SOMALILAND: Sool elders hold secret meetings with Al Shabab

[AsadSL]

MOGADISHU (Somalilandpress) — Members of Dhulbahante’s religious order and elders have been holding a secret meeting organised by Banadir Islamic Society with Al Shabab in Somalia’s capital for the past week.

The meeting which was spearheaded by Sheikh Ali Muhammad Hassan, head of Banadir Islamic Society, took place in Mogadishu and brought together members of Dhulbahante clan from Sool region in Somaliland and senior members of Al Shabab group. The Dhulbahante delegation was led by Mr Ahmed Abdullahi Shanlo, who is an important elder in the tribe and Ali Abdalla Hassan, an intellectual and religious figure.

The group praised al shabab for their holy war in Somalia and said they stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the radical group and their “Islamic agenda” for the region. Mr Shanlo compared their religious war with that one Muhammad Abdullah Hassan (Mad Mullah) has waged against the British, Italians and the Ethiopians at the end of the eighteenth century. Mr Shanlo described the current war Al Shabab is waging as just and holy.

Many believe Muhammad Abdullah Hassan and Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd’Allah (the Mahdi), a Sufi Sheikh of the Samaniyya order in Sudan to have inspired Al qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. Mohammad Abdullah Hassan received most of his religious training in what is present day Saudi Arabia, where he studied a fundamentalist brand of Islam called Salihiya, a neo-Sufis teachings similar to the Wahhabism. When Muhammad Abdullah returned to Somaliland he created a religious split among the Somalis between Salihiya and pro-Qadiri brotherhood which led to armed confrontations. Mohammad and his darwish (dervish) army were eventually defeated in 1920.

Mr Hassan on his part requested support from al shabab against a recent Ethiopian forces that crossed into the town of Buhodle, the traditional home of Sayid Abdullah.

Ethiopia recently established a military post just in the outskirts of Buhodle that has largely angered the locals. The two sides clashed about two weeks ago when the army seized at least 17 transport vehicles. The Ethiopians have since taken the transport across the border and into the town of Jigjiga (see Hundreds flee their homes in Buhodle).

Sheikh Ali Muhammad Hassan praised the Dhulbahante kinsmen for the recent clash with the Ethiopians in the town that left at least 13 dead and over 30 hurt.

In the end all parties agreed there was need to spread the Quran throughout the region.

The Dhulbahante clans mainly inhabit parts of Sanag and Sool in Somaliland’s eastern regions. The clan is currently divided between pro-Somaliland, Somalia, Puntland and Islamists groups that operate in Somalia’s south.

Al Shabab and some members of the Dhulbahante clan including the SSC who operate under the Northern Somalia Unionist Movement (NSUM) want to spoil the presidential elections in Somaliland by targeting polling stations, transportation and the military personnel in Sool and Sanag regions.

Both Sool and Sanag regions are within Somaliland but small members of the locals want to be part of Mogadishu.

Somalilandpress | Saturday, June 5, 2010

[Siciid85]

Deport al shabab sympathizers.

[malakumod]

nothing but a pure calaacal

[Goljano Lion]

nothing but a pure calaacal

http://www.riinji.com/full.php?id=5853

Isimadan iyo Coqaashan ayaa ka soo horjeeda Hogaankan SSC Iyo Dib u xoraynta SSC,Garaad Cabdilahi Soofe,Suldan Siciid Cisman,Garaad Suleman Buraale ayaa iyagu ahaa Isimadii ka soo kacay gogoshii Shirkii Buuro wadal halkaasi oo ay maanta carqalada iyo kaa daadin ay ka wadan Magaalada Buuhoodle

YAA HABAARAY DHULBAHANTE

[SahanGalbeed]

Habaar !!

[Cali_Gaab]

Not so much of a 'secret meeting' when Somalilandpress has made it public

[Goljano Lion]

Habaar !!

waar reer abitigaa, qaar baa ku shirayaa xamar, qaarna hargeisa joogaan , qaarna Puntlan, waa halkii mara case, reerkan baas ya u taliyaa horta?

[SahanGalbeed]

Mara case weligii saas ma odhan e , been ha ka sheegin odayga

[guryasame]

Salahiya, Samaniya, and the Mahdist movement inspired wahhaabism and al-qaacida must be considered the joke of the century, only the delusional and disoriented elders of the south sool could claim, they neither understood the salaxiya they claimed to follow yesterday nor the wahhaabism they are being seduced into today lol.

[Goljano Lion]

Habaar !!

waar reer abitigaa, qaar baa ku shirayaa xamar, qaarna hargeisa joogaan , qaarna Puntlan, waa halkii mara case, reerkan baas ya u taliyaa horta?

: Il a dit ca , mais c,etait pour un autre clan reer sheikh isaaq

[grandpakhalif]

the mujahideen are ready to fight ethiopians or their lackies

[guryasame]

Salahiya, Samaniya, and the Mahdist movement inspired wahhaabism and al-qaacida must be considered the joke of the century, only the delusional and disoriented elders of the south sool could claim, they neither understood the salaxiya they claimed to follow yesterday nor the wahhaabism they are being seduced into today lol.

[hargaysaay]

alshabab haday xamar gacanta ku dhigto maalmo ayay somaliland iyo puntland kula wareegaysaa

[malakumod]

these inogble clowns think that people will be fooled by these baseless fabrication.

Give me one Garaad who participated in that alleged meeting.

I tell you how many Isaaq individuals who make up the leadership of AlShabaab, begining witih AHMED ABDI GODANE, IBRAAHIM ZAYLICI (Ibraahim-Afgaan), Siciid Axmed Jaar, Maxamed Maxamuud Nuur(faruur), Aadan Xoosh, Saleebaan Suudi Carraale(in Guantanamo), Sh.Cabdiqani Aw Saalax, Xuseen Al-Xusayni, Cabdiraxmaan Xagar, Ibraahim Xaaji Jaamac Meecaad, Cabdilaahi Gaab, Maxamed Cilmi Samatar, and many more.

These indiviuals are all Isaaq tribe. So, if apply your twisted logic here, they represent isaaq, therefore isaaq supports terrorism.

Give me the name of one dhulbahante in Alshabaab?