Breaking News: Shiikh Xasan Daahir Aweys oo Muqdisho soo gaaray

[Fabregas]

Originally posted by NASSIR:

Every warlord is a Sheikh now huh?

odaygu he knows about the diin. you guys are making out to be.................

[Libaax-Sankataabte]

The title “Sheikh” may or may not be a misnomer, but the interesting question here is why XDA chose to come to Mogadishu. If XDA came to Mogadishu as part of a secret peace accord with the TFG, I will be the first to herald him as a champion of peace at a time of great turmoil and mistrust. But if the old man entered the city without any change of view towards the TFG, then his unfussy arrival in Mogadishu may very well be an open indication of the TFG’s apparent inability, once again, to control the capital. If anything, this is a harbinger of ominous things to come and perhaps the prolongation of the same septic practices we got so used to.

 

We shall see what he is up to.

[NASSIR]

Great comment by Libaax. He came there without any change of view, I think.

 

Zaylici, we will see but his unexpected arrival in Mogadisho seems to be a muscle flexing on his side. He is there to remove the AU by force and dislodge the TFG in the process.

[xiinfaniin]

Somalia opposition leader arrives in capital

 

By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN

Thursday, April 23, 2009

 

 

Somali opposition leader

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A hard-line Somali opposition leader accused of having al-Qaida links arrived Thursday in Mogadishu for the first time in two years, officials said.

 

Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys had been based in Eritrea's capital, Asmara, after Ethiopian troops drove him and his supporters from strongholds in southern Somalia and Mogadishu.

 

Aweys had supported an Iraq-style Islamic insurgency to back a group of Islamists grappling for power in Somalia, which has not had an effective government since 1991 when warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre. The clan-based leaders then turned on each other, plunging the nation of 7 million into anarchy and chaos.

 

The Islamist movement took over the capital and much of the south in 2006 before being chased from power by Ethiopian troops supporting the virtually powerless central government. The Islamists immediately launched an Iraq-style insurgency, elements of which are still battling the government.

 

The insurgency has lost most of its steam with the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops in January and the election of a moderate Islamic leader as president the same month under an intricate U.N.-mediated peace deal. Influential Islamic clerics have also declared their support for the new leader, further diffusing the insurgency.

 

But Aweys' faction of the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia is a member of the Islamic Party, which is opposed to the government of President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed.

 

A U.N. Security Council resolution has designated Aweys a terrorist, but he has repeatedly denied having ties to international terrorists.

 

Aweys will now operate from Mogadishu but the group will maintain an office in Asmara, said Ismail Haji Adow, the spokesman for Aweys' group.

 

"He came back for many things, among them reconciliation among the insurgency groups and to help efforts to restore law and order in Somalia," Adow told The Associated Press.

 

Aweys will not have any engagements Thursday and will talk to the media Friday, Adow said.

 

Aweys formed the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia with other Islamic leaders and dissident lawmakers in 2007 in Eritrea, Ethiopia's arch rival. Eritrea and Ethiopia have an unresolved border dispute, over which they have fought a war.

 

Ahmed left Asmara, backed by several influential members of the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia, to negotiate the deal that saw an expanded parliament elect him president in neighboring Djibouti in January.

 

Aweys has in the past said that he would not negotiate with the government until Ethiopian troops had left the country. But in January, after the Ethiopians withdrew, he maintained that Ahmed's government is allied to Ethiopia. However, he has not called on any group to fight Ahmed's government.

 

The government Ahmed heads only directly controls a few blocks of Mogadishu and the border town of El Berde. But Ahmed has allies among the militias that control much of central and pockets of southern Somalia.

 

Associated Press writer Malkhadir M. Muhumed in Nairobi, Kenya, contributed this report.

 

Source: AP, April 23, 2009

[xiinfaniin]

Sh Xassan Daahir Aweys (Abuu Maryama) oo soo gaaray magaalada Muqdisho

Posted to the Web Apr 23, 09:11

 

 

Muqdisho:-War uu goordhaweyd na soo gaarsiiyey wariyaha Halgan.net ee Muqdisho ayaa sheegaya in Sh Xassan Daahir Aweys uu ka soo degay garoonka km-50 ee gobolka Sh/hoose.

 

Sh Xassan Daahir Aweys ayaa waxaa galbinaya ciidamo ka tirsan Xisbul islaam oo wata gawaari tikniko ah waxaana uu ku sii jeedaa magaalada Muqdisho.

 

Sh Xassan Daahir Aweys ayaa waxaa u yeeray Hay,ada Culumada Soomaaliya iyo culumo kale oo Soomaali ah si loo baajiyo dagaalada ka dhex socda wadaada ku loolamaya xukunka.

 

 

Wixii warar ah ee soo kordha kala soco Halgan.net.

[Mintid Farayar]

Originally posted by Libaax-Sankataabte:

The title “Sheikh” may or may not be a misnomer, but the interesting question here is why XDA chose to come to Mogadishu. If XDA came to Mogadishu as part of a secret peace accord with the TFG, I will be the first to herald him as a champion of peace at a time of great turmoil and mistrust. But if the old man entered the city without any change of view towards the TFG, then his unfussy arrival in Mogadishu may very well be an open indication of the TFG’s apparent inability, once again, to control the capital. If anything, this is a harbinger of ominous things to come and perhaps the prolongation of the same septic practices we got so used to.

 

We shall see what he is up to.

I fear your second point will be the true one. H.D. Aweys has tremendous potential to destabilize the current TFG, AMISOM, and whatever little peace exists in Mogadishu.

 

His tentacles stretch as far as Puntland and even further into Somaliland. While he doesn't have the ability to overthrow the governing entities up North, he does have significant capacity to destabilize them.

 

This situation should be closely monitored by all Somali-watchers and is potentially more significant than the Donors Conference in Europe.

 

What do you think?

[xiinfaniin]

^^I think it's all in your head

[money]

Shuushoow bax - xaa shar loo saadaalihaa? sayakun kheyr inshallah!

[Goodir]

With his arrival, Moqdisho is destined to see another failure.

[Kashafa]

His tentacles stretch as far as Puntland and even further into Somaliland. While he doesn't have the ability to overthrow the governing entities up North, he does have significant capacity to destabilize them.

Thank you for stating the obvious. Typified in the response of the poster below you, you'll see that many folks are in acute denial of the reality on the ground. It strikes fear in their hearts that Al-Turki, Al-Aweys, and Al-Godane wield immense influence and power all across the Horn of Africa. Well, to them I say, ciil iyo caro la dhimo.

 

But you're mistaken on one regard: The only thing preventing the Islamists from dismantling the Ethiopian protectorates of Pissland and Smelly.land is the turbelent situation down Souf.

 

As soon aa Koonfurta lagu kala baxo, and a centralised Islamic admin is set-up from Moga-Dish to Kismaayo, I think we both know it's only a matter of a sustained campaign before the SL/PL militia are sent packing into Ethiopia.(where they will be re-armed and re-trained and re-christened as the New SNM and the New SSDF).

 

Good thing for the Islamists, SL/PL hate each other guts so bad that a temporary alliance of convenience is out of question.

[xiinfaniin]

I wonder what would poor, confused Kashafa say if Xasan D reconsiles with Sharif?

 

 

Sharif on the world stage

[Kashafa]

^^ I would take the exact same position I took when Shaykh Sharif crossed over to the Dark Side of Qabiil, Treason, and Qabyaalad.

 

Should Al-Aweys be enticed to join the Tigray Founded Government, wal ciyaathu billah, he will be fought by the Somali people just as they fought Ina Yey, Gheedi, Nur Cadde, and now Shaykh Hotel.

 

Some of us base our positions on this wierd thing called principles. You should try it. Once you try it, you'll never quit.

[Goodir]

^Aweys could not be present as he was busy in Araare battlefield with Gacameey.

[Kashafa]

^^ And you know that because you were present on the battlefield as Caydiid's messenger boy ?

 

Makes sense now.

[xiinfaniin]

^^You just proved my point . You will be the isolated, Kaligii-Muslim kid shouting jihad, jihad from the East Coast of US.