The Western media will never admit to this, unless the ICU beheads those damn American soldiers.

Ouch!!! I must say, because that is the throbbing the TFG supporters are going to feeling right after they read this piece of news. The South Africans couldn't protect the somalis in South African. After the killing of Somali individuals in South African i doubt South Africa will send some of its troops to Somalia, for they fear that they may be targeted for vengeance reasons.

^^ lool, don't worrying about the birds. Islamic leaders are to a certain extent essential to a nation's rebuilding and governing, especially when the country is a Muslim one.

Boot is just another chickenhawk.

Absolutely mesmerizing bob. Hands down for you. Keep on sharing with us your powerful poems which carry a huge amount of Somalinimo and Islamanimo at the same time.

^^ Sure will. I edited my post and added the source. Well it is good to know that Somalis are all from one tribe, but that will not help us resolve our man-made conflicts, which are all inconsequential compare to the similarities we share.

^^^ I agree with you on the traitorous conducts of the TFG. They haven’t shown an inch of apprehension for the people of Somalia or for the nation. Inviting Ethiopia Occupying Troops and letting American planes bomb Somalia further into the stone ages is in all probability what the TFG is programmed to do. They have succeeded thus far. Now their next move is probably to watch the Somalis die of starvation and treatable disease. Or sell the country as a whole. These men are conscienceless. There isn’t a single amount of courage, patriotism or even self-worth in them. They managed to throw their reputation down the drain, now they are participating on completely ravaging the proud Somali reputation. Insha’allah we will one day see true leaders, whether it be tomorrow or twenty years from today, we will have leaders who are profoundly engaged on the interest of the Somalia nation and people. And we shouldn't forget about the people who are sufferring becuase of this war.

Miskiin, I consider all Somalis as one Ethnic group, but we have people who claim different ancestors. I guess “Somali” is the tribe. :confused: I don’t pay much attention to qabil. Nonetheless, i went along with what the article stated. I couldn’t possible have edited what i didn’t write.

Red This Sheikh sounds like a risky taker, he send his men to attack on board daylight the most secured area is Mogadishu, imagine what sort of destructions they will have on the TFG or Ethiopian invaders during night hours if they attack. "Yesterday’s attack was a trial by Commander Sheikh Abdiqadir who wanted to see the possibility of attacking the most protected area in Mogadishu by the Ethiopian troops in broad daylight," an unidentified speaker told Kismaayonews. I am just shocked that Villa Somalia isn’t the most secured area is Mogadishu, poor YEY. The ICU could have killed him if they wanted to, but somehow assassination isn’t in their agenda right now.

Ha, only seven supporters of the TFG are SOL members and they sure make a lot of noise around here. :rolleyes:

Jan 25, 2007 (MOGADISHU) — The Somali Islamists militias said they have completed their preparations for war against the Ethiopian troops. The ousted Islamic courts, also, denied the withdrawal of the Ethiopian army describing it as public relation operation. According to the Somali pro-Islamist website KismaayoNews, the Islamists militias have appointed a new war commander meant to operate only in Banaadir Region, Mogadishu and its environs. The new commander is known as Sheikh Abdiqadir. The website mentioned it will not give the full name for security reasons. The new commander has regrouped together all the former Islamic courts forces which have been in shambles since Ethiopian captured the country. The first trial operation by the new commander was carried out yesterday when the forces attacked Mogadishu International Airport. "Yesterday’s attack was a trial by Commander Sheikh Abdiqadir who wanted to see the possibility of attacking the most protected area in Mogadishu by the Ethiopian troops in broad daylight," an unidentified speaker told Kismaayonews. When asked whom they were targeting in their upcoming attacks as the Ethiopians would soon be leaving the country, the unidentified speaker said: "The Tigrayans are not going anywhere. This story of leaving the country is merely ’public relations’. We are engaging the Tigrayans in a war that would return back to their country so that Prime Minister Meles Zenawi will never rule Ethiopia where he is currently colonizing over 70 million people. "There will be no more foreign troops that will arrive in Somalia. At the moment, we are engaged in a war with the two enemies of Somalia; the USA and the Ethiopians” he said. “They have now been joined by Kenya. The Islamic courts forces are at the moment discussing how to deal with Kenya," the speaker added. This new mobilization by the people of Banaadir Region is going on simultaneously with the war of the mujahidiins in the Jubba regions in southern Somalia where they are inflicting heavy losses on the enemy as the courts’ administration and capability are largely found in these regions. The Islamic courts forces, which had been controlling the southern port city, Kismayo, before they were ousted by Ethiopian troops

Fierce clashes between two tribal militias have once again started in Galgadud and Hiran provincial settlements, central Somalia. The tribal fighting has restarted in and around Goobo settlement after Ethiopian troops withdrew from the area two days before. The two tribes, namely ******* and *******, have been fighting in the past over pastoral lands and water well. At least 80 people have died since the fighting between the two tribes began. The latest battle has reportedly happened in settlements between Mahas and Elbur districts central Somalia. Reports from Muqokori in Hiran province indicate that at least 8 persons who were wounded in the tribal war were brought to the tiny village for treatment. Tribal elders in Hiran said they were committed to play positive roles in soothing the discrepancies between the two warring tribes. Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/200701250363.html

Piracy attacks are falling worldwide but hot spots remain, including in Somalia where the removal of the Islamic government set back efforts to curb the problem, a watchdog said Monday. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairobi. The director of the London-based International Maritime Bureau, Captain Pottengal Mukundan, tells VOA his organization is watching Somalia closely now that the Union of Islamic Courts, or UIC, has been ousted. "When the UIC were in control of the southern part of Somalia, the number of attacks had come right down," he said. "There was one case of a vessel which was hijacked in which the UIC acted very decisively and arrested the pirates and had the vessel returned to its rightful owners, which was a significant move of the kind we have not seen in Somalia for many years." Mukundan says that, within days of the Islamists' removal, pirates tried to attack an American bulk carrier, but were unsuccessful. He says he does not want to see a return to the days where the waters off the Somali coast were among the most dangerous in the world. "Our hope is this time that the interim government will be able to exercise proper authority and stop these kind of attacks," said Mukundan. "I think they need to crack down very quickly the first time an attack takes places on a vessel. If they don't do that, then the militias may feel that this is an activity which is allowed, and they can get away with it." Piracy has been a big problem in Somali waters, prompting the International Maritime Bureau to issue warnings to ships throughout the years. By the end of November 2005, there had been at least 28 piracy incidents that have occurred off Somalia's coast. Warlords and their militias had used piracy as a source of income. In a previous interview with VOA, Harjit Kelley, a retired commander with the Kenyan navy, estimated that pirates had collected well over $1 million in ransom over the last few months of 2005, and said factional leaders were coordinating the effort. The Somali government has argued that it lacks the resources and organization to crack down on piracy, and has called on the international community to do so. ================================================= The ICU was less resourceful, financially weak, and without the help of the international world they managed to lessen the attacks of piracy on food vessels on the Southern Coast of Somalia and now the self-styled government who is supported by the so called International World can’t accomplish what a new born, small organization like the ICU had in few months. The TFG lacks the capacity to govern and the spirit to truly help the Somali nation. They depend utterly on aid coming from the International World, whether it is militarily, financially, or humanitarian.

By Howard Lesser Washington, DC 25 January 2007 In divulging this week’s second US air strike on suspected al-Qaida targets in Somalia, US officials have offered only a broad, non-descriptive confirmation of continuing what they call military operations against an international terrorist network in East Africa. On Wednesday, the Defense Department would not disclose if this week’s raid was an escalation or an extension of the pursuit of al-Qaida suspects believed to have been involved in the deadly 1998 attacks on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The raid two weeks ago was said to target the senior al-Qaida leader in East Africa and an al-Qaida operative wanted for his involvement in the embassy bombings. Andrew McGregor is director of Aberfoyle International Security, a Toronto, Canada-based agency specializing in political and security issues in the Islamic world. He says such raids will continue if local intelligence points to a need for further action, but that this week’s attack represents a significant commitment of US forces in the war on terrorism. “It shows a growing commitment on the part of United States forces to become engaged militarily in Somalia at a time when they are quite busy on other fronts. It also demonstrates what seems to be a firm belief in the US administration that there are important al-Qaida elements at large in Somalia that would seem to pose some kind of immediate threat to the United States that would call for these extraordinary measures, and this kind of assessment, I’m afraid, is not shared by everyone,” he said. McGregor notes that a second strike signals a good probability that the targets are still on the loose. “As far as I understand, there were no al-Qaida operatives killed or injured in the first attacks. The weapons used, the AC-130 gunships, are very good at destroying every bit of life in an area. It’s not the kind of weapon that you would use when you want to deliver a specific strike against an individual,” he said. Andrew McGregor says that since Ethiopian troops entered Somalia in December, there has been stepped up surveillance along Somalia’s border with Kenya, but that he is not aware of any al-Qaida activity in the area since that time. “I’ve not heard any reliable information on their fate since the Ethiopian invasion in December. Quite possibly, they’ve managed to get out of Somalia, although the border with Kenya is supposedly closed,” he said. In Tuesday’s State of the Union address, US President George W. Bush called on US forces to continue pursuing international terrorists overseas, in the countries where they operate in order to protect Americans at home. Andrew McGregor says it is difficult to believe that US pursuit of three at-large fugitives in Somalia will justify those goals. “I think that this is opening a whole theater of operations that’s really not necessary. As far as a few fugitives go, you probably would be better off trying to establish some kind of negotiations. It would be probably more effective and certainly less costly than getting involved in a military way in Somalia. There is a very grave danger here that with the Ethiopians intent on pulling out very quickly, and the African Union extremely reluctant to commit any kind of a major peacekeeping force that the United States may be left holding the bag in the area and could be involved there for a number of years in a kind of worst-case scenario,” he says.

Speak of Police brutality, if Somali police are going to be this reckless then we are going to have profound difficulties. You don’t beat-up an innocent person and then say it was a case of mistaken “identity". A person is innocent until proven guilty in a democratic country and you can’t beat-up a person who is defenseless and is unarmed. These people know how to shout democracy but don’t even know the basics of Democracy. These police officers and Ethiopian soldiers need to be held accountable.....Ooh who am I kidding that will never happen.

Our Kenya and Ethiopia friends have their own humanitarian problems to deal with, yet the leaders from these countries are constantly working for the advantages of the Western Nations and the disadvantages of their own people. Needless to say the TFG hasn’t done a single thing to help these Somalis who are in dire need of aid. They have even denied humanitarian assistants to land on the Airport of Kismayo, so now it is being used by Ethiopian and possibly American army rather than Humanitarian workers. Bravo bravo too busy meeting with “Clan Leaders” while children, women, men and elders are dying of hunger and treatable diseases. Highest Priority—Urgent Action Required Emergency Chad: Persistent conflict in the east has hampered humanitarian and market access, increasing the food insecurity of internally displaced populations. Despite excellent overall cereal production and indications of a good offseason harvest, production was poor in Kanem, Logone Occidentale and Moyen Chari last season. Ethiopia: Food Security Bureau preliminary assessment results indicate that as many as 7.3 million chronically food insecure people will need cash or food assistance through the Productive Safety Net Program. Another 2.3 million people will require emergency food assistance. Kenya: Flooding and an outbreak of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) have exacerbated already extreme levels of food insecurity in eastern pastoral areas. RVF has claimed about 100 lives, and restrictions to lessen the spread of the disease have crippled the livestock market. Somalia: Increased conflict, closure of the Somalia/Kenya border and a likely spread of RVF are driving pastoral and agropastoral districts of Lower Juba into a deeper crisis. An immediate increase in emergency assistance is needed to help prevent the humanitarian crisis from worsening. Urgent Action Required Warning Zimbabwe: Food access has become increasingly problematic in urban and rural parts of southern Zimbabwe. The pace of formal cereal imports is below last year's level, and there are concerns whether the country will be able to meet its targets this season (see back page). Preparedness and Monitoring Required Watch Djibouti: Preliminary results of a national survey indicate child malnutrition levels have deteriorated since 2002 and remain high. Mozambique: Rainfall deficits in central and southern regions necessitated replanting. Increased rainfall is needed within the next two weeks to prevent localized crop failure. Heavy rains in the north are increasing the risk of flooding along the Zambeze River and have damaged crops in other parts of the northern region (see back page). Sudan (southern): Post-harvest food security improvements continue to sustain households in most of southern Sudan, but escalating insecurity, especially in Central Equatorial State, is reducing trade and labor opportunities. A recent meningitis outbreak in Warrap State threatens dry-season population and livestock movement. Uganda: Civil security in the north has improved internally displaced persons' access to food and other productive resources, but the slow progress of the peace process continues to impede their return home.

NAIROBI, 24 Jan 2007 (IRIN) - The serious humanitarian crisis in Somalia's Lower Juba region could escalate unless immediate steps are taken to mitigate the effects of multiple shocks on the pastoralists and agro-pastoralists living there, an early warning agency warned. Months of drought followed by heavy flooding in late 2006 created the crisis, but ongoing conflict in southern Somalia and the suspected spread of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) from Kenya could exacerbate the situation, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS Net) said. "An immediate increase in emergency assistance and protection is urgently needed to prevent the already serious humanitarian crisis from worsening," the agency said in a report on Tuesday. The conflict, between the Ethiopian-backed Somali transitional government and the remnants of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), in addition to RVF, had driven "pastoral and agro-pastoral districts of the Lower Juba region, especially in Afmadow and Badhadhe districts, into a deeper crisis", it added. Multiple shocks, including low-intensity conflict over the past 16 years, the 2005-2006 drought, crop failure in mid-2006 and the floods "have stretched the region's inhabitants to breaking point", and driven many to refugee camps in Kenya. FEWS Net noted that floods and the intensification of the conflict between the UIC and the government, in particular, had "exacerbated previous shocks at a critical time in the minor harvest season, eliminating crucial opportunities for casual labour and driving farmers from their land during the first climatically favourable season for agro-pastoralists in years". RVF, a viral disease that affects domestic animals and humans, has killed scores in neighbouring Kenya. Mahamud Haji Hassan Jabra, an epidemiologist with the Somali Animal Health Service Project, said reports of animal abortions – a key indicator of the disease - had been received from the area. Samples taken from affected livestock had yet to be tested. "We have been unable to get the samples into Kenya for testing," he told IRIN on Wednesday. Kenya closed its border with Somalia on 26 December, citing security concerns due to the conflict. It also banned all trade in and slaughter of livestock in districts affected by the fever, which also border southern Somalia. Jabra said two Somali men who had shown symptoms of RVF had been taken to a Kenyan hospital where one tested positive. However, the man came from Dobley, a town close to the border and could have contracted the disease in Kenya. "We cannot yet conclude that RVF has spread into Somalia until we have carried out more conclusive tests," he added. The closure of the border also restricted aid agencies from gaining access to vulnerable asylum seekers, making emergency response difficult. "The Kenyan-Somali border remains closed, so overland transport of humanitarian supplies from Kenya is either very infrequent, unpredictable or impossible," according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Access by air was also difficult because Kismayo airport, the hub for air access to Lower Juba, had remained closed to humanitarian flights due to military operations there. "While we have sought assurances of safe passage for flights into Kismayo, these assurances have not been forthcoming," OCHA said. FEWS Net said civilians fleeing the fighting had been prevented from crossing the border into Kenya. In Dobley, 18km from the border, aid agencies estimate that 7,000 civilians from different parts of southern Somalia are living rough and urgently require food, medicine, water and shelter. Meanwhile, three mortar bombs landed on Mogadishu International Airport in the capital, at around noon on Wednesday, wounding three people. The attacks came as a second contingent of Ethiopian troops left Mogadishu. The Ethiopians, who helped the transitional government stop the UIC from controlling much of Somalia, are due to be replaced by an African peacekeeping force.

^^ Did you ever notice that you are by far the one who creates the majority of the threads in this forum? Don’t flatter yourself, I am not in all of your Threads. But rather some, you even lie about me. You are utterly libelous Anyways you can’t say there is peace when there is merely any. AU troops could come, they are more incompetent than the Americans and even they couldn’t succeed. So we will see what happens when these so called Africans arrive, I won’t be surprised if they show their ineffectiveness. Peace old man

^^^ Multi-Clan Institution? More like a Tribalist Based Institution. Who is everyone? Your imaginary friends? I barely see anyone protesting for the TFG or supporting them. Old man, enough lying to yourself, it is not health for you.

You think the Ethiopian troops and TFG soldiers are being attacked customarily. These are deliberate attacks, if you haven’t yet realized that, you have a serious problem called Denial of the Truth. The government is the one which needs protection. They can hardly protect themselves let alone the citizens. Duke you are quite the amusement abti. You are running out of lies. You repeat ancient falsehoods which have being refute many times. You are starting to bore me.

Adiga,Your TFGoons suffer from a severe case of ASSMOSIS: The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the bosses rather than working hard . Nagu kala wada~ Qix qix qix qix....Walahi you got me rolling ASSMOSIS Good job you have perfectly described them.

Duke I give him the benefit of the doubt because he has earned it. Lol @ the TFG having the support of the people what people? Tu grande mentiroso duke. The warlords are part of the TFG, they have already negotiated with their Co-partner. I am not mixing up anything. I see people protesting against the TFG and they aren’t the warlords, merchants or clan courts, they are what we call LOS GENTE (the people). You want some ill trained Africans to train the Somalia Army force. You don’t learn from those that are mutually weak. The TFG so far hasn’t created any jobs so who are their civil servants? Thus far you haven’t said anything that could be considered logical. You just go around circles and spit some half-truths which are laughable.

^^^ You must not know what peace is. If there was peace then we won’t need three months of martial law, we won’t even need these African peacekeeping troops. You are one hilarious old man. Abti you and reality always contradict each other. People in Mogadishu have confirmed more than ones that they don’t feel safe and reports are indicating that Somalia is slipping back into chaos. Don’t point out other cities and compare them with Mogadishu. There weren’t a great deal of chaos in those cities before and Mogadishu is the capital city. The puppet president can’t even bring law, order and peace to the city he was suppose to rule. The man must have lower rating than Bush

Pi We have barely heard from the man, last time I checked he was against the Ethiopians, what gives you the idea that he will not be against American bombing. None of the ICU officials spoke out against the American bombing, well none I know of. Use common sense…. And if he falls for the $$$ like the TFGoons then I would classify him with them. I will disregard him to the fullest.

Duke He needs the support of the Somalis before he worries about the support of some distant African country, which have their own problems to deal with. Second I have raised that question about the Sharif long before you did. I will give Sheikh Sheriff the benefit of the doubt. The CIA may have deliberatly bombed Somalia after them publicizing their meeting with the Sheriff few days ago. Or maybe they had already picked the dates they are going to bomb Somalia, since so far they haven’t killed any of the alleged terrorists. That is if they even existed to start with. Try using facts rather than coincidences to get your point across old man.