With respect to the maps you've presented here in the past, I must say I couldn't help but notice how Puntland grew smaller and smaller with each new map. I'm surprise you didn't just annexed the whole thing, the maps were your own drawing after all.
That said, if I was to base my judgment on how you've done away with Puntland it is quite obvious your not being fair toward the TFG's ex-president too.
Is he really a warlord? Only if you define a warlord as someone who stood up against a dictatorship; only if you define a warlord as someone who led 1/3 of Somalia in an organized fashion; only if you define a warlord as someone who wasted 4 years of his life in leading a nation full of crazed people.James Dahl wrote:Abdullahi Yusuf was a warlord.
Sharif Sheikh Ahmad is a scholar.
Did he really start the civil war? The civil war in Somalia started in 1988 and at the time I believe the man you accuse of starting it was behind Ethiopian prison after Ethiopia's leadership at the time and that of Somalia dictatorship agreed to put him behind bars. If anything the man must be applauded for being the first to repel against a cruel dictatorship.Abdullahi Yusuf started the civil war.
Sharif Sheikh Ahmad ended it.
Flesh news, the dictatorship used the Ogaden War as a tactic to distract the attention away from them, the whole war was an excuse to break the army's back so they don't get overthrown themselves like they've done away with the previous government and it worked. A lot of soliders I must say weren't fortunate enough to find out about the regimes true intentions, but veterans like Mr. Yusuf given their experience have; you can accuse the man all you want but this is the same man that participated in the war of 1964 against Ethiopia, a war in which he was honored for his bravery.Abdullahi Yusuf fought for Ethiopia in the Ogaden War, and invited them into Somalia to attack Somalis.
Sharif Sheikh Ahmad negotiated Ethiopia's exit from Somalia.
Fast-forward to 2006, you accuse the man of bring the Ethiopians, I think your forgetting the UIC was agitating the TFG, making it plain—in no uncertain terms—that it had its eyes on toppling the fledgling TFG and conquering Baidoa, the only town in the South that remained free from their grip. Do your homework first before you accuse anyone.
No comment.Abdullahi Yusuf created a clan-based region that has fragmented steadily since it's formation.
Sharif Sheikh Ahmad created a clan-free organization that has become more diverse since it's formation.
The economy of the south was ruin beyond repair way before Mr. Yusuf ever set foot in Villa Somalia. Things might have been flourishing under the UIC rule in your view; others though give us different picture:Abdullahi Yusuf destroyed the economy of the south under his rule.
Sharif Sheikh Ahmad made the southern economy flourish under his rule.
Anyhow, if Abdullahi Yusuf was another Darod tyrant, he is now gone and is no longer an "obstacle to peace." If Ethiopian troops were the only problem, they have now returned to their own land after learning an important lesson in Somalia. So lets hope Mogadishu seizes the moment.
