in democracy, you have mucaarid and muxaafid. They both can not rule even in a unity government when some minister of family affairs has a veto over all that the government does.

before you get to hargeisa, you need to take Galkacyo, garowe, Las Anod and burco, that the only road to hargeisa and we all know what happened last time waddad tried to come near galkacyo.

the uniform is a macawiis, how medieval can you get?

red sea, they came, wadaads run, they left, and these fools return. how hard is that to understand. These ragtag thugs can not withstand a professional Army.

I just can not understand how you can be mucaarad and minister at the sametime. How can you be a minister yet say things like that about your government and president. Why does she think that the government should follow her orders rather then aqlabiyada xukumada? If this government fails, it well because of its tolarence of such ministers.

honestly, this sorta of reasoning justifies dictatorship. Are you going to call a holy war on the evil month of october?

I think the government did this to help the defense minister recapture kismayo. It could also be that they were testing the ability of the icu. or it could have done to lure the courts to baidoa so that the world and Somalis to accept ethio assistence. By the way, why does the government not declare a holy war on eritria?

look people, wither the tape is fake or not ius very easy to proof. Simply bring guy out of jail and let everyone see that he is not the person on the tape for I doubt the man could come out of jail unnoticed and make some fake video. The other issue of what is being done to the man on the video not being toture, is another arguement. For this seconf arguement, we have have to keep in mind that this only the little bit of evidence that escaped the NSS of somaliland. furthermore, for a place basing is entire bid for secession on the basis that its citizens were totured by the late president of Somalia, no amoutn of torture is acceptible.

offensive, crude, and barbaric images to share, don't you think?

what ever stupet thing you do, claim you are an alcoholic and check into rehap, thats a classic move. in a few moths they will forget it ever happened. also, along with the other republican mishaps, LST, you forget the repub lican senatoral condidate who called the asian man a makaka (a trype of monkey) who was seen as a safe seat for the republicans but is now leaning towards the democratic candidate.

what happened to "Wareer Badanaa!!!"?

liked this article. it is one of those few propaganda free look at where we are today and how low we as nation have managed to go in every sense and what little alternatives we have to get out. In my opinion, this writer pianted a very sad but true of all the sad people who call themselves leaders in our country. For Somaliland, this even worst. These pragmatic people have struggled to liberate their country (not their clan or a colonial state) but their hord work and sacrifices were hijacked by greedy selfserving remnants of what they were fighting. people of the south seem be going through this for the second time, first with warlords and with wadaads. The TFG on the other hand is by no means a panacea for all that ills our nation but an objective look at the alternatives will show that it is one of the few raods to return to what we were or even better.

when will we get of the bandwagon? These people have proven again and again that they are liars. without recounting all the lies they have said let me tell why what they done in building the benadir administration further proofs they are liars. They have repeatedly said that they are not "Xukun doon". They have also said that they did not want anything but would let the people determine what they want and this administration that was formed without the input of the people of that region contradicts that statement and dahir aweys insistence that they will negeciate about everything a an "Islamic state" and foreign forces.

lets stop predicting where they will attack next. they will attack the whole country if they can.

war miya walateen? Was it not agreed that all milishas would be taken out of the city?

maskiinkas na malo so degtey? I find it very difficult to take that some here ardently defend indho and aweys yet attack a poor man like ali. I could not help but laugh when ali described what happened to him in a horn-afrik interveiw: "I was told to get off of my car, then the guy got into my car and told a driver to came and drive him to mogadishu". Beliliqsi is back again.

where does love fit into all of this. Most likely you marry someone because you love them not to have a children factory. Some have suggested that a second wife should only be considered under three conditions: 1. A barren wife 2. A widows and orphans (Dumaal) 3. Husband living outside of the Family There are simpler ways to address all three problems, or atleast two of them, without resorting to 7th century methods of dealing with these situations. One, you adopt children if your wife can not have children (Same goes for the husband not being able to produce children). For the second one, there are ways to help families without requiring you sleep with the mother in order to do so and they really do not need to pointed out. The last one is sillist of all. Your family, unless it it is short period of time, should go where ever you go and be able to live where you can make a living. For more important then the percieved benefits of sending your family abroad is being there for your family. One reason, I imagen, for sending your family to the west is education, but believe me education in places like uganda and kenya is better then the urban ghettos of the west.

^^^ This atitude is a little to late. As for this article, Ethio- Eritrian war over somalia? There must be something in the African Air for people to write like this.

This sorts of articles are an insult to the intelligence of all sane puntlanders. I must admit that I did not read all of the article. I just could not take all the hyperbole. Also, Some here should really consider the career of spin masters. Its either a shameless propaganda or a disgusting desplay of naiveté. In the very first paragraph, there are handreds false claims to disagree with. "Our arch enemy ethiopia" This writer should know, in international relations, there is no such thing and government (or people for that matter) lead by wise people should not be in the business of making "arch enemies" but allies and the shortist route to its interest. "Ethiopian Puppet Master" Some Somali "Writers" are rerally making Ethiopia into something it is not. Ethiopia is one of the poorist nations on earth I don't think it can afford puppets yet and how childish to portray those who disagree with view of things "Puppets" "Protect Himself from his people" BY all but Somalis, Statements like this would lead people to question the sanity of anyone who says this. Are cade and Yusuf protecting their people and country from radicals and warlords or did they run to become president of people that should protect themselfs from?

Maybe, maybe not, we shall never know. Somalis are not enlightened enough yet to have a national president that is a woman. She has a better chance at the local level.

The success of anyone does not sit well the Samaters. They seem to to be always ready to critize those try to something but rearly bring good ideas them selfs. None the less, its painfully obvious that the IC whatever, is a shameless advocate and supporters of the Secessionist. It is also clear that there is a very undemocratic atmesphere in hargeisa, burco and berbera triangle were no one is allowed to express their true feelings about Somali Unity be they journalist, scholars or citizens. If they only knew that Reyale and his crew do not care about "sovereignty of Somaliland" but only about getting richer.

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Come on SXB, lets not go into to business of twisting each others words. TFG is not fighting its people but all qarandiids. Also, the true residents of xamar, as you say, is all Somalis, The TFG does not need to negociate with anyone to move back. For those people who think that xamar can be their tribal capital and the national capital, you are mistaken.

I hope this is has some truth to it, she would make history to become the first woman to be a preisdent of a Somali State.

let me answer. No one gave ----- about Somali soil or people least of all by Somalis, so why care now. Like it or not, self defense is a right everyone has. If you are attacked, you not only have a right but an obligation to defind yourself. How absurd to attack someone and then tell them how they shall defind themselfs. In reality, that not how things work. Who ever is attacked must defind themselfs by all means necessary. If Ethiopia, puntland and the Somali Government are attacked by radicals, it is in there interest to assist each other. Appeals to ancient anamosities between tribes in the horn will not work in this age. This ethiopia you also speak off has the second largest Somali community outside of Somalia and the make the third largest tribe in that country. If as you say, we should consider enemies then you are making enemies among Somalis yet again.