New Rays Garowe. Tawfiiq Hotel Garowe. Huruuse Garowe. Rugsan Hotel Garowe. Classical Hotel Galkacyo. Kamaal Hotel Bosaso. Another hotel in Bosaso.

George Saitoti had previously served as vice-president (Picture: AP) Wreckage of the crashed helicopter is inspected by police on the outskirts of Nairobi (Picture: EPA)

AfricaOwn;840683 wrote: ^^Would you like anyone calling your mom a sad B!tch? my mum is very proud to be a Somali.

Who's behind it? A terrible accident, an Alshabab assassination, or was it a conspiracy commissioned by other presidential candidates?

Mas’uuliyiin ka tirsanaa dowladda Kenya oo shil diyaaradeed ku geeriyoodey Waxaa shil diyaarad oo ka dhacay gudaha dalka Kenya ku dhintay masuuliyiin ka tirsan dawladda Kenya. Wasiirka arimaha ammaanka ee Kenya George Saitoti iyo ku xigeenkiisa Orda Ojode ayaa ka mid ahaa dadkii ku geeriyooday shilka. Waxaana sidoo kale shilkaas ku geeriyoodey afar kale oo isugu jirey ilaalo iyo wadihii diyaaradda. Diyaaradda ayaa ahayd Helicopter ay Boolisku lahaayeen, lamana oga sababta keentay inay bur burto. “Meel u dhaw magaalada Nairobi garoon ku yaala oo lagu magacaabo Wilson Air Port ayey ka duushay saacadu markii ay ahaydn 8:30, waxayna ku soo dhacday meel aan ka fogeyn magaalada Nairobi” sidaa waxaa yiri madaxweene ku xigeenka Kusolonzo Myoka. Goobta uu shilku ka dhacay waxaa soo gaaray mas’uuliyiin badan oo ay ku jiraan Ra’iisul wasaaraha Raila Odinga iyo madaxweyne ku-xigeenka Kolonzo Musyoka. Saitoti oo horay xilal kala duwan uga soo qabtay dalka Kenya wuxuu qayb ka ahaa musharixiinta isu diyaarinaya ka qayb qaadashada doorashada madaxtinimada ee dalkaas ka dhici doonta.

NAIROBI — Kenya's Internal Security Minister George Saitoti was killed Sunday along with five others in a police helicopter crash near Nairobi, officials said. Saitoti, 66, was a candidate in next year's presidential election and a key figure driving his country's fight against Al Qaeda-affiliated Shebab insurgents in neighbouring Somalia. Saitoti was killed along with Joshua Orwa Ojonde, the assistant minister for internal security, the two pilots -- including a woman -- and two bodyguards when the helicopter came down in the Ngong hills outside the capital. President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga paid tribute to Saitoti, who played a prominent role in the campaign against Somali insurgents, blamed for a series of terror attacks and kidnappings on Kenyan soil. "The government will ensure a thorough probe" into the cause of the crash, Odinga told journalists at the crash site. Saitoti was on his way to attend a religious ceremony in western Kenya when the Eurocopter came down in the Kibuku forest around 8:30 am (0530 GMT) shortly after taking off from Nairobi's Wilson airport. An AFP journalist on the scene saw six bodies charred beyond recognition being removed from the wreckage. The helicopter was entirely destroyed. A witness at the scene described the helicopter as having "hovered up there and looked like it was turning back" before coming down. Another witness, farmer Ole Tolei, told AFP that he had seen the aircraft "flying very low. It came down suddenly and we heard a loud explosion, and then it burst into flames." As internal security minister, Saitoti controlled the state's top investigative arms, the National Security Intelligence Service and the Criminal Investigations Department. Kenya sent thousands of troops into southern Somalia in October last year to fight the Shebab and protect its border. It has since been joined by other regional powers in a bid to rout the Islamist group from their strongholds in the south and centre of the country. It was Saitoti who made the first public announcement of the invasion, a full two days after Kenyan troops crossed the border. Several people have been killed in a series of bomb attacks in border areas, and a bomb in a Nairobi shopping centre last month wounded 38 people. Saitoti declared recently that the government would not be cowed by "terrorists". Kibaki said in a statement the deaths were "a devastating loss to our country." "Minister Saitoti will forever be remembered as a hardworking and determined public servant who dedicated his time to the service of the Kenyan people," he said. Saitoti had announced that he was standing as a candidate to succeed Kibaki in the 2013 presidential election. A former finance minister, he was vice-president in the administration of Daniel Arap Moi from 1989-1997 and again from 1999-2002.

Carafaat;840635 wrote: Lander, ani Xamar kasoo jeeda, xafada howlwadaag, iskoyska number 4 agtiis. Howlwadaag iyo number 4 maxaa iska galay. war ninku been badanaa.

she's trying to distance her self from Somalia as far as she could by even pronouncing it in a funny way. "Somaliyaaa". what a sad b!tch.

Naxar Nugaaleed;840495 wrote: This will go down in history as the best fifth grade absence excuse ever lol Yaa diidi kara noteka ninka ugu xooga badan caalamka.

Fifth grader Tyler Sullivan went straight to the top to get his absence from school excused: He got a note President Barack Obama. Sullivan, 11, skipped school on Friday in order to go with his dad, Ryan Sullivan, to see the president speak at the Honeywell factory near Minneapolis where his father works. While the tween was there, he got a chance to shake hands with Obama, who volunteered to write a note to Sullivan's teacher explaining the boy's absence from school. "Mr. Ackerman –" reads the note, which is written on presidential stationery. "Please excuse Tyler ... he was with me!" No word from Mr. Ackerman, but odds are he accepted young Sullivan's excuse. The president spoke about creating jobs while at Honeywell, which has made it a priority to hire veterans, the Associated Press.

Congratulations Abtigiis. Waxaan sadexdoodaba u rajeeynaya Cag dheer, Cimri dheer, iyo Cilmi xeel dheer. dee koonfurta somalia alaabtan baa la bixin jiray markuu arday afloxo, reer og.denia ma garanayo wax la bixiyo.

^^ Interesting debate between two SL intellectuals.

Maaddeey;840269 wrote: Loool, calan muusan luleyne, kulleetiguu ugu dheganaa, kama' bayna ahayd. Waxaan rajeynayaa in maxkamadda SL intaas gartaan illeyn waa Demoqraadiye!. fifty thousand calan buu lulay. wax faham. they say desperate times require desperate measures.

Qolabaa Calankeedu waa ceynoo, inagaa keenu waa cirkoo kala ee, Aan caadna laheyn ee caashaqayee. and ironically that song was composed by a patriotic SLder. AUN C/Laahi Qarshe.

NGONGE;840190 wrote: ^^ It's unfortunate that they have to meet in foreign lands but the basic problem is the same, saaxib. Don't be fooled by SL's gurti or what not. Had it been an SL meeting and a speaker uttered the same words about a Siilaanyo, Riyaale or any of the other names associated with clans they too would have had a walk out (even inside SL). The only difference in SL is that they harnessed the clan system a little but the clan system exists nonetheless. NORF, a gullible SL Supremacist or shall we call him naive la khalday. war adeerow somali waa somali, NGONGE is right, did you forget what happened when C/Raxman C/Qadir was kicked out of Kulmiye, the clan over reaction was way beyond belief and it brought SL's fragile weakness to the naked eye. N.O.R.F;840190 wrote: I was refering to the political make up in SL not needing such conferences or speeches in foreign lands.. Adeerow you are comparing a nation to a clan triange, the south is a nation and has gigantic problems, with its diverse of languages, dialects, tribes, and resource it is more complicated than 3 villages problems.

Wadani;840156 wrote: oo odayaasha bay iyo bakool ma saasay iyaguna u dhiig kululyihiin, anuu waxaaban moodi jiray dadka Soomaalida ugu qabow uguna samirka badan e. Soomaali ileen waa Soomaali uun. jaaliyadda D&M sow kuwii badankood u qaxay gobolada dhexe iyo wixii ka shisheeya, meeshaasey ka soo qaadeen dhiiga kulul. Turkey will have hard time to rationalize with quick tempered somalis, the italians tried hard to mediate mudug clans during colonial times, and when they got tired with somali nonsense, they just walked away saying "porca miseria infanzia" which loosly transilates into "Bloody hell children". Yes that's what somalis are, spoiled prats.

I think we are the only nation in the world who use this type of pillow, call it unique but lots of outsiders will be amazed to see it. sadly we don't promote our culture.

Al Noor Mosque Badhan. Caabudwaaq Mosque. Mosque interior.

Ali Mataan Mosque Hargeysa Galkacyo Mosque. Masjidka Ceel Garas.

Al-Huda Mosque Hargeysa. Masjidu Nuur baladweyn.

Old Musque in Baydhabo. Small Mosque in Kismayo. Al Huda Mosque Garowe Another Mosque

Rawda Mosque Bosaso. Baladweyne Mosque. Aw-Cismaan Mosque Marka.

Arbaca Rukun Mosque in Muqdisho. Berbera Mosque. Xamarweyne Muqdisho. Las anod Mosque. Hargeysa. Sheekh Biyamaalow Mosque in Muqdisho.

Qaranki;839854 wrote: I also wonder why Ali Dheere and Hasan Dahir Aweys were left out, could the reports of the latter making a deal with the TFG be true? There is a reason they left these two out and that is to divide them and give Aweys room for maneuver, but I was surprised Roobow to be on the list since he is considered to be the most moderate of the group and has a nationalistic tendencies.

I am always baffled how someone can sleep on this comfortably, I tried it and it was impossible.