You're deluded fool.

What?

Also wasn't that Al Shabaab Galgala cell leader, Sheikh Atom, granted asylum to Qatar?

Could be a game between powerful forces to push up oil prices, allowing petrol states to pocket a handsome profit.

Yes it is disheartening that Somalis are using bombing to advance their political agenda. But that is the low quality of leadership Somalis have accepted. However, Foreigners would not dare to plan such things if Somalis on the ground were not helping them. Remember Kismayo? Evil people everywhere.

We need fearless people to help Somaliland become rich once it joins the United Nations

Making fun of somaliland is allowed by the forum rules if it comes from the blue flag people: But voicing my opinion about the blue flag nation goes against your idea of open debate? They do say hypocrisy is a southern treat. This is why Somalia is in a hell hole condition and will never come out of it. You are a hateful and miserable people. incapable of building 10% of the peace in Somaliland.

I am starting too, just a lot of misunderstand took place. Now we talk more. As for the Italian Somalia I will not stop they are not my family.

I see my post about ilhan possibly go to prison was deleted by delusional **** supporters of hers. With this level of dishonesty can you see why somalilanders want to succeed?

Realistically the Somalia Government has no real power over the port of Berbera. So any test to try an undermine Somaliland will back fire. BTW the cheeseman cannot control a single street in Mogadishu how is he going to control trade in Berbera? This is unrealistic. But in time Somaliland will get recognition and move on from this nightmare called Somalia.

Because I told the truth about a **** I am no longer a Somali? lol

Mogadishu became the capital of the Somali republic, why? Is this not a traditional Hawiyah clan city like Hargeisa is a Isaaq clan city. The English people started out in the city of London on the Thames river after the Romans had previously established a city called londinium on this same river. The Roman settlement was abounded in the 4th century A.D. The English moved in over 100's of years and then established a government. Now compare this with the Somalis. Wondering nomads moving about with no fix location, tending to their live stock, not building permanent settlements. So the question is simple at what point did a somali clan build Mogadishu? The name itself means the seat of the shah. It comes from the Persian word Maq'ad-i-Shah. This is a reflection of the city's early Persian influence. So were the Persians the Romans for the somalis. As the city is also called xamar by the Hawiyah clan. Notice the similar clan development of the Japanese people. However the key difference being that the Japanese people all started out in a capital called Kyoto and latter changed to Tokyo. The Japanese people understood that their government seat was in the capital city and if they needed answers they could go there. This is what I mean by national conscious. The reading and writing institution was also developed in the capital as well as the first libraries and museums to document the history of the nation. There were conflicts between warlords and clans but they all understood that in the end it was a government for the Japanese people and not a government for one shogun seeking succession from the rest of Japan or one clan annexing land to form a new country. This fractured clan living amongst the Somalis shows that their was not a single Somali consciousness that understood the idea of a national identity. The whole Somali ethnic group did not start out by founding a city called Xamar together and then moved outward into the horn of Africa to establish more cities (Hargeisa, Kisamyo, Bossaso..ect) always understanding that Xamar is their capital and the seat of their government. We are a nomadic wondering people with no real organic capital that Somalis built together. This is the root of the somali problem. we are not a nation but a collection of clans that speak a language called somali. I hope I have made my case clear.

Even business and profit margins do not survive clan politics. Is the Cheeseman going blockade Berbera port? And with whom's navy shall he block the port?

Anyone with half a brain could see this attack coming a mile off. She (like most Somalis) craves attention and money. Her ambition outweighs her intelligence. I suspect she was given some good advice by the democratic party top brass when she won her seat in 2018. But Somalis in general are hard of hearing and quick to temper.

My response are in bold.

When the union of Italian Somaliland and British Somaliland was signed into agreement between the colonial administrations. Were there any Somalis that objected to the union? I believe that there were and this is the foundation of my argument. Egal signed an agreement with the UK government to form a government in Somaliland, who gave him the idea to unite with Italian Somaliland? These two groups don't know each other and have not mixed with the southern clans in history, the north is very xenophobic and isolated. Otherwise if these two regions had know about each other for 100's of years as some claim. Then the North concerns and economic needs would not have been ignored and dismissed as if these people were foreigners from another country. To form a society based on merit would have been easy but this was not done.This simple error continued unchecked until it became too late. Other clans were at each other throats before 1988 but like a frog in a pot it will boil over and kill the creature in time. No Somali could see a way out accept through violence. What is in Somali culture that does not allow peaceful transfer of ideas? Do you see the dysfunction? The root cause of the failed Somali nation state experiment is simple. Somalis do not see each other as Somali. This consciousness does not exist. To pretend it does it wasting time. Somalis see each other in terms of clan. Barre simply exposed how weak this idea of Somali nationalism is. His military government towards the end comprised of mostly Darood clans. To make the point even more. The resistance movement that spring up in the 1980 SNM (Isaaq) SSDF (Darood) and USC (Hawiyah) were all sectarian at their foundation.Which is why even a democratic government can not hold back the continuous competition between Somalis and sometimes even within the same clan. Somalis have yet to find a formula that brings about transformation change to this story. I think starting with clans and building from there is the best lasting formula. As Prof Samatar has stated in his wishful thinking that in order for Somaliland to continue clans have to die. I am saying in order for any Somali society to continue clans have to live homogeneously in a clan republic. The alternative is anarchy and poverty.

I am not a young kid. My observation are empirical and back by historical literary evidence and not based on oral tradition which is not reliable evidence. If Somalis had a traditional path of development towards a nation state there would be libraries and documented evidence of a written language and culture outside the nomadic start of the somalis. But there is not. We are not a settled society until recently so comparisons to German, England or Italy is not sound as these nation had a traditional path towards a nation state. Some where inspired by the Roman empire which itself had a 1200 year history of its own. Even European anthropologist have noted that Somalis have not had a civilisation but a loose connections of various clans and sub clans competing for water and life stock on a semi arid environment. Even today Somalis live as they did in those pre-colonial times accept now you have urbanisation. If you are arguing any different I have yet to find evidence for this. As for me going to Somalia I will not. But I have been to Somaliland. I have seen how they live. Somalis are backward in both social and civilisation development. This is the harsh truth. If you compare the Germans who have a 800 year history. Somalis are 100's of years behind other more advanced countries. There is no getting around this fact. Otherwise Somalia would be a successful republic like South Korea, Japan or Taiwan. Since this is not the case so why continue with the project that is doomed? Balkisation is the only logical course to ease the dysfunction. Which is what I proposed at the start , to divide Somalia into clan republics as it will save Somalis time and energy and simplify the path towards a nation state.

To be honest what did she expect would happen to her running around a failed state with no protection and living with strangers not her kin. Somalia is extremely dangerous and no place for a freelance journalist. May she rest in peace.

Have *** fought ***? that's news to me.

But would *** fight ***? They are both *** so they have a shared identity. I do believe the *** sub clans should each be given a state.

I cannot find in Somali nomadic history where Somalis lived under a unity government until 1 July 1960. We live in clan identity and not nation state reality like say Germany or England. Where the people are named after their language. Somali means to "go milk" an action performed by pastoral nomads when they tend to their camels and sheep. We are not a nation but a group of clans and sub clans that complete for resources on the horn of Africa. A real Somali nation has never existed only in the minds of the U.N or delusional minds of Somali folk that wish to transform this nomadic society into a proper nation state. This is what people like Prof. Samatar and others fail to realise. Somalis do not have the intellect nor the culture to build a nation state. It's time to bulkanise Somalia along clan lines. The project of Somaliland has shown we cannot live in peace and prosperity because clan is too deeply ingrained in the Somali consciousness. There will always be problems because people are inherently sectarian. Look at Kismayo terror attack, can you say that was not clan motivated? Or the bloodshed in El Afweyn. Time for use to move on from this delusion.

Doesn't Hargeisa have land-filled sites where the rubbish could go? Someone needs to have a talk with Muse Bihi and tell him the truth about the condition of the people of Somaliland.

Clan politics drives everything in Somali society which is why there will be no lasting peace. The Somali intellect is 68 iq for a reason. Having an underdeveloped reasoning faculty is the root cause of most of Somali problems.

No doubt there is mischief going on. Lets hope cooler heads intervene.