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Murax,How is the progress in Gedo?

The people in that city just do not want a government.

The people in that city just do not want a government.

Why is that?

Murax if 20.000 Bantu bidda troops come to somalia the will start chaos meelkasta , do you think they will hold, Don't you somalia will fall into further anarchy and war and the so called shabaab will regroup just like they did after the Ethiopian invasion.

Emporer these Bantus might come come to bintiland and Somali land what will SL do if these Bantus try to enter SL?

lol sxb not everybody allowes xabashi or bantus to shell their people like barre (amxaar came twice in gedo, in 1994 and now) or the hutu's. We have leaders like Faroole who loves his people, who already said we don't need foreign troops in Puntland

Muraxow,

I thought barre hiraale said on BBC he will call any foreign troops to help capture kismayo including yahuuda?

Winner Mooryaan
Winner Eelaay
Loser Darod

This Jalaato makes D-block look bad

what do you expect warlords like qanyare only here through 4.5 they dont want to be sacked they;

lol sxb not everybody allowes xabashi or bantus to shell their people like barre (amxaar came twice in gedo, in 1994 and now) or the hutu's. We have leaders like Faroole who loves his people, who already said we don't need foreign troops in Puntland

looool

Ay brought Eithos to PUntland Vs Itixaad
Eithos come into Galkacyo whenever they want, arrest Somalis and bring them back
Cadde Musse Had Eithos in Galkacyo to stop ICU if they came past Galkacyo

Puntland=Kilinka 6nd more than any other Somali region

Infact You Guys even wanted to bring Eithos to fight ten warsangeli wadaado in the mountains, lool

Since the bulk of the Al-Ittihad forces operating in Puntland were of Hawiye origin, the predominantly Majertain population of the region reacted with anger against the measures taken by the radical Islamic organization. The measures were also interpreted as a concerted anti-Darood effort aimed at imposing a Hawiye-dominated rule on Somalia. Hence, the majertain public rallied behind Col. Yusuf, rejecting the conciliatory tone adopted by the political chairman of the SSDF, Gen. Muse, who was strongly disinclined to support any move that could result in bloody confrontation between Al-Ittihad and the SSDF.

The public entirely behind him, Abdillahi Yusuf fought against Al-Ittihad in almost all the main towns of the region, including Garowe, Bosaso, Laskoray, and Las Anod, in June 1992. Facing their baptism of fire, Al-Ittihad organized reinforcements from their strongholds in Somaliland and southern Somalia and as far as the Somali region of Ethiopia. This was the bloodiest of all the battles fought by Al-Ittihad in its entire history. According to eyewitness accounts, thousands of combatants have perished from both sides, as the fighting degenerated into an all-out public uprising. Although at a very high cost, Al-Ittihad eventually received a shattering blow. It was militarily defeated; its forces disarmed and routed out of the region. It was forced to retreat from the towns and other strategic locations occupied and its influence contained, if not fully curtailed.

IV.3 Gedo Region

The Gedo region in southwestern Somalia has been the first area in Somalia in which an Islamic administration has been set up by Al-Ittihad. In the early years of 1990s, the region has been notoriously identified as a formidable bastion of International Islamic extremists, as militants hailing from many Muslim countries congregated there. Religious extremists from Sudan, Iraq, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Pakistan convened and coalesced in Gedo to train Al-Ittihad fighters, establish forward logistic bases for terrorist activities particularly directed at Ethiopia and to provide professional security protection to top Al-Ittihad leaders.

For many years, Gedo served as a rear logistics base for Al-Ittihad’s forces fighting against Ethiopia, within the Somali region of Ethiopia. As a stronghold of Al-Ittihad, it prompted brief but recurrent incursions of Ethiopian defense forces into the region, since 1996. Ethiopian troops raided Gedo on several occasions to disable Al-Ittihad, which claimed responsibility for a number of terrorist attacks in Ethiopia.

Al-Ittihad took over the control of Gedo region soon after the downfall of the Somali government in 1991, under the command of Mohamed Haji Yusuf (Mareehan), a former Judge of the Higher Court of Somalia. The town of Luuq became the seat of Al-Ittihad’s administration in Gedo. In a stretch of several years, it established a police force, Islamic courts, Islamic education centers, and health centers, all intricately linked to the principles of Islamic Sharia laws. It outlawed the chewing of Qat (khat), reduced the stature and importance of traditional Islamic leaders, and built special mosques that served, exclusively, as communal centers for Islamists.

The grand strategy of Al-Ittihad in its seizure of Gedo region was to forge inland linkages between Al-Ittihad in Somalia and those in Northeastern Frontier District (NFD) of Kenya. Al-Ittihad maintained strong presence in NFD even prior to the collapse of the Somali government. It dominated the transportation business in both Kenya and Uganda and established and operated a number of Islamic schools.

After the defeat of Al-Ittihad in Gedo region by Ethiopian defense forces, Mohamed Haji Yusuf fled to Mandera town in Kenya to join his wife who was residing there already. The rest of the Al-Ittihad leaders, including Hasan Daahir Aways (Habargidir, Ayr), retreated to Mogadishu. Hassan Daahir Aways, one of the top leaders of Al-Ittihad, settled in Merca after his flight from Gedo, where he established the first Islamic court in Lower Shabelle region. (Hassan Dahir Aways, a former colonel in the Somali army, was the head of the military-wing of Al-Ittehad Al-Islami in Somalia. He is based in Mogadishu)). In 1999, he became in-charge of the southern Mogadishu Islamic court, while his associate Sheikh Ali Dheere (Abgaal) presided over the northern Mogadishu Islamic court.

Although Al-Ittihad has been defeated militarily in Gedo, their socio-economic infrastructure is still in tact. The remnants of Al-Ittihad fighters have finally regrouped around the towns of Elwaq and Buulo Hawo, near the Kenyan border.

^ You have never been known to fight your own battles!

Even in Galgala it is Warsan's fighting Sheik Atom for you. You armed SSC for personal gain. Karma is a bitch. I am waiting to laugh Loud once you get what is coming for you

Murax if 20.000 Bantu bidda troops come to somalia the will start chaos meelkasta , do you think they will hold, Don't you somalia will fall into further anarchy and war and the so called shabaab will regroup just like they did after the Ethiopian invasion.

Emporer these Bantus might come come to bintiland and Somali land what will SL do if these Bantus try to enter SL?

lol sxb not everybody allowes xabashi or bantus to shell their people like barre (amxaar came twice in gedo, in 1994 and now) or the hutu's. We have leaders like Faroole who loves his people, who already said we don't need foreign troops in Puntland