World Starting to Accept Las Anod as Somaliland

[Mintid Farayar]

January 13, 2010

Gunmen Attack Police Station In Somaliland

 

By REUTERS

Filed at 7:27 a.m. ET

 

HARGEISA (Reuters) - Unidentified attackers hurled hand grenades and opened fire at a police station in Somalia's northern breakaway enclave of Somaliland , wounding three officers, police sources said Wednesday.

 

Somaliland is proud of its relative stability, unlike southern regions of the failed Horn of Africa state, where hardline al Shabaab insurgents control large amounts of territory and are fighting a weak Western-backed government.

 

Washington accuses al Shabaab of being al Qaeda's proxy in Somalia, and security experts say the group wants to extend its influence north -- aiming to destabilise Somaliland and the neighboring pro-government, semi-autonomous region of Puntland.

 

Somaliland police sources told Reuters that an unknown number of attackers threw two grenades at the police station in Las Anod , near the border with Puntland , late Tuesday before opening fire on the building with assault rifles.

 

Three policemen on duty there were wounded, two of them seriously, hospital staff said.

 

The police sources said the town was placed under curfew overnight with extra patrols, and that officers later found a Toyota pickup truck believed to have been used by the gunmen.

 

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

 

The assault came just three days after security forces in Somaliland said they had foiled an attack on a Hargeisa mosque where the imam had spoken out against militant suicide bombings.

 

Officials said six rockets and two mortar bombs had been recovered from Imam Sheikh Aden Sira's mosque after a suspected bomber was discovered carrying them in a jacket.

 

POLITICAL TENSIONS INCREASING

 

Sira had been critical of suicide bombings carried out by al Shabaab in southern Somalia, and said he received death threats.

 

Wednesday, the police sources said one man had been arrested in connection with the Hargeisa mosque incident, and that another was being hunted. They did not elaborate.

 

Al Shabaab hit Somaliland and Puntland with synchronised suicide blasts that killed at least 24 people in October 2008.

 

A court in Hargeisa has sentenced five men to death in absentia for the bombings, which struck the Ethiopian embassy, the local president's office and a U.N. building. It said they were on the run in other parts of Somalia.

 

Somaliland, which has long sought international recognition as sovereign state, declared itself independent in 1991.

 

Analysts worry a simmering political row between the president of Somaliland and opposition parties over delayed elections could lead to clan militias re-arming, an outbreak of violence, and more turmoil for al Shabaab rebels to exploit.

 

Somaliland's upper House of Elders remained closed for a third day Wednesday amid wrangling over positions on several committees. Security forces said they had locked the building to prevent another outbreak of scuffling between rival lawmakers.

 

The former British protectorate is governed by an opposition-led House of Representatives, which is elected by the people, and an upper house comprised of senior clan elders.

 

(Editing by Daniel Wallis and Robin Pomeroy)

[xiinfaniin]

[Mintid Farayar]

Even Garowe Online grudgingly in reference to the story, gives Las Anod as an example of random bombings in Somaliland, & Bosasso as the other example in Puntland.

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Qarax ka dhacey Lascano

13 Jan 13, 2010 - 2:07:31 AM

 

Qaraxaan oo ka dhacey saldhig ku yaala bartamaha maagalada Lascano ayaa maamulka gobolka ku eedeeyay in laga soo abaabuley Koonfurta Somalia.

 

Bamkaan oo laga tuurey gacanta aya wararku sheegayaan in dhaawacyo fudud u gaystey sadex qof oo isugu jira bolis iyo rayid ka ag dhowaa goobtaas.

 

Ma jirto cid sheegatey qaraxaan iyada magaalada Lascano horey Bam dhulka lagu aasey lagu diley taliyihii ciidamada aaga Sool.

 

Falalkaan amni daro ayaa kusoo badanaya Puntland iyo Somaliland iyada saraakiisha labada maamul ku eedeyso amni darada ka jirta Koonfurta iyo gobolada dhexe ee Somalia.

 

Qaraxaan mid bar-bar socda ayaa xaley sidoo kale ka dhacey saldhig ku yaala magalaada Bosaso kaas oo sida laga heley saraakiisha Boliska aan gaysan dhimasho iyo dhaawac.

 

GAROWE ONLINE

[xiinfaniin]

Daniel Wallis and Robin Pomeroy + Mohamed Faroole accept Las Anod as a Somaliland city

[Mintid Farayar]

What's interesting is the lack in the preamble of- Las Anod in the disputed Sool region, etc., etc.

 

Now it's just ' Today, in Las Anod, Somaliland so and so happened....'

 

Just an observation....

[Che -Guevara]

Instability spreading to Somaliland as terrorists have repeatedly attacked Las Anod on Somaliland's eastern border

 

I'm sure this is headline Somaliland wants the world to know

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

gaaladu waligayaga ba anagay nala jireen.

[xiinfaniin]

^^

 

Xaaji, yours remind me Master's verses

 

******** Kufriga wacad Allaw u yaale'e

Waa niman walaala tan iyo waaga aakhiro'e

[Saalax]

Hanjuf^^ i don't think that is a good thing.

 

 

wax fiicnaan lahayd if haadi muslimka kula jiraan instead.

[Mintid Farayar]

Posted in both NYTimes and Reuters

[Mintid Farayar]

With the current facts on the ground furthered on a daily basis, in 2 years time, it will be forgotten that this strategic town was ever contested ......

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Originally posted by xiinfaniin:

^^

 

Xaaji, yours remind me Master's verses

 

******** Kufriga wacad Allaw u yaale'e

Waa niman walaala tan iyo waaga aakhiro'e

what about this one

 

 

******ku inu wadda waddal yahay weye

inu hanfada wada yahay uu hoos u forara weye

inu naarta janahana wadda wadhanyihin weyee

 

odagaysii gabayadiisa wu nugu dhameye lol.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Originally posted by Ducaysane_87:

Hanjuf^^ i don't think that is a good thing.

 

 

wax fiicnaan lahayd if haadi muslimka kula jiraan instead.

Muslimku wa kuwee sxb?

Dunidan gaalada loogu kala horeyaa Iyo xidhidka beesha calaamka

[Mr. Somalia]

^^

 

War Xaaji, magacyada qabiilada lagu caayo dee meesha ka tirtir...see waaye yaakhay!

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Originally posted by Mr. Somalia:

^^

 

War

Xaaji, magacyada qabiilada lagu caayo dee meesha ka tirtir...see waaye yaakhay!

loool gabaygay ku jirta dee lol. midna ankugu daro magacaasi qallad bay dadku ka fahman wa no nanays. maha magac aflagado run ahanati aniga runti marka magaca la igu yeedho iftiin ba ii muuqda