New Puntland President will lead new era of Piracy

The new leader of Puntland Cabdiraxman Faroole is major suspect of many piracy operations and leads group of pirates to earn money for political campaign.

He returned from his refugee camp in Australia to manage his daily piracy operations. The Puntland pirates received more than 40 million dollars in less than one year. The world should move against such illegal leader to aviod further piracy and save sea.

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Somalia: Puntland home of the pirates?

From: EagleSpeak.us

One man finds corruption in a part of Somalia like Puntland:

Not surprisingly, the official line among Puntland´s government ministers was that "piracy is a global problem that found headway in Somalia´s porous waters in recent years." One after another, they told me that Puntland isn´t tooled to combat this problem, because pirates are well-armed, well-financed and multi-jurisdictional. (That´s to say that pirates operate in places like Haradheere in central Somalia).

But surprisingly, and below the official line, there´s a wide belief among Puntlanders that "pirates [they don´t even use this word!] are heroes, because they are protecting Somalia´s unguarded resources, looted by international companies."

Quite the contrary, so many people, including former government officials and journalists told me that pirates have deep connections in the highest ranks in Puntland´s regime. In fact, people could list names of government ministers whose own militia are the pirates.

Few weeks ago, when pirates kidnapped a Japanese vessel outside Somalia´s international waters (which is quite routine, and, remarkably, counter-argument to those who say that pirates are "guarding" our resources), U.S. and French naval ships cornered the pirates near Boosaaso, the business capital of Puntland. The pirates, I was told, were able to disembark from the kidnapped ship every night to chew Khat and hang out with friends and family members, while other "substitute" pirates replaced them!

Eventually, the ordeal ended with the Japanese tanker being released unharmed, and pirates getting away with an undisclosed amount of ransom. The pirates´ front-men are senior government officials, who typically convince kidnapped ships to pay ransom (usually less then than pirates originally demanded). I found that this scenario occurred no less than three dozen times in the last few years.

n addition to piracy, human trafficking is pandemic in Puntland. More than 35,000 people have perished since 1991 trying to cross the short, but dangerous distance between Boosaaso and Yemen, using makeshift rafts.

Even back in the days when President Yusuf was the president of Puntland, the administration there made a noise that it will crack down on traffickers, whenever the international attention was zeroing on the issue.

However, hardly anything has been done. In fact, human traffickers, who like pirates have deep connections to the corridors of power, have flourished. In Boosaaso and nearby towns, journalists and other sources sent me the photos of the homes of well-known human traffickers and pirates, whose villas and latest-model Land Cruisers have dazzled me.

Last week, when Gwen Le Gouil, a French journalist tried to do an investigative report on human trafficking, he was kidnapped for nine grueling days. Remarkably, he was seized on his way to Shimbiraale, the infamous village known for its human and weapons traffickers. Insiders told me that his kidnappers were Puntland intelligence officers associated with both human traffickers and pirates.

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Puntland Parliament Appoints New Pirate President:
The parliament of the semi-autonomous region of Somalia "Puntland" recently appointed Cabdiraxman Maxamed Farole to be the new president of next four years. The parliament is combination of tribes, where each tribe has specified number of representatives in the house.

Chief tribes decide and nominate their representatives in the parliament. However, the chief tribes neither consider development of the tribe nor development of their territories, but his personal interest and pocket money. Majority of current MPs in Puntland Parliament paid between $30,000 and $50,000 to chief tribes against their nomination to the parliament (parliament seat). The people have no role in the politics and cannot decide their future leaders.

The abovementioned political system is missing the basic behavior of the democracy. The chief tribes are the heart of the government system in "Puntland" but not the people of "Puntland" because the chief tribe selects the MPs and than President is appointed between the MPs.

"Who pays more money gets the seat." This is how chief tribes operate in nominating the MPs of their tribes, and if you want to be president of "Puntland" you should pay huge money to every MP and chief tribe to earn there support.

Newly appointed President Cabdiraxman Maxamed Farole is very influential pirate, and manages several bandits including hijackers of Saudi Oil Tanker. He operates pirate offices across "Puntland" and even hired translators and accounts to communicate with owners of the hijacked ships. Recently, Farole earned millions of dollars from the piracy and he used the ransom money to finance his campaign.

Forale´s boys hunt the international vessels across the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden. They hijacked more than 15 ships in one year including Ukraine Mv Fiana Ship and Saudi Oil Tanker. They received millions of US Dollars as ransom money, indicating that Farole used the money to become New President-appoint of "Puntland". His son is also head of the pirates of Saudi Oil Tanker.

The pirates in "Puntland" are well-organized gangs who have managers and translators in addition to active and reserve pirates; they all share the ransom money. Recently, the Ukrainian ship owner has denounced the effort of the translator "DR SAID" to the pirates on the ongoing negotiations in HERDERRE. He has termed him as a BROKER instead of translating the issues in Somali language. The owner has informed that he was sent his representative on the ground in a bid to secure a quick release of the vessel. Dr. SAID is originally from "Puntland" and kinsman of new President-appoint Farole.

Furthermore, as we mentioned in first paragraphs, "Puntland" is tribe based and semi-autonomous region, where tribesmen can only be citizens of "Puntland". President-appoint Farole is member of the most powerful tribe in the region; the minority tribes like Dhulbahante and Warsangali are not allowed to lead the government.

Farole is from Majeerteen tribe, who make 60% of the half million population of "Puntland"; other tribes including Dhulbahante and Warsangali failed to win the presidential seat throughout the history of "Puntland". Always, the president of the region comes from Majeerteen – the majority tribe.

Unlike neighboring independent Republic of Somaliland with population of 3.5 million, the political system is democratic and public votes – One man one vote. The current President of Somaliland Dahir Riyale Kahn won 2004 Presidential Election with close margin of 80 votes over Kulmiye Party leader Mohamed Siiranyo.