growing stalemate on horn advances breakaway tripoint prospects

the somalia situation may still seem & be highly
unstable & quite fluid
but there is now some serious question as to where if
anywhere it can proceed from here

for example
http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/read_article.php?id=273644&selected=Analyses
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/220224/b73ae0e11d28b702299d5e56b1e201ff.htm
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idCategory=33&idsub=121&id=5106
http://www.garoweonline.com/stories/publish/article_4704.shtml
http://www.garoweonline.com/stories/publish/article_4705.shtml
etc
etc

& these latest military standoffs 
around baidoa on one hand & in southern mudug on the
other
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/somalia_pol02.jpg
between islamists backed by eritrea & federalists
aligned with ethiopia & breakaway puntland 
when added to the ongoing standoff along a modified
punt somaliland front with its own revised tripoint
position that first became apparent late last year
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/18971
have now produced a total of 2 de facto puntland
ethiopia tripoints 
plus the oddly localized federal de facto enclave

thus a total of 4 distinct somalian territorial
entities in all

or 3 unequal slices
namely 
reading from north to south
little somaliland
a somewhat larger puntland
& the largest or rump somalia become islamistan
plus 
a federalistan hole within the latter

& the latest de facto frontier 
between puntland & the islamists 
appears to have precipitated a new de facto tripoint
with ethiopia over the past few days
somewhere to the southwest of the mentioned
bandiiradley
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
but north of dusa marreb 
the home town of the islamist leader
also shown on the above encarta map
tho it isnt possible to nail this newer of the 2
tripoints with more precison just yet








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