Deegaano hor leh ayay cidamadu galabta la wareegeen sida fariisimo ay maleeshiyaadku ku lahaayeen deegaanka Beexaani, nasiib buundo iyo garaash geedoole, ayadoo ciidamada Dowladdu ay wali ku sii siqayaan goobo hor leh oo ka tirsan degmada Kaaraan.

 

Meelaha muhiimka ah ee Ciidamada Dowladda qabsadeen waxaa ka mid ah Hotelka Global ilaa iyo agagaarka mowlac Shariif Sh Muxyadiin.Â

Taliyaha ciidamada Lugta  Dowladda Soomaaliya General Cali Caraale Cosoble (gacma dulle) ayaa hogaaminayay Ciidamada oo ku sugnaa Afka hore ee dagaalka, wuxuuna si weyn ugu howlanaa dagaal gilinta ciidamada, ayadoo meesha ay ka muuqanaysay guul hor dhac ah oo laga gaaray dagaalkii  maanta bilaawday.

Ka sokoow dagaalka waxaa goobta ka soconayay baaritaano ay sameynayaan Ciidamada Dowladda Soomaaliyeed, kuwaas oo guryaha baaraya si aysan u dhicin in maleeshiyaadku ay ku dhuuntaan guryaha laga barakacay ee maalmihii la soo dhaafay ay xoogga ku deganaayeen, waxayna gacanta ku soo dhigeen dhowr qof oo ka tirsan Meleeshiyadii dagaalamaysay oo uu ku jiro horjooge Shabaab ka tirsan.

Sidoo kale ciidamada ayaa baarayay wadooyinka waaweyn ee xaafadaha kaaraan iyo shibis mara, si ay uga saaraan hadii maleeshiyaadku ay halkaas ku aaseen miinooyin sida caadada u ah, iskastoo aan wali la arag wax miino ah oo halkaas laga bixiyay.

 

Maleeshiyaadka Shabaab iyo Xisbul islaam uma kala harin Dagaalka saakay inkaastoo ay isku hagradeen, maleeshiyada Shabaab waxay afka hore ee dagaalka saakay soo geliyeen ajaanib fara badan oo maalmihii la soo dhaafay lagu uruurinayay waqooyiga magaalada Muqdisho, waxay filayeen in ay dhagartooda guul ku helayaan, hase yeehsee horjoogayaal badan ayaa uga dhintay dagaalka, dadka ku nool waqooyiga Muqdisho ayaa sheegay in in ka badan 15 qof oo dhaawac ah una muuqday ajaanib la arkay.

Waxay ka carareen goobo badan oo aagga dagaalka ka fog sida Saldhigga Kaaraan iyo Isgoyska Sanca, Waxaana la arkayey maleeshiyaad firxad ah oo wadada wadnaha si baqdin ku jirto u sii cararaye, sidoo kale waxaa dhaqdhaqaaqyo  ay ka wadaan qeybo ka mid ah koofurta Magaalada iyo saldhigga ay ku leeyihiin halka loo yaqaano Maslax oo ku yaala deegaanka Suuqa xoolaha.

Dagaalka ayaa u dhaxeeya ciidamada Dowladda KMG ah ee Soomaaliya iyo Maleeshiyaadka shabaab iyo dagaalyahano ajanabi ah kuwaas oo dhibaatooyin ballaaran ku haaya shacabka soomaaliyed.

Sida ay sheegayan wararka dagaalka ayaa waxaa uu inta badan ka dhacayaa degmada xeebta xigta ee C/casiis halkaas oo muddo isku hor fadhiyeen Ciidamada Dowladda iyo dablayda shabaab.

Ciidamada Dowladda ayaa ku sii sigaya goobo ay ku sugnaayen dablayda shabaab, dadka degaanka ayaa laga soo xigtay in ay arkeen meydad dhawr ah oo maleeshiyada shabaab ka tirsan.

Dagaalka oo weli socda ayaa la ogeyn khasaaraha ka soo gaaray dadka fara ku tiriska ah ee markii horeba ku haray xaafadaha dagaalka ka socda.

Waxanu warbixintiisa ku sheegay inuu jiro qorshe haatan socda oo ah in gacanta lagu qabto magaalada Muqdishu

Generaalku faahfaahin kama bixin qorshaha milateri, waxase uu sheegay in Maraykanku uu taagerayo dedaalkaas ah sidii looga saari lahaa kooxaha xagjira degaannada ay haystaan, looguna soo celin lahaa gacanta dawladda. Waxanu intaasi raaciyey in hawgalladani ay wax ka tari doonaan wax-ka-qabashada deganaansho la’aanta Somalia

Dawladda iyo AMISOM

Dawlada KMG ah iyo ciidamada AMISOM, waxay iyaguna beryahani danbe aad u hadal hayeen olole milateri oo kama-dambays ah oo ay damacsan yihiin inay ku qaadaan kooxaha islaamiyiinta ah, gaar ahaana ururrada al-Shaaab iyo Xisbu-Islaam, oo ay kaga saaran magaalada Muqdishu, iyo degaannada kale ee ay haystaanba.

Somalia iyo Maraykanka

Dawladda Maraykanku waxay sanaddii hore kor u qaadday gargaarki ay u fidin jirtey Somalia, waxayna dawladda ku-meel-gaadhka ah siisay hub, si ay iskaga caabbiso kooxaha islaamiyiinta.

Toddobaadkii horena, warbixin lagu soo daabacay jariidadda The New York Times ayaa soo xigatey sarkaal Maraykan ah oo aan la magac-dhebin, hase ahaatee sheegay inay suurtogal tahay in ciidamada hawlgallada milateri ee gaarka ah ee maraykanku ay ka caawin doonaan dawladda Somalia inay ka saarto magaalada Muqdishu ururrada xag-jirka ah.

Diyaarado Sahan

Wararka laga helayo gobollada koonfureed iyo kuwa dhexe, waxay iyaguna bilahani danbe ka hadlayeen diyaarado noocyo kala geddisan ah oo loo malaynayo inay yihiin kuwa sahanka oo soo gala hawada gobolladaas, degaannadaasi oo inta badan gacanta ay ku hayaan ururrada islaamiyiinta ah ee ka soo horjeeda, dagaalkana kula jira dawladda Somalia

Bare Ali Bare, a military commander of the Ras Kamboni Brigade, was gunned down inside Bakara market, an Islamist stronghold in the center of the city, Sheikh Ali Ahmed, an official from Hisbul Islam, said in a phone interview today.

“This is a big issue because Bare was one of our top officers and we should apprehend the masterminds soon,” Sheikh Ali Ahmed, a commander of the nationalist Hisbul Islam group, said in a phone interview today. “The criminals will be brought to justice.”

The Ras Kamboni militia merged with al-Shabaab earlier this year, having previously belonged to Hisbul Islam, according to Stratfor, an Austin, Texas-based intelligence group. An alliance between al-Shabaab and Hisbul, which together began an unsuccessful attempt to dislodge the Western-backed Somali government from power in May 2009, has deteriorated into open confrontation between the two sides, Stratfor said on Feb. 1.

Bare said at the time of the merger that those who had joined al-Shabaab were “individuals and didn’t represent our name.”

Somalia’s government has been battling Islamist insurgents, including al-Shabaab, since 2007. The rebels control most of southern and central Somalia. The U.S. accuses al-Shabaab of having links to al-Qaeda, which has said it aims to establish a caliphate, or Islamic government, in the Horn of Africa country.

Stratfor said Ras Kamboni’s absorption into al-Shabaab could be seen as a public recognition by Ras Kamboni leader Hassan al-Turki of al-Shabaab’s dominant position in Somalia’s southwest, both political and militarily.

Somalia hasn’t had a functioning central administration since the ouster of the former dictator, Mohamed Siad Barre, in 1991.

To contact the reporter on this story: Hamsa Omar in Mogadishu via Johannesburg at pmrichardson@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Antony Sguazzin in Johannesburg at asguazzin@bloomberg.net.

 

Speaking on a visit to Britain, Sheikh Sharif added that international aid for reconstruction would be needed to secure any areas gained in the push, expected in coming weeks in a test of attempts to restore stability in the Horn of Africa nation.

The New York Times reported on March 5 U.S. forces could get involved by providing airstrikes and Special forces Operations if the offensive succeeded in dislodging al Qaeda fighters.

Asked to comment, Ahmed said: “If the U.S. government provides us with the air support, it will help the situation.”

“If that is true, as written in the New York Times, then we would welcome it,” he told a news conference through an interpreter.

It was not immediately clear whether Ahmed was referring to the possibility of air strikes or of supporting aerial surveillance. U.S. forces are believed to have conducted aerial reconnaissance of parts of Somalia for several years.

FOREIGN FIGHTERS “ROAMING”

Asked whether he also saw a role for U.S. ground forces in the push, Ahmed said: “I cannot answer that.”

Any direct use of U.S. military power would be sensitive. American troops who were part of a U.N. humanitarian mission to Somalia in 1992 and 1993 were forced to pull out after Somali militia killed several marines in an attack on a U.S. helicopter.

Ahmed’s U.N.-backed administration intends to oust the rebels from the capital and possibly other areas of the country, which has had no effective central government for 19 years.

His government has struggled to establish its influence, something that has been whittled down by a three-year-old revolt against his administration, which only controls parts of the capital.

Asked how he planned to hold any areas gained in the offensive, a critical task to establish authority, he said: “Our strategy is to mobilise the people, to secure the environment, to return the services and to start reconstruction.”

“Our forces have prepared well,” he said, but added: “We will need international assistance in the form of humanitarian aid and reconstruction after the liberation of these areas.”

The offensive did not close off reconciliation efforts, he said, but he described al Shabaab as having a direct tie to al Qaeda and said both groups cooperated with Somalia’s pirates.

The government says hundreds of foreign fighters have joined the revolt from countries in south Asia and the Gulf region and Western nations such as the United States and Britain.

Ahmed said it was hard to tell put a number on al Qaeda fighters in Somalia. “But it’s also hard to exaggerate the presence of al Qaeda. It can be seen openly by people inside Somalia — foreign fighters who are roaming,” he said.

“The announcements by al Shabaab and al Qaeda make clear their presence in force. Recent events in Yemen are also a clear indication of the presence of al Qaeda in the area”.

He denied reports that Somalis in nearby countries were being recruited to join the offensive, explaining there were plenty of Somalis in Somalia who wanted to serve in the army.

Sida ay xaqiijiyeen dad goob joogayaal ah kooxo ku habaysnaa hub fudud ayaa goordhow waxa ay gudaha Suuqa Bakaaraha gaar ahaan agagarka halka loo yaqaano Maalin taajir waxa ay ku toogteen Sarkaal sare oo katirsanaa Ururka Xisbul Islaam kaasi oo lagu magacaabi jiray Barre Cali Barre.

 

Marxuumka ayaa dhawaan ka badbaaday isku day dil ah oo lala damacsanaa laakiin markan sida muuqato waa lala helay.

Kooxaha fuliyay dilka marxuumka ayaa waxay ka tirsan yihiin maleeshiyada shabaab.

Mr Jengeli ayaa sheegay in Madaxweyne Shariif ay is arkeen Ra’iisul Wasaaraha Ingiriiska Gordon Brown, isagoo sheegay in ay ka wada hadleen xaalada guud ee dalka Soomaaliya.


“Kulanka waxaa uu ahaa mid jawi wanaagsan ku bilowday, labada Mas’uul waxay diirada saareen Xaalada labada dhinac iyo sidii Ingiriisku taageero u siin lahaa Dowladda KMG”ayuu yiri Mr Jengeli oo intaa raaciyay.

Wasiirka Arrimaha Dibada ayaa tilmaamay in Ra’iisul Wasaaraha Ingiriiska Mr Brown iyo Madaxweyne Shariif ay si gaar ah uga hadleen argagixisada iyo arrinta Burcad badeedka, waxaana uu cadeeyay in dhamaan arrimahaas la iska weydaarsaday aragtiyo kala duwan.

Mar Wasiirka uu ka hadlay arrimaha Ammaanka ayuu sheegay Madaxweynaha in ay tahay mid laga doonayo dhalinteeda Beesha Caalamka in ay gacan ka geysato isla markaasina ay kala qeyb qaataan sidii Soomaaliya ay u heli laheyd ciidan qalabeysan oo agabkooda oo dhan u dhameystiran yahay isla markaasina dagaal geli kara dhaqaalena lagu taageero.

Ugu dambeyntii waxaa uu Wasiirku sheegay in wada hadalka labadaasi mas’uul uu si wanaagsan ku soo gaba gaboobay isla markaasina natiijo wanaagsan ay kala gaareen isaga oo rajeeyay in waxyaabaha ay ka wada hadleen laga mira dhalin doono.

Madaxweyne Shariif ayaa lagu wadaa 3-da maalmood ee uu ku joogi doono wadanka Britain in uu la kulmo jaaliyadaha Soomaaliyeed iyo sidoo kale madax kala duwan oo ka tirsan Dowladda Britain

Ruuxan oo lagu magacaabo Maxamed Maxamuud Xaashi ayay booliisku sheegeen inay baaritaanno ku sameyn doonaan, kaddib markii ay hadalka ku saabsan inuu damacsan yahay inuu qaraxyo geysto ay ka heleen dad Soomaali ah oo ay isla shaqeeyaan.

Mustafa Sheekh oo ay saaxiibo ahaayeen Maxamed Maxamuud ayaa sheegay inuu aad ula yaabay xariga loo geystay saaxiibkiis, isagoo sheeegay inuu ahaa ruux dagan oo aan laga filan karin falal noocaas ah inuu sameeyo ama uu u hanjabo dad Soomaali ah oo ay isla shaqeeyaan.

Wiilkan Soomaaliga ah ayaa lagu hayaa xabsi aan la sheegin oo ku yaalla Gobolka Texis, iyadoo aan weli wax dacwaddiisa ah loo gudbin Maxkamad, balse Booliisku waxay ku adkeysanayaan inuu dambiile yahay.

Dhalinyaro ay iskala shaqeynayeen Warshadda la sheegay inuu qorsheynayay inuu qaraxyada ka geysto ayaa sheegay inuu ugu hanjabay inuu dili doono, uuna qarax ka geysan doono warshadda xilliga lagu jiro shaqada, ayna dacwad gaarsiiyeen Booliiska Gobolkaas.

Maxamed Maxamuud Xaashi oo ah eedeysanaya ay gacanta ku hayaan Booliiska ayaa ka shaqeynayay Warshadda muddo toddoba bilood ah, iyadoo aanu booliisku kasoo saarin wax tafaasiil ah dambiga loo haysto wiilkan

Wasiirka arimaha Bulshada ee dowlada Canada ayaa wakaalada wararka ee Reuter’s u sheegay in dowlada Canada ay gebi ahaanba mamnuucday in gudaha dalkeeda lagu arko dad xiriir la leh maleeshiyada kooxda Alshabaab iyo in ay maleeshiyadasi taageero dhaqaale ka helan gudaha dalka Canada.

Arintani ayaa ka dambeysay kadib markii dowladda Canada ay warbixino ka heshay gudiga Jaaliyadda Somaliyed ee dalkasi ku nool kaa oo ku saabsanaa in dad xirrir la leh kooxda Alshabaab ay isku dayayaan sidii dhalinyarada  Soomaaliyeed ee ku nool dalkasi loogu biirin lahaa maleeshiyadaasi si ay uga qayb qaataan hurinta Colaadaha ka jira dalka soomaaliya.

Mr Fik Tooys waxaa kaloo uu sheegay in ciddii ay dowlada Canada ku aragto iyadoo dhaqaale u raadinaysa ama ka qayb qaadanaysa howlaha maleeshiyadasi ay ku xasuuqayaan shacabka Soomaaliyeed aytahay danbi weyn lana marsiin doono talaabo sharci waafaqsan.

Arintaani ayaa ku soo aadaysa xilli dowlada ingiriiska ay iyana ku dhawaaaqday in gudaha dalkeeda laga mamnuucay kooxaha u adeega meleeshiyada kooxda Al shabaab

“It’s the Americans,” said Gen. Mohamed Gelle Kahiye, the new chief of Somalia’s military, who said he recently shared plans about coming military operations with American advisers. “They’re helping us.”

That American assistance could be crucial to the effort by Somalia’s government to finally reassert its control over the capital and bring a semblance of order to a country that has been steeped in anarchy for two decades. For the Americans, it is part of a counterterrorism strategy to deny a haven to Al Qaeda, which has found sanctuary for years in Somalia’s chaos and has helped turn this country into a magnet for jihadists from around the world.

The United States is increasingly concerned about the link between Somalia and Yemen, a growing extremist hot spot, with fighters going back and forth across the Red Sea in what one Somali watcher described as an “Al Qaeda exchange program.”

But it seems there has been a genuine shift in Somali policy, too, and the Americans have absorbed a Somali truth that eluded them for nearly 20 years: If Somalia is going to be stabilized, it is going to take Somalis.

“This is not an American offensive,” said Johnnie Carson, the assistant secretary of state for Africa. “The U.S. military is not on the ground in Somalia. Full stop.”

He added, “There are limits to outside engagement, and there has to be an enormous amount of local buy-in for this work.”

Most of the American military assistance to the Somali government has been focused on training, or has been channeled through African Union peacekeepers. But that could change. An American official in Washington, who said he was not authorized to speak publicly, predicted that American covert forces would get involved if the offensive, which could begin in a few weeks, dislodged Qaeda terrorists.

“What you’re likely to see is airstrikes and Special Ops moving in, hitting and getting out,” the official said.

Over the past several months, American advisers have helped supervise the training of the Somali forces to be deployed in the offensive, though American officials said that this was part of a continuing program to “build the capacity” of the Somali military, and that there has been no increase in military aid for the coming operations.

The Americans have provided covert training to Somali intelligence officers, logistical support to the peacekeepers, fuel for the maneuvers, surveillance information about insurgent positions and money for bullets and guns.

Washington is also using its heft as the biggest supplier of humanitarian aid to Somalia to encourage private aid agencies to move quickly into “newly liberated areas” and deliver services like food and medicine to the beleaguered Somali people in an effort to make the government more popular.

Whenever Somalia has hit a turning point in the past, the United States has been there, sometimes openly, sometimes not.

In 1992, shortly after the central government imploded, Marines stormed ashore to help feed starving Somalis. In early 2006, when an Islamist alliance was poised to sweep the country, the C.I.A. teamed up with warlords to stop them, and when that backfired, the American military covertly supported an Ethiopian invasion.

Last summer, when Somalia’s transitional government was nearly toppled by insurgents linked to Al Qaeda, the American government hastily shipped in millions of dollars of weapons.

Since then, the insurgents’ imperative to retake the capital, and eventually other parts of the country, has grown, American officials say, as Al Qaeda has even considered relocating some of its leaders from Pakistan to here.

American officials said several high-ranking Qaeda agents were still active in Somalia, including Fazul Abdullah Mohamed, one of the suspected bombers of the American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, who is now believed to be building bombs for the Islamist insurgent group known as Al Shabab.

The Somali government has tried limited offensives before and has failed, leaving much of the country in the hands of Al Shabab, who have chopped off heads, banned music and brought a harsh and alien version of Islam to Somalia.

But officials say that this offensive, or at least the preparations for it, feels different. First, the government has the advantage of numbers, about 6,000 to 10,000 freshly trained troops, compared with about 5,000 on the side of Al Shabab and its allies.

In the past six months, Somalia has farmed out young men to Djibouti, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and even Sudan for military instruction and most are now back in the capital, waiting to fight. There are also about 5,000 Ugandan and Burundian peacekeepers, with 1,700 more on their way, and they are expected to play a vital role in backing up advancing Somali forces.

The government is also better armed and equipped. Parked in neat rows behind Villa Somalia, the president’s hilltop villa in the center of Mogadishu, are newly painted military trucks, tanks, armored personnel carriers and dozens of “technicals,” pickup trucks with their windshields sawed off and a cannon riveted on the back of each one. The government also recently bought 10 Chevrolet ambulances.

There seems to be a qualitative difference, too. Somalia’s forces are now led by General Gelle, a colonel in Somalia’s army decades ago who most recently was an assistant manager at a McDonald’s in Germany. He is known among Somali war veterans as one of the best Somali officers still alive.

Many Somalia observers are confident that the offensive will push back Al Shabab. The question is what will happen afterward. “To take you need force, to hold you need discipline,” said Ahmed Abdisalam, a deputy prime minister in the last Somali government. “What’s going to guarantee those troops don’t turn on the population?”

Or turn on themselves: many Somalis worry the troops could split along clan lines, which is what brought down Somalia’s government in 1991. One lingering criticism of Somalia’s president, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, is that he has been too holed up in Villa Somalia and has not engaged with local power brokers and played clan politics better.

Even though there is a new religious overlay to Somalia’s civil war, with a moderate Islamist government battling fundamentalist Islamist insurgents, clan connections still matter and could spell success — or disaster.

That said, the government did recently strike a political agreement with a powerful moderate Islamist militia, which may join the offensive from the inland regions of the country. There has also been talk of a militia made up of Somali refugees living in Kenya advancing from the Kenyan side.

Sours= New york times
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN