jero tebi,

this is awalom, you know what the name stands for, i hope.
The people that you and the likes call "tigre" has one charcteristic behaviour; that is you don't threaten unless you're going to do it.
Weyane always followed this to a T. Shaebia followed this to a T. Its culture and upbringing that comes from it.
All 3 organizations in eritrea and all three organizations in ethiopia that fell to both groups were dealt with that way.
The rumour that Meles was under house arrest is BS. The Americans wanting him is another even bigger BS.I would give you a point for your contact maybe a bystander, just like during the last elections some in the state department were caught off guard singing the chavez is dictator musharef is reformer song on ethiopia.
It didn't last long for them to know that this song doesn't apply in ethiopia. Rumsfelds song works in ethiopia. whoever can support our military in the horn is democratic or call him any name but is our guy.
Siye and the likes didn't have the right people to put Meles in any position of submission or threat. They both were missing some parts to the chess board including meles and were outwaiting eachother for mistakes.
culture and psychology has a mojor role in this. In our culture you don't say, i will kill you, because the thretened party can kill you from there on. which is preemption.

If siye have said anything like this, it means he has entered the gurra culture, but i don't think so.

As far as this time is concerned, there is no alternative, even if some governments don't like Meles. They all consider cost benefit. Any chaos in ethiopia will be costly for no return and unknown end.