They never attacked las anod. Don’t give them credit for that. They just drove in the city when abdulahi Yusuf took the puntland soldiers stationed in los anod with him to Mogadishu to fight the icu. There was no resistance. Plus it was a man named xabsade who is a dulbahante traitor that did it.
Yes it was 2007 I remember it and Abdillahi needed to re-assign his PL boys in Sool to the war against the ICU that was occurring in the central regions, they were stationed in bandiradley I think from Memory, because he needed to get past the ICU 'soldiers' to reach Mogadishu. This is when Xaabsade saw an opportunity, he was jobless remember he lost his ministry role of interior affairs by Cade Muse, he saw an opportunity to get a job in SL and very little PL forces to defend Las anod, He used Baharsame/Jama siyad boys in Las anod and SNM re-enforcement and walked in and took over the Town.
That's when I realized that day PL doesn't have the capacity to fight two war front, they can't manage to fight SL and Hawiye at the same time, so it's paramount in our security discussions we ensure IRIR never unite or form any sort of policy or we are screwed, because if they do, they will come for PL and ensure to wage a bi-directional war with Hawiye invading from Galkacyo and SNM invading from Las anod with Baharsame/Jamac Siyad foot soldiers. This is quite a devastating outcome is my prediction and why we need to ensure we have a strategy now. We can't let this slide niyahow, the day we let this slide or do not act now and prepare a strategy, this is the day IRIR will see an opening in PL security weakness.