Agreed the PIS is not to blame, they are a shield of the state. The real culprits are these people who get paid by outsiders and do such activities. The state will overcome such nonsense.

Somalia: Puntland parliament endorse new flag 22 Dec 22, 2009 - 1:18:31 PM The parliament of Somalia’s Puntland state has endorsed the new flag of regional state. In a parliamentary session held in Garowe, the administrative capital of Puntland, the lawmakers numbering 41 unanimously passed the motion that allows the creation of a flag, state identity and anthem. 38 lawmakers voted in favour of the motion, 2 remained silent while a lawmaker rejected the bill. After the vote, Puntland state parliament speaker Abdirashid Mohammed Hirsi declared a new flag for the regional state, which declared itself as an autonomous state in 1998. The new flag is only w

^^^Well thank the lord thats not our flag..

I like the coat of arms its quite original..

Ibti, the flag in my signature without the writing is the Puntland state flag. The one with the writing is an addition by Fiqi. The horses are part of the Coat of Arms of the state..

^^^Again a valid point, we all have to worker harder to bring unity amongst us back again, the people are one after all.

^^^Good point sis, and I am hopefull that if the SNM could make peace with Riyaale and even let him rule, then the people overtime will come back to the fold. A grudge can only last so long..

Even in SOL, the Young Turks and others have welcomed the new flag with open arms, there are a few disgruntled individuals who are unhappy but the majority of SOL Nomads have embraced the new flag. Viva Puntland

Ardeyda Suudaan ee Puntland oo Soo Dhaweeyay Calanka Puntland December 23, 2009Ardeyda reer Puntland ee wax kabarata dalka Suudaan ayaa soo dhaweeyay calanka cusub ee ay yeeltay Dawladda Soomaaliyeed ee Puntland, ardeyda ayaa sheegay in aysan arintaani ahayn mid Puntland ay Soomaaliya kaga go’ayso ee ay tahay calaamad u gooni ah is maamul kasta, waxayna sheegeen in aan Soomaali kala go’ayn, Weriye Fiidow Maxamuud Fiidow ayaa warkan ka soo direy Dalka Suudaan: Maqal Codka Weriyaha: Fiidow Maxamuud Fiidow Suudaan – Horseed Media

Shacabka Bosaso oo soo Dhaweeyay Calanka Dawladda Puntland December 23, 2009Kadib markii maalintii shalay lagu dhawaaqey calanka lagu aqoonsanaayo Dawladda Puntland ee kamid ah Federaalka Soomaaliya, aya waxaa si weyn u soo dhaweeyay shacabka ku dhaqan Magaalada Bosaso oo iyaddu ah magaalada ugu dadka badan Dawladda Puntland, Warbaahinta Horseed Media oo mikrofoonka la dhexqaadey, dadweynaha Bosaso, ayey ku tilmaameen arintan mid loo baahan yahay isla markaasna calaamad u ah sideeda Gobol ee ay Puntland ka kooban tahay, waxa ay sheegeen in ay ahayd mar hore arintan la sameeyo maadaama dalku uu yahay Federaal loona baahan yahay State-kasta yeesho calaamadiisa iyo calankiisa. Sidaas si lamid ah ayaa waxaa u soo dhaweeyay in badan oo ka mid ah Jaaliyadda Puntland ee dibadda waxaynka ku tilmaameen guul dawladdu gaartey. Maalintii shalay ayaa lagu dhawaaqey calanka Dawladda Puntland waxaana ku guuleystey laba muwaadin oo la kala yiraahdo Maxamuud Abshir Farax (Carab) oo ku sugan dalka Kenya iyo Jamac Cige Jamac oo ku sugan magaalada Garoowe isla markaana ka tirsan Golaha fanka iyo suugaanta Puntland, astaanta ayaa waxaa ku guuleystay gabadh u shaqeysa Hay’adda Care International xafiiskeeda garoowe laguna magacaabo Asli Qodax. Waxaa xusid Mudan Muwaadin u dhashey Puntland oo lagu magacaabo Axmed Maxamed Shire in uu sameeyay calan kan la mid ah isla markaasna uu ku soo bandhigey Websiteyo badan una direy guddiga inkasta oo aan guddigu xusin in muwaadinkaas uu kamid yahay ragii guuleystey, waxaana guddiga ay balan qaadeen in arinta Axmed Maxamed shire oo ku nool dalka Sweden ay arintiisa eegayaan

^^lool@ Ibti, the blue flag is the national flag of Somalia, Puntland has created a state flag thats all. No Somaliland should keep the SNM flag as a state flag but should make peace with the blue flag again, it was not the flag that killed people...

Ibti is right that the flag was raised first in Hargaysa. However the designer of the flag was not from Somaliland, she got that wrong. Thats an honest mistake though..

Peace action have you seen the new flag? It has the national flag as an integral part of it. KK summed it up nicely, this is a symbol of state and we shall welcome and embrace it.

The flag is an important symbol of the ongoing development of the Puntland identity within Somalia. It is not a rebel flag like the SNM or Somaliland flag, no it was created by memebers of the public in an open competetion that's the type of process and engagement the Somali people crave for. It is not a cesessionist or sepretist flag as it has the Blue and white star featured prominently in it's make up. I am pleased with it and like the name, will be embraced by the people of Puntlant. As for the Young Turks, it's a political term used to signify changing of the old guard and the entrance of the new. From the corpse of Ottoman Empire emerged the Turkish identity an Turky itself. From the anarchy of Somalia and hopelessness insha Allah will emerge a new republic And Puntland as the catalyst.

^^ lool, LA is still part of Somalia and Punt, nothing lost really as for Grown men having disagreements it did not end up costing the lives of thousands as the fued between Xasan Dahir & Sharif hotel has. What about the never ending dispute in Galmudug & the two Presidents? Adeer you can do better than that.

^^^You seem upset, why?

Another disaster

Part 3. Where peacekeepers are feared and death is being dealt from both sides Behind the story Inside Bakara market We always live in fear," said Fatima Nuraddin Hashi, 49, a mother of five with her hair wrapped in a black veil. Fear is the natural emotion when you live in Bakara market, the bloody, beating heart of Mogadishu. In this bustling commercial sprawl, money transfer agencies funnel in the diaspora dollars that fuel Somalia's economy, exchange rates are set and imported goods unpacked. Radio stations, newspapers, cyber cafes and phone companies make it Somalia's premier rumour mill. It is also the city's fuel depot, pharmacy, food store and gun market — one infamous part of Bakara is known as Irtogte, meaning "shot in the sky" since this is what buyers do to test the weapons. Ragged streets run between bombed-out buildings daubed with violent graffiti. Wooden booths line the roads and business is brisk in everything and anything from onions to missile launchers. Bakara is in a part of the capital controlled by al-Shabaab. According to Roland Marchal, a Somalia expert at the Paris-based Centre for International Studies and Research, the group earns around £250,000 a month in taxes from major businesses in Bakara. From Bakara, the extremists lob mortars at the few blocks of the capital held by the Government. In reply, residents say, the African Union peacekeepers (Amisom) fire back with little consideration for the civilians caught in between. "My husband died two months ago when a mortar landed in the market," Ms Hashi said. "He was eating in a restaurant. I am the only breadwinner now so I started to sell vegetables to earn some money to feed my children but it is not enough. "Every day it is the same, we are attacked from every side: al-Shabaab tax us and Amisom shell us." Although she has no kind words for the al-Shabaab fighters who harass and murder residents with impunity, she says that the peacekeepers are more deadly. "Amisom troops shell the market, mercilessly killing people. It starts when al-Shabaab targets the government areas, then Amisom retaliates." Mogadishu residents call everything that rains from the sky "mortars". In October, however, witnesses reported that Amisom was using Soviet-made BM21 missile launchers to shell the market. "I have lost my husband, my son, a daughter and my niece in this market. For me it has turned into a slaughterhouse," said Ms Hashi.

Part 2 Because of the growing military pressure in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, hundreds of foreign fighters have flocked to Somalia to fight Sheikh Ahmed's UN and US-backed administration. They have brought with them a radical ideology of global jihad and some — including a white US citizen known as "al-Amriki" — have taken leading field commander roles. Their influence is changing al-Shabaab from a local insurgent group into a player in the wider battle between Islamic extremism and the West. "There is increasing control exercised by the foreign leadership of al-Shabaab," said Peter Pham, associate professor at James Madison University."It is not just control of resources, foreign fighters and trainers, but of the actual decision-making." This foreign influx has strengthened al-Shabaab as a fighting force, but the creeping international agenda has also caused rifts within the group. "There is a serious struggle within al-Shabaab between nationalists and the foreign jihadis who want to take the fight to another level," said Abdi Rashid, a Somalia analyst at the International Crisis Group. In recent months this has led to conflict and even some defections. At the same time, al-Shabaab has fallen out with its former ally, Hizb ul-Islam, with whom it launched a joint offensive to oust Sheikh Ahmed in May. This staunchly nationalist group of Islamists is led by Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, who helped to train the first al-Shabaab fighters and is wanted as a terrorist by the US. This year fighting erupted between al-Shabaab and Hizb ul-Islam over control of revenues from the southern port of Kismayo. This has since turned into a deeper split. "Hizb ul-Islam's orientation is domestic but al-Shabaab's focus is on a broader ideological Islam," said Dr Pham. Sheikh Ahmed's enfeebled administration is in no position to take advantage of such divisions. In Mogadishu, a tense and deadly stalemate exists, with al-Shabaab unwilling to take on the peacekeepers' tanks and artillery and government forces incapable of winning. Sheikh Ahmed's besieged government barely exists: it does not control the country's territory, cannot provide security and lacks a popular mandate. "It will continue as long as the Amisom troops are there to guard it. If they were withdrawn it would collapse within hours," said Dr Pham.

Another new start, another disaster as Islamists rob Western-backed leader of power Tristan McConnell The Times December 21, 2009 Pass beyond what is described as government territory in the Somali capital — a few blocks between the airport, the harbour and the presidential palace — and you are at the mercy of al-Shabaab, the extremist Islamic group that holds sway across southern and central Somalia. Where it rules, it has implemented laws and punishments reminiscent of Afghanistan under Taleban rule. It has banned bras, football, dancing and musical ringtones. This weekend al-Shabaab decreed that men must grow beards and shave their moustaches. Its fighters have destroyed Sufi tombs and disinterred colonial-era Italian corpses. Its Sharia courts have ordered public floggings, the chopping off of hands and feet of thieves, the stoning to death of adulterers and beheadings of apostates and spies. Suicide attacks and roadside bombs have grown in number, leading Western intelligence agencies to conclude that there are growing links between al-Shabaab and al-Qaeda. The agencies warn that the country is becoming a haven for international terrorists. At the start of this year, Somalia was hoping for a new beginning. Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, a moderate Islamist, was installed as President with the backing of the United Nations as well as Western and regional governments. Ethiopian troops who had invaded in 2006 to oust an Islamist regime — in which Sheikh Ahmed had been a leading figure — withdrew and an African Union peacekeeping mission (Amisom) promised to protect the new Government. Today the Transitional Federal Government cowers behind 5,000 AU protectors in the piece of Mogadishu that it controls — although recently a suicide bomber struck within the supposed safe zone. In other attacks this month dozens of medical students were killed with three government ministers in a suicide attack. At the weekend 14 people died as Government and insurgent forces traded mortar fire. Every week fresh reports of death and horror cement Mogadishu's reputation as the worst place on earth. Harakat al-Shabaab — meaning "Youth Movement" — emerged in 2005 as a cross-clan Islamist militia designed to support the Islamic Courts Union, which aimed to defeat the clan warlords that had devastated the country since the collapse of the last functioning administration in 1991. In their brief reign in Mogadishu in 2006 the Courts brought peace to the city for the first time in years. When they were forced out by US-backed Ethiopian forces, al-Shabaab attracted popular support by fighting a guerrilla war against the invaders. Many of al-Shabaab's leaders are radical Somali veterans of the Afghanistan wars. Last year Ahmed Abdi Godane, known as Abu Zubeyr, became its top commander. He is believed to have fought in Afghanistan in the 1980s and is described by one observer as "a hardcore jihadi". Three months before he assumed his command, the US had designated al-Shabaab as a terrorist organisation. His predecessor, Aden Hashi Ayro, was killed by a US airstrike in May 2008. Other senior commanders, all of whom enjoy a large degree of autonomy, include Mukhtar Ali Robow, also known as Abu Mansoor, an experienced fighter who ran the training camp from which al-Shabaab emerged, and Ibrahim Haji Jaama who won his nom de guerre "al-Afghani" thanks to years of fighting in Afghanistan and Kashmir.

Thats what peace brings Love the pics,....

Thanks brother will update it as we get closer to the new decade...

Golaha wakiilada Puntland oo ansixiyey calan & astaan ay Puntland yeelato, balse dib u celiyey heesta Puntland. Garowe, Dec 22 - Mudanayaasha baarlamaanka Puntland ayaa fadhigiisii maanta ka dooday calanka, astaanta & heesta Puntland ee uu soo gudbiyey guddiga astaynta calanka, heesta & astaanka Puntland. Sida uu sheegay Dr. Jimcaale wasiirka dastuurka iyo arrimaha federaalka ah oo u soo bandhigay mudanayaasha baarlamaanka calanka, heesta & astaanka ay doorteen. Astaanka ... [...]

^^^Who insulted Burco? Not me adeer, so dont make attacks on other towns thats all. It does not matter, just makes you look bad, and as a sister we dont want that.

The video is ammusing and the song appropriate for the times..