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	17 August – Source: Goobjoog News – 173 Words Puntland state’s Parliamentary Standing Committee has today rejected the deployment of AMISOM soldiers to Puntland soil.The parliament’s decision comes after Puntland President Abdiwali Mohamed Ali (Gaas) accepted a request from UN to deploy limited AMISOM troops to the region that will be responsible for the security of UN agencies in puntland.In an interview with Reuters, Puntland State President, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali (Gaas), asked for more help from the Federal Government and AMISOM forces but said they do not need AMISOM forces.“We do not need AMISOM forces because Puntland forces have the ability to fight Al-Shabaab, but we need to be assisted with military equipment, telecommunication, military vehicles, weapons and ammunitions” he said. However Goobjoog learns that Puntland president faces pressure from the UN and some western countries to accept the deployment of limited AMISOM troops to the region. Puntland state had previously resisted to accept any deployment of African Peacekeeping  forces to its land saying the state is capable to deal with all the security threats from Al-Shabab.

GUULWADE (Victory Pioneer) style of leadership is a political phenomenon associated to regimes like those in Somalia, North Korea, libya, Soviet Union and Communist China. Basically, it is one single man’s show of leadership on the misery of the rest of the society except a few cronies of personal advisors. It is regimented societal order of insuring servile obedience to the ruler, whereby any suspicion of opposing views is crushed mercilessly and eliminated wholly without due process and feeling of remorse. Vital state decision-making is conducted secretly and behind closed doors.

Show cases of regime’s success stories are publicly televised and printed by totally controlled media centres, which  act as loyal mouth-pieces of the Regime for propaganda purposes, mainly for international consumption and local indoctrination.

Any hint on alternative leadership is treated as a capital crime and treason against the state.

Those who worked with the Regime of Siyad Barre for a long time, or benefited his regime without showing any remorse afterwards, or failing to denounce the tragedy they were part and parcel of, shouldn’t have been allowed to govern in a new Somalia again.

Unfortunately, this is happening now without any scrutiny at all. The major excuse for this negligence and over-sight is the war crimes and clan-cleansing that followed the fall of Siyad Barre in 1991. Doesn’t  this sound like blessing Hitler’s henchmen after the fall of the Third Reich?

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