Subject: growing stalemate on horn advances breakaway tripoint prospects<br/>
Date: Aug 26, 2006 @ 03:16<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-2128122613">the somalia situation may still seem & be highly<br/>
unstable & quite fluid<br/>
but there is now some serious question as to where if<br/>
anywhere it can proceed from here<br/>
<br/>
for example<br/>
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etc<br/>
etc<br/>
<br/>
& these latest military standoffs <br/>
around baidoa on one hand & in southern mudug on the<br/>
other<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/somalia_pol02.jpg">http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/somalia_pol02.jpg</a><br/>
between islamists backed by eritrea & federalists<br/>
aligned with ethiopia & breakaway puntland <br/>
when added to the ongoing standoff along a modified<br/>
punt somaliland front with its own revised tripoint<br/>
position that first became apparent late last year<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/18971">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/18971</a><br/>
have now produced a total of 2 de facto puntland<br/>
ethiopia tripoints <br/>
plus the oddly localized federal de facto enclave<br/>
<br/>
thus a total of 4 distinct somalian territorial<br/>
entities in all<br/>
<br/>
or 3 unequal slices<br/>
namely <br/>
reading from north to south<br/>
little somaliland<br/>
a somewhat larger puntland<br/>
& the largest or rump somalia become islamistan<br/>
plus <br/>
a federalistan hole within the latter<br/>
<br/>
& the latest de facto frontier <br/>
between puntland & the islamists <br/>
appears to have precipitated a new de facto tripoint<br/>
with ethiopia over the past few days<br/>
somewhere to the southwest of the mentioned<br/>
bandiiradley<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/mapcenter/map.aspx?TextLatitude=39.45&TextLongitude=-98.907&TextAltitude=0&TextSelectedEntity=39070&SearchEnc=false&MapStyle=Comprehensive&MapSize=Medium&MapStyleSelectedIndex=0&searchTextMap=bandiradley&MapStylesList=Comprehensive&ZoomOnMapClickCheck=on">http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/mapcenter/map.aspx?TextLatitude=39.45&TextLongitude=-98.907&TextAltitude=0&TextSelectedEntity=39070&SearchEnc=false&MapStyle=Comprehensive&MapSize=Medium&MapStyleSelectedIndex=0&searchTextMap=bandiradley&MapStylesList=Comprehensive&ZoomOnMapClickCheck=on</a><br/>
but north of dusa marreb <br/>
the home town of the islamist leader<br/>
also shown on the above encarta map<br/>
tho it isnt possible to nail this newer of the 2<br/>
tripoints with more precison just yet<br/>
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