International media don’t consider sool a dispute area

[The_Emperior5]

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)

[The_Emperior5]

BOSASSO, Somalia, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Troops from the breakaway Somali republic of Somaliland on Monday seized a village inside a rival region loyal to the interim Somali president, killing at least 10 people, witnesses said.

Somaliland, which broke off from Somalia when civil war erupted in 1991 and has governed itself since, ran troops from the neighbouring Puntland region out of the village of Las Anod and had threatened to move further east into Puntland.

"Ten dead people are lying in the streets of Las Anod," radio operator Mohamed Abdullahi told Reuters from the village which had until Monday been under Puntland's control since 2002.

Puntland, a semi-autonomous province, is allied to the fractious transitional federal government that is struggling to impose central rule over the Horn of Africa nation.

"Somaliland troops have captured the entire village and 100 Puntland troops. Somaliland has warned that if Puntland troops try to come back, they would not mind going deep into Puntland territory," a security official who tracks Somalia said.

The latest battle between the rival regions further complicates the fortunes of President Abdullahi Yusuf, who was president of his native Puntland before his election to national office in late 2004.

Somaliland's leaders detest Yusuf, a former warlord who invaded their capital Hargeisa in the late 1990s, and have refused to join his government -- now mired in a persistent insurgency and political split that has paralysed it.

Puntland and Somaliland for years have fought over their border, which was made when Britain took Somaliland as its colony and Italy the rest of what is now modern-day Somalia.

There were conflicting reports on whether Somaliland troops had advanced further into Puntland toward its capital Garowe, about 90 km (56 miles) to the east.

Somaliland's Defence Minister Abdillahi Ali told reporters that Somaliland troops had control of the checkpoint on the road to Garowe. A diplomat that tracks Somalia from Nairobi told Reuters Somaliland had advanced 25 km east of Las Anod.

Puntland officials had no comment except to say Puntland President Adde Muse was flying back to Garowe from Djibouti.

Puntland's military strength has waned since Yusuf took many of its militias for security since returning to Somalia in 2005.

Somaliland argues it should be given its own sovereignty since it has held democratic elections and done what most of the rest of Somalia has not since 1991 -- provide stability and relative security. (Additional reporting by Bryson Hull in Nairobi and Husein Ali Noor in Hargeisa)




This what they said 3 years ago almost

[The_Patriot]

Well does it recognise SLin the 1st place?

[Xashi]

International media dont give a fock about Sool

This dusty towns are only important to Somalis.

[The_Emperior5]

Well does it recognise SLin the 1st place?

thats not the case as long as they see it as the Part of the break away republic step by step my friend.

[The_Patriot]

Well does it recognise SLin the 1st place?

thats not the case as long as they see it as the Part of the break away republic step by step my friend.

yeah we need you guys to shift from Somalia to Kilil5
No more association with konfurians

[The_Emperior5]

Waryaa you just make sure you destroy Ethiopia then the huge influence Ethiopia has on somaliland and the region will stop koonfurians and koonfuria is no case my friend. They are out of the question.

[The_Patriot]

Waryaa you just make sure you destroy Ethiopia then the huge influence Ethiopia has on somaliland and the region will stop koonfurians and koonfuria is no case my friend. They are out of the question.

No need to destroy the beautiful country we only need to do a langab change

[The_Patriot]

Waryaa you just make sure you destroy Ethiopia then the huge influence Ethiopia has on somaliland and the region will stop koonfurians and koonfuria is no case my friend. They are out of the question.

No need to destroy the beautiful country we only need to do a langab change

[The_Emperior5]

Waryaa you just make sure you destroy Ethiopia then the huge influence Ethiopia has on somaliland and the region will stop koonfurians and koonfuria is no case my friend. They are out of the question.

No need to destroy the beautiful country we only need to do a langab change

Maa ileey baad heshiseen oo waxad rabtan inad Ethiopia xukuntan oo aad raisal was are ama madaxweyne heshaan.

[The_Patriot]

We dont want to be like Eritrea.
You see if we susceed then it will turn into North Korea vs Skorea
So the best thing is to make change within

[The_Emperior5]

We dont want to be like Eritrea.
You see if we susceed then it will turn into North Korea vs Skorea
So the best thing is to make change within

Interesting but this is not the time you lost your chance in the 90s when the tigray people liberation front was weak they needed you why would they want to give you know a big piece of the cake. So you think ogaden cant stand alone as independent country, you have a very good case your from another different ethnic group you share a different religion then northern chiefs hylanders.

[The_Patriot]

We dont want to be like Eritrea.
You see if we susceed then it will turn into North Korea vs Skorea
So the best thing is to make change within

Interesting but this is not the time you lost your chance in the 90s when the tigray people liberation front was weak they needed you why would they want to give you know a big piece of the cake. So you think ogaden cant stand online as impendent country, you have a very good case your from another different ethnic group you share a different religion then northern chiefs hylanders.

Emperior this is my own opinion and is not held by ONLF or other Ogadens.
But to me

I view a regime change and being very shrewd in dealing with Gagabta.
I would make recommendations that the countries official languge be English and history of Ethiopia to be rewritten in the truth light and all this gagab will be taught that Hitler and menelik were the same.

Secondly I would use Oromos,Sidamos, benishangul, Afar,Gurage, waleita etc on my advantage as they have also suffered the same fate as Somais in the Ogaden.
You see the oppression is not only restricted to Ogadens but the entire groups.

[nomadicwarlord]

Somaliland's leaders detest Yusuf...who invaded their capital Hargeisa in the late 1990s

Somaliland argues it should be given its own sovereignty since it has held democratic elections

What elections?

[Siciid85]

^1991, 1993, 1997, 2003 Presidential elections and 2005 open and free parliamentary elections.