Regional Security Assessments Of The Somaliland Policies Somaliland.Org — London, UK — 02 February, 2007 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Djibouti (HAN) February 2nd, 2007 - For the last two weeks, a number of trucks transporting legitimate and taxed goods to the Somali State of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia have been terrorized, ambushed, robbed, and burnt by the Al-Itihad/ONLF terrorists operating in the Somali zone state. As a result of this terrorism, Somaliland traders have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property, and millions of dollars worth of trade and taxes between the two neighboring states (Ethiopia and Somaliland). For the last two weeks, a number of trucks transporting legitimate and taxed goods to the Somali State of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia have been terrorized, ambushed, robbed, and burnt by the Al-Itihad/ONLF terrorists operating in the Somali zone state. As a result of this terrorism, Somaliland traders have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property, and millions of dollars worth of trade and taxes between the two neighboring states (Ethiopia and Somaliland). Moreover, the operation and provocation of these Al-itihad/ONLF terrorists in the region has undoubtedly retarded progress and development of the Somali zone State, disrupted the border trade between the two countries, and may eventually endanger the Somaliland and Ethiopia border security arrangements if nothing is done to reverse this dangerous development in the region. The Assessment we must count what was achieved for the now 15 year’s old Republic of Somaliland within the global world policies. The results are by all means rather meager and this for some objective reasons...but also for some subjective weaknesses of the Government's) from very beginning.. I would like to clarify, that the Assessments given here are in noway ment as a critics to the current strategies of the foreign policies by the Somaliland Government. The aim is to give a broader perception from the German and European point of view on all the necessary strategies for the benefit of the Republic of Somaliland and Somalilanders as an Nation. By objective reasons we firstly have to consider, that the security situation immediately after the proclaimed independence was not satisfactory within the country; therefore the Legitimacy of the new Government was questionable by international standards. Further more, the OAU (AU) was unwilling to consider that the Sovereignty of the Republic of Somaliland was a result of an genuine national revolution within the civil war in the then Somalia...fearing, that this "opening of the Pandora box" would create new severe problems for whole of Africa, regarding the integrity and boundaries between the African states... The then President Egal have up to some extent successfully counter-fighted such maneuvers, - specially these by the Arab states under the Egyptian leadership, - by clear statements about the Legitimacy of Re-Proclamation of Independence and return to the Status Quo Ante, where the Republic of Somaliland was sui generis an independent state and internationally recognized by all the relevant subjects of the International Law. Pointing to the fact, that the right for self-determination and subsequently national sovereignty could not have been "consumed" by the freely conducted unification with the Somali Republic, President Egal has won the sympathies throughout the (Black) Africa, specially by South Africa. It was also clarified, that the return to the national boundaries of the colonial and post-colonial era was fully in accordance with the all- African- consensus of the only validity of the state boundaries defined by the colonial era. Starting from these prepositions some crucial errors has been committed in the following years. It would have been necessary to assess the objective parameters of the Arab League towards Somalia and Somaliland...Instead, there was a long living Illusion that the Arabs would finally, within the "Islamic solidarity", support the justly struggle of the Somalilanders for their national sovereignty. Precious human and political resources of the new state has been wasted to persuade the "brotherly Arab states" to reconsider their stand. As a result, an anti Somaliland propaganda was initiated by the Arab block within the international community. The dictatorial regimes of Cairo and Khartoum have started a crusade against the young Somaliland democracy...with always new black-mailings towards black African states, Europe and the USA..."not to interfere in the matters on Horn"... This strategy has worked for a period of time. But with the ongoing civil war in Sudan and the fragility of the Egyptian regime this has became more difficult - for them...Their latest "success" by the AU-Summit against Somaliland has to be considered as a Phyrus Victory, as their "Swan Song"....A group of African states has openly sided with Somaliland and this fact has to be more exploitated in the near future. The Strategy must take in to the consideration to utilize an US-European-(black) African Alliance for the recognition of the Independence of the Republic of Somaliland. Hard work, all over again, must be done specially in Europe. Here we have to take in to the account, that only Italy, - by its postcolonial paranoia, - has to be considered as an "enemy" to Somaliland. France will stands "neutrally", by all means, also vis-a-vis Djibouti...Britain is the first address and it is clear, that London more and more supports the recognition...Germany, - "burnt" by the own experiences by initiating the recognition of Croatia and Slovenia during the ongoing Balkan Civil Wars, - is nevertheless willing to participate in any of the British initiatives, being self actively engaged in controlling of Airspace and the Maritime Routes on the Horn of Africa. This European initiative, coordinated with the efforts by South Africa and (hopefully!) Ethiopia should enable the USA, - as the still major player in the Region, - to engage more directly, without fears to be accused of any of "imperialistic" attitudes...Specially, after wrongly being engaged in support of Mogadishu-Militias in the past... Ethiopia will play a crucial role in these strategies. It has to be more persuaded to honestly play his role...not under the agenda, that..."We love the Somalis so much, that we prefer to have Five of them"...which up to now has ment to "have" them all weak...Somaliland has forever disassociated itself from any of "great Somalian projects", which has caused the miseries not only for the Somali People(s) in the Region, but also for their neighbors. Addis Ababa must understand, that only the strong and sovereign Somaliland can guarantee the peaceful future for Ethiopia and its economic interests...specially in view of the Berbera Corridor. And by all means the huge Oil-Winning-Projects in ******, which could go together with similar projects in Somaliland, Pipeline, with Refineries in Berbera, etc. The punctual assessment of the goals and results of the Somaliland Foreign Policy has clearly showed, that the strategically important Somaliland, situated in the Gulf of Aden, near the entrance of Bab El Mandab, can play an stable role in the Region and become one of the guarantors for the Peace and Stability of the Region and the Security of International Maritime Routes towards Europe and the USA and southeasterly towards Africa, the Gulf and entire Asia. This must be clearly stated toward the friendly states. London, with his affinities towards the former Protectorate and its people, should be the starting point of such strategies...With close coordination with Berlin, then Brussels and Paris and of course, with Washington. Pretoria and Nairobi, but fore mostly Addis must be incorporated in to the new Offensive of Somaliland Foreign Policy. The vivid democracy and the rejection of political Islamism and Terrorism are the best legitimacies of the Republic of Somaliland in the concert of free Nations of the World. The time has come to exploit these capitals now.

thats where make the difrence if u start the dialoge with we are a nation if u wanne discuss something like border share we can do that about economical ties we can do that but respect our indepedence thats all what somalilanders ask

General duke u know how somaliland feels somaliland will never attent any peae confrence or what so ever becous we dont know what we can talk about we have our indepedence we dont want Any recognition from somalia if they do that fine if they dont fine we have nothing 2 lose both ways but there is no reason for us 2 gether we have nothing 2 gain u know

I just showd u ur a verry strainge guy u know that daariqatal qaadiriya of abdulqaadir al yelaani is sunni we folow him we do the salawaat we fast and do salwaat when it is ashura about imam husseyn We do mole ta nabbi for centry when its mala ta nabbi we do the mawdlid Another thing is salafri or daariqatal saalixya is not our way we do our ziyaaraz for your informtation i am not telling u any one i sshia i am not shia are the ppl who think imam ali should be the kalief and belive and the shoulde protect the imams of allah thats what they belive They are not eheyle al beyt we have asharaafs from tunisia who are also decented of husseyn decented of imam cali zenayl al aabiden. There is the the royal family of jordan the hashimite they are sunni the trace there linage back 2 imam hassan the brother of my great grand father We have the morocans who are also hassani We have even the records of sh ******** proofs he is the from the eheyle al beyt he told his childeren becous he was an iraqi he came from samara thats where he was from. For your information my father whent to the imam ali mosqe he prayd there he went 2 imam husseyn mosqe in karbala wuu soo ziyaartay he went to the grave of abdulqaadir yelaani wuu soo ziyaartay When the land of the imams is save i might go 2 ________________ Baliis stop referring to explicit qabiil names. [ February 03, 2007, 12:36 AM: Message edited by: Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar ]

My friend i showd u many times i have many articles every body knows the imams where 12 imams imam muhammad al mahdi was the 12 second is we all know eheyle al beyt where been killed so they was hidden lik imam husseyn hide his son ali zeynal al aabideyn u know that So hassan al caskari had a son and u know that if u want more articles i can show u Muhammad al Mahdi read Arabic: 'abū l-qāsimi muhammadi bni hassan (868- ?) Muhammad al Mahdi (the guided) is the 12th and last Imam of the Twelver Shi'i, and is also known as Muhammad al Muntazar (the awaited). Very little can be said of him with any certainty. In fact, the non-Twelver might very well question whether there was an historical person associated with the name. Jafar, the brother of the Eleventh Imam denied the existence of any child and claimed the Imamate for himself. In fact, accounts of public appearances by Muhammad al Mahdi often involve his mysterious arrival at key moments to challenge his uncle's claims. In brief, the Twelver Shi'i believe that he was born to a Byzantine slave named Narjis Khatun, and that his birth was kept quiet by his father, the Eleventh Imam, Hassan al Askari, because of the intense persecution of the Shi'is at that time. Hidden since birth, he reappeared at age of 6 to assert his claim to the Imamate, only to then disappear down a well to avoid the sad fate of his father and grandfather. For the next seventy years he maintained contact with his followers through a succession of four assistants, each known as Bab (Gate), Uthman al Amir; his son Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Uthman; Abu'l Qasim Husayn ibn Ruh an Nawbakhti; and Abu'l Husayn Ali ibn Muhammad as Samarri. The period when he used the 4 Babs as his form of contacting the Shi'is is known as the Lesser Occultation. On his deathbed in 941 CE, the fourth Bab, as Samarri produced a letter from the Imam stating that there should be no successor to as Samarri and that from that time forward the Mahdi would not be seen until he reappeared as champion of the faithful in the events leading to the Judgement Day. Therefore, after 941 CE there has been no earthly expression of the Imamate. This period is known as the Greater Occultation. However, it is still possible to seek the Twelfth Imam's advice or intercession by writing him a letter and leaving it at one of the Shi'i shrines. To explain the doctrine of the Occultation, Shi'i theologians draw an analogy to the idea of the sun being occulted by clouds. While the sun is out of sight, it still exists and warms the earth. There is much that is miraculous associated with al Mahdi. The various traditions are rich in stories and are often contradictory. Tales range from speaking from the womb, growing at so astonishing a rate that he was full grown by age 6, being raised by birds and with the ability to appear and disappear at will. While there was much controversy over the succession of the 12th Imam, as the Lesser Occultation proceeded, dissent gradually diminished. This can be attributed in part to the active support of the Caliphate for the institution of the Bab. Several opponents of the doctrine of the Occultation were executed and others were persecuted in various ways. Another factor explaining the acceptance of the Lesser Occultation, and by extension the Greater Occultation, was that due to the house arrest of the 10th and 11th Imams. Hence, most Shi'i were already accustomed to the idea of their Imam being hidden from their view. In the time of the 10th and 11th Imams a network of wikala (agents) had developed to act as intermediaries between the Imam and his followers, handling money and carrying messages back and forth. In fact, Uthman al Amri, the first Bab of the 12th Imam had held the same position as head of the wikala under the 11th Imam. Therefore, for most Shi'i, there was not a significant change in their relation to their Imam after the death of the Eleventh Imam. Some titles of the 12th Imam include: Sahib az Zaman (Master of the Age), Sahib al Amr (Master of Command), al Qa'im (the one to arise), Bagiyyat Allah (remnant of Allah) and Imam al Muntazar (the awaited Imam).

catalist read about imam muhammad al mahdi

verry nice guys but let me tell u something who told about something shiates shiates are the one who dident protect the imams of allah thats why the beat them selfs and the other hand we have lots of eheyle al beyt around the world like the decented of abdulqadir yeelani for instance he was hassani the ppl who folow him are all sunniis About hassan al askari let me tell u about his life about the matter of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Imam about his son about his life the call him the hidden imam

afrcouse imam muhammad al madhi excisted every body knows that imam yaxya was hi son and his mosqe u can find in iraq muhammad al mahdi his father was xassan al caskari and u know that 2 Sunnis belive he was childless but he had muhammad al mahdi where is your therori one thing is muhammad al mahdi is just not the mahdi thats the holl diffrence

war we our not shiica eheyle al beyt shiica are the ppl who felt sorry my grandfather imam hussein gote killed thats why they beat them self i in the other had just read some salwaat an nabbi some kuran yaa xusseni ya xassani yaa nabiyo ya rasuuli anta badru anta nuuro qiblateny ya xabibi yaa seyidi yaa salawaato la calayka and many more who should here me

inshallah when the mahdi comes he will be couzin of ours

what can we talk tribes these days or something

may allah bless seyid imam husseyn his soul

Sh ******** Bin Amed Bin Maxamed Bin Xuseen Binu Cali Binu Xamsatul Mud-har Bin Cabdillaahi Bin Ayuub Binu Muxamad Binu Qaasim Binu Axmed Binu Cali Binu Ciisa Binu Yaxyaa Binu Maxamad al Mahdi Binu Xasan -al-Caskari Bin Cali-al-Naqiyi Binu Muxamad al taqiyi Bin Cali al ridaa Binu Muusal Kaadim Bin Jacfar a Saadiq Bin Muxamad al Baaqir Bin cali zeynal-caabidiin Bin Xuseyn Bin Cali ibni abi Daalib Ibn Cabdil-Mudalib Ibnu Haashim... thats sh ******* chain the great shaik from xijaaz it hink thats enough he was our grand dad [ January 29, 2007, 01:34 AM: Message edited by: Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar ]

TOMOROW IS ASHUURA THE HOLY FRESH YEAR OF THE ISLAM PLUS FOR USS OUR GREAT GRANDFATHER SEYID IMAM XUSSEYN TOMOROW WOULD BE HIS MARTER DAY ALL THE EHEYLE AL BEYT WILL REEMMEBER THAT DAY AND SHIATES WILL KARBAASH THEM SELF BECOUS THEY DIDENT PROTECT THE IMAM TOMOROW HARGEYSA WAXA LUGU DHIGAYAA ZIYAARADDII IMAM XUSSEYN

so u guyz want a nother war so u think abdilahay yusuf and his habashis will come 2 somaliland never think so couz zanawi knows mengistu told him about the snm what they did to the former goverment of somalia iska baa daa dawlaada taagta darren eeh tfg

so ur sayn ceerigabo and xudun is part of the puntland i dont think so its part of the somaliland becous of the somalilad flag soldiers are there so there for u cant claim it bye the way u cant claim land bye Etnicay is like sayng Djbouti is part of somaliland becous our tribe lives there

ahmed gurray is it alowd 2 claim land on becous some of your etnic clan lives there So oke President daahir rayaale can claim Djbouti becous his tribe lives there ahahahhahahaha this is ridicoulese

Well if Djboutians and ppl from hawd and zone 5 are alowd 2 and nfd ppl are alowd 2 post why not the original somalilanders what lands u means lascanood can go with puntland if they want i dont care about that let them stay kashimiri for ever we dont realy care about them.

but we dont wanted if we dont wanted what is it u guys wanted then a nother decade of wars and rapings we where 2 countrys who where unifide becous we wanted a great somalia with Djbouti and Zone 5 and nfd even we the somalilanders lost our hawd and reserve area just becous of that dream we had now it is over so

Sign the somaliland petition and make the numbers up..pass it on to ur friends..20.000 http://www.qarannews.com/show/12390.html go to the site and then click the link and confirm with the right email to numbah 10! And lets take some actions

Sign the somaliland petition and make the numbers up..pass it on to ur friends..20.000 http://www.qarannews.com/show/12390.html go to the site and then click the link and confirm with the right email to numbah 10! And lets take some actions

uu maxaad qabaneseyn idunkuna ma xabashi kalle baad doon dooneysiin

They burnt the somalia flag bravo the flag that burnt our ppl deserves to be burnt as well as it is now used bye Ethiopians a license to kill

he is not gonne be there for long with your blue flag under siege bye Ethiopia verry weak ppl the ppl of the tfg

abdilahay yusuf ahahah in mogadisho this guys is so afraid i think he wil go back in a few seconds to his head quarter in baydhabo verry soon even americans are doing air strikes in side somalia now damn let the games begin the war we have waited for so long has started once again