^ JZK Much appreciated.

^^ Did the dogs stay put all the years? Please elaborate. Eid mubaarak.

Eid Mubaarak to all Muslims wherever they are. Make sure the kids are having the time of their life. Here's how some celebrating in style. http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/specials/444_eid_juma/index.shtml

Johnny The Baptist Why don't you practice what you preach and address the topic rather than secessionists. If you want explore "links", I suggest you investigate the link between "incomplete submission" and cheerleading the kraut security forces' allegations. Originally posted by LayZie G.: PS:I don't need to fix the news, it was there for grabs. I just ran with it. Go on run. Let's see how far you can run...

As deplorable as piracy is, arms dealing (especially the ones flooding Africa with weapons) is even worse. I wish Puntland's navy good luck on this occasion.

^ Originally posted by Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar: Ee meel walba ee Soomaaliya saas ka tahay, so what is new? Xataa Xamar oo ugu amaandaran saas ah. Wah. Believe ^^^ you be everything!! Adeer the uniformed police themselves have been known to rob and loot in some places....

Couldn't believe my ears when I heard it on radio. They made it sound like the dog was beside the young man as he prayed in the Masjid. I suggest watching at least one of the two clips before making up your minds. Guide dog let into mosque Updated 21.37 Wed Sep 24 2008 A blind Muslim student has become the first person allowed to take a guide dog into a UK mosque. Mahomed-Abraar Khatri, 18, can now take his dog Vargo to his local mosque in Leicester after the Muslim Law (Shariah) Council UK issued a historic fatwa in response to his request. ITN Ruling allows guide dog in mosque Mohammed Abraar Khatri's confidence is said to be growing An 18-year-old blind Muslim student in Leicester is the first to be allowed to take his guide dog into a UK mosque. In Islam dogs are regarded as unclean and are not allowed in mosques. However, the Muslim Law (Shari'ah) Council UK has now issued a fatwa which allows guide dogs inside mosques but not into prayer rooms. The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association and the Muslim Council of Britain worked together to support Mohammed Abraar Khatri's request. Guide Dogs for the Blind said it was "a massive step forward for other blind and partially-sighted Muslims". BBC

^^ "German media identified the 24-year-old as Omar D. and the other man as Abdirazak B.; authorities would not confirm the names. The German newspaper Bild reported the men had been under observation for months. KLM said they were booked to fly to Uganda from Amsterdam."

^^ Agreed 100%. Lazie G You used to better than this. You can take that as a compliment. Originally posted by Koora-Tuunshe: They definately wanted to be trained in the free-zone tribal areas of Pakistan and then head back to Somalia, at least that was their initial plan. I think they were of the view that men trained in either Afghanistan or Pakistan are of the model of the assassinated Ayro and thus revered for their firm beliefs in the global Jihad against the infidels. Your Chinese whispers don't make any sense. The destination of the flight was Uganda. If as you "believe" they planned to return to Somalia and fight, then it's a local rather than "global Jihad", is it not? BTW - Mujaahid Aadan Xashi "Cayro" (AUN) was assassinated by American missiles in his home village in Somalia. That's my definition of global terrorism.

Did Ngonge write that? Sure does sounds like him....

^^ Xiin could just be one of those who claim "innamal muslixuun™ ".

^^ You forgot to mention Kismaayo's facilities as alternatives.

A&T C'on now, we've always had level-headed and unimposing Mullahs way before Sh. Mustafa. Talking about Sheekhs, have you heard the one about a scholar from the galbeed who came to visit Burco? Given the honour to lead Duhur prayers, the Sheekh cried with qushuuc while leading the prayers. After the prayers, one curious native wanted to know the Suurat that made the Sheekh cry. Only for the great sheekh to reply "Alif wax maleh". Originally posted by Abtigiis &Tolka: I recognise Somaliland as Somaliland. The land of Somali's who live in the provinces of Hargeisa, Saaxil and Togdheer. You don't make sense but we've all got start from somewhere I suppose...

Remembering September 11 1973 Were the lives of those killed at the World Trade Centre more valuable than the innocents murdered in Chile's US-backed coup, asks Tito Tricot Tito Tricotguardian.co.uk,Monday September 16 2002 11:54 BST Our dreams were shattered one cloudy morning when the military overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. Twenty-nine years later, at midday, Chile's's firemen sounded their sirens paying tribute to thousands of men and women who lost their lives without really understanding what was happening. It was a moment of remembrance, not for the victims of the military coup, but for those killed at the World Trade Centre in New York. Sad as that might have been, it is even sadder that Chilean firemen have never sounded their sirens to remember our own dead. And there are thousands of them, including many children, who were murdered by the military. It is not a matter of comparing sorrow and pain, but for the past year the US media has tried to convince us that north American lives are worth more than other people's lives. After all, we are from the third world, citizens of underdeveloped countries who deserve to be arrested, tortured and killed. How else are we interpret the fact that the military coup in our country was planned in the United States? The truth is that no US president ever shed a tear for our dead; no US politician ever sent a flower to our widows. The US government and media use different standards to measure suffering. It is precisely this hypocrisy and these double standards that make us sick, especially when on such a symbolic day for Chileans, the president of Chile, Ricardo Lagos, attended a memorial service at the United States embassy where the ambassador, William Brownfield, stated that "people who hate the United States must be controlled, arrested or eliminated". In what kind of a world are we living? Can we stand idly by while in the name of the fight against terrorism countries are bombed or invaded by the US war machine? I think not, especially because, irrespective of the horror of the World Trade Centre attacks, the US has no moral right to impose its will on our continent. After all, we in Latin America have ample experience with US terrorist tactics. In our continent alone 90,000 people disappeared as a direct result of the operation of the School of the Americas and US "counterinsurgency" policies - 30 times more than the victims of the World Trade Centre. One cannot - and should not - attempt to quantify suffering, but we do have the right to denounce this double standard. We also have the right to question President Lagos's assertion that "for the youth of today what happened in 1973 is part of history, which means we must undertake the task of looking to the future". Only a few hours after the president's speech, thousands of people - mostly young people- took over parts of Santiago and other Chilean cities to express their true feelings about this fateful day in Chile's history. They organised demonstrations, candle-lit vigils, concerts, meetings, seminars and put up barricades to defend themselves from the police. It was a way of saying: Neither the United States nor anybody has the right to steal our memory. No one has the right to steal our day, for September the 11 1973 is marked in our hearts with tears. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/sep/16/pinochet.september11

Candidate for what sort of change? Spare change?

Reading between the lines of recent threads and responses everyone here (apart from Xiin and MMA) is or pretends to be satisfied with what happening in Kismaayo. I'm I wrong nomads? *waits for Baashi to jump off his lonely magic carpet and tell us what he has overheard*

A&T Cheer up buddy. Didn't read the deleted thread but I'm sure Ibti only meant it as a sisterly telling off, that's all. It's all because of your approachable nature and her openness. Were you off-line (no pun) when Ibti casually revealed that a senior nomad spends some lunch-breaks in their local pup? Norf If choice is between Inzaghi and Rosenthal... I'd pick Inzaghi any day!

YEMEN: 29 bodies found on Yemen beach - MSF Posted to the Web Sep 11, 03:46 SANA - YEMEN: "We were 120 people, overcrowded; the trip took two days. We did not receive food, nor water. Some of us were placed in the hull. Several people died because of asphyxia, some others were thrown overboard, among them two children. In order to intimidate us, they beat us heavily with their belts. One of the smugglers threw petrol on us and showed off his lighter." A Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team found eight dead bodies yesterday, September 9, on the beach of Wadi Al-Barak, in Yemen, 30 kms east of Ahwar. These people, refugees and migrants who had escaped from conflict and extreme poverty in the Horn of Africa, were trying to cross the Gulf of Aden. During the rest of the day, 21 more dead bodies were washed up on the coast, raising the total death toll to 29. According to the survivors' accounts, 10 more people died during the trip. At 4.30 a.m., the MSF team was alerted to a new arrival on the coast, the seventh in nine days. When the team reached the beach, they found a group of survivors and eight dead bodies. The survivors told MSF staff that the boat arrived in the middle of the night and stopped far from the coast, in deep waters. The passengers were forced, with extreme violence, to jump into the water. Most of the people who died did not know how to swim. The survivors explained that the smugglers were extremely brutal during the trip. According to their testimonies, up to 10 people died during the journey: several people were asphyxiated and three, including two children, were thrown into the sea by the smugglers. About 120 people were in the boat at the beginning of the journey. According to a 23 years-old Somali refugee from Mogadishu: "The smugglers promised us in Bossaso [somalia] that we would be transported to Yemen in small groups with new fast boats, and with proper food and water. However, the boat was an old one. They pointed at us with their weapons and forced us to jump inside. We were 120 people, overcrowded; the trip took two days. We did not receive food, nor water. Some of us were placed in the hull. Several people died because of asphyxia, some others were thrown overboard, among them two children. In order to intimidate us, they beat us heavily with their belts. One of the smugglers threw petrol on us and showed off his lighter." After being given first aid on the beach, the refugees went to the Ahwar Reception Centre (ARC), where MSF teams provided medical assistance and counselling. "With the previous six boat arrivals, people had been treated humanely by the smugglers," said Alfonso Verdú, MSF Head of Mission in Yemen. "We thought that the trend might have changed, until today. The horrific cases of 2007 are being repeated again. People have been through terrible things. One woman lost her three young children. A young Ethiopian witnessed his 70 year-old father being thrown into the sea at night, and only recovered his dead body the next morning. "The majority told us that they had no option but to flee from the violence exerted against them in Somalia and Ethiopia, even though they knew about the danger of the trip. We were expecting a massive arrival of refugees and migrants - the 2008 figures are double those of 2007. But it is clearly not only the numbers that are increasing: the violence has tripled since the beginning of September." MSF started its project in September 2007, providing medical and humanitarian assistance to refugees and migrants arriving at the Yemeni coast of Abyan and Shabwa Governorates. During 2008, MSF has provided assistance to over 3,800 people, 580 of them in September. In June 2008, MSF released a report entitled "No Choice" to document the conditions of the perilous journey and to call for an increased in the assistance for the thousands of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants fleeing their home countries. SOURCE: MSF http://www.puntlandpost.com/englishnewspage.php?articleid=3839

That's an impressive turn-out for the Mujaahid. Let's wait and see.

Serenity That's lack of Shah for you. Ignore my tips and you'll be fine.

The Colombian had a good record and Khan will look good his CV. Would luv it if Khan gets his revenge on a world title fight.

^^ My tip would be wait for the daily programme to be published. Pick a day "special" guests are booked not the ones who are here every few months. Take some cash with you just in case you like what's available.

^^ C'on now it's mini crisis that's all. If they're serious about leadership they can sort it out easily. I supposed you'd rather they did what UDUB did and ban anyone to stand against the president and vice-president. Hungry With supporters like yourself, what chance did Cadami have? Saylici is ok but my #1 candidate would've been Mj. Labatolleh. Btw, whatever happened to Maakhir euphoria? Seems to have fizzle out quicker than ICU.

Somali Week Festival 2008 9th October – 15th October Oxford House in Bethnal green in partnership with REDSEA-ONLINE.COM Language, Culture and Heritage Foundation, Halabuur Centre for Culture and Communication in the Horn (HCCC), Africa Voluntary Youth Committee (HAVOYOCO) and a range of national, internal and local community organisations are pleased to present the Somali Week Festival as a part of Black History Month. The Festival will take place at Oxford House from 09th to 15th October 2008. full info >> oxfordhouse.org ....... This time it's Aadan Tarabi and Cali Sugule , they are spoiling us

Musharaxa M/Xigeenka Xisbiga Kulmiye Iyo Siyaasiyiinta Xisbiga Oo Markii Ugu Horaysay Ka Hadlay Fagaare Magaalada Boorama Ah Tan Iyo Intii La Doortay