The Pirates of Puntland

By TOM MOUNTAIN

Pirates, warlords, Marxist guerilla turned G-20 statesman and the USA… the real story of the Somali pirates in the Horn of Africa is a tale that needs telling.

I visited Galgala in 2005 while doing some volunteer work at the University of East Africa in Bosasso. It is a small village that is off the beaten track with no roads, hospitals or proper schools.
The people of Galgla are very industrious and are mainly farmers who use irrigation canals to cultivate all kinds of fruit and vegetable. The area is very fertile and is endowed with water resources in the form of springs that flow all the year round.

Haddaan idiin yara jilciyo ciiwaanka sare ee qoraalka inta aanan u guda degin dulucdiisa , waxaa jirta maahmaah dadka shiinuhu leeyihiin oo odhanaysa, "Intii aad noqon lahayd Sayn ama dib libaax ku yaal waxaa ka roon in aad noqoto madax jiir ku yaal."

Note to Muslims: About plans to implement 'democratic Islam'

Publication time: 30 May 2010, 16:16

The text of this material was developed by the notorious "brain center" RAND Corporation, which provides the US government with analytical calculations and recommendations on various aspects of the US policy.

The direct author of the work is Cheryl Benard - a RAND senior political analyst, who is known for her fanatical anti-Islamic stance ; an Austrian-born Jew and wife of  Zalman Khalilzad, the Afghan-born,  ex-US Ambassador to the UN and to Afghanistan.