Ngonge What made your thoughts turn to Hargeisa's airport? Did you picture yourself being stopped by the security forces for your rude caricatures of the president? You won't admit to it but I know that's true, isn't it? Bearing in mind your photograph can now be emailed to the authorities, I don't blame you. :cool:

Don't worry yourselves too much. I hear Ugandan troops will soon be there to sort out the Ethiopians. The machete-wielding boys from Burundi are on stand-by just in case...

lol@ Ngonge Riyaale and Dabagaale huh? You're in trouble mate.

Which could be in it's own way, as to why some folks in Somalia feels revolted by the idea of TFG with their Tigrean's Tanks in Mugadisho , calling themselves as "legitimate Government" of Somalia; "Government" of D**rknobs by Ethios for the Gringos.

Well, did your milkshake bring the Ugandan boys to the yard?

^^ You reckon? I'm relieved it wasn't called a poem.

Originally posted by General Duke: Saxib with guns comes problems, the situation of Mogadishu is a security problem and not a milliotary one... Seen! More foreign troops from Uganda will bring you "security", right?

Originally posted by General Duke: ^^^Saxib, I do not answer to a sad secesionist who's dreams of recognition has coem to naught and who's entity could not even control the ares it claims. Saxib Somalia is back, under Yusuf Yey, you have to live with that... You don't answer alwright. You copy,paste and collaborate. You change the topic too. Also was there not more deaths this past week between your cubclans in some village than in the streets of Mogadishu? By my "sub-clans" do you mean my uncles in Kilinka 5aad? Well I don't know the exact numbers of people who died in the Kilinka 6aad to answer that question. Do you copy?

^^"YES" or "NO" would've been enough, collaborator. Qorshaha ciidamada lagu geynayo Goobahaasi ayuu shaaweeye ku tilmaamay in ay la xiriirto xaqiijinta amaanka guud ee Magaalada Muqdishi, iyada oo la ogaanayo cida dhibaatada wada ee Magaalada soo galeyso iyo ka baxeyso intaba. Dhibaato, what dhibaato? Is that what the Irish used to call "the troubles"?

General Duke: Ciidammo Ethiopian ah oo ay wehliyaan kuwa Dowladda Soomaaliya ayaa maanta saldhig cusub ka dhigtay wasaaraddii hore ee Gaashaandhigga oo ku taallada Degmada Hodan ee Magalaada Muqdisho. Are they officially the "TFG troops" these days? TFG (Tigray Federal Government)?.

Originally posted by NGONGE: [QBSurely everyone (Muslim or otherwise) has a Raqeeb and Cateed (the angels on the right and left)! Otherwise how will they be given their books on the Day of Judgment and know where they stood? The two angels are Muslims-only privilege. You never walk alone - only if you're a Muslims. Non-Muslims (ahlkitaab?) are rewarded (in this world) for their good deeds. If they die, they'll be resurrected with nothing to show for it. I'm not expert in this field and don't quotes on me but it makes sense because Muslims' pillars of faith are based in believing in Allah, angels, books, messengers, last day (qiyaama) and divine pre-destination. If one doesn't believed in that then the case is closed.

Ngonge the correct reply is supposed to be "wa calayka" since non-muslims aren't accompanied by angels, or that's how I understood things. Why "wa calaika"? Because it's right reply to non-muslims' greetings whether they mean kindness or harm. As for the topic, I do say inshallah and xamdulillah to non-muslims almost everyday. One of my colleagues wanted me to swear I didn't do something and asked me to say "xamdulillah". I did say "xamdulillah".

By Tim Cocks REUTERS 8:04 a.m. February 14, 2007 KAMPALA – The 1,500 Ugandan peacekeepers pledged to the African Union force for Somalia will be deployed solely in the country's lawless capital Mogadishu, the peacekeeping mission said on Wednesday. The Ugandan force could go in as early as this weekend, and would secure Mogadishu while the AU awaits troops from other countries to arrive in other Somali cities, Paddy Ankunda, spokesman for the AU mission, said. Some 8,000 troops are expected in total. Uganda's parliament voted on Tuesday to send troops to Somalia under an AU plan to pacify a nation rocked by unrelenting attacks by insurgents against the interim government. It is the first country to do so. 'We can't deploy all over Somalia. We'll be in Mogadishu. 1,500 people is adequate (to secure Mogadishu),' Ankunda said. International pressure has grown for peacekeepers to deploy quickly to prevent the chaotic Horn of Africa country sliding back into anarchy after Ethiopian forces helped the transitional government oust Islamists in a December war. The Islamists had restored a degree of order to Mogadishu, which had been ruled by warlords since the overthrow of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre's regime in 1991. But the United States and Ethiopia accused them of harbouring al Qaeda operatives. Nigeria, Burundi, Ghana and Malawi have also pledged troops, but it is unclear when they would mobilise them. 'The other forces would have to take control of other main towns – Kismayu, Baidoa, Jowhar, Marka,' Ankunda said. 'The African Union must compel (the others) to send forces.' But he added that the Ugandan troops were able to hold the fort by themselves until reinforcements arrive, because they had the necessary training and equipment, including knowledge of basic Somali language and culture. 'We'll move there first because we can stand on our own,' he said, adding that a Ugandan officer, Major-General Levi Karuhanga, had been appointed to head the mission. Meanwhile in Baidoa, where the interim government still has its main base while awaiting for security to improve in Mogadishu, Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin met government leaders. He arrived late on Tuesday. (Additional reporting by Seynab Abukar in Baidoa) web page

^^ As bad as he is for most outsiders, Bush's not a dictator for the average gringo. Their constitution will not allow him contest the next elections either.

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Originally posted by Garaad: Kismanyo waa ku filantahay ******* clan oo dhan gacantayna inoogu jirtaa markaa sxbyaal ilaawa waxii dhacay. Dadaw horusocod. insha alah bacda 2 sano iyo badh waa kala cadaan cida degaanka Kismanyo leh marka doorasho la qabto oo dadku cod ku kalabaxaan, markaas ninka kusoo baxa tertankaas baa Kismaanyo kaadidiisa usoo cabbay!!!^^^^^^sorry^^^ teeda kale ********* clan Xamar bayba ku gorgortamayaane hurdada ka kaca xayawaaniinyahow, intaad ku xiiqaysan magaaladan yar. war waxu hanyaraaa Oh dear [ February 14, 2007, 06:18 AM: Message edited by: Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar ]

^^ Why would you expect hostility from me? Originally posted by Xoogsade: LOL@A/Y's female-cousin leading the militia. I am thinking of this as a sensational news laakiin waa cajiib hadday run tahay. Dhaqan cusub waaye aan u maleenaa cause weligay ma maqlin naag dagaal qabiileed hoggaamineeso. That would be trully sad if true. Warlady?

Allahayow wax badan baan gefaye Adigu hay goynin Ameen Ina habiil was himeself a great critic of Sayid's actions in darawish hay days, He also criticised your namesake who was then the Ottomans' representative in Saylac.

^^ That is embarrassing. Is the man she's using to raise her profile still in prison?

Rudy did watch till you found out the nationalities? :eek: BTW - What you prefer to do behind closed doors is your business, but, since you decided to air this perverse behaviour, it's time you should reconsider you position as SOL's official clown.

The Monitor (Kampala) COLUMN February 7, 2007 Posted to the web February 6, 2007 Elias Biryabarema Mr. Yoweri Museveni has a background of good education. A calm and well exposed man. Straight thinking and intelligent. His grasp of contemporary world affairs, including some quite complex stuff, is commendably firm. For years he burned his young energies battling vile governments. Narrowly escaping death on occasions, he showed resolve, sacrifice, devotion to his people and a deep abhorrence for oppressive leadership. Sure. This man had no shortage of good qualities. And yet, to the astonishment of history, Mr Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has still failed us. 20 years at nation building have produced incompetence so shocking that some think a psychopathic illiterate, Idi Amin, did better work. Uganda has been fairly stable long enough. The conditions for an economic takeoff have been there for 20 years. Mr. Museveni has enjoyed generous goodwill from nearly all the world's rich governments. Their largesse has poured in ceaselessly and in hefty amounts. Uganda should have taken off. We haven't. We're stuck. And so is Tanzania, Sudan, Ethiopia, Mali, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Eritrea, Malawi, Congo Republic and pretty much all of Black Africa, excluding the region's sole economic power, South Africa. This led me to pose a question to myself: can Black people build prosperous societies? Just about every reason-from slavery, colonialism, neo-colonialism to inequitable world trade rules-cited for the backwardness of Black African nations has been so debunked by time that it has now become necessary to look beyond the realm of such contemporary explanations. The maddening inertia of Black people and the mystical forces that keep tamping down our nations, in fact, seem to have their roots deep within us, not from without as has been argued for decades. Just about everywhere you look, evidence abounds. Vietnam suffered a war of colonial conquest and it was eventually subdued by France in 1884. For almost a decade, it again fought a devastating independence war until France was vanquished in 1954. And then came the epic battle of 1965 to 1973 with US military and its allies, seeking to squelch the North Vietnamese communists. When the guns fell silent with the withdrawal of US troops in 1973 and the eventual fall of Saigon in 1975, the Vietnamese toll stood at a horrifying three to four million. Diplomatically isolated, its economy shredded and its population maimed and traumatised on a scale unparalleled in any Black African nation (except DR Congo), Vietnam would seem to have no chance at success. But just two and a half decades later, Vietnam is storming the world stage as an economic powerhouse. Its exports are flooding western nations; heavy and advanced manufacturing is thriving at a rapid pace. Its GDP, $258 billion, is having an average growth rate of 8%, the second highest in Asia after China. Europe had to put curbs on the country's shoe exports after they nearly sunk much of the continent's manufacturers. According to a news report in New York Times on October 25, 2006, Vietnam now sells "nine times as much to Americans as it buys from there." Since 1990, a space of 15 short years, Vietnam has pulled off one of the most stunning economic feats: reducing absolute poverty-World Bank standard: subsisting on $1 a day-from 51 to 8% of its population. Vietnam Back home here, the sort of wars and the scale of devastation that Uganda has suffered since independence can hardly be said to be as crippling as the cataclysm that struck Vietnam. This is true for many of the Black African nations. But the difference is staggering. Vietnam's economy is roaring. Sub Saharan Africa is dead stuck known more for: constant disease outbreaks, emergency food relief appeals, civil strive, genocide, chronic corruption, flimsy or nonexistent infrastructure, constitution breaches, state failure than anything else. This disgusting state of affairs after, according to an estimate by South Africa's Brenthurst Foundation, a colossal $580 billion worth of donor money has been poured into the region since independence. Why have the Vietnamese overcome their historical setbacks and prospered while Black Africans stagnated or regressed? Or if we may ask another question: why is it that White people prosper wherever they settle while Black people head for the opposite direction. The British crown started asserting its colonial rule over small territories on the continent of Australia in 1788, taking several decades before it brought all the areas into a unified Australian colony. Throngs of Europeans emigrated en masse and settled there throughout the 1800s. These émigrés went ahead, starting from really little or nothing, and established one of the world's economic and military powers that is Australia today. The history of New Zealand, the other White country in the Southern Hemisphere, is pretty much the same. Now contrast these nations with Haiti, the only black nation outside of Africa. It gained independence in 1804. It's near the US, the richest market on earth and Haiti has a coastline unlike other African nations whose landlocked status is blamed for their underdevelopment. And fine, it has had a fairly brutal past but nowhere near Vietnam's horrors. But what have our Haitian brothers made of these generous natural advantages: it remains the most backward country in the Western hemisphere, bound up by privation, cyclical coups, spasms of mayhem and blood-thirsty gangs. At home and away, that's your Black people! In fact Haiti is perhaps just about the best that we can achieve in nation building. Ethiopia never had colonialism. It registered impressively high levels of literacy as early as 1970, a fact a friend of mine brought to my attention recently. It has a rich and widely shared cultural heritage, a common ancestry. This should have propelled Ethiopia but see the shameful portrait of hunger and disease that this country projects to the world. And so, to go back to that question that I have been chewing over and over again of late: can Black People build prosperous societies; I firmly believe the answer is a sad NO. The dumbfounding incompetence of President Museveni thus is not a failure of an individual. It's a failure of a people: Black People. Museveni only rose and touched our low ceiling. The shamefully limited achievement of his "fundamental change" regime thus should be interpreted in this cruel context.

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In dagaal dhammaadaa qofkii doqoni moodaaye Nin da'weyni waa garan qabyada diillimaa hadhaye Hadduunbaa digtoonoow horliyo hawl la dawdabaye Debci yaan la odhan Ciidankay luguhu daaleene Degta Qoriga saarani inuu dego ka xaaraane Haddaan moosku soo dumin guryaha daad ma soo galoe Duddadaan adkayn cadawgu waa soo durrinayaaye Dablaydiyo korjooguhu ilaa u debedda gaafmeero Dalka niman u dhaarsani illaa ay diirad ku ilayso .... - Qaasim

^^No more Mr Miskiin, from now on you're Mr Cawaandi.

MMA a smile wouldn't hurt.