http://www.somalilandtimes.net/sl/2007/300/1.shtml
Duale: “We’ll Take Pre-emptive Strike”
Issue 300
Front Page
Index
Headlines
Duale: “We’ll Take Pre-emptive Strike”
Somaliland Takes Control Of Las Anod
Haatuf Media Chairman Meets Lord Avebury In London
Media Executive of Prominent Radio Station Assassinated in Mogadishu
Somalia 'investigates' WFP head
Expert: Ethiopia's Invasion Of Somalia 'A Disastrous Miscalculation'
Mass Murder in the Horn of Africa
Somali PM Urges Dialogue Between Somaliland & Puntland
Inside a city of fear - in Mogadishu there is death by cellphone
Who Is Behind The Campaign To Smear The Reputation Of SHURO-Net, And Why?
University Of SA On Somaliland In Ohio And Havana!!
Only fearful officials resign: Somalia PM
Islamist leader denies having links with Somaliland-Puntland fighting
Regional Affairs
Puntland Calls For Intervention In Regional Fighting
CPJ Condemns Assassination Of Prominent Somali Journalist
2 Puntland Policemen Wounded In Gunfight, House Surrounded
Somalia: Situation Report - 19 Oct 2007
Somali PM in Ethiopia amid debate on his fate
Poets Hadrawi, Gaariye And Ganey In London For The Somali Week Festival
Somali president, PM duel in political showdown
Ethiopia: Tracks down Refugees from the Ogaden for Forcible Repatriation
Explosion in Somalia kills three children
Not the right time to explore in Somalia, says oil minister
Hijacked S Korean Crews `Living Like Animals’: Captain
YEMEN: Over 3,000 Somalis living in harsh conditions, community leader says
Somalia public urged to defend themselves against govt injustice
UN and World Bank: Women dying from pregnancy, childbirth at almost same rate as 1990
Police Raid Injures Eight People in East
Editorial
Somaliland should consolidate its gains in Las Anod and pursue regime change in Majeerteenya
Special Report
REPORT ON OIL & GAS POTENTIAL
IN SOMALILAND
REPORT ON FAMILIARISATION TOUR TO SOMALILAND
International News
Cheney increases U.S. oratory against Iran
Somalis’ Struggle In The UK
Somali Writer Added To 'Most Wanted' List In Minneapolis
Two plead guilty in slaying of teen who escaped war-torn Somalia
FEATURES & COMMENTARY
The Ogaden Crisis And Its Implications Within The Horn Of Africa Region
3 Top Govt. Officials Urgently Called in Addis Ababa
The Ethiopian Jewish community discovered by Scottish explorer
Can African Wildlife And Forest Be Protected?
Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2007 - Eritrea Ranked Last For First Time While G8 Members, Except Russia, Recover Lost Ground
Taiwan is already a `normal country'
THE DENTION OF Dr. YUSUF ALI HARUN THE FULL STORY
Eyes Wide Shut
Iranian-Born German Striker Refuses To Play In Israel
Food for thought
Armed Conflict Costs Africa $18 Billion Each Year
Opinions
A letter of appeal for cessation of hostilities to the leaders of Somaliland and Puntland
How Puntland Administration Has Become A Rudderless Ship In Sool
Recover After Heart Surgery
All Las-Anoders Are Winners
The Theories And Realities Of Kulmiye!!
Somalilanders Refute The Claims From Puntland
A Job Well Done For President Rayale But What Is Next?
Complaint About Your Editorial
Abdillahi Muhammad Duale
Hargeysa, 20 October, 2007 (SL Times) – Somaliland Foreign Minister, Abdillahi Muhammad Duale warned Puntland that, “Somaliland forces will take ‘pre-emptive strikes’ against the enclave of Puntland and will attack its major cities, if it doesn’t stop its aggression against Somaliland.”
Speaking to the BBC World Somali Service on Wednesday, Duale reiterated his government’s commitment to secure “ Somaliland’s borders from foreign aggressors.”
“Somaliland has lost patience with Puntland and will not sit by and watch, doing nothing, while its people and territory is under constant attack and terror,” Duale said.
The minister was asked: “what truth is there to Puntland's President, Ade Muse’s, claim that Somaliland was helped by former Islamic Courts fighters and Al-Qaida terrorists and that he has strong evidence to back his claim?”
“What nonsense. Nobody is going to fall for such propaganda. The entire world knows that Somaliland does not harbour terrorists, particularly, when you consider the fact that Somaliland has been a victim to terrorism. With 5 assassinations carried out on expatriates working in our country. These and similar operations were plotted and funded from the south ( Somalia) and trained in Eritrea. Somaliland is the only country in the region which has captured terrorists and prosecuted them in a court of law and secured long prison sentences against them.”
Excerpts of the interview.
BBC: P/land claim's S/land attacked its forces in Las Anod, is this true?
Duale: No, it’s not true. It was P/land who first attacked our forces from three positions in the early hours of Monday morning. Our forces repelled all three of P/land’s attacks and this led our forces to chase out the rest of their troops, positioned, in and around Las Anod.
BBC: Isn’t Las Anod a town belonging to P/land?
Duale: No. Las Anod is part and parcel of S/land. Sool region has been historically, culturally and politically linked with rest of S/land and has always been part of S/land. It was in 1991, in the Buroa conference, all the clans and representatives of the six regions (making up S/land) conveyed to the world that they have withdrawn from the 1960 act of union with Somalia and have established their former territory comprising of the ex-British Somaliland Protectorate as the independent state and republic of S/land. P/land has no whatsoever historical or legal claims over this region. P/land’s flimsy argument is based on clan ties and that’s all.
BBC: S/land and P/land, both, blame each other for starting the conflict. Who are we to believe?
Duale: The international community, know full well that S/land is responsible for the stability and peace prevailing in this region. P/land has in the past attacked, on at least ten different occasions, the armed forces of S/land based in the region, and every time, it was S/land who restrained its forces because the stability of the region was more important and valuable to us than taking retaliatory punitive actions against P/land.
It was not longer ago when the current president of P/land, Ade Muse, was fighting Abdillahi Yusuf (current TFG president) who was then P/land’s president. His forces were defeated and chased out of P/land by Abdillahi.
Ade Muse and his forces, numbering a few thousand took the refuge and protection of the government of S/land and were settled in the S/land’s armed forces base in Yagore, in Sanag region.
Ade Muse begged us to support him and help him capture P/land from Abdillahi Yusuf. He pleaded for us to supply him arms and logistics in his struggle to liberate P/land from Abdillahi Yusuf. And in return for our assistance, he vowed to recognise S/land.
We refused to arm Ade Muse and use him and his forces ‘in a proxy war’ to fight against Abdillahi Yusuf in P/land. Even though, P/land’s forces, at that particular juncture of time were occupying Las Anod and were at war with us.
Instead, we convinced Ade Muse to settle the matter with Abdillahi Yusuf through dialogue. It was S/land who mediated the conflict between Ade Muse and Abdillahi Yusuf. We nominated traditional elders from S/land to act as envoys and reconcile the two.
S/land spent time and money in getting Ade Muse and Abdillahi Yusuf to cease their hostilities and come to an agreement. It was us who reconciled the two warlords to patch up and guaranteed Abdillahi Yusuf that Ade Muse is willing to talk and put down his arms. Again, it was us who got Abdillahi Yusuf to agree to some of Ade Muse’s demands. Ade Muse returned to P/land and was given an official ceremony by Abdillahi Yusuf and became a high ranking government official in Abdillahi Yusuf’s administration and went on to become the president of P/land.
All this said; it’s obvious that S/land, past and present has valued the region’s stability more than its neighbouring countries. And, it’s unfortunate that today, the president of P/land, Ade Muse, is claiming to the world that S/land wants to destabilise the region as a whole. This is the very same man who begged us few years ago to supply him arms to fuel his war with Abdillahi Yusuf.
BBC: You recently travelled to Addis Ababa, was this to hold talks with Ade Muse
Duale: No. My trip had nothing to do with our conflict with P/land. Ade Muse was present in Addis when I was there but we never met. Nor did we go their to talk with the Ethiopian government over the conflict, we went their as routine, to discuss strengthening on how the two states can improve the current bilateral ties and partnership enjoyed by the two countries.
BBC: Did the Ethiopian government talk to you about the conflict in Sool region?
Duale: No, it didn’t. As I said, we merely talked about issues relating to the cooperation in security, trade and commerce existing between us (S/land and Ethiopia).
Source: Somaliland Times
INTERVIEW WITH MINISTER OF FOREING AFFAIRS SOMALILAND
Moderators: Moderators, Junior Moderators
Forum rules
This General Forum is for general discussions from daily chitchat to more serious discussions among Somalinet Forums members. Please do not use it as your Personal Message center (PM). If you want to contact a particular person or a group of people, please use the PM feature. If you want to contact the moderators, pls PM them. If you insist leaving a public message for the mods or other members, it will be deleted.
This General Forum is for general discussions from daily chitchat to more serious discussions among Somalinet Forums members. Please do not use it as your Personal Message center (PM). If you want to contact a particular person or a group of people, please use the PM feature. If you want to contact the moderators, pls PM them. If you insist leaving a public message for the mods or other members, it will be deleted.
- The_Emperior5
- SomaliNet Super
- Posts: 50031
- Joined: Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:45 pm
- Location: Suldaanka Guud beelaha reer Sheikh isxaaq Bani Axmed Bani Hashiim. In the republic of Soliziland
- Contact:
-
- Similar Topics
- Replies
- Views
- Last post
-
- 6 Replies
- 631 Views
-
Last post by sahal80
-
- 9 Replies
- 1169 Views
-
Last post by ToughGong
-
- 26 Replies
- 2039 Views
-
Last post by Hawdian
-
- 26 Replies
- 1480 Views
-
Last post by ToughGong
-
- 10 Replies
- 90 Views
-
Last post by The_Emperior5
-
- 10 Replies
- 1230 Views
-
Last post by The_Emperior5
-
- 1 Replies
- 614 Views
-
Last post by The_Emperior5
-
- 8 Replies
- 874 Views
-
Last post by SahanGalbeed
-
- 12 Replies
- 766 Views
-
Last post by Khalid Ali