Puntland VS Matt Bryden

[Grant]

http://horseedmedia.net/2012/09/13/soma ... acy-force/

Puntland is taking on Matt Bryden and the UN monitoring group over the group's claims the anti-piracy force is a private army in violation of UN arms embargoes.

Check out this article in Wiki:

"In 2008, Bryden was appointed to the UN Security Council's Monitoring Group, which is responsible for overseeing the arms embargo in Somalia. He continues to serve as coordinator of the UN's Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group.[12] Matt Bryden as Chair of the Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group alleges that various western governments, UN agencies, and others have violated the embargo – among the most interesting such allegation is in his April 2008 report, Bryden and his associates alleged that a U.S. missile strike against terrorist targets violated the embargo: “The Monitoring Group considers all weapons delivered to Somalia a violation of the embargo, irrespective of the manner in which they were delivered.”[13]

In a speech given on July 18, 2012, while serving as president of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, attacked the Somalia Eritrea Monitoring Group and it's Coordinator Matt Bryden. President Sharif said that "Matt Bryden is not ashamed to support the division of Somalia into two countries. Matt Bryden has a track record of being against the restoration of peace in Somalia."[14]
Controversy

The UN Security Council, the African Union, the Arab League, and the international community at large have confirmed the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Somalia.[1] Yet Bryden has identified himself with Somalialand, a breakaway enclave in northwestern Somalia, and has lobbied for its international recognition.[2] Supporters of a unified Somalia were therefore angered when Bryden, whom they accused of undermining efforts to promote peace in the region in order to further the case of Somaliland independence, was appointed in 2008 to the UN Security Council's Monitoring Group.[1] The appointment prompted the Somali Mission to the UN, for example, to issue a statement expressing "very serious concerns about Mr. Matt Bryden as a fair and independent expert." Others who share these concerns have questioned the neutrality of reports from the Somalia Eritrea Monitoring Group (SEMG), which regularly levels accusations of corruption at leaders of the Puntland Government.[15] Since his appointment, the Monitoring Group has come under criticism for a number of reports. Their March 2010 report suggested "that Somali transport contractors employed by the World Food Programme (WFP) were in cahoots with 'terrorist groups' or diverting food aid to the black market, thus enabling contractors to earn hundreds of millions of dollars, while local WFP operatives looked the other way." Abdi Ismail Samatar criticized Bryden's SEMG in an Al Jazeera piece, saying that they "callously politicised humanitarian assistance". He went on to say that the SEMG "seems to be an operation that collects rumours and innuendo to support its political objective."[16]

Bryden has made no secret of his support for Somaliland’s separation and independence. As Director of the African Program at the ICG, he oversaw in 2006 the preparation and publication of reports promoting the breakup of Somalia and the recognition of Somaliland.[1]

Various articles have been published assailing Bryden for the biases that allegedly flow out of this support.[1][17][18][2][19]

In 2006, for example, Omar Ali Haji and Nura K. Ali of the Qarshe & Tima-Ade International Center strongly criticized an ICG report by Bryden, describing it as lacking in objectivity and as being “full of irrelevant legal arguments and precedents for the dismemberment of a homogeneous country of Somalia.”[17] The authors cite Bryden's regular attendance at functions supporting the recognition of Somaliland and suggest that he was involved in leaking his ICG report "to organizations and individuals working for the dismemberment of Somalia." In 2006, Mohamoud Oogle maintained that Bryden, who was then running a UN-funded project that was intended "to contribute towards the peace and reconciliation process" in Somalia, has instead "gone out of his way to hinder Somalia's recovery, unity and stability by pursuing non-project, anti-Somali agendas." Oogle, who charged that for Bryden the project was merely a "a cover-up for engaging in wider, anti-Somalia covert and overt activities," concluded that for Somalia, Bryden "is an enemy in disguise." ”[18]

An article in Somalia Report made additional accusations of a highly serious nature. On December 10, 2010, the Somaliland government announced "a mysterious plane containing weapons and mercenaries bound for Puntland" had made an emergency landing in Hargeisa and been seized by Somalialand authorities.[20] Bryden and other members of the UN Monitoring Group traveled to Hargeisa, purportedly to investigate the situation. According to eyewitnesses, Bryden, in conversation with two South African nationals who had been aboard the plane and who were being held captive by Somalialand authorities, threatened them "with serious consequences if they didn't cooperate" with him. It turned out that the two South Africans were, as they claimed, journalists heading to Puntland to report on an anti-piracy training program. It also turned out that the plane had not made an emergency landing but had been making a routine stop; that it had been carrying neither weapons nor mercenaries; and that Bryden, along with other UN officials, had previously been briefed on the anti-piracy program. In short, Somaliland officials had had “no legal reason to detain the aircraft and its passengers,” and Bryden knew that. What had happened, in fact, in Hargeisa on December 10, according to the Somalia Report, was “that the UN had deliberately sabotaged a well-funded, well-run, Somali-led, land based anti piracy program.” The clear implication here was that Bryden's support for an independent Somaliland had led him to involve himself and the UN in unlawful actions that were harmful to the cause of law and order in Somalia.[20]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Bryden

[AbdiWahab252]

Facts:

1. Matt Bryden is a Somalilander and carries a Somalland passport.

2. Matt Bryden is married to a Somalilander.

3. Matt Bryden's objectivity can come into question due to his citizenship status along with the very limited references to Somaliland in the report especially over the conflict in Khaatumo.

[SahanGalbeed]

Pathetic , just like the daarod they are
The problem with these people is , it's always somebody's else fault , somebody is out to get them .

[Executive]

Facts:

1. Matt Bryden is a Somalilander and carries a Somalland passport.

2. Matt Bryden is married to a Somalilander.

3. Matt Bryden's objectivity can come into question due to his citizenship status along with the very limited references to Somaliland in the report especially over the conflict in Khaatumo.

This

[SahanGalbeed]

Maxaad tidhi AW , matt bryden is a somalilander citizen and has a somaliland passport ?
2 questions
Where have you seen his passport?
do you recognise somaliland as country ? what's with the dual citizenship gibberish ? how can somebody a citizen of a country you otherwise do not recognise ?
where is Khatumo and what territory do they control ?

[Zuluc]

SahanGalbeed who are the dooro people ?

[AbdiWahab252]

Sahan,

I have seen him use his passport to land in Hargeisa and argue with the immigration to be let in without paying a visa fee.

I am sure that if Matt Bryden was married to a Puntlander, you all would be crying foul if he wrote a report critical of Somaliland.

[SahanGalbeed]

Dooro =daarod
idoor=isaaq

[SahanGalbeed]

Sahan,

I have seen him use his passport to land in Hargeisa and argue with the immigration to be let in without paying a visa fee.

I am sure that if Matt Bryden was married to a Puntlander, you all would be crying foul if he wrote a report critical of Somaliland.

I am not gonna take your word for it , for I have good reason to believe otherwise other than the fact that it also suits me right now .{ basically you're very unreliable when it comes to the truth}
AW let's talk about what's in front of us , we'll come back to your hypotheticals later .
Is it true or not that South African mercenaries have built the Puntland so called anti piracy maritime forces ?
yes or no ?

[AbdiWahab252]

Sahan,

Wallahi oo billahi ... wejiga Illahey ba ku dhartey that carries a SOmaliland passport.

[Colonel]

2. Matt Bryden is married to a Somalilander.

below is Matt Bryden

[skywalker25]

Sahan,

Wallahi oo billahi ... wejiga Illahey ba ku dhartey that carries a SOmaliland passport.

We have seen threads after threads claiming that the Somaliland passport does not exist, and here you are claiming a whiteman carries one. And this whiteman so happens to be a canadian citizen. But you have us believe otherwise.

AW252 ever since your folks have been side lined in the race for the president with not even crumbs to being thrown their way. You have been losing your edge and not making much sense. The old AW252 could see things others wouldn't this new AW252 cant see what others can clearly see.

[SahanGalbeed]

Listen here man , here's what's up .
I will take them ONE by one , you answer if it is true or NOT , we'll all judge for ourselves if you're reliable or not .


1/

The program is the largest scale military program in Somalia, second only to the African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu. The program has established what is essentially a private army for the president of Puntland.

Yes or No ?
2/

There is no banking system, no border controls, and for the past two decades the UN Security Council has imposed a complete arms embargo there.

yes or no ?
3/

The Somalia Monitoring Group has identified a complex web of companies, called Saracen and Sterling Corporate Services, that were hired to train and equip the largest militia group in Somalia

yes or no ?
4/

There were a number of large shipments of military assistance for the force, and Saracen never sought to explain what these shipments were for to the monitoring group."

yes or no ?
5/

The men behind Saracen and Sterling are mostly former South African mercenaries and prominent among them is Mr Luitingh.

yes or no ?

[SahanGalbeed]

Aniga igu daa skywalker I am gonna debunk this mother,fucker , I have done many times before here wallahi

[SahanGalbeed]

War ninkii mee . Gudhuudu waxay ku odhanaysa , wejigii Ilaahey
War Ilaahey wejigiisa wax arkay ma jire , magacisa ayuun baa lagu markhaati baxa , wallahi ninkii ku dhaarta e been sheega waa ehlu naar .
Marka bal soo jawaab , @#!*% gudhus
Allah hawiye daarood u kaba sida , folxuma weyna