Somalia's Powerful Hizbul Islam Insurgent Group Splits

[Kamaavi]

The most powerful faction of Somalia's Hizbul Islam insurgents has officially cut ties with the group. The split occurred following allegations the Ras Kamboni faction recently signed a secret deal with the Somali government and neighboring Kenya.

 

A spokesman for the Ras Kamboni faction, Abdiaziz Hassan Abdi, says senior faction members decided to formally withdraw from Hizbul Islam.

 

Abdi says Ras Kamboni will be led by Ahmed Madobe, who replaced hardline Islamist Hassan Turki last year as the group's military commander.

 

Tension between Ahmed Madobe and Hizbul Islam leader, Hassan Dahir Aweys, skyrocketed several weeks ago, when Aweys alleged Madobe had entered into an agreement with Somalia's Transitional Federal Government and Kenya.

 

The Hizbul Islam leader said by signing the deal Madobe had agreed to fight against Hizbul Islam and al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militants in Somalia's southern Jubba and Gedo regions. Madobe has denied the charge.

 

Ras Kamboni was the largest and the most well-armed of the four Islamist factions that formed the Hizbul Islam coalition in early 2009. Hizbul Islam subsequently forged an alliance with al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militants to oppose the U.N.-backed Transitional Federal Government. Last May, the two insurgent groups launched an offensive in the Somali capital that almost toppled the weak government.

 

But the Hizbul Islam, al-Shabab alliance began to unravel in October, after the two groups clashed over control of the southern port city of Kismayo. Hizbul Islam forces in Kismayo, led by Ahmed Madobe, were forced to leave.

 

Since then, Madobe's determination to challenge al-Shabab for regional dominance has only intensified.

 

After Ras Kamboni's conservative Islamist leader Hassan Turki defected to al-Shabab in February, Madobe declared that the extremist group was Somalia's greatest enemy.

 

That statement that put Hizbul-Islam leader Hassan Dahir Aweys in the awkward position of having to support Madobe as a Hizbul-Islam leader and, at the same time, preaching the importance of unifying the Islamist opposition.

 

Observers in Somalia say the fracturing of Hizbul Islam was inevitable because Hizbul Islam is at its core nationalist and largely based on clan membership.

 

Members of the Ras Kamboni group, for example, belong to the O;gaden sub-clan of the D;arod, whose territorial claims extend from the Jubba and Gedo regions of southern Somalia into Ethiopia's O;gaden region.

 

When al-Shabab, a transnational extremist group, began threatening the traditional power base of the O;gaden, observers say Ras Kamboni had little choice but to put clan affiliation ahead of Islamist unity.

 

 

Source:VOA

[Kamaavi]

Sarkaal kamid ah Ururka Raaskambooni oo maanta idaacada VOA uga waramay go'aankii ay kaga baxeen Xisbul islaam 13 May 2010

 

 

 

Waxaa 12kii bishan duleedka magaalada Dhoobley lagu soo gaba gabeeyey kulan muhiim ahaa oo ay isugu yimaadeen madaxda Ururka Raaskambooni kaasoo lagu falanqeeyey xaalada siyaasadeed ee Somalia iyo doorka Ururka kaga aadan xaaladaha taagan.Hadaba qodabadii shirka lagu go'aamiyey ayaa waxaa kamid ahaa in Ururka uu ka baxay daladii Xisbul islaam.

 

halkan ka dhagayso

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Aawey Maadeey, kooxda saxsan ama u janjeeri doono ha noo sheegee.

 

Waa hore kala jabeen kuwaan Ururka Islaamka la baxay oo haddana si sax u kala baxeen.

 

Koox jagadoonimo u halgameyso Soomaaliyeed aan wali kala jabin ma jirto. Mar dhow ka fiirso kuwaas Barbaarta la baxay oo sadex u kala baxay.

[Kamaavi]

Originally posted by Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar:

Mar dhow ka fiirso kuwaas Barbaarta la baxay oo sadex u kala baxay.

Sadexdu ma Che, kashafa iyo Madeeybaa?

 

Miskiinka welcome back awowe.

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Mahadsanid, widaay.

[Kamaavi]

Widaay adna mudane, ma Afrikaad weli jogtaa?

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Maya, duqa, Koronto kusoo noqday. Nayroobi was a blast. I had had a wonderful, great time on there. I already can't wait to go back.

 

P.S. - Axmed Madoobahaan mar walba meeshaas loogu qaaraami jiray. Qabiil waa cajiib.

[Jacaylbaro]

ka la jab maxaa ku xiga ?? ,,,, dagaal.

 

 

Ilaahay masaakiinta ha u gargaaro.

[Maaddeey]

Originally posted by Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar:

Aawey Maadeey, kooxda saxsan ama u janjeeri doono ha noo sheegee.

 

Sxb, Xizbiga ma kala jebine Axmed Madoobe oo horay isu faquuqay baa si fiican gooni ugu baxay, sida muuqatana qoladiisa baa raacday, adigaana sheegay in qaaraan looga aruurinaayey NBI

 

Ps. waan ogaa in news-kan Ferguson soo dhejin doono!

[Jacaylbaro]

So the whole Raskamboni is Axmed Madoobe ?

[Maaddeey]

Makhaalka akhri noo Khaldaanyahoow

[Jacaylbaro]

Makhaalka saan aw leeyahay nooh:

 

 

Ras Kamboni was the largest and the most well-armed of the four Islamist factions that formed the Hizbul Islam coalition in early 2009.

[Maaddeey]

dee sidanna wuu odhanayaa:

Members of the Ras Kamboni group, for example, belong to the O;gaden sub-clan of the D;arod, whose territorial claims extend from the Jubba and Gedo regions of southern Somalia into Ethiopia's O;gaden region.

iyo sidanba:

When al-Shabab, a transnational extremist group, began threatening the traditional power base of the O;gaden, observers say Ras Kamboni had little choice but to put clan affiliation ahead of Islamist unity.