duke correct if am wrong but is he being selected or elected? it seems that in somalia, we are mistaking selection for election. if every man and woman in every village is given the chance to vote, the outcome is indesputable, don't you think and we would overcome all this power struggles.

but he is, or are living in another world like the rest of the "opposition"?

This article was written first published by dayniile which has made a bad habit of telling bogus lies about government officials. There is no record of the president of ever selling public owned assets i highly doubt that he would start now. if so, would it not be better to go and ask government officials about their intentions rather then "we think they are about to..." also, somali people have tried before to do something like this and have been stopped, such as the ones in turkey who tried to transfar frozen funds of somalia into their own account and said they were reppresenting the government but really were not. Somalis have and will continue to do things like this, no need to blame geedi and yusuf, what you people should be focusing on is how to stop this kind of people. lastly, no sane person should go to dayniile for nothing but funny stories and not news. otherwise, you are no better then the liers at dayniile.com.

its more like xaabsade vs. puntland and mr. x is distancing himself from those kids.

Job well done to the the government. it is more then clear now, that the rest of the world supports our government, let these qoxotees find support from anyone but that tiny terrorist state of eritraa.

"malintaada si raganimo ah uu adkeeso and dont cry like a fuleey." clearly you haven't so why advice others to do so?

it is what it is man

lol, ya sheekha waa ramadan dee!

mida kale, somalinimodee wey ethen ku noqotey ayamahan ma istere?

ma ararktey? in my defense, aslong as they keep posting bogas garbage about that dictator and the eritreans, i will have to show them what they say also applies to the other habeshas, melez an the ETs.

ke hore ayaan wali sugeyna ee kan iskaba daa.

though somali assistance to the regime that controls ethiopia, melez and his people, this is the first am hearing of Somali assistance to an eritraa front, afwerki. if the logic is that we have helped them before and they are just trying to repay then it is even stronger with ethiopia. Had it not been for somalia and its arab friends, the TPLF would have never liberated the ethios and the eritireans. Lets all so be clear that it was the UIC that was attacking the Somali government adminstered regions were some of you have convinced your selfs that it was the Somali how welcomed the UIC. were they wlecomed in puntland, hiiraan, jowhar, bay, bakool, jubaland and somaliland. not to mention declearing jihad on ethiopia more then six times. if some you see somalia as moqadishu and the banedir or see Somalis as xamaries and banediries, you need a check up quick. even worse, they surrendered to an allied country (kenya) only to say we are gonna fight again. what do you people think will happen to these losers when the are cought again. bela adeb foqal bela adebs.

what i was responding to was not the question!

Eritraa, as much as i like their people, seems to be on a mission to isolate itself from the rest of the world. further more, it has become a state suppporter of terror by hosting conference for people on the world list of terrorist (UN). it has tried to undermine both government of Sudan and Somalia. It has long standing poticol issues with both ethiopia and yemen and refuses to deal with except to ask the un to do something about its problems with its neighbors. rule of thumb, if all the people around you think your crazy, your Possessed or prophetic.

"Sh. Xasan will go into history books as one of the true Somali leaders who resisted Ethiopia’s hegemony in the Horn. " have ever of the phrase “History is written by the victors." if so, he will most likely go into the history as that old terrorist who was responsible for the for the downfall of that terrorist org ICU.

have you seen the fatwa between those in asmara and those left in Somalia, al-shabab?

one, your question seems like a rhetorical question and two cleraly, from the you asked it, you assume that what these "Duke and co" are lies and if that is the case, why bother?

If I may advice, if we are to aviod whats been happening in somalia and the puntland state of Somalia, i think we should stay away from three things. first, we need to stop this cult of personality. "we need this one guy to come in and safe us from the mess that we are in". Cade muuse and president Yusuf are one member each of large institions that we have created and it is those institions and their laws that have allowed them to do what you are disagreeing with. if you want to get to the bottom of the problem, you need to change the laws and the institions the govern instead of the people that run those institions. Second, it is the way of the africans to elect someone and for whatever reason, demand that they be changed when they find reason to dislike them. president cade muse was elected. if you don't like what he is doing, make sure that next time you elect a better person for the job. worse case, find a legal case to get rid of him and convince parliament of it and not just because decide you don't like him anymore. and this none sense that puntland will fail or succeed because of one man puts a little to much faith in the ability of one man. lastly, we must not prescribe from a book for a patient we have not seen. this, in short, means that we must be considerate of the environment in which those people are working, clearly different from the one most of us are sitting in.

anyone with news not your or co's liking must be lying. How Convenient. i wonder why you people come to discuss issues at all if you don't expect other to have different view.

MMA, brotha i think you miss understand what it means to be secular or seculrism in general. secularism is just the belief that faith has no place in certain public institutions such us those of government. understand also that there are varying degrees of secularism. moderate secularist belief in the separation from faith of only few instition while those who believe in its extrime version believe that faith has no place in public life. So being secular does not mean your anti-religion when you say that "However, the waranle warriors were not necessarily anti-religion [as the basic definition of secular is]". so when you divide your society into clergymen and laymen or waranles and wadaads, that is secularism.

Ngonge , no i have not because i have always been aware that for Somalia to get out of the mess that it has been in for the better part of two decades would require not moral absolutism but pragmatism and compromise. I was and still am not blind to the shortcomings of the Somali government yet i know that our options are between this government, the first government in my opinion that has a chance of restoring our country or choas and perpetual statelessness and all that come with it. am also not blind to the fact that most criticism against the government are not the true reasons as to why some have chosen to advocate for anarchy and was trying to show some here that the same criticism they have used against the government can be applied to groups they advocate for here. So for you Geel Jire the difference which compels you to support some and bad mouth others is "You forgot General Gabre and his Ethiopian Tanks!"? Do you not think that if this option was really open to them, they would come to the same conclusion, as the al-shabab have illuded to in their fatwa against the Asmara group as to why they would not be part of the Asmara meeting. was not Aydiid the very man who was fired for saying that ethiopia and somalia wa leysku daraya? Secular? Manoo fasiri kartaa micnaha 'secular' horta, markaas aan ka hadalkee who ostentatiously is and not. Koley erey Soomaali u dhigma afkeena kuma jiree [which alone tells us that it is alien concept to us], still noo fasir the closest meaning you can get. MMA. the word may not exist in Somali as far as we know but what we do know is that the concept has existed in the politics of The Somali much further then we know it to be in "Western" society. Somalis used to separate their men into "Wadaad ama waranle". Oodweyne and say to you that for one to give up something of political nature in which hitherto one hold it, requires certain kind of Conscious decision, from one in the first place. I must agree for i know of no one that has ever come to a political decision or gave it up unconsciously. Secondly, it also follows that conscious decision, in turn requires a certain sense of Rational Discourse whereby one can easily put through all of the available facts and countervailing facts; in which such a finely-balance systematic methodological approach, can in turn allow one to come to a Rational choice, which is equal to the enormity of the task that is to be decided. Here i must disagree with you. no it does not follow that in order to make a conscious decision one must ingage in "rational discourse" or have a sense of it as you put it but only that you are mindful or aware of the decision you are making for unless i am mistaken that is exactly what it means to be "conscious": mindful or awareness. what ever the connection between conscious desicion making and rational discourse, i arrive at my desicion in no less a strict rational thinking process as the one you have described above, that is unless you have some insight that i am not conscious of about my Consciousness. Thirdly furthermore, it also the case, that such a Rational discourse, would as of it's own demand, in my view, that of discriminating intellect in turn, which can tell the fundamental difference between each given consequences in which each choice or political road is likely to be pregnant with. in other wards rational thinking requires that the thinker is reasonable or logical or as you have put it have "discriminating intellect". again I agree but who shall be the judge of our logic or reason? because you think your self both judge and jury, clearly not you for you have proven again and again, logic and reaosn aside, that you consider those who come to different conclusion then yours to be illogical or unreasonable or of having a host of unsavory traits or shortcomings. All in all, in my view - and I could be wrong in here - these grasping-with-the-wind cheerleading supporters of this discredited TFG are yet to present an inconvertible evidence of those so bespoken line of detail thought process that I have listed in here, to us at the gallery of SOL. Am glad that you acknowledge the fact that you could be wrong because in this instance you are wrong about those "grasping-with-the-wind cheerleading supporters" and are guilty of self induced blindness. At least that is the case of the view that one will come to if one were to start judging their political reasoning - as piss-poor as it is - that is in here, against that exacting criteria... i really wish you would apply that "exacting criteria" to what you write. as a self-confessed secesionist who has a benefit in seeing all attempts of restoring the state, your true intentions for trying to discredit this or any other Somali government is so evident that as much as you try, no amount empty rhetoric about conscious desicions, rationan discourse or exacting criteria can ever cover it up. running out of time but will repond to the rest of your nonesense later.

wa ramadan ee beenta iska daya!

every reason one can think of to dislike the government, they are also guilty of. Habeshas there, habeshas here warlords there, warlords here seculerist there, seculerist here jihadis there, not so much here tfg members there, TFG here forming outside the country, was formed out of the country

happy ramadan to all!!!

LOL @ Isbaaro 2.0