GALKACYO TOWN OF PUNTLAND FALLS TO ISLAMISTS

[fagash_killer]

Galkayo Town of Puntland Falls to Islamists in Recent Clashes

The East African (Nairobi)
NEWS
November 21, 2006
Posted to the web November 21, 2006

By Abdulkadir Khalif, Special Correspondent
Nairobi

Latest reports reaching Mogadishu indicate that heavy fighting erupted between the forces of the Union of the Islamic Courts (UIC) of Somalia and militia loyal to Col Abdi Hassan Awale alias Abdi Qaybdeed. The hostility took place near Bandiradley village in Mudug region, 700km north of Mogadishu. Col Qaybdeed was reportedly backed by forces of the semi-autonomous authority of Puntland in northeastern Somalia.

Being a sparsely vegetated area with harsh terrain, Bandiradley and its surroundings does not offer many hiding places. A military confrontation is often a fight to the death. Initial news indicated that Col Qaybdeed's militia suffered heavy losses and were forced to retreat in the face of aggressive Islamist forces.

Although this last confrontation has taken place away from the capital, Col Qaybdeed is remembered as the last warlord ousted from Mogadishu by the Islamists. It happened when he resisted their request to surrender his weapons in July following the disintegration of the so-called Restoration of Peace and Anti-terrorism coalition.

Col Qaybdeed retreated to his home area of Mudug region in Central Somalia. His main mission was to oppose the Islamist forces moving towards Galkayo town, the capital of Mudug region. His influence scored some success when the Islamists were met by angry mobs and retreated.

The Islamists blamed Qaybdeed and the authority of Puntland, which controls a large territory in northeastern Somalia including two thirds of Galkayo. The town is officially known as the most southern border of Puntland, hence being susceptible to influence from the troubled southcentral regions of Somalia.

To defend Galkayo from incursion by the Islamists, Qaybdeed assembled his militia 60km south of Bandiradley village. Although it was not officially admitted, the colonel was helped by the Puntland authority and even by a small Ethiopian contingency.

Since July, there has been war of wards between the opposing sides without the Islamists leaving Galinsor district and the coalition forces remaining stationed at Bandiradley, 90 km away.

With reports of Bandiradley village and the surrounding area falling to the Islamists, the buffer zone separating the Islamists and the Puntland authority is gone. To make matters worse, some clansmen from Galkayo area were influenced by the Islamists ideology.

A significant number of influential people from the portion of the town controlled by Puntland state voiced their support for the Islamists and even announced their intention to establish their "own brand" of Islamic Courts, unofficially allied with the courts in Mogadishu and most of South-Central Somalia.

Mohamed Mohamud Jimale alias Agaweyne, the spokesman of Al-Furqan Islamic Court in central Somalia vowed to defeat any resistance against the Islamists in Mudug region and even to cross over to the Puntland to work with sympathisers.

The Puntland authority vehemently denied that it was siding with Qaybdeed in his confrontation with the Islamists. Ali Abdi Aware, Puntland's minister for Regional Affairs explained his authority's guiding principles. "We exist to safeguard the security of our people," Minister Aware stated. "We are here to protect our people against any threat whether it is from Islamists or from other sources," he added.

To generate some kind of assurance, Ahmed Abdi Habsade, Puntland's Interior Minister insisted that his government would do anything to protect Puntland's stability. Some people interpreted the officer's remarks to mean that the best strategy to protect Puntland from advancing Islamists was by supporting Qaybdeed, even though that might anger the clergymen whose wider ambition is to rule the whole of Somalia via Sharia.

The violent confrontation around Galkayo town is not only a threat to Puntland but also a litmus test to the determination of the Islamists to gain the total control of the Somali territory.

In defence of Puntland, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) is said to be flying ammunitions and other military stuff from its base in Baidoa town, 240km southwest of Mogadishu to Galkayo, 750km north of the capital. Col Mohamud Muse Hersi (Adde Muse), the president of Puntland is said to have declared a state of emergency and even escorted a convoy of military vehicles from the port town of Bossaso to nearly 800Km away to Galkayo.

A looming danger as a result of confrontations between the Islamists and the semi-autonomous state of Puntland worries not only Somalis but also the international community. In a recent BBC radio debate, Jendayi Frazer, the US Assistant Secretary of State accused the Islamists of dangerously advancing towards Puntland. She warned against such expansionist tendency.

Professor David Shin, a former US ambassador to Ethiopia and a Horn of Africa expert believes that a war involving the TFG and Ethiopia on one side and the Islamists and their sympathisers on the other seems imminent.

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

Nothing here says Galcaio has fallen. Did you read it before you posted it?

[PragmaticGal]

He just wanted to get many hits

[Sir-Luggoyo]

It's not just Galkacyo, it's the whole Puntland that has submitted to the UIC and assigned a committee consisting paramount chiefs and religious leaders how and when the implementation will take effect.


http://www.dayniile.com/November/20november6.htm


Mad Cow,

I know your Somali sukks but let this biatch translate it to you

[Ashlee~]

Sir luggoyo and Faqash K the propoganda machine.

PUNTLAND has established a Islamic court seperate from the hutu court Puntland has not been captured and will not be inshallah until Fiqishinis fly

[AbdiWahab252]

Luugoyo: All Caade Muse said was the implementation of Sharia law at the government level NOT submitting to the UIC.

No to Dahir Awey's Tora Bora Wahhabism

[Sir-Luggoyo]

Puntland existed and was peaceful for the last sixteen years and never have they remotely excercised anything religious (Somaliland is closer by adopting the flag with the Shahadah), so why now? Of all the times, why now? When they realized that UIC is on the fringes of Galkacyo and resistance is futile is when they proclaimed Islam and Shareeca. How does that sound to you?

I call it submission, not to the Almighty but to mere human beings, it's cowardise to the core.



Abdi,

These are the times you sh!t in your pants and cease making sense at all. Just shutup

[Ashlee~]

No sir lugguyo

Puntland his the home of somaali siyasaad. The game of cat and mouse was made in bargaal and perfected in bosasso Cadde muuse is doing what any sane person would do.

Look for a reason to play with the peoples aspiration. Now you know most puntlanders are qabiilist. But The cimaamaad wearing jihaadi hutus know that there are some sympathisizers to there cause. Now if The Hutu courts attack puntland the question will be raised " Why attack a peaceful region and second why attack a peaceful region under shariica".

You see it plays to caddes ploy. He knows now that if any attack surfaced it will be a hawiye vs Darood and Specifically Majerteen war.

The final outcome will look similar to Boqor cusmaan kenadiid with his cat o nine tails over the back of aweys khamiis ceyr mabuuto and the 9 thieves of ceelbuur

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

Islam socks!

[THE ELEMENT]

"Galkayo city has fallen to the ICU" says the Fagash boy...at a time when the PL war commanders are saying:

"We are preparing to wage an attack on the terrorists around Bandiradley to retake the town"

Iga dheeh...some hallucinating Ma F@cker

...Listen boy, as many as 8,000 heavily armed "Daraawiish" gunmen loyal to authorities in the autonomous State of Puntland have vowed to resist the ICU terrorists (the "Cayr" and Co. political movement faction under the umbrella of Islam) who are stationed some 70 km south of Galkayo City...ee...cut the bullcrap!

[Sakhraan]

Huush-boy lives in Hoeland,,,The Dutch pot fukked his brain

SAKHRAAN,SEEKER OF TRUTH & JUSTICE

[Galol]

Lug

Galkacyo will never fall because it is peaceful under its Sacad wisemen and Puntland authority in the north.

Somalis are not easily influenced by imported ideas and what the ICU is selling is an alien, imported idea. It will never work.

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

Islam still socks.

[Sir-Luggoyo]

[quote="Ashlee~"]No sir lugguyo



Now if The Hutu courts attack puntland the question will be raised " Why attack a peaceful region and second why attack a peaceful region under shariica".

:[/quote]

UB,



Me and you see it from the same perspective, the difference is, you like to call it siyaasad, but I am just being blunt and prefer to call it "submission and cowardice"


Galol,

No one is imposing anything alien to the MJ land, the wadaado are using methodical, systematic influence of inciting the public against their currupt warlord leaders and offering an alternative of implementing the Shareeca and living under God's law as opposed to supple man made one. They are winning the hearts and minds of the public and the public are forcing their leaders to comply and conform as in the case of Cadde Muse and his cohorts. This will eventually seep into S-Land, and b4 you know it, you will hear the country's name from BBC "The Islamic Republic of Somalia"

[fagash_killer]

[quote="Sir-Luggoyo"]It's not just Galkacyo, it's the whole Puntland that has submitted to the UIC and assigned a committee consisting paramount chiefs and religious leaders how and when the implementation will take effect.


http://www.dayniile.com/November/20november6.htm


Mad Cow,

I know your Somali sukks but let this biatch translate it to you[/quote]

tell them sxb