Somalia's Puntland region backs Kenyan incursion

[Mintid Farayar]

Somalia's Puntland region backs Kenyan incursion

SongChen

27 October 2011

09:34 AM

Xinhua News Agency

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MOGADISHU, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Somali officials in the northeastern semi-autonomous regional state of Puntland have supported the week-long Kenyan troops involvement in Somalia to fight Islamist militants in south of the war torn country.

Kenyan troops have crossed over the border with Somalia in a bid to battle with Islamist fighters of Al-Shabaab who it accuses of carrying out cross border raids into Kenya to abduct foreign tourists and aid workers.

"The Government of Puntland State of Somalia supports the Kenyan military intervention in parts of southern Somalia to bolster the ongoing Somali-led military campaign aimed at dislodging Al-Shabaab terrorists from Jubba Valley regions,"an official statement from the state said.

Puntland is a key part of the war-torn Somalia but has been relatively peaceful during the past two decades and has been self- governing autonomous state. The region has been a strong backer of the Somali federal government in Mogadishu.

Top Somali federal officials have voiced their opposition to the Kenyan military involvement in southern border regions but some members of the Somali legislature backed the Kenyan move.

Some of the leaders of the main moderate Islamist group of Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama, a Sufi militia group opposed to Al-Shabaab, have also welcomed the Kenyan move.

The regional Somali state of Puntland which advocates federalism within Somalia said it does not see the Kenyan military intervention as a violation of Somali sovereignty, saying the security interest of the whole sub-region is inter-connected.

"Kenya has a legitimate right to defend its own security and to provide assistance to Somalis already engaged to liberate their home regions from terrorist groups, including many foreign fighters,"the Puntland authorities'statement said citing a 2010 communiqué of the Horn of Africa regional organization, Inter- Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD).

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[The Zack]

They are right to support this! Way to go!

[Che -Guevara]

The Zack;754541 wrote:

They are right to support this! Way to go!

looooooooool...and not too long ago, you were condemning for supporting Ethio. I guess some enemies are more than others.

[Mintid Farayar]

Al Shabaab 'inconveniently' threatened the 'Lamu' project and the forthcoming $billions$ from the South Sudan oil fields - from the Kenyan perspective...

 

This situation is making strange bedfellows!

[Che -Guevara]

Kenya might be rethinking their ill-conceived strategy and willing to throw their puppets under the bus.

 

http://www.somaliaonline.com/community/showthread.php/59709-Renounce-violence-and-we-ll-negotiate-Kenya-tells-Shabaab

[xiinfaniin]

Puntland's support is neither here nor there. If anything it discredits The Zack and Prof. Abtigiis's assertion that those of us who opposed the invasion did so because of clan considerations.

 

The reason Faroole is supporting it is very narrow. In his fight to put federalism as a permanent mark in Somalia's constitution he is hoping the new entity that will emerge out of Kenyan invasion will be in his column in relation to federalism. Very shortsighted indeed.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Che -Guevara;754542 wrote:

looooooooool...and not too long ago, you were condemning for supporting Ethio. I guess some enemies are more than others.

Che Amhaar and tigray's are bad

 

Kikuyo luo tribes are good

[Carafaat]

xiinfaniin;754546 wrote:

Puntland's support is neither here nor there. If anything it discredits The Zack and Prof. Abtigiis's assertion that those of us who opposed the invasion did so because of clan considerations.

 

The reason Faroole is supporting it is very narrow. In his fight to put federalism as a permanent mark in Somalia's constitution he is hoping the new entity that will emerge out of Kenyan invasion will be in his column in relation to federalism. Very shortsighted indeed.

You even call your hero Faroole en Wali narrow.

[Somalia]

So naive... Faroole wouldn't be supporting it if Puntlanders weren't getting a stake in Kismayo.