LOL, you are calling Eritrea gaal while you call the Ethiopia orthodoxy Christians your brothers. Talk about oxymoron Sir, it is you who isn't entitled to call Eritrea gaal.

Taako I have deep respect for the Oromos and Eritreans for they have both fought against illegal Ethiopian aggression. Oromos are still straggling. I hope they succeed. Few Pakistanis are nothing compared to thousands of Ethiopian Troops which have invaded Somalia with the blessing of America. Don’t you see what America is doing in Iraq? I don’t think you are mentally capable of comprehending the bigger threat which is Ethiopia and more specifically America. It is not Somaliland, it is not Oromo, it is not Eritrea and it sure isn’t Pakistan! So wake up and smell your ignorance.

LOL, don't get mad get glad, no one is twisting your words. You support an Ethiopian freedom. Spare me the lecture. I am only using the words you write. Be careful with what you write down. I give props to those Somalis who are fighting the dirty Ethiopians, and curse be upon those who follow them. I am certain that tomorrow you will try to demean the liberation of Mogadishu because it is partially one clan. When we have Somalis who are fighting along side Ethiopia then there is something seriously wrong. Is that the united Somalia you are talking about? May Allah help the Somalis which are fighting Ethiopian injustices, regardless of their clan.

Saudis do behead other Saudis and treat their women even worse. But Ethiopia is no better than Saudi Arabia, it is actually worse, for it is Christian led country. However, Saudi Arabia is an American ally, just like Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda. You are in no position to condemn them.

Taako Man: Ethiopia is thinking about there own security. It doesn't help that you have guys like Indhacadde and co saying they will celebrate Eid in Addis Ababa. What do you expect them to do? Ethiopia was in Somalia soil, Somalis have every right to be in Ethiopian soil. You are an individual who can’t even acknowledge his own rights or his nations. Are you justifying the illegal Ethiopian invasion? Do you think your adopted United States would accept any nation saying they will take over Utah or New hampshire by force? Give me a break. Do you think that America will to start with let any Mexican Army settle in New Mexico or Texas? Why were Ethiopian troops scattered all over baidio? Secondly, a person can wish well on others, that is true. However a group that aspires to leave Somalia and the conditions of leaving are the fragmented situation in 'the south' surely do not want to see a peaceful Somalia on its own feet, or does it now? Ethiopia is the one which doesn’t want a peaceful united Somalia not Somaliland. Get that through your thick skull. You attack and criticize Somaliland yet turn a blind-eye to the Ethiopian intentions, and which are already in Somalia and were able to destroy the peace that was brought by the Islamic Courts! You are a typical Somali, you only know how to run your mouth on fellow Somalis. You a Somali which is supporting the Ethiopian illegal invasion is ten times worse than the secessionist today and less Somali.

Taako Saudis kill everyone that commits a sin, women are treated ten times worse than those Somalis. Those Somalis shouldn’t have stolen anything in the first place. Nevertheless they are not the only ones which are punished in that manner. . No I don’t see the picture. Most of the terrorist are from Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Kenya and Ethiopia don’t even like Somalia, since they both occupy Somalia land! You make no sense.

Taako You watched as they occupied Somaligalbeed and now you cheer as they invade Southern Somalia. And tomorrow you will say the liberation movement in Mogadishu is a clannish one and for that matter you won’t support them. You are sordid.

^^^ Yey will be held responsible for praising and allowing a Christina Arm to invade Muslim masses. If he truly is a Muslim leader then doom he sure is.

taako I am sorry but you are deluded. Stop labeling yourself waanlaweyn, and keep your defamatory words to yourself. Caring is part of human instincts, just because they are secessionist doesn’t literally meaning that they don’t care for the suffering people of the south! You are making preposterous statements which have no credence. If you have forgotten, those somalilanders are as Somali as the southern Somalis. For your last question, don’t focus on Somaliland focus on Ethiopia, does Ethiopia want to see a stable united Islamic Republic of Somalia? GIVE ME A BREAK!

The man that brought these scavengers to the Somalia capital is solely to blame! These troops are there to support a puppet anti-Islam regime, which is unacceptable to the Somalis. Gedi and Yusuf are watching as these illegal occupiers bring nothing but more destruction to Somalia, just the same way they were watching as the innocent Somalis were get carpet bombed in their villages! One occupier leaves another one takes his place. Thanks Gedi and YEY.

^^^Why are you putting words in their mouth and trying to create certain hatred between Somalilanders and the people of Southern Somalia? You have shown your true colors. Just because they are from Somaliland doesn’t meant that they don’t care for their Somali brothers and sisters. Unlike the so called puntlanders they are not cheering for the bombardment of their fellow Muslim Somalis.

By Matthew Green in Kampala Published: March 9 2007 02:00 | Last updated: March 9 2007 02:00 Less than 24 hours before Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni began deploying the vanguard of a peace mission to Somalia, his police force was busy firing tear gas to disperse demonstrators in central Kampala. The protesters accused him of presiding over a breakdown in the rule of law after security agents re-arrested six treason suspects released by the High Court and beat a lawyer unconscious, the latest sign of growing autocracy that has dismayed international donors. But when the first Ugandan troops trotted down the cargo ramp of an aircraft at Mogadishu International Airport the next day, Mr Museveni took a clear step towards strengthening relations with his most important ally - the US. "Public perception is against him; people increasingly see him as hardline and intolerant," said Angelo Izama, of the Daily Monitor newspaper. "But the opposition knows he's got a powerful ally in his camp." Once feted as a soldier-scholar who overthrew a corrupt regime to introduce a measure of free market prosperity, Mr Museveni lost support at home and abroad when he broke a promise to step down after parliament changed the constitution to allow him to run again. A year after the elections, he has reinvigorated his leading role in the US "war on terror" by dispatching the first contingent of a planned 1,600-strong Ugandan mission to Mogadishu - a city that has a history of sending well-meaning foreign troops home in body bags. A volley of mortar rounds landed near the airport as the first 400 troops arrived on Tuesday, while nine civilians were killed and two Ugandan soldiers wounded the next day when rockets were fired at a Ugandan convoy driving through Mogadishu. But for Mr Museveni, the risk to his troops may be a price worth paying. Like Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia's prime minister, who enjoys US support as a counter-terrorism ally in spite of a crackdown after elections in 2005, Mr Museveni's strategic role has encouraged Washington to damp criticism of him. Forged during the Clinton years when Mr Museveni formed the linchpin in a regional alliance against the Islamist government in Sudan, his long-standing convergence with US security interests has again come to the fore in Somalia. The deployment of Ugandan troops under the banner of the African Union in Mogadishu is key to the US strategy to deny suspected al-Qaeda agents a base in a country they fear could be used as a staging post for attacks in east Africa. The US gave its tacit blessing when Ethiopia invaded Somalia in December to overthrow a coalition of Islamists accused of links to al-Qaeda. Washington is counting on the Ugandan-led force to protect a weak interim government as Ethiopia withdraws. At a news conference alongside a visiting US general last week, Mr Museveni stressed he was sending troops to improve regional security rather than to act as "policeman" for the US, although he acknowledged Washington was providing funding. "We have the courage," he said, "but we do not have the money." Already under fire, the Ugandans are looking rather lonely. The AU is hoping to muster 2,500 more troops from Ghana, Malawi, Bur-undi and Nigeria, but UN officials say 8,000 are needed. One diplomat in Kampala described the deployment as a "suicide mission", but Mr Museveni displays unblinking faith in an army he built from a tiny band of comrades who launched his guerrilla war against former president Milton Obote in 1981. Given the scandals in Uganda, some Ugandans argue the troops would be better off staying at home. Ugandan needs to focus on its internal problems first.

LOL, is Taako and Duke advocating for hanging and shooting squads? That is extremism, in democracy a person is neither hanged nor killed by a shooting squad. If you don’t know the norms and rules of democracy, then it will be best if you stopped acting and claiming to be for a government which is democracy only by name. Typical warlord barbaric mentality.

Those weapons are sure to full on the wrong hands. America trained and equipped the Mujahedeens in Afghanistan to fight the Russians. Those Mujahedeens are AQ today, Reagan called them freedom-fighters and today Bush is calling them terrorists. One of their training contained the beheading and torturing of prisons to get information out. Most of the horrific procedures carried out by AQ were instructed to them by America. I wonder how they are equipping these AU. When you don’t heed America’s orders, you became the bad guy.

These men should be charged and held accountable for their crimes for the last 16 years. He was paid millions and then did he only give-up his weapons. He is a puppet traitor. The same like Gedi and Yey.

These men will turn and go where the money is drifting. Throw the money down the bridge and they will jump. Do they even realize that they are being welcomed by warlords, and that they are supporting/protecting warlords? One thing is for sure, they are not militarily equipped or have enough men power as the American and UN mission back in 91. I could see doomsday.

The funniest think I heard today was when Muuse Suudi said I am paraphrasing “Mogadishu had 16 years to govern itself, but it failed”….. Geesh I wonder why Mogadishu wasn’t peaceful, could it be that a warlord like you was behind all the robbing, killing, raping, and destruction Mogadishu was in. Did Mogadishu become peaceful after he was ousted? Didn’t Mogadishu become the heaven it was known for after you and your ilk were ousted? The audacity this old fool has is beyond me. He has spoken like a true puppet. All you need is money to change his opinion, decisions and morals.

African countries don’t know how to keep the interest of their own country and people in mind. So far Ethiopia is an example to why Africa is poor and impoverished. The money and resources which could be used to better the environment and the wellbeing of the people is being used to fight wars which have neither means nor cause! A proxy war. Africa is doomed to repeat the same mistakes. They are being exploited and made to fighting wars which don’t benefit them, the same way they were in World War I.

Originally posted by General Duke: ^^You never heard Bacadle comment on the plight of the people in Lower Shabbele and so on or the crimes that were commited when he used to sing for Aydeed. I don’t see why you insist on victimizing and belittling the people of lower Shabeelle. This warlord government hasn’t brought them a glass of water, so what good are they? They have completely ignored the plight of the Somali people at large.

We have the 21st century Mohammed bin Abdullah Hassan on the move today.

Originally posted by TheSomaliEconomist: 30-60 days ppl, and we wont hear of any so called insurgents anymore. That is what you said when the Ethiopians were coming, and they are not insurgents they are freedom fighters. Mogadishu will only see more gun battles as more AU troops arrive.

I never knew that people could love their clan more than their religion.

MOGADISHU, Somalia Mar 7 (Garowe Online) - The battle-hardened leader of the Somali Islamists’ al-Shabaab (“The Youth”) wing appeared in a recorded tape this week for the first time, according to our correspondent in the capital Mogadishu. Adan Hashi Ayro, a young militant allegedly trained by Afghanistan’s Taliban before the U.S.-led invasion of 2001, categorically denied circulating rumors of his death. “The time of my death was pre-written for me while I was still in my mother’s womb,” Ayro said on the tape. Reports that emerged in January suggested Ayro was killed or severely wounded when U.S. air strikes pounded Islamist hideouts in the Jubba regions. The Islamists fled to the Jubba regions in Somalia’s deep south in early January as Ethiopian combat troops approached Kismayo, the regional capital. Ayro said Ethiopian troops and African Union peacekeepers would meet nothing but death and destruction in Somalia. “I will fight the troops who are enemies of my religion [islam] and who have invaded my homeland…and I am certain I will remove them by force soon,” Ayro said, as he appealed to the Somali people, especially the youth, to take up arms in a jihad against foreign occupation. The first group of AU peacekeepers from Uganda arrived in Mogadishu on Tuesday, amid a festive welcoming party at the airport that was suddenly interrupted by mortar explosions. Ayro said the Islamist militia have not withdrawn from Somalia, as some suggested. He said loyal fighters were scattered throughout the country and especially in major cities. The young militant swore that he would die fighting against “foreign invaders” on Somali soil, and dismissed claims that the Islamists were responsible for near daily mortar raids on government targets. “Mortars that hit Mogadishu homes are launched by Ethiopian troops…and the [somali] government knows this,” Ayro said, echoing similar allegations made by city residents. Ayro did not disclose his exact location but said he was “inside Somalia.” Citing credible sources, Garowe Online reported last month that Ayro spoke at an anti-Ethiopia public rally in Mogadishu. [ Full story] There is no known picture of Adan Hashi Ayro available for publication. Source: Garowe Online http://garowe.com/

Aweys Osman Yusuf Mogadishu 07, March.07 ( Sh.M.Network) Two people were killed and more than 10 were wounded on Tuesday after Ethiopian troops searching buses in Shirkole neighborhood, southeast of the capital opened fire at a passenger bus. Insurgents and Ethiopian troops clashed in the neighborhood yesterday. 6 civilians were killed in the cross-fire. Halima Abukar, who was slightly wounded in the gunfire, has told Shabelle on Wednesday that 14 people were heavily wounded. “14 wounded people, including me, were admitted to Medina hospital. Two have instantly died from their wounds and there was one woman whose left foot was cut by the bullets,” she said, adding that her wound was minor and that she was doing ok. Halima said they were stranded in the road while they were wounded. “The Ethiopians blocked the road after the incident,” she said. The incident occurred as heavy fighting between the insurgents and Ethiopian & government troops took place in Shirkola neighborhood, which is closer to former Somali defense compound where a large number of Ethiopian troops are base. Witnesses said the Ethiopian and government forces were searching cars and passenger buses on the road when unknown gunmen wearing masks on their faces attacked the Ethiopians. Also on Tuesday, at least 8 mortars fired by the insurgents hit inside Mogadishu international airport, while the first contingents of the AU peacekeepers from Uganda were landing at the airport. Three Military cargo planes from Algeria brought the heavily armed Ugandan troops in Mogadishu. A huge ceremony intended to welcome the arrival of the first AU peacekeepers from Uganda was underway when the explosions happed, Shabelle reporter said. Shabelle Media Network Somalia

Aweys Osman Yusuf Mogadishu 07, March.07 ( Sh.M.Network) Commuters traveling on the road linking the capital Mogadishu to the coastal town of Merca in lower Shabelle province, 100 km south of Mogadishu, have voiced concerns over fresh illegal roadblocks set up by armed militiamen, taking extortion money from the commuting buses. Witnesses have told Shabelle that the militia’s illegal checkpoints begin from Afgoi, 30 km from Mogadishu, to Merca, robbing passengers on buses to and from Merca if the buses fail to pay the extortion money they demand. One of the bus drivers, who asked to remain anonymous in fear of reprisal attacks from the militias, has told Shabelle Wednesday that most buses would halt traveling to Merca. “The armed militiamen setting up roadblocks have increased, so we can no longer work on situation like that,” he said. The news comes as the government promises it would crack down on the militias. On Tuesday, at least 8 mortars fired by the Somali insurgents hit inside Mogadishu international airport, while the first contingents of the AU peacekeepers from Uganda were landing at the airport. Three Military cargo planes from Algeria brought the heavily armed Ugandan troops in Mogadishu.