  The apparently huge energy budget of the gamma ray burst GRB 990123 led to
the final collapse of the isotropic fireball model, forcing even the most
skeptical to consider a beamed Jet emission correlated to a supernova (SN)
explosion. Similarly the surprising giant flare from the soft gamma repeater
SGR 1806-20 that occurred on 2004 December 27, may induce the crisis of the
magnetar model. If the apparently huge energy associated to this flare has been
radiated isotropically, the magnetar should have consumed at once most of (if
not all) the energy stored in the magnetic field. On the contrary we think that
a thin collimated precessing jet, blazing on-axis, may be the source of such
apparently huge bursts with a moderate output power. We discuss the possible
role of the synchrotron emission and electromagnetic showering of PeV electron
pairs from muon bundles. A jet made of muons may play a key role in avoiding
the opacity of the SN-GRB radiation field. We propose a similar mechanism to
explain the emission of SGRs. In this case we also examine the possibility of a
primary hadronic jet that would produce ultra relativistic e+ e- (1 - 10 PeV)
from pion- muon or neutron decay. Such electron pairs would emit a few hundreds
keV radiation from their interaction with the galactic magnetic field, as it is
observed in the intense gamma ray flare from SGR 1806-20. A thin precessing jet
from a pulsar may naturally explain the negligible variation of the spin
frequency. A correlation between SGR 1806-20, SGR 1900 +14, Cygnus and the
AGASA excess of EeV cosmic rays (CRs) has been found; we suggest that a robust
EeV signal may be detected by AUGER or Milagro in the near future.
