Are the services lying to the civilian leaders?
Somaliland is gone from somalia 20 years ago, either recognised or will not change the unanimous decision of somalilanders.Remember the decision to breakaway from the union lies to somalilanders alone, because the power lies to somalilanders and not the leaders or ex somalian leaders who still dreaming of a great somalia.
But the thing that kept holding everybody back was basically that Saddam Hussein lied to the leaders of the Arab world that we thought would be most likely to get the truth out of him.