Alpha Blondy;841567 wrote: tell me a more dangerous place than that hell-hole? The thoughts that go through your pea sized brain are more dangerous than the so-called "hell-hole"

Mogadishu is losing a label it never wanted in the first place: The World's Most Dangerous City. The seaside Somali capital is enjoying a peace that, except for the infrequent attack, has lasted the better part of a year. Somalis who fled decades of war are coming back, as are U.N. workers who long operated out of Nairobi, the capital of neighboring Kenya. Embassies are reopening and a U.S. assistant secretary of state visited here on Sunday, the highest-ranking U.S. official to set foot in Mogadishu since the infamous Black Hawk Down battle of 1993. Minnesota resident Abdikhafar Abubakar fled Somalia in 1992, leaving behind his mother, three siblings and other family members. He planned to visit twice in previous years, but each time his mother warned it was too dangerous. Last week, he finally returned to Mogadishu, where he saw his mother for the first time in two decades. This time she said it was safe and she welcomed him home with tears of joy. He later walked the streets with his brother. "One thing I could say about Mogadishu as the most dangerous city in the world: I've been here one week and I never felt any danger," Abubakar said. "When I was out walking around, I wasn't scared. There was nothing to be scared of." He did hear gunshots in the distance but even that didn't rattle him. Mogadishu's designation as the World's Most Dangerous City was unofficial, of course, but widely applied. The U.N. and embassies pulled out in the 1990s, following the collapse of the last fully functioning government in 1991. Al-Qaida-linked militants held sway over much of the city from 2007 until last August, a four-year span when full-fledged war raged with African Union troops. On Aug. 6, the African Union fighters pushed out al-Shabab, ending the daily grind of war. Last month, the African force took control of Afmadow, an al-Shabab stronghold on Mogadishu's outskirts the insurgents had used for staging the occasional bomb attack. Armored personnel carriers driven by Ugandan and Burundian troops still rumble through the city. But with the fighting at bay, the military convoys feel more like heavy security than front-line forces. "This is the longest period of sustained peace Mogadishu has seen in 20 years," said Lt. Col. Paddy Ankunda, spokesman for the African Union force known as AMISOM. Britain announced in February that it was naming an ambassador to Somalia, though he is mostly stationed in Nairobi. Johnnie Carson, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs, visited Mogadishu on Sunday and noted that eight or nine countries – including Turkey, Libya, Yemen and Sudan – now have a diplomatic presence in Mogadishu, though the U.S. does not. The countries setting up embassies are generally using different buildings from the ones they used to occupy – whole neighborhoods were destroyed or damaged in the fighting – and they are patrolled by armed guards. Robert Young Pelton, author of "The World's Most Dangerous Places," said al-Shabab-held Somali cities like Merca and Kismayo, where some of the foreign fighters associated with al-Qaida have fled, are more dangerous than Mogadishu. One major goal is to transform Somali government troops in Mogadishu into a professional force that provides security instead of being a threat. Government troops are receiving training in Uganda, but many go months without pay and some remain a danger to Somalia's civilians. An Associated Press journalist last week witnessed a Somali soldier at a security checkpoint shoot a woman twice in the leg with little provocation. Underscoring Mogadishu's transformation, massive amounts of construction materials are being shipped to Mogadishu's port. Deputy port commander Ahmed Abdi Karie noted that a house on a small plot of land in downtown Mogadishu that a year ago sold for $20,000 now goes for $100,000. "I keep saying Mogadishu is open for business. Reconstruction is at an incredible level," said Killian Kleinschmidt, the U.N.'s deputy humanitarian coordinator for Mogadishu, who relocated to the Somali capital earlier this year. Soccer and basketball teams and a nascent arts scene have returned. Beach-side restaurants serving lobster have opened. Many of Mogadishu's buildings still bear the scars of war, their stone facades bullet-riddled and their walls blown out. But the Somali government spokesman, Abdirahman Omar Osman, argues that Mogadishu is now safer than Baghdad or Kabul. A tourism minister may even be appointed soon to attract tourists to the city. "Mogadishu is no longer the world's most dangerous city. It's on the peace path now," he said. "We are working on making it safe for foreigners to work here as well." Somalia's defense minister, Hussein Arab Isse, returned to Mogadishu last year after 30 years of living in the Oakland area of California. He says Somalia's leaders know they must put aside two decades of divisions and work together to elect a new parliament, president and prime minister before Aug. 20, when the U.N. mandate that created the current transitional government expires. The returning diaspora, he said, is proof that Somalis believe in a brighter future. "They're all returning because people, they want to come back and they've had enough of living abroad and they're investing their money. And that gives you confidence," he said. "A year ago no one was talking about investing their hard-earned money in Somalia. Property is skyrocketing in value, and that's good." The patients who line up outside the African Union force's outpatient clinic used to come with gunshot and bomb blast wounds. Today their medical problems are more in line with a regular metropolis – infections and traffic accident injuries, said Dr. Leonard Ddungu of the Ugandan military. Malnutrition rates are down from last year, when much of Somalia suffered from famine. Justin Brady, the head of the Somalia unit of the U. N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, is the first chief of any U.N. agency to be based in Mogadishu since international staff left in 1995. Last week he visited a sprawling refugee camp where more than 100,000 Somalis live in makeshift tents. One refugee told Brady: "You come here to do nothing." Being on the ground makes a difference, Brady said. "If you fly back to Nairobi it's easy to forget. ... It's much more in your face here that we have to get something done," he said, adding: "There's a demand from Somalis to be here." More U.N. staff will arrive in coming weeks. The challenges of carrying out their work remain huge. No area of the city is rated lower than "high risk" by the U.N., so U.N. staff will have to travel in military convoys. Pelton, who runs the Somalia news website Somaliareport.com and who travels to Mogadishu, said he believes the city is safe enough for Americans and Europeans to walk around. Abubakar has a different opinion. The 45-year-old father of eight was surprised to find running water and 24-hour electricity at his mother's house, and is considering moving his family to Mogadishu. But he says living there would be safer for him – a U.S. citizen and Somali native – than most Americans and Europeans. "I know it's not safe for a white person to walk around on foot," he said. "Even if you don't become a target everyone will be looking and saying, `Oh, what is this guy doing here?'"

The so-called expert and former colonel is the same guy that owns this website quracjomo.com and also the same guy that wrote this article: http://quracjomo.com/madaxweynaha-mgoboleedka-abweyn-state-oo-dowlada-kmg-ka-codsaday-in-caasimada-soomaliya-u-rartan-dhulaan-lakala-lahey-qarada-america/ Marka khabiirnimada laga sugayo nin sidaas u fikiraya is beyond me.

Flame, a newly-discovered computer virus built for espionage has been named as the most complicated piece of malicious software ever created, and speculation as to who is behind it is sweeping the web. Eugene Kaspersky, the founder of Kaspersky Lab, one of the security organisations that have investigated Flame since its discover earlier this month, is sure of at least one thing. Other experts already agree that the complexity of the software and its espionage-specific capabilities strongly suggest a state intelligence agency is responsible. Reuters journalist Jim Finkle notes that Kaspersky Lab has suggested the team that created the Stuxnet virus, which was designed to cause phiysical damage to the Iranian nuclear programme, may be behind Flame. Given the pattern of the Flame infection known so far - Iran, the West Bank, Syria, Egypt - and its technological prowess, Israel has quickly emerged as many commentators' prime suspect. Richard Silverstein, a US-based commentator and critic of the Israeli government, has made widely-shared claims "my senior Israeli source confirms that it is a product of Israeli cyberwarfare experts". The Jerusalem Post thinks Vice President Ya'alon may even have already hinted Israel is behind Flame. As ever with cyber espionage some are also casting suspicious glances towards Beijing and Washington. But its worth remembering that two years after it was discovered, nobody knows for sure who was behind Stuxnet, and as Eugene Kaspersky notes, Flame is a much more complicated problem.

The world's most complex computer virus, possessing a range of complex espionage capabilities, including the ability to secretly record conversations, has been exposed. Middle Eastern states were targeted and Iran ordered an emergency review of official computer installations after the discovery of a new virus, known as Flame. Experts said the massive malicious software was 20 times more powerful than other known cyber warfare programmes including the Stuxnet virus and could only have been created by a state. It is the third cyber attack weapon targeting systems in the Middle East to be exposed in recent years. Iran has alleged that the West and Israel are orchestrating a secret war of sabotage using yber warfare and targeted assassinations of its scientists as part of the dispute over its nuclear programme. Stuxnet attacked Iran's nuclear programme in 2010, while a related programme, Duqu, named after the Star Wars villain, stole data. Flame can gather data files, remotely change settings on computers, turn on computer microphones to record conversations, take screen shots and copy instant messaging chats. The virus was discovered by a Russian security firm that specialises in targeting malicious computer code. It made the 20 megabyte virus available to other researchers yesterday claiming it did not fully understand its scope and said its code was 100 times the size of the most malicious software. Kaspersky Labs said the programme appeared to have been released five years ago and had infected machines in Iran, Israel, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. "If Flame went on undiscovered for five years, the only logical conclusion is that there are other operations ongoing that we don't know about," Roel Schouwenberg, a Kaspersky security senior researcher, said. Professor Alan Woodward from the department of computing at the University of Surrey said the virus was extremely invasive. It could "vacuum up" information by copying keyboard strokes and the voices of people nearby. "This wasn't written by some spotty teenager in his/her bedroom. It is large, complicated and dedicated to stealing data whilst remaining hidden for a long time," he said. The virus contains about 20 times as much code as Stuxnet, which attacked an Iranian uranium enrichment facility, causing centrifuges to fail. Iran's output of uranium was suffered a severe blow as a result of the Stuxnet activities. Mr Schouwenberg said there was evidence to suggest the code was commissioned by the same nation or nations that were behind Stuxnet and Duqu. Iran's Computer Emergency Response Team said it was "a close relation" of Stuxnet, which has itself been linked to Duqu, another complicated information-stealing virus is believed to be the work of state intelligence. It said organisations had been given software to detect and remove the newly-discovered virus at the beginning of May. Crysys Lab, which analyses computer viruses at Budapest University. said the technical evidence for a link between Flame and Stuxnet or Duqu was inconclusive. The newly-discovered virus does not spread itself automatically but only when hidden controllers allow it. Unprecedented layers of software allow Flame to penetrate remote computer networks undetected. The file, which infects Microsoft Windows computers, has five encryption algorithms, exotic data storage formats and the ability to steal documents, spy on computer users and more. Components enable those behind it, who use a network of rapidly-shifting "command and control" servers to direct the virus, to turn microphone into listening devices, siphon off documents and log keystrokes. Eugene Kaspersky, the founder of Kaspersky Lab, noted that "it took us 6 months to analyse Stuxnet. [This] is 20 times more complicated". Once a machine is infected additional modules can be added to the system allowing the machine to undertake specific tracking projects.

The quality of streams is very poor. I guess the Internet connection is to blame. At some point I hope they upload a better recordings on their site.

You welcome Nuune. The live streaming has just began.

The video stream will be available on link below from 2pm Somalia time, 1pm European time, 12pm London time, and 7am New York time on May 17. Mark your calendars. http://www.livestream.com/tedxmogadishu ----- There is hope in Somalia. An influx of African Union troops has pushed insurgents out of Mogadishu and representatives from the country’s clans are meeting to discuss the formation of a new government and draft constitution. With sustained peace on the horizon, the Somali diaspora is returning home and starting businesses. International investors are exploring opportunities and the first Somali bank has now opened. While the stability remains fragile, Somalis are optimistic that a turning point has been reached after 21 years of conflict, and we are witnessing the rebirth of Mogadishu TEDxMogadishu Speaker Lineup Ilwad Elman, Elman Peace and Human Rights Center Ilwad (Elle) Elman runs the Elman Peace and Human Rights Center in Mogadishu with her mom, Fartun. Her father was an ardent peace activist in the 1990s, spreading the mantra “Put down the gun, pick up the pen” around Somalia, but was assassinated in 1996. Elle returned to Mogadishu three years ago while the conflict still raged on in the city. She works closely with victims of rape and sexual assault, as well as rehabilitating child soldiers by teaching them vocational skills. Liban Egal, First Somali Bank Liban Egal is the founder of First Somali Bank, which recently opened in Mogadishu and is the first commercial bank in the city since the government collapsed 21 years ago. He emigrated from Somalia in 1988 and spent the next 20 years in America, starting a string of businesses in Baltimore, Maryland. Liban visited his hometown last August and found a world of opportunity, but realized that a lack of proper banking infrastructure was limiting investment and rebuilding. Hassan Mohamed H. (Kaafi), Plasma University Hassan Mohamed H. (Kaafi) is the President of Plasma University, which was started as small institute named Plasma Institute of Medical Lab-Science in 2005 and become the first private higher education institute that offered two year Associate Degree in Medical Lab Technology in the country. Plasma University now comprises six colleges. Each college consists of at least three faculties / schools that offers degree and Amina Hagi Elmi, Save Somali Women and Children Amina Hagi Elmi is the founder of Save Somali Women and Children (SSWC), an aid organization designed to improve the lives on Somalis and has implemented many different projects across the country including employment initiative programs, providing aid, digging wells and providing clean water. Amina believes that in addition to food and water, dignity is critical for women arriving at internally displaced person camps. In turn, she created “dignity kits. Mohamed Abdi, Dhul & Guri Mohamed Abdi was is a real estate professional who founded Dhul & Guri in the UK to support the Somali Diaspora buying and selling properties in Somalia. He returned to his home country in 2011 to work for Telecom Somalia before leaving in February 2012 to open a Dhul & Guri office in a newly peaceful Mogadishu. Despite many challenges, Abdi is revolutionizing real estate in the country by introducing modern tools and innovative ways to transact in Somalia. Dahir Olow, Somali National Fishing Company Dahir Olow has lived and worked in Mogadishu since the collapse of the government in 1991. He has managed to run a successful fish processing business despite devastating effects of the conflicts in Mogadishu and the 2004 tsunami, which wiped out the Somali fisheries industry and forced Olow to pivot to other, more profitable businesses. Amir Issa, Businessman and Camel Farmer Amir Issa is a Mogadishu-based businessman who remained in Mogadishu through the civil war and the ensuing conflicts which followed. Amir, a camel enthusiast and farmer, kept his business going throughout the 20-plus year conflict. Alicia Sully, What Took You So Long Foundation Alicia is a Co-founder of What Took You So Long Foundation who films non profits around the world. Last year the team made a documentary called “Hot Chocolate for Bedouins” about camel milk for which they traveled to 20 countries in the span of a year to visit camels, camel herders and film their livelihoods. Her current projects include “Camel Milk Me.” Ahmed Jama Mohamed, Village Restaurant Ahmed Jama Mohamed is a chef who returned to Somalia from London in 2008 to help rebuild his country. In London, Ahmed operated a number of restaurants (which are considered the best Somali restaurants in the UK) and has now opened three restaurants in Mogadishu. With the situation in Mogadishu stabilizing, Ahmed plans to continue expanding and providing jobs for upcoming Somali chefs Suad Ibrahim Habibullah, Knowledge Management Training Center Suad Ibrahim Habibullah is an entrepreneur and teacher who is founding an institute for girls and women in Mogadishu to continue their higher education beyond university. Suad plans to offer certificates in fields such as accounting and help train girls how to start their own businesses. Abdiaziz Agane, Adult Commercial Secondary School Abdiaziz Agane helped found Adult Commercial Secondary School (ACSS) in 2006. Currently, the school provides business and accounting subjects as well as introductory science subjects and computer fundamentals. Abdiaziz wants to help adults who missed out on their education due to two decades of conflict in Somalia, but cannot returned to normal secondary schools due to their age.

Ku dayoo "Somaliland" ku dayoo, does anyone know the chorus of that song horta?

^^ I expected that, but not from Oday Soomaaliyeed!!!

Is there anyone who is working/studying or is generally interested in Cryptography?

^^ That it was posted by a sane person or the fact it is still remains online?

burahadeer;828471 wrote: @ Qandalawi....SSC is negligible , not even 0.05 of the population.They claimed entire regions that's not theirs just to break up SL,now we won't let them off the hook.Let's fight it out.They agreed & signed at every conference & document ,it's only now they see south seem crawling to peace.They be back if somalia return to myhem.Opportunist will lose either way! Iyo Waliba infact reality is much different & that the only way you can stop SL is by force ,til then keep talking .All these SSC & the likes don't even constitute 1% of the population.Ask what has stalled your gun trotting ragtag army? Iyo kan kalee isagana dhinaca kale ka doodaya ee leh faarah22;828551 wrote: what are you talking about?. even in the so called SL, only one clan agitates for this treachery. as they are looking for political gains at the expense of other clans. Ileen dadka waxaa ugu liita diin laawe qabiil aaminsan. At least Garnaqsi seems to use reason markuu doodayo, idinka mee reasonkii iyo logic aad isticmaasheen to deduce inaynan diini jirin, maad kaa isticmaashaan to see what qabiil is? midda kale why baad u derail garaynaysaan topica, dee ama ka jawaaba su'aasha ama qashinka meesha kala taga.

wyre;826443 wrote: It worked, I am really thankfull sxb macaane, Adaa mudan (minus the macaane bit)

Wyre, this video might help.

Carafaat: ka daa bahasha, waliguu muusan dagin Holland e

Sayiddii, another 5k of your Jacbur would be very much welcome. ps. Aniguba lambarkaan kugu badsanayaa, hopefully 300 ayaan gaadhi doonaa one day IA

Jacaylbaro;810551 wrote: That is all I wanted to hear for now ,,,,, You can keep the conversation with the others. Caaqil baad tahay nin yahaw - sometimes. You found your chance and dashed for the exit, after all Chimera dissected your logic.

^^ Haa!

I once heard a rumour that Hizbuallah had banned eggs for being the result of an illegal union. Wonder if there are any such rumours about Al Shabab! ^^ lol

Waa little Arab boy that wont admit inuusan af soomaaliga akhrin karin. I daaya conspiracy, qoraalada soomaaliga ah ayuu u arkaa a little conspiracy against him

I'm getting a bit tired of the "deranged" soldier story. It was predictable, of course. The 38-year-old staff sergeant who massacred 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, near Kandahar this week had no sooner returned to base than the defence experts and the think-tank boys and girls announced that he was "deranged". Not an evil, wicked, mindless terrorist – which he would be, of course, if he had been an Afghan, especially a Taliban – but merely a guy who went crazy. This was the same nonsense used to describe the murderous US soldiers who ran amok in the Iraqi town of Haditha. It was the same word used about Israeli soldier Baruch Goldstein who massacred 25 Palestinians in Hebron – something I pointed out in this paper only hours before the staff sergeant became suddenly "deranged" in Kandahar province. "Apparently deranged", "probably deranged", journalists announced, a soldier who "might have suffered some kind of breakdown" (The Guardian), a "rogue US soldier" (Financial Times) whose "rampage" (The New York Times) was "doubtless [sic] perpetrated in an act of madness" (Le Figaro). Really? Are we supposed to believe this stuff? Surely, if he was entirely deranged, our staff sergeant would have killed 16 of his fellow Americans. He would have slaughtered his mates and then set fire to their bodies. But, no, he didn't kill Americans. He chose to kill Afghans. There was a choice involved. So why did he kill Afghans? We learned yesterday that the soldier had recently seen one of his mates with his legs blown off. But so what? The Afghan narrative has been curiously lobotomised – censored, even – by those who have been trying to explain this appalling massacre in Kandahar. They remembered the Koran burnings – when American troops in Bagram chucked Korans on a bonfire – and the deaths of six Nato soldiers, two of them Americans, which followed. But blow me down if they didn't forget – and this applies to every single report on the latest killings – a remarkable and highly significant statement from the US army's top commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen, exactly 22 days ago. Indeed, it was so unusual a statement that I clipped the report of Allen's words from my morning paper and placed it inside my briefcase for future reference. Allen told his men that "now is not the time for revenge for the deaths of two US soldiers killed in Thursday's riots". They should, he said, "resist whatever urge they might have to strike back" after an Afghan soldier killed the two Americans. "There will be moments like this when you're searching for the meaning of this loss," Allen continued. "There will be moments like this, when your emotions are governed by anger and a desire to strike back. Now is not the time for revenge, now is the time to look deep inside your souls, remember your mission, remember your discipline, remember who you are." Now this was an extraordinary plea to come from the US commander in Afghanistan. The top general had to tell his supposedly well-disciplined, elite, professional army not to "take vengeance" on the Afghans they are supposed to be helping/protecting/nurturing/training, etc. He had to tell his soldiers not to commit murder. I know that generals would say this kind of thing in Vietnam. But Afghanistan? Has it come to this? I rather fear it has. Because – however much I dislike generals – I've met quite a number of them and, by and large, they have a pretty good idea of what's going on in the ranks. And I suspect that Allen had already been warned by his junior officers that his soldiers had been enraged by the killings that followed the Koran burnings – and might decide to go on a revenge spree. Hence he tried desperately – in a statement that was as shocking as it was revealing – to pre-empt exactly the massacre which took place last Sunday. Yet it was totally wiped from the memory box by the "experts" when they had to tell us about these killings. No suggestion that General Allen had said these words was allowed into their stories, not a single reference – because, of course, this would have taken our staff sergeant out of the "deranged" bracket and given him a possible motive for his killings. As usual, the journos had got into bed with the military to create a madman rather than a murderous soldier. Poor chap. Off his head. Didn't know what he was doing. No wonder he was whisked out of Afghanistan at such speed. We've all had our little massacres. There was My Lai, and our very own little My Lai, at a Malayan village called Batang Kali where the Scots Guards – involved in a conflict against ruthless communist insurgents – murdered 24 unarmed rubber workers in 1948. Of course, one can say that the French in Algeria were worse than the Americans in Afghanistan – one French artillery unit is said to have "disappeared" 2,000 Algerians in six months – but that is like saying that we are better than Saddam Hussein. True, but what a baseline for morality. And that's what it's about. Discipline. Morality. Courage. The courage not to kill in revenge. But when you are losing a war that you are pretending to win – I am, of course, talking about Afghanistan – I guess that's too much to hope. General Allen seems to have been wasting his time. Robert Fisk: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-madness-is-not-the-reason-for-this-massacre-7575737.html#disqus_thread

Buy a one way ticket to Mogadishu for her and the kids with Turkish Airlines. That will surprise her without a doubt

Surely, wearing a loaded belt would be the best option for him now