It seems people have forgotten that the USC militia once killed, maimed, and violated raped light skin Dhulbahante women in Mogadishu, and slaughtered their elderly, forcing the entire clan to flee to Utanga. If the Dhulbahante have managed to forgive the USC for those atrocities, what makes anyone believe they cannot reconcile with the SNM? As though the Isaaq were somehow a more bitter enemy than the Hawiye ever were in the 1990s.
Allow me to offer an historical example: after the Dervish wars of the 1920s, barely two decades later, the Isaaq and Dhulbahante were living harmoniously together in Aden and attending Sheikh Primary School. In Sheikh, intermarriage between the two communities reached its height. I would therefore argue give it a decade, perhaps even less and cooperation will return.
Indeed, I sometimes believe that the Dhulbahante are not fundamentally opposed to the Isaaq or to the idea of Somaliland itself rather, they seek more favourable terms and greater recognition within it. One wonders how we moved from figures such as Xaglatoosiye and that other petroleum hass guy, both running for national office within Somaliland and having a political party then , to the establishment of a sub-clan state aligned to hawiye , not even aligned to their fellow harti. we saw how galaydh wanted an all inclsuive Somaliland before he died., Dhulbahante isnt against secession of Somaliland to be free from Somalia , remember Dhulbahante always used ot say we oppose Somaliland because they are dividing darood along colonial lines. Bu tthey themselves base the khatumo border , on that same colonial border between sool and sanaag and nugaal and bari., meesha wax kalo ka weyn bala isku haya. Dhulbahante isnt against Somaliland secession, they just dont want to be left behind. would it make sense that they break ranks with mj and their harti clan members and then make alliance with hawiye for what exactly what is there to gain., it takes just for hawiye and isaaq to be friends again if another hawye takes over mogadihsu, and they will sacrafice you the same way hsm didnt care when isaaq were bombing laascanood and was calling for peace lool