Setting the record straight about Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmad

[Fiqikhayre]

This thread is dedicated to the sister Rahima in particular and to all of those who don't know the President of Somalia, I didn't want to make it in the other thread whereby I had a discussion with the sister!

 

Who is Abdullahi Yusuf?

 

Abdullahi Yusuf is a colonel of the former Somali armed forces, who in 1978/79 was invovled in a failed coup d'etat after a disastorous war in the Ogaaadeen!

 

He came to Kenya first and then he moved to Ethiopia whereby he was given sanctuary by the Derg regime! He established the first military gueriall group who was also joined by another wing of a group that was engaged in intellectual opposition who were mostly communists and based in Aden, South Yemen. Together they established the Somali Salvation Democratic Army in short SSDF!

 

After years of struggle against the regime of Mahamed Siyaad Barre he was finally arrested by the Derg regime in Ethiopia itself and spent in a Ethiopian underground prison cell from 1985-1991 where he was freed by the Tigray Liberation Army lead by Ato Meles Zenawi!

 

In 1991/92 he emarked to return to his region whereby he helped defend it against the attempt of Aydid and his cohorts the Gog and Magog to kill and inflict great harm on the people of those attacked regions without any proper explanation but that they were linked to the former regime through clan association!

 

In 1993 Abdullahi Yusuf went to Aydid and asked the Gog and Magog to stop waging war on his region and people, which they 'accepted' and a peace deal was promptly signed. However the major military assaults stopped but not the harassment from that clan! They would attack the city of Galkayo that was under contention as they partly lived there and kill and wound some of the peaceful part of that city and when the clan of Abdullahi Yusuf reminded them of the peace treaty their elders would come out and swear on the Holy Quran that they will never ever do it again or allow it to happen but each and everytime it continued!

 

Even until now they haven't build their part of the city of Galkayo and when asked what they thought about the major developements that were going on in the other northern part of the city they said 'We are not bothered because those buildings will be coming crushing down when we attack them'!

 

Anyhow the President at that time was not engaged in anykind of hostilites and the regions of the former North-East Puntland State of Somalia were the most peaceful regions in the country were the rest seeked refuge to from the wars and calamties of the south and Mogadishu!

 

At that time Abdullahi Yusuf was head of the Emergency wing of the de facto rulers of the former North-East the SSDF!

 

In 1994/95 he became very ill because of liver problems and all the Somalis helped him to collect money in order to have an operation in London where he could get a new liver from a dead donar!

 

He was recovering and was helped from all Somalis of any persuasion because he was a man of peace who hailed from a large region 1/3 of Somalia that was in total peace!

 

In 1996/97 every hope for Somalia to return as a peaceful nation went very low and that's the time when the people of the North-East of Somalia decided when cannot wait any longer for our brothers in the south to end their patty arguments and conflicts so they embarked on a mission to set up a local regional administration that would be autonomous and advacating for a united and federal Somalia to re-emerge from the shadows and ruins!

 

In 1998, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmad was crowned President of the newly found Puntland State of Somalia that would put alll its energy and resources into finding a central government that was based on a federal system whereby Puntland could rejoin it as a autonomous and self-gvoerning region!

 

The President was continuing with his duties until in 2001 his mandate expired and due to urgent migigating circumstances he opted out for an extention of his term asking so favourably for a short extention and thus being blessed by the elders and clan leaders of the region to continue with his term because then the region and state was in danger from the Arta group that was at that time the so-called centralised anti-federalism 'government' of Somalia!

 

A counter conference whereby someone close to the Arta group was elected as Puntland 'President' by a handful of clan elders that were bribed by the so-called Arta group!

 

Seeing the danger and disintegration of the State Abdullahi Yusuf opted to go from the captial Garoowe to his home city of Galkayo!

 

Tensions were rising high and it happened that a small group of seven youngsters decided one day to attack the compound of the Arta linked and falsely claiming Jamac Ali Jamac who called himself as Puntland 'President'!

 

Upon hearing his compound attacked Jamac thought this was a wider initiate to oust him of the capital of Puntland and decided to run for his life as turned it out it was only a handful of boys that chased him out of the city!

 

Unlike the Somalis in Mogadishu and the North-West of Somalia the people of the North-East have a profound dislike in fighting in cities that are inhabited by people and also they have alot of respect for their clan leaders and elders, who are the traditional leaders of the clan, they rule by a certain decree or Xeer as it is know in Somali and no one from the clan can come or go agains it!

 

Upon hearing that Jamac has vacated the captial of Puntland, Abdullahi Yusuf came back to Garoowe with only minimu damage to either the city or its people!

 

Then he embarked on a strategy to oust the false claimant of the Arta group supported Jamac to be the 'President' of that region!

 

Qardho was captured the heart or stronghold of Mr. Jaamac and the war commenced to Dhuudo a scarcely inhabited region in the desert where no people could be harmed. Jamac's group was defeated and they ran away to a neighbouring region!

 

Abdullahi Yusuf then was in negotiations with clan leaders and traditional elders on how he could take over the commercial captial of Puntland Bosaso without a fight!

 

The wise people the people of Puntland are handed over Bosaso to Abdullahi Yusuf without a single shot fired, therefoe putting an end to his challenge in leadership! He was greated with green leafts when he was entering the captial and people were very enthusiastic for the return of Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmad!

 

Upon arriving in Bosaso Abdullahi Yusuf was busy with contacting the remaining opposition into giving up their opposition towards his rule!

 

The intelligent people they're a peace accord which was unprecedented in Somalia followed whereby with limited mediators between the two groups they reached an agreement to hold hostilities and share power together!

 

Adde Muuse then the rebel leader entered the commercial capital of Puntland Bosaso with a huge following army and cheering and happy crowd and proceeded to the presidential palace where Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmad was staying! They agreed upon that he could continue ruling the state and they also agreed on a power sharing method whereby key positions such as regional administrators, police and military leaders, ministers, port and airport was shared by the two parties who were now one!

 

This event was unprecedented and showed the international community that Somalis could reconcile themselves without any foreign lead or help!

 

Abdullahi Yusuf was then heading backwards and forwards to the peace process that was taking place in Nairobi Kenya leaving his Vice President Mudan Maxamed Cabdi Xaashi in charge of state affairs!

 

On October 10th 2004 the President of Puntland State of Somalia H.E. Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmad was elected as the President of a united and federal government of Somalia that was all-inclusive and broad based government for Somalia in over nearly two decades since the fall down of Maxamed Siyaad Barres' regime fall down!

 

From that moment on Vice President Maxamed Cabdi Xaashi became President of Puntland, when on January the 8th H.E. Mahamoud Muuse Hirsi General Adde Muuse was elected as head of the Puntland State of Somalia with his Vice President Hassan Dahir Mahamoud better know as Afqurac!

 

The President H.E. Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmad was staying in Somalia for nearly over a year when he eventually embarked to set base/office in the city of Jowhar 90kms north of Mogadishu!

 

Due to the warlord in that city's interference in stately affairs the President decided to move on to Baidoa and Baidao became interim government seat and capital of Somalia!

 

The warlords together with the Islamists group of Hassan Dahir Aweys came and met at Balcad where they set up the infamous National Somali Council!

 

After that the warlords and Islamsits united in keeping Somalia in anarchy fell out because of US policy in which they side-stepped the legal government of Somalia and hired and finanacially lured the warlords into handing over suspected AL-Qaeda members!

 

That lead to a popular uprsising and the downfall of the warlors which was supported and commented by the legal and all inclusive government of H.E. Abdullahi Yusuf AHmad!

 

However the rightful uprsing was submerged by the wishes of a group that had other intentions but Islaam or the good intention of ridding the country from the evil warlords!

 

They soon hijacked the whole revolution and started a counter revolution whereby they were threating the existence of the legal government of Somalia the TFI!

 

Witht the help of its regional partners after an attack on Baidao the interim TFI's government seat and capital the charlatans and religious pretenders were kicked out from the whole of Somalia and eventually paving the way for the President H.E. Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmad for the first time to enter the captial fo Somalia, Mogdishu!

 

I hope that helped inshallah!

[Rahima]

I hope that helped inshallah!

No it didn't, he will always be remembered as the worst of the warlords for time and time again he has brought in Ethiopia to invade our country and kill the innocent (whilst president). That my friend is his legacy, and you support him for he is adeerka. That is the bottom line and really i'm sick of all this BS. Have a nice day :cool:

[General Duke]

^^^That was agreat peace.

 

 

He made peace with Aydeed, which saved the whole of Mudug from war.

He made peace with Cade Muse, which returned peace and unity to Puntland.

He even tried to make peace with the warlords, and clan courts. When he fights he is deadly, but when he makes peace he keeps it.

 

He is a decorated war hero and fought for Somalia in the 1964 and 1977-1978 wars. He also played a key role in the creation of the powerful Puntland state, which covers one third of Somalia. The apparent defeat of both the warlords and the Islamic Courts Union centred in Mogadishu has seen him become the internationally recognized de facto leader of Somalia.

[Jacpher]

This must be Yooni's record of Abdulaahi Yusuf. Definately not that of the public records. I was able to find the following on a quick search on Wikipedia. I know it ain't reliable source but a lot better than Idamaale.

 

A former army officer and leader of the SSDF, Ahmed led a guerrilla movement in the 1970s aimed at ousting the Somali dictator Siad Barre.

 

In the 1990s Ahmed emerged as the pre-eminent leader of his native Puntland region; he declared the territory autonomous in 1998. On July 23, 1998 he became the President of Puntland and served in this position until his term expired on July 1, 2001. However, after this he continued to declare himself to be the President of Puntland and started a military campaign against the new leadership. In May 2002 he gained control of Puntland's capital and was recognized as President of Puntland again, though rebellions continued until 2003. Ahmed then continued serving as President of Puntland until October 2004 when he resigned to become President of Somalia.

He is said to have an authoritarian approach to leadership.

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[edit] Implicated in extrajudicial killings

The U.S. Department of State, in its 2002 Country Report on Human Rights Practices, identifies milita members loyal to Ahmed as being responsible for at least two deliberate killings of non-combatants while he was president of the disputed regional state of Puntland:

 

On January 11, 2002, Garah Mohammed Said Gom'ad, a prominent businessman, was reportedly killed by forces of Yusuf Ahmed in a deliberate attack in which Yusuf's militia reportedly stopped his car and Gom'ad was fatally shot.

 

On August 17 2002, Sultan Ahmed Mohammed Hurre, a British citizen, was killed by bodyguards in the employ of Yusuf Ahmed as their respective convoys passed each other approximately two miles south of the Puntland town of Garowe. Hurre was known for opposing the extension of Ahmed's presidency in the state of Puntland,[3]; according to the press reports, he was targeted by Ahmed for arrest as a religious extremist. Ahmed later claimed that the killing was accidental, but witnesses claimed otherwise.

 

The Country Report says that by the end of 2002 no action had been taken against those responsible for the killings.[4]

 

Militias associated with Yusuf Ahmed have also been implicated in the killings of Col. Farah Mohamed Said ("Farah Dheere") in Garowe in 2002,[5] and of traditional leader Malaaq Seemow Abdi Garuunin Baidoa, on June 9, 2006.[6]

[Gabbal]

Well Abdulahi Yusuf does not have the best nor most respectable past behind him, but it is now we should concentrate on and where to go from here on.

 

Former American president FDR said this when asked why he hired a former crook to head the new Securities and Exchange Commission, "To catch a thief, appoint a thief."

 

Not that I'm calling A. Yusuf a thief.

[Taako Man]

Horn

 

"prickly British scholar with an earthy humor explained Nixon’s overwhelming victory over the pacifist Senator George McGovern in the crucial 1972 election thus: "Granted Nixon is a b.astard," quipped the Englishman, "but you need a b.astard in dealing with the Russians." A not insignificant number of (C/y CLAN)feel they need a b.astard in dealing with the Aydiid types in the south—which b.astard Abdullahi Yuusuf is! "- From Prof Said Samatar

 

 

 

Rahima

 

If you are accusing MK yoonis of supporting Abdullahi Yusuf for clannish sentiments, then you must be supporting Dahir Aweys because of clannish sentiments huh?

[Gabbal]

Taako-

 

Do not glorify the negative aspects.

[Taako Man]

Horn

 

I am neither glorifying the negative nor highlighting any aspects sxb. I am just taking a historically written piece by prof Samatar, some ten years ago, and showing why a man of Abdullahi Yusuf's calibre is what Somalia needs now. No nonsense, no playing around and just straight to the point. Time has proven the these wise words of the good professor.

[Jacpher]

Horn, agreed but is he ready to put his past history behind or not make it part of his daily problem solving practices?

 

Ina Yusuf has 'dictator' all over his resume in a big bold font and I doubt if Mogdisho is ready to hire a such resume.

[Gabbal]

He just might be what Somalis need provided he stays within the parameters of the law!

[Caano Geel]

^^^^ Guys you forgot his hijra across the dessert too

[Taako Man]

Everybody should stay within the parameters of the law. Jimcaale is mad because his adeer Jamaac Ali was running quicker out of Bari then Indhacade out of Xamar.

[Wisdom_Seeker]

You should be Abdullahi Yusuf’s servant’s servant MKA, you will do just fine.

 

I would understand if you had supported the TFG as a whole, but you have always commended only one individual and that is Yey. We all know what the reasons are.

 

You have purposely shown favoritism to those of Puntland. So far you are best at advertising the superiority of the Puntland nomads by discrediting the nomads of the south, which you have categorized them all as uncivilized murderous beings. Fact is Puntland nomads may be obedient worshippers of Dictators but the people of the south are known for firmly standing next to their God-Given Rights and fighting against oppression.

 

Honestly it is somewhat entertaining, but if people like you are representing Puntland than I have nothing to fear but belligerent ignorance from your part.

 

The old senile is a ruthless killer. What a shameful being you are.

[Taako Man]

^ Fighting against oppresion and having 40 warlords in a city at the same time is an oxymoron LOOOOL.

[Wisdom_Seeker]

Taako

 

Each warlord was a threat and an occupational force to the people of the South. They have managed with the help of the ICU to chase those warlords out. But with the help of America, Ethiopia and the TFG they have all managed to come back to the same city they have terrorized. Not to forget some of those same warlords are part of the TFG.

 

I will tell you what an oxymoron is, warlords who have killed and terrorized the Somalis are suggesting that they symbolize the Somali people and make-up the Government of the Somalia nation, and they think they could bring peace!