If an American reads this letter the first thing he would say is this man is a terrorist, but only if he knew that this man went out of his way to fight for the cause of Allah.

BOB your poems are truly breathtaking , each one of them are well written and well thought of, thanks for sharing them with us bob. I really appreciate reading it. Caring on with your talent abti.

The woman is a smart old lady that survived in Mogadishu. Masha’allah. Anthony C. Zinni, a retired American general who helped oversee operations in Somalia in 1993, said he thought it was a little weird that residents in a city littered with so much war wreckage would pay anything to see this. “Nothing, however, about Somalia surprises me,†he added. Zinni he seemed quite cranky

LOL, a spy? The news said she got shot four times in the back, but bbcsomali said she was shot four times, one bullet to the leg, one to the stomach and two to the chest. Castro, you said may she rest in peace, did you forgot her bodyguard who was a Muslim brother? :confused:

Who would shot a 78 year old nun four times. My heart really goes out to her family. I heard she knew fluent Somali… By any chance was this woman a missionary, why else would a foreign waste his/her time in Somalia, honestly? As for the killing i think a man is under arrest and another one is being hunted down, the Islamic Courts should bring these murders to justice. Sheikh Sheriff has already spoken and has criticized the killing, he said it benefits Islam nothing at all. And people let’s not forget that the nun’s bodyguard was killed as well, he was a Somali and a Muslim so may Allah grand him Paradise.

Weeping Willow (the Melancholy) — likes to be stress free, loves family life, full of hopes and dreams, attractive, very empathetic, loves anything beautiful, musically inclined, loves to travel to exotic places, restless, capricious, honest, can be influenced but is not easy to live with when pressured, sometimes demanding, good intuition, suffers in love until they find that one loyal, steadfast partner; loves to make others laugh. ...how accurate is it

It was written by a Christian?????????

It started last week friday and ends this Sat. I went to see the orgins of aids yesterday, i was so dissaponited at the number of black people that were there. As for somali's i saw one girl. That was it. Don’t you know Somalis don't associate themselves with 'blacks?' :rolleyes:

How about somalia Then WE will see how long he will remain angry

Even still, she said, Amin's "pump" sounded to her a lot like "bomb." "There is no `p' in Arabic, so `pump' would come out more like `bumb,'" said Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. bolice blease, it is just a bumb poor guy i could imagine him saying that. While mama is trying to eavesdrop

Dear World, It appears that you are hard to please. I understand that you are upset over us, here in Israel. Indeed, it appears that you are quite upset, even angry and outraged? Indeed, every few years you seem to become upset over us. Today, it is the brutal repression of the Palestinians; yesterday, it was Lebanon; before that it was the bombing of the nuclear reactor in Baghdad and the Yom Kippur War campaign. It appears that Jews who triumph and who, therefore, live, upset you most extraordinarily. Of course, dear world, long before there was an Israel, we, the Jewish people - upset you. We upset a German people who elected a Hitler and we upset an Austrian people who cheered his entry into Vienna and we upset a whole slew of Slavic nations - Poles, Slovaks, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Russians, Hungarians, Romanians. And we go back a long, long way in the history of world upset. We upset the Cossacks of Chmielnicki who massacred tens of thousands of us in 1648-49; we upset the Crusaders who, on their way to liberate the Holy Land, were so upset at Jews that they slaughtered untold numbers of us. We upset, for centuries, a Roman Catholic Church that did its best to define our relationship through Inquisitions. And we upset the arch-enemy of the Church, Martin Luther, who, in his call to burn the synagogues and the Jews within them, showed an admirable Christian ecumenical spirit. It is because we became so upset over upsetting you, dear world, that we decided to leave you - in a manner of speaking - and establish a Jewish State. The reasoning was that living in close contact with you, as resident-strangers in the various countries that comprise you, we upset you, irritate you, disturb you. What better notion, then, than to leave you and thus love you - and have you love us? And so we decided to come home - to the same homeland from which we were driven out 1,900 years earlier by a Roman world that, apparently, we also upset. Alas, dear world, it appears that you are hard to please. Having left you and your Pogroms and Inquisitions and Crusades and Holocausts, having taken our leave of the general world to live alone in our own little state - we continue to upset you. You are upset that we repress the poor Palestinians. You are deeply angered over the fact that we do not give up the lands of 1967, which are clearly the obstacle to peace in the Middle East. Moscow is upset and Washington is upset. The Arabs are upset and the gentle Egyptian moderates are upset. Well, dear world, consider the reaction of a normal Jew from Israel. In 1920, 1921 and 1929, there were no territories of 1967 to impede peace between Jews and Arabs. Indeed, there was no Jewish State to upset anybody. Nevertheless, the same oppressed and repressed Palestinians slaughtered hundreds of Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Safed and Hebron. Indeed, 67 Jews were slaughtered one day in Hebron - in 1929. Dear World, why did the Arabs - the Palestinians - massacre 67 Jews in one day in 1929? Could it have been their anger over Israeli aggression in 1967? And why were 510 Jewish men, women and children slaughtered in Arab riots in 1936-39? Was it because of Arab upset over 1967? And when you, World, proposed a U.N. Partition Plan in 1947 that would have created a Palestinian State alongside a tiny Israel and the Arabs cried and went to war and killed 6,000 Jews - was that upset stomach caused by the aggression of 1967? And, by the way, dear world, why did we not hear your cry of upset then? The poor Palestinians who today kill Jews with explosives and firebombs and stones are part of the same people who - when they had all the territories they now demand be given them for their state - attempted to drive the Jewish State into the sea. The same twisted faces, the same hate, the same cry of "idbah-al-yahud" - "Slaughter the Jews!" that we hear and see today, were seen and heard then. The same people, the same dream - destroy Israel. What they failed to do yesterday, they dream of today - but we should not "repress" them. Dear World, you stood by the Holocaust and you stood by in 1948 as seven states launched a war that the Arab League proudly compared to the Mongol massacres. You stood by in 1967 as Nasser, wildly cheered by wild mobs in every Arab capital in the world, vowed to drive the Jews into the sea. And you would stand by tomorrow if Israel were facing extinction. And since we know that the Arabs-Palestinians daily dream of that extinction, we will do everything possible to remain alive in our own land. If that bothers you, dear world, well - think of how many times in the past you bothered us. In any event, dear world, if you are bothered by us, here is one Jew in Israel who could not care less. =========================================== Are they trying to justify their illegal occupation and masscre or are they just once again looking for the world's sympathy?

All I could say is that five years ago, I didn’t concern myself with politics, five years ago I had no interest other than my own, five years ago I didn’t care about Somalia, five years ago I was truly naïve, five years ago I saw all things in gray, five years ago I thought books were a waste of paper, five years ago I was a trouble maker. Now those five years are gone and they went by fast, but at least today I know that intellectually I have changed and it was only five years ago. So five years ago I didn’t know things would change so rapidly, but they did and I can’t stop but wonder how the next five years is going to be like or if we could all be alive to experience it.

Somaliaonline is great, i am sure i will. Take care Mac-Salaam

I am taking my time khalaf, but i assure you that you will see more than one line pretty soon Thanks for the welcome khalaf

Where is this going?

That is their choice, so who am i to judge?