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SOMALIA: SOMALILAND STEPS INTO THE FRAY

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mogadishu, 27 Dec. (AKI) - The unrecognised de facto state of Somaliland, located in the northwest Somalia has entered the widening conflict between Somalia's Ethiopian backed transitional government and the Islamist Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) movement - on the side of the government, the Qatari state news agency reports. Somaliland soldiers are reported to be fighting alongside Ethiopian ones on the Galcayo area front.

 

The area is under the control of Somalia's neighbouring semi-autonomous Puntland region and former warlord Abdiqueybdid. Somaliland fighters and forces opposed to the UIC on Saturday took the city of Jalinsor, the second to fall to the anti-UIC military alliance after Bandiredley. The alliance is said to comprise Somali and Ethiopian government troops, as well as a loose alliance of Somali, Somaliland, and Punta warlords opposed to terrorism. Critics of the UIC allege it has links to the al-Qaeda terror network - claims the UIC denies.

 

The Arab League is meeting in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Wednesday to discuss the escalating violence in Somalia, which appears to be verging on a civil war threatening to draw in Ethopia's longterm enemy Eritrea on the side of the UIC as well as other powers.

 

The UN envoy to Somalia, Francois Lonseny Fall, has urged the Security Council to mediate to end the fighting in the war-ravaged country where 2 million people in the centre and south are also suffering the effects of flooding.

 

The Security Council is due to resume later on Wednesday its discussions on Somalia after the African Union (AU) on Tuesday said Ethopia has the right to intervene militarily in Somalia as the country feels threatened by the Islamic militia operating there. The UN estimates that at least 8,000 Ethopian troops may be supporting the weak transitional government based in Baidoa in southern Somalia.

[Somali_Friend]

Originally posted by xox ogaal:

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Somaliland soldiers are reported to be fighting alongside Ethiopian ones on the Galcayo area front.

If true, why not. The ICU was declaring Jihad on each and everyone that lives in that neighborhood and even the UN.

 

The alliance is said to comprise Somali and Ethiopian government troops, as well as a loose alliance of Somali, Somaliland, and Punta warlords opposed to terrorism. Critics of the UIC allege it has links to the al-Qaeda terror network .

Again why not. These were all in danger of being bulldozed by ICU if they didn't stop them. But my question is how do these analysts and prognosticators identify Somalilanders, Puntlanders and Ethiopians. Let alone the somali and Oromo that are close by there, it would be pretty difficult to identify 50 persons correctly if you gathered 100 persons in Hargiesa and 100 person in Mekelle Tigray random from a street, dressed them same clothing.

 

 

The Arab League is meeting in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Wednesday to discuss the escalating violence in Somalia,

Egypt has sent a high level delegation to Ethiopia to tell the Ethiopian government that Egypt didn't like ICU anyway and since the meeting in China that Egypt had co-operated with ethiopia.

oh! those egyptians, who are used to doing those things with Israel and America and in Sudan.

 

The UN estimates that at least 8,000 Ethopian troops may be supporting the weak transitional government based in Baidoa in southern Somalia.

Ethiopia had a war declared on it by ICU. Ethiopia had a Jihad declared on it by ICU. Ethiopian Somali were threatened against their right of self determination by ICU. ICU wanted to choose for them, to decide for them and to speak for them without their consent or permission. Aweye would be the last person on the face of the planet WSLF would allow to represent the Somali, after what the group Aweye was member during Aiydiid Sr. did with Mengistu and later what Aweye did with Al-Itihad.

[Qudhac]

that utter rubbish somaliland had no millitary involvement, somaliland had declared its nuetrality and absentia from this conflic from the beggining and ask each group to settle things peacefully.

[Somali_Friend]

Originally posted by Qudhac:

that utter rubbish somaliland had no millitary involvement, somaliland had declared its nuetrality and absentia from this conflic from the beggining and ask each group to settle things peacefully.

Qudhac,

Wether Somaliland participated or not I don't know, I am a very small man to know such a high stakes level, but even if Somaliland did nothing, that is 1000 times better than the cruel thing the Djibuti man (who BTW is acting like the swiss) tried to do.

He wanted the war to come to Puntland and Somaliland so that they become like Eritrea which is not taking business from him and its port is rusted and useless now. That was cruel and I think he will pay a heavy price for it, if president Abdullahi Yusuf doesn't overlook it for other reasons.

 

As an ethiopian I am very angry at what Djibuti tried to do twice. First with the warlords when the TFG and Ethiopia welcomed the ICU, and again with ICU when TFG was in danger.