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Xabashis "training" somali forces. Yeah, that doesn't sound ridiculous at all. Somalis are fcking useless.gurey25 wrote:Saciid the outcome of these talks and these exact statements released was known months before.
I was only holding my breath because that damn fool bidaarley foriegn minister was there.
i was expecting him to drop the ball, but alxamdulilah there was a large group of more experienced people with him.
all in all it is a net gain for somaliland, we have solved the problem in 2 major areas.
1. khatumo: there was always a danger that the government would start funding them, today they are broke and are slowly melting away eventually re-integrating with somaliland. Even at its height last year their hit and run attacks were not that effective and their containment would have been sustainable.
for the past few months they have been broke and they have been inactive.
The only thing that would have re-ignited their khatumo project was a too aggressive somaliland response
and this would have involved the international community.
There is another reason why Somaliland troops are deployed in the area, it is to prevent retaliation from habar jeclo nomads
who need to be restrained by the government to prevent janjaweed action and a clan war.
2. Military aid: apart from a few bright spots somalilands military is utter crap, the only thing saving as is that all other armed forces in somalia are as bad as us or worse.
one of the bright spots is the 30 to 40 officers that went through Ethiopias harar military academy, and received 4 year and 2 year qualifications in officer training and engineering/medical disciplines.
these along with the other couple dozen still enrolled could be used as the base of a real modern armed force.
Somalia will take years to train people like them.
The danger is that in the african environment the training of NCO's(non-commisioned officers) is far more important and will deliver quick results. They are getting this right now from Turkey and Egypt.
just 2 years of intensive training focused on NCO's will mean that somalias armed forces will multiply in effectiveness and be able to present a threat to somaliland.
Somaliland getting its share of the training means that we don't miss out and the strategic equation remains the same.
The equipment received is a bonus but this training is the real threat and it has been resolved.
The talks will take time, but they will be resolved before the middle of next year.
No. Its you who have little horizon.Kafkaesque wrote:What an incoherent message. He went from Somaliland won to Shatiguduud's funeral.
The digging is happening in Caynaba and Oodweyne, the former is settledGrant wrote:
http://allafrica.com/stories/201304140182.html
"According to the source, the main reason for the meeting which was brokered by Turkey after the Somaliland government requested it, was to establish grounds for Turkish oil exploration in the contested regions of Somaliland.
Genel - a Turkish oil exploration and production company - has stake in five blocks in the contested regions of northern Somalia. The company shares stock with Australian Oil Company Jacka Resources and Petrosoma.
Some of the regions in which the oil exploration companies have bought stake in have been contested by Puntland and Somaliland and the local militia. Many residents of the regions have been very outspoken of the presence of the Somaliland military in the regions.
In January, the Somaliland government exchanged in clashes with local militia in Hudun, a town still not under the authority of the Somaliland government resulting in many Somaliland troops injured in the gunfight."
Whether or not Xudun is in the Nugaal block I don't care.Grant wrote:AK47,
It's clear all the ESL didn't do you much good. Learn to read and then consider what really happened in Ankara. The last time I checked Hudun was in the Nugaal block.
He's a bloody cult member from Utah.skywalker25 wrote:Grant your a two bit Darod propagandist who grew fat in afweyene Somalia. People like you have no space in today's Somalia. So you can keep cheerleading from your basement in Canada it won't change nothing. It should have sunk in by now the team u support has lost. Your time would be better spent moving on.
Sool and Sanaag will forever be in Isaaq hands.
