE WORLD, RECONNAISSANCEAY, YOU KNOW. AND THEY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. IF IT WAS SADDAM HUSAYN WHO FIRED THE MISSILE, IT MOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE HEADLINES ALL OVER THE WORLD. BUT APPARENTLY WHOEVER FIRED THE MISSILE IS STILL IN THE GOOD BOOKS OF THOSE WHO KNOW, AND THEY DON'T WANT TO PUBLICIZE IT. BUT WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO US SO THAT AT LEAST WE MILL KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH IT.
ECOTT IS ANYBODY OFFERING YOU HELP TO INVESTIGATE AND TO LOOK AFTER THE PEOPLE YOU SAY HAVE BEEN INJURED?
EOAL WELL, WE HAVE SENT IT -- YESTO THE AMERICAN EMBASSY, YOU KNOW, MS HAVE SENT IT TO THE BRITISH BMBASSY, WE HAVE SENT IT
TO THE FRENCH EMBASSY. AND HE HAVE SENT TO THB BBC, AND TO THE REUTERS AND PEOPLE LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW. NOBODY HAS YET RESPONDED. BUT WE HAVE MADE THE APPEAL AND WE ARE STILL MAKING IT. END
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