^ stop making up facts, lol@ theres an 80% group in ceerigaabo. which one is it east burco, west burco, maakhiris or ssc? and stop hating seriously, its very immature. if a fellow somalis do well just congratulate them.

April 1, 2011 Afghans Angry Over Florida Koran Burning Kill U.N. Staff By ENAYAT NAJAFIZADA and ROD NORDLAND MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan — Stirred up by a trio of angry mullahs who urged them to avenge the burning of a Koran at a Florida church, thousands of protesters overran the compound of the United Nations in this northern Afghan city, killing at least 12 people, Afghan and United Nations officials said. The dead included at least seven United Nations workers — four Nepalese guards and three Europeans from Romania, Sweden and Norway — according to United Nations officials in New York. One was a woman. Early reports, later denied by Afghan officials, said that at least two of the dead had been beheaded. Five Afghans were also killed. The attack was the deadliest for the United Nations in Afghanistan since 11 people were killed in 2009, when Taliban suicide bombers invaded a guesthouse in Kabul. It also underscored the latent hostility toward the nine-year foreign presence here, even in a city long considered to be among the safest in Afghanistan — so safe that American troops no longer patrol here in any numbers. Unable to find Americans on whom to vent their anger, the mob turned instead on the next-best symbol of Western intrusion — the nearby United Nations headquarters. “Some of our colleagues were just hunted down,” said a spokesman for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Kieran Dwyer, in confirming the attack. In Washington, President Obama issued a statement strongly condemning the violence against United Nations workers. “Their work is essential to building a stronger Afghanistan for the benefit of all its citizens,” he said. “We stress the importance of calm and urge all parties to reject violence.” The statement made no reference to the Florida church or the burning of the Koran. Afghanistan, deeply religious and reflexively volatile, has long been one of the most reactive flashpoints to perceived insults against Islam. When a Danish cartoonist lampooned the Prophet Muhammad, four people were killed in riots in Afghanistan within days in 2006. The year before, a one-paragraph item in Newsweek alleging that guards at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, had flushed a Koran down the toilet set off three days of riots that left 14 people dead in Afghanistan. Friday’s episode began when three mullahs, addressing worshipers at Friday Prayer inside the Blue Mosque here, one of Afghanistan’s holiest places, urged people to take to the streets to agitate for the arrest of Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who oversaw the burning of a Koran on March 20. Otherwise, said the most prominent of them, Mullah Mohammed Shah Adeli, Afghanistan should cut off relations with the United States. “Burning the Koran is an insult to Islam, and those who committed it should be punished,” he said. The crowd — some of its members carrying signs reading “Down with America” and “Death to Obama” — poured into the streets and swelled. Gov. Atta Muhammad Noor of Balkh Province, of which Mazar-i-Sharif is the capital, later put the number at 20,000. According to Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, spokesman for Gen. Daoud Daoud, the Afghan National Police commander for the country’s north, the crowd soon overwhelmed the United Nations guards, disarming some and beating and shooting others. Gen. Abdul Rauf Taj, the deputy police commander for Balkh Province, put the death toll at eight foreign United Nations staff members, but he said there had not been any beheadings. “Police tried to stop them, but protesters began stoning the building and finally the situation got out of control,” he said. Mr. Ahmadzai, however, put the death toll at ten foreigners in the United Nations compound, eight killed by gunshots and two beheaded. Mr. Dwyer confirmed that some United Nations staff members had been killed, but he declined to provide a number or the nationalities of the victims until next of kin had been notified. Mirwais Rabi, director of the public health hospital in Mazar-i-Sharif, said 20 wounded and 5 dead Afghan civilians were brought to the hospital in all. The mob also burned down part of the United Nations compound, toppled guard towers and heaved blocks of cement down from the walls. The victims were killed by weapons that the demonstrators had wrestled away from the United Nations guards, Mr. Noor said. He listed the dead as five Nepalese guards and two Europeans, a breakdown that varied from the one issued later by Farhan Haq, the deputy United Nations spokesman in New York. Mr. Noor also blamed what he said were Taliban infiltrators among the crowd for urging violence and even distributing weapons; he said 27 suspects were arrested on charges of inciting violence, some from Kandahar and other provinces where Taliban are more common. Mr. Jones, the Florida pastor, caused an international uproar by threatening to burn the Koran last year on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Among others, the overall commander of forces in Afghanistan, Gen. David H. Petraeus, had warned at that time that such an action could provoke violence in Afghanistan and could endanger American troops. Mr. Jones subsequently promised not to burn a Koran, but he nonetheless presided over a mock trial and then the burning of the Koran at his small church in Gainesville, Fla., on March 20, with only 30 worshipers attending. The act drew little response worldwide, but provoked angry condemnation in this region, where it was reported in the local media and where anti-American sentiment already runs high. Last week, President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan condemned the burning in an address before Parliament, and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan on Thursday called on the United States to bring those responsible for the Koran burning to justice. A prominent Afghan cleric, Mullah Qyamudin Kashaf, the acting head of the influential Ulema Council of Afghanistan and a Karzai appointee, also called for American authorities to arrest and try Mr. Jones in the Koran burning. The Ulema Council recently met to discuss the Koran burning, Mullah Kashaf said in a telephone interview. “We expressed our deep concerns about this act, and we were expecting the violence that we are witnessing now,” he said. “Unless they try him and give him the highest possible punishment, we will witness violence and protests not only in Afghanistan but in the entire world.” Mr. Jones was unrepentant. “We must hold these countries and people accountable for what they have done as well as for any excuses they may use to promote their terrorist activities,” he said in a statement. “Islam is not a religion of peace. It is time that we call these people to accountability.” Last year, even though Mr. Jones called off his burning of the Koran, a subsequent wave of protests at NATO facilities in Afghanistan led to at least five deaths. In several of those episodes, Taliban agitators played a role; they were said to have spread rumors that the Koran burning had taken place. However, the Taliban have had little or no presence in Mazar-i-Sharif. In other developments in Afghanistan, six American soldiers were killed in a single operation in the country’s east on Wednesday and Thursday, a spokesman for the international coalition said Friday. “I can confirm that six coalition soldiers have been identified as U.S. soldiers, and were all killed as part of the same operation, but in three separate incidents,” said Maj. Tim James. The operation, a helicopter assault into a remote part of Kunar Province close to the Pakistani border, was continuing. The area is frequently used to infiltrate fighters from Pakistan. The purpose of the operation, Major James said, was to “disrupt insurgent operations.” The governor of Kunar Province, Said Fazlullah Wahidi, said the operation began Wednesday as a joint Afghan and American air and ground operation in the districts of Sarkani and Marawara, close to the border of Pakistan. He said that 14 insurgents were killed and 10 were wounded, but he had no information about casualties among Afghan forces. Enayat Najafizada reported from Mazar-i-Sharif and Rod Nordland from Kabul, Afghanistan. Sharifullah Sahak contributed reporting from Kabul, and Dan Bilefsky and Timothy Williams from New York.

^^ I wouldn't be surprised hadey shan habroo biyo dhaaminayaa jalaafo uu dhigay *******eentan

i thought qaddafi was a berber but it wouldn't be hard to believe if he has living jewish relatives saying so. Ahmed nijaz stories on the other hand makes a lot of sense. but yeah, i don't see the problem either, you could be an ethnic jew and a muslim by faith but you would think they try to pacify judeo-muslim animosities at least.

I have to say, i like the sound of this new state unlike a few recent one like ximan iyo xaax (why? for the love of god) and galmudug (inter mudug?) not to mention puntland (should just been punt). I say good luck cleansing shabaab from this region, if it is managed well, it can feed the entire somali populace. Good luck to Mr. Gaandi and those supporting

is all this april fools joke

how about two hours later? lol

Somalina;707332 wrote: Why do you comment on TFG and Muqdisho threads? you need to think first before you start asking ignorant questions like that. Why can't I not participate on this thread? Aren't I a Somali national? Use your most important asset, your brain, me say. Well TFG is supposed to be federal government and Mogadishu is the capital, perhaps ur not operating at full capacity yourself, lol. but seriously, its not your participation that bothers me but being on the side of puntlanders here... in such a case i am allowed to pull out my ur not from round here card...

people, haven't you heard, every department is busy figuring out how to extend their mandate, there is a conference.

some of us really need to rethink this my faction is always right mentality. and if their was division duke, i see we will never agree on this, my thinking is the reasonable think to do would be not to interfere rather then doing just that while claiming division is the cause of the problem. This situation is not helpful to anyone, the people of these regions are a brotherly people that will always have ties regardless of how these regions are reconfigured but it is isn't helpful to fall for the cheap attempts of manipulations by the likes of farole. Somalina, i thought u were a konfurian, shabaab iyo isqarxis noga sheeke waxa kalena iska daaf...

so what if there people supporting SL, was it not the stance of the puntland state that overwhelming majority of of SSC were pro puntland. But lets even say there a lot of puntland supporters in a la, (in a three way race between puntland, independent state and Somaliland, Somaliland always came a distant third), state army was defeated by few somaliland supporters in Las Anod? is that you understanding? As for the suldaan not being political, isn't that the argument here. no one demonstrates isms here, no matter where they are from so why this guy, why now?

FYI, i don't think anyone is blaming puntland, just political meddling

was the war between xaabsade and puntland duke, seriously?

division division division... when will you people stop peddling this none sense? The fight for la was not between the clan of las anod vs. the clans waqoye galbet, it was a fight between two administrations. LA was a not a priority for the administration, thats where puntland dropped the ball. to add insult to injury, forale did all he could to alienate the people of ssc calling them terrorist and even expelling members of the parliament for being pro ssc even though they were from SSC. all this none sense about a garaad from nugaal, what would happen if the Garaad of ssc went to garowe? would farole welcome Garaad Jama Garaad ali?

duke your goin on about this person of ours was insulted because he was told the truth that he is not wanted as faroole representative. did you forget the three members of the puntland parliament that were kicked out because they represented puntland? so soon?

more like the al qaeda or taliban then hizbullah

as for the new comers, seriously they all sound alike and aside one or two songs from mrs foot iyo fiska, I would find it difficult to listen to any of these. This is between fiska and foot for me.

I am a little more old school and our barbra streisand look alike ilahay ha naxaristo magool last but not least, hiba Nuura

caysh cala hees, odoyga should do more music

yeah but who should give them that extension, themselves?

when did ministers become law makers? I guess its all well sense every branch of the government is extending their terms without asking anyone, I hear the supreme court is do to vote any day in extending their term also, lol

I think thats Baydhaba not beletwein

Woman, know your limits

I put that **** on everything