That would have worked 10 years ago but alienating 40% of your citizens and the era of social media changed that.If you think about it, it makes sense to attribute it to the Federal Gov't because it acknowledges the fact that Puntland are not a sovereign entity but are a part of Mogadishu and are therefore led and controlled by Mogadishu/formaggio . SL can then spin it to make it look like Somalia is invading and it can unite it's own warring clans
Why are they always bringing the federal gov't into this? Farmaajo and his Hawiye overlords are just chilling in Xamar. HG and other sub clans in neighboring Galkayco near the North don't have time for that. Where is this imaginary army that represents the CFG?
It's because it furthers the ictiraaf agenda it doesn't benefit anyone to say it was Puntland cos they are minor and not important, but if it's FGS then you can say that look they are attacking us and then don't represent us so we must have independence/recognition