Halafi Mengedi wrote:I agreed with you about the opposition devastation beyond repair for long time to come but how do you know the owner of Assenna.com is an agent between Meles and Issayas?? What make you to say that, is there any tangible facts???
Assenna.com or opposition groups are under the payroll of EFFORT and they are very loyal to Meles personally not Tigray people.
My thought for the whole scenario is Issayas was absent for a while most likely for treatment. Issayas has the right to be checked by doctors either in side or outside the region as a guerrilla fighter over 25 years with out clean water, healthy food and life in the bush has huge consequences specially at the age of 66 years old like Issayas. In my view Issayas should not hide his check ups or any kind of treatments he gets due to age and his previous living condition, actually he should be proud of it and make it very open. People will understand it and it is very reasonable. Assenna.com has connections inside Eritrea and the report Issayas absent due to illness may be legitimate but after the Issayas circle found out they fed all the false information to the opposition groups up to Issayas death, serious illness, transferring power or electing new temporary leader and Asmara was guarded by heavy armored soldiers.
For your theory Meles was laughing since the same agent is feeding the BS info, if Meles knew who is passing the information to Assenna.com Meles could have warned them it is false information since Meles have very strong relationship with the Eritrean oppositions specially assenna.com. assenna.com is a Seraye person where Meles and Sebhat are and their relation is not only politics but clan based and Meles would have prevented assenna.com to post the false information.
Who benefited from this false reporting of the death of Isaias? Well, only Isaias. Which means the Assena owner is working for Isaias in secret. But this same Assena guy is also working with Melse, which means he is either a double agent, or he is a go between Isaias and Meles.
Meles doesn't want the Eritrean experiment to fail, if he could find a way he would try to help Eritrea, only if isaias would talk to him, but since Isaias doesn't want official talks, it is likely they have a secret go between, and this Assena guy is a good candidate for that.
You say if Meles knew the story was BS he would have warned Assena, but why, Assena knew it was BS, it can't possibly have been fooled. That's why i think Assena is an isaias asset. Do you know a website called Meskerm.net, years ago it used to pretend to be anti-Isaias, once its cover was blown it dropped the act and became pro-Isaias. This Isaias guy is a genius of infiltration, the opposition seriously underrated him, now it is paying a terrible price for it.
You say Isaias is hiding a sickness, I must disagree with that. Even though I am not a doctor, to me Isaias seemed to be in perfect health, they say he is 66 years old, but yesterday he didn't look a day over 50. For a man with a badly damaged liver he was looking too good. If his liver was bad his eyes would have been yellow, but his eyes were very clear, he was confident, strong and fit.
I read the English translation of the interview at Awate, and Isaias said, "there are so many unwell and mentally ill people out there, i am not going to waste my time refuting every rumor.'' What a devastating answer that was. The opposition will take a long time to recover from that, but that's only if it has the time. Isaias is a master of psychological warfare, I don't think he will be overthrown any time soon.