^^Abu-Salman, akhi, this is no news! Ethiopia's preference in the future form and shape of the former Somali republic is well known. Somaliland's status has gained a new political visibility in the last few months. Ethiopia has been one of the few silent forces that heavily lobbied Somaliland's political recognition (she is not foolish enough to lobby for a full separation at this juncture though). The fact her chief foreign affairs makes a much bolder pronouncement today about how he sees the way forward for the future political settlement of Somalia is a timely move for Ethiopia to appeal for the secessionist camp in the light of increasing volatility in south Somalia! One should not blame Ethiopia though (a country that sits on a volcano of various ethnic groups with deep grievances against current system) for her effort to tame Somalis lest they gather strength and pose real challenge to the very identity of her country. So no news there---divided people, as we are, are prone for the kind of exploitation Ethiopia is employing on us.

Guddoomiyaha Isbaheysiga Dib u xoreynta Soomaaliya Shiikh Shariif Shiikh Axmed Wafdi uu hoggaaminayo Guddoomiyaha Isbaheysiga Dib u xoreynta Soomaaliya oo Nairobi gaaray Sabti, March 29, 2008(HOL): Waxaa goor dhaweyd ka degay Garoonka Diyaaradaha Jomo Kenyata ee Magaalada Nairobi Guddoomiyaha Isbaheysiga Dib u xoreynta Soomaaliya Shiikh Shariif Shiikh Axmed iyo Wafdi uu hoggaaminayo oo ka soo amba baxay magaalada Khartoum ee Dalka Suudaan. Wafdiga uu hoggaaminayay Shiikh Shariif oo ay xubno ka ahaayeen Jen. Jaamac Maxamed Qaalib oo Guddoomiye ku xigeen ka ah Isbaheysiga, Maxamed Cabdi Yuusuf, Shiikh Cumar Iimaan iyo Xubno kale ayaa waxaa garoonka Jomo Kenyata ku soo dhaweeyay Guddoomiyaha Golaha Dhexe ee Isbaheysiga Dib u xoreynta Soomaaliya Shariif Xasan Shiikh Aadan oo isagu shalay gaaray Magaalada Nairobi. Prof. C/raxmaan Xaaji Aadan Ibbi oo ka mid ah Wafdiga Isbaheysiga ee shalay gaaray magaalada Nairobi ayaa sheegay in socdaalka ay madaxda Isbaheysiga ku joogaan magaalada Nairobi uu ku saabsan yahay casuumad uu u fidiyay Wakiilka Xoghayaha Guud ee Qaramada Midoobay u qaabilsan Arrimaha Soomaaliya Danjire Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, kaasi oo ay qiimeeyeen martiqaadka uu u fidiyay, isagoo dhinaca kalena ka gaabsaday in uu wax ka sheego warar isa soo taraya oo sheegaya in ay dhici karto in ay Nairobi ku kulmaan mas’uuliyiin ka kala tirsan Dowladda Federaalka iyo Isbaheysiga Dib u xoreynta Soomaaliya. Wixii ku soo kordha Dhaqdhaqaaqyada Siyaasadeed ee ka socda Magaalada Nairobi kala soco Hiiraan Online haddii Alle idmo. Source: Hiiraanonline.

March 29, 2008 In Somalia, a Government on Life Support By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN MOGADISHU, Somalia — The trouble started when government soldiers went to the market and, at gunpoint, began to help themselves to sacks of grain. Islamist insurgents poured into the streets to defend the merchants. The government troops got hammered, taking heavy casualties and retreating all the way back to the presidential palace, supposedly the most secure place in the city. It too came under fire. Mohamed Abdirizak, a top government official, crouched on a balcony at the palace, with bullets whizzing over his head. He had just given up a cushy life as a development consultant in Springfield, Virginia. His wife thought he was crazy. Sweat beaded on his forehead. “I feel this slipping away,” he said. By its own admission, the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia is on life support. When it came here to the capital 15 months ago, backed by thousands of Ethiopian troops, it was widely hailed as the best chance in years to end Somalia’s ceaseless cycles of war, chaos and suffering. But now its leaders say that unless they get more help — international peacekeepers, weapons, training and money to pay their soldiers, among other things — this transitional government will fall just like the 13 governments that came before it. Less than a third of the promised African Union soldiers have shown up, the United Nations has shied away from sending peacekeepers any time soon and even the Ethiopians are taking a back seat, often leaving the government’s defense to teenage Somali troops with clackety guns who are clearly overwhelmed. The Islamists have been gaining recruits, overrunning towns and getting increasingly bold. The new prime minister, credited as the government’s best — and possibly last — hope, is reaching out to them, and some are receptive. But it is unclear whether he has the power within his own divided government to strike a meaningful peace deal before it is too late. The looming failure is making many people here and abroad question the strategy of installing the transitional government by force. In December 2006, Ethiopians troops, aided by American intelligence, ousted the Islamist administration that briefly controlled Mogadishu, bringing the transitional government to the city for the first time. The Bush Administration said it was concerned about terrorists using Somalia as a sanctuary. The hunt for them continues with a recent American cruise missile strike aimed at a terrorist suspect in southern Somalia, but it missed, wounded several civilians and promptly incited protests. Many Somalis, European diplomats and critics in Congress also question the State Department’s decision this month to label a Somali resistance group a terrorist organization, which many fear will only boost its profile among the increasingly disillusioned populace. “The policy has failed,” said Representative Donald M. Payne, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Africa and global health. “Were Baghdad-izing Mogadishu and Somalia. Were making people feel wrongly treated and pushing them toward more radical positions.” In recent weeks, the Islamists have routed warlords and militiamen who have been absorbed into the government forces but are undermining what little progress transitional leaders have made with their predatory tactics, like looting food. After 17 years of civil war, Somalia’s violence seems to be driven not so much by clan hatred, ideology or religiosity but by something much simpler: survival. “We haven’t been paid in eight months,” said one government soldier named Hassan. “We rob people so we can eat.” Nur Hassan Hussein, the prime minister, did not deny government troops were robbing civilians. “This is the biggest problem we have,” he said in an interview in late March. But, he said, he does not have the money to pay them. Each month, more than half of government’s revenue, mostly from port taxes, disappears — stolen by “our people,” the prime minister said. That leaves Mr. Nur with about $18 million a year in government money to run a failed state of 9 million of some of the world’s neediest, most collectively traumatized people. And failed state may be a generous term. In many ways, Somalia is not a state at all, but an ungoverned space between its neighbors and the sea. Sometimes it seems that if anything binds this country together, it is scar tissue. Take Hassan Ali Elmi, who was blinded by a bullet in 1992 and has been living ever since in a cell-like room in the gutted former ministry of public works. His son tugs him into town to beg for the equivalent of a few pennies a day, which buy less and less. At night, he lies on a thin foam mattress and waits for the shooting to stop. It doesn’t. “All Somalia, all gun,” he says. His neighbors are recently displaced people living in cardboard huts that crumble in the rain. Aid organizations say that more than half of Mogadishu’s estimated one million people is on the run. Many of the same elements that lined up in the early 1990s to create a famine are lining up again — war, drought, displacement, skyrocketing food prices and aid workers pulling out. The United Nations World Food Program said on Thursday, in a warning titled “Somalia Sinking Deeper into Abyss of Suffering,” that the country was the most dangerous in the world for aid workers. Most Somalis don’t argue with that. They say Mogadishu is more capriciously violent than it has ever been, with roadside bombs, militias shelling each other across neighborhoods, doctors getting shot in the head and 10-year-olds hurling grenades. Police officials say that many insurgents are actually hungry children paid a few dollars for their work. In the shrinking zone that the government controls in southern Mogadishu, a couple of buildings have been splashed with a fresh coat of paint and new immigration forms at the airport ask travelers for their name, purpose of journey and caliber of weapon. Girls wearing bandanas dribble basketballs in a gym. Men sell fish by the seaside. A beat of life goes on. But north Mogadishu is another story. “It’s like `Mad Max’ out there,” said Abdi Awaleh Jama, an ambassador at large, pointing from the presidential palace north toward the expanse of huts and ruins stretching into the distance. In the rat-tat-tat of nightly machine gunfire, people are beginning to hear the government’s death knell. Many residents have mixed feelings about this. They contend that the government has enabled warlords. They say, almost without exception, that things were better under the Islamists. But they fear what lies ahead. “We’re getting addicted to anarchy,” said Dahabo Abdulleh, a fuel seller. Mr. Nur, a former Red Crescent official who became prime minister in November, is trying to peel away moderate Islamists from militant ones and get them to negotiate. He is making concessions to business leaders, who are widely suspected of financing the Islamists out of clan allegiances, and allowing them to form their own protection force. United Nation officials are trying to boost Mr. Nur’s prospects by providing $14 million to pay key government salaries and fix up ministries. “This is urgent,” said William Paton, the acting United Nations coordinator for Somalia. “They are on thin ice.” Government officials say much of the resistance is simply spoilers who are deeply invested in the status quo of chaos, like gun runners, counterfeiters and importers of expired baby formula. But some of the men believed to be the biggest spoilers are part of the government. To get clan support — and just as crucially — more militiamen, transitional leaders have cut deals with warlords like Mohammed Dheere, now Mogadishu’s mayor, and Abdi Qeybdid, now police chief. These are the same men that the C.I.A. paid in 2006 to fight the Islamists, which backfired because the population turned against them, mostly because of their legacy of terrorizing civilians. Hassan, the government soldier, says he has been in one of these warlord militias since he was 8. He toted his first Kalashnikov at age 10. He cannot read or write. He has thin wrists, a delicate face, empty eyes and a wife and two children to feed, which is why he said he routinely sticks people up. “We are losing,” he said. He said many of his friends were defecting to the Islamists because that was the only way to survive. The Islamists have briefly captured several towns in recent weeks, freeing prisoners, snatching weapons and then melting back into the bush. Gone are the beards and the checkered scarves they used to wear. Many, like a young man named Elmi, are clean shaven and favor crisply pressed suits. Elmi, who like Hassan said he could not reveal his last name, said business owners have sold gold, real estate and sheep to raise money for the Islamists. Elmi said he was part of the battle at the market on March 20 that began with the looting, and that the government lost three trucks, which was corroborated by government soldiers. “We were there because we are everywhere,” Elmi said. Mr. Abdirizak, the government official, buried some of the victims of that battle, young government troops who were slipped into graves behind the presidential palace in the moonlight. One soldier was named Abdi Rashid. He had been wounded in another firefight about a month ago, and according to Mr. Abdirizak, “he shouldn’t even have been out there that day. It’s just that we don’t have enough guys.” Abdi Rashid was shot in the heart at the market as the Islamists surrounded government troops. His last words to his friends, who wanted to carry him to safety, were, “Get out of here, get out of here.” Mr. Abdirizak fell silent. “I’m not sure how long I’ll stay,” he finally said. “ I want to help. But I didn’t come here to get killed.” Source: NY Times.

^^I think you're right! =============================================== March 26, 2008 Op-Ed Columnist Hillary or Nobody? By MAUREEN DOWD WASHINGTON While the cool cat’s away, the Hillary mice will play. As Barack Obama was floating in the pool with his daughters the last few days in St. Thomas, some Clinton disciples were floating the idea of St. Hillary as his vice president. She can’t win without him, said one Hillary adviser, and he can’t win without her. They’re stuck with each other. It’s one of my favorite movie formulas, driving the dynamics in such classics as “A Few Good Men,” “The Big Easy” and “Guys and Dolls”: Charming, glib guy spars and quarrels with no-nonsense, driven girl, until they team up in the last reel. He spices up her life, and she stiffens his spine. And soon they hear the pitter-patter of little superdelegate feet, who are thrilled not to be pulled in two directions anymore. And everybody’s happy. Or are they? A couple of weeks ago, when Hill and Bill mentioned the possibility of a joint ticket, it was an attempt to undermine Obama and urge voters and superdelegates to put Hillary on top; the implication was that this was the only way Democrats could have both their stars, and besides, it was her turn. The precocious boy wonder had plenty of time. But with the math not in her favor, her options running out, Bill Richardson running out and her filigreed narrative of dodging bullets in Bosnia and securing peace in Northern Ireland unraveling, could Hillary actually think the vice presidency is the best she’ll do? One Hillary pal said she wouldn’t want to go back to a Senate full of lawmakers who’d abandoned her for Obama. And even if she could get to be majority leader, would it be much fun working with Nancy Pelosi, whose distaste for the Clintons has led her to subtly maneuver for Obama? Maybe The Terminator is thinking: if she could just get her pump in the door. Dick Cheney, after all, was able to run the White House and the world from the vice president’s residence, calling every shot while serving under a less experienced and younger president. And Observatory Circle is just up the street from where Hillary now lives. But, aside from Barack and Michelle Obama’s certain resistance, would it fly? Many Hillary voters are hardening against Obama, and more and more Obama fans are getting turned off by the idea of dragging down the Obama brand with Clinton dysfunction. “No drama, vote Obama” placards and T-shirts are popping up at Obama rallies, and one of his military advisers dubbed him “No Shock Barack.” It’s hard to imagine that after spending her whole life playing second-fiddle to a superstar pol, Hillary wants to do it again. She’s been vice president. Could the veep talk be a red herring? A ploy designed to distract attention from the Clintons’ real endgame? Even some Clinton loyalists are wondering aloud if the win-at-all-costs strategy of Hillary and Bill — which continued Tuesday when Hillary tried to drag Rev. Wright back into the spotlight — is designed to rough up Obama so badly and leave the party so riven that Obama will lose in November to John McCain. If McCain only served one term, Hillary would have one last shot. On Election Day in 2012, she’d be 65. Why else would Hillary suggest that McCain would be a better commander in chief than Obama, and why else would Bill imply that Obama was less patriotic — and attended by more static — than McCain? Why else would Phil Singer, a Hillary spokesman, say in a conference call with reporters on Tuesday that Obama was trying to disenfranchise the voters of Florida and Michigan. “When it comes to voting, Senator Obama has turned the audacity of hope into the audacity of nope,” he said, adding, “There’s a basic reality here, which is we could have avoided the entire George W. Bush presidency if we had counted votes in Florida.” So is Singer making the case that Obama is as anti-democratic as W. was when he snatched Florida from Al Gore? Some top Democrats are increasingly worried that the Clintons’ divide-and-conquer strategy is nihilistic: Hillary or no democrat. (Or, as one Democrat described it to ABC’s Jake Tapper: Hillary is going for “the Tonya Harding option” — if she can’t get the gold, kneecap her rival.) After all, the Clintons think of themselves as The Democratic Party. When Bill and Dick Morris triangulated during the first term, it was what was best for Bill, not the party. In 1996, when Bill turned the White House into Motel 1600 for fund-raisers, it was more about his re-election than the re-elections of his fellow Democrats in Congress; in 2000, the White House focused its energies more on Hillary’s Senate win than Al Gore’s presidential run. And even Clinton supporters know that Bill does not want to be replaced as the first black president, especially by a black president with enough magic to possibly eclipse him in the history books. ny times

There is understandable sense of entitlement for the Democratic nomination from Clintons. The thing is they have not anticipated for this skinny brother.

In the political calculus prevailing in Somalia today, if one wants to clinch to whatever feeble power there is in his desire, all is required from him is to prove his admin’s compliance with Ethiopia’s directives. And in that verse, one would be excessively foolish, if one counts Cadde out on the basis of corruption or his other domestic blunders. Same could be said about Riyaale.

March 25, 2008 Op-Ed Columnist The Long Defeat By DAVID BROOKS Hillary Clinton may not realize it yet, but she’s just endured one of the worst weeks of her campaign. First, Barack Obama weathered the Rev. Jeremiah Wright affair without serious damage to his nomination prospects. Obama still holds a tiny lead among Democrats nationally in the Gallup tracking poll, just as he did before this whole affair blew up. Second, Obama’s lawyers successfully prevented re-votes in Florida and Michigan. That means it would be virtually impossible for Clinton to take a lead in either elected delegates or total primary votes. Third, as Noam Scheiber of The New Republic has reported, most superdelegates have accepted Nancy Pelosi’s judgment that the winner of the elected delegates should get the nomination. Instead of lining up behind Clinton, they’re drifting away. Her lead among them has shrunk by about 60 in the past month, according to Avi Zenilman of Politico.com. In short, Hillary Clinton’s presidential prospects continue to dim. The door is closing. Night is coming. The end, however, is not near. Last week, an important Clinton adviser told Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen (also of Politico) that Clinton had no more than a 10 percent chance of getting the nomination. Now, she’s probably down to a 5 percent chance. Five percent. Let’s take a look at what she’s going to put her party through for the sake of that 5 percent chance: The Democratic Party is probably going to have to endure another three months of daily sniping. For another three months, we’ll have the Carvilles likening the Obamaites to Judas and former generals accusing Clintonites of McCarthyism. For three months, we’ll have the daily round of résumé padding and sulfurous conference calls. We’ll have campaign aides blurting “blue dress” and only-because-he’s-black references as they let slip their private contempt. For three more months (maybe more!) the campaign will proceed along in its Verdun-like pattern. There will be a steady rifle fire of character assassination from the underlings, interrupted by the occasional firestorm of artillery when the contest touches upon race, gender or patriotism. The policy debates between the two have been long exhausted, so the only way to get the public really engaged is by poking some raw national wound. For the sake of that 5 percent, this will be the sourest spring. About a fifth of Clinton and Obama supporters now say they wouldn’t vote for the other candidate in the general election. Meanwhile, on the other side, voters get an unobstructed view of the Republican nominee. John McCain’s approval ratings have soared 11 points. He is now viewed positively by 67 percent of Americans. A month ago, McCain was losing to Obama among independents by double digits in a general election matchup. Now McCain has a lead among this group. For three more months, Clinton is likely to hurt Obama even more against McCain, without hurting him against herself. And all this is happening so she can preserve that 5 percent chance. When you step back and think about it, she is amazing. She possesses the audacity of hopelessness. Why does she go on like this? Does Clinton privately believe that Obama is so incompetent that only she can deliver the policies they both support? Is she simply selfish, and willing to put her party through agony for the sake of her slender chance? Are leading Democrats so narcissistic that they would create bitter stagnation even if they were granted one-party rule? The better answer is that Clinton’s long rear-guard action is the logical extension of her relentlessly political life. For nearly 20 years, she has been encased in the apparatus of political celebrity. Look at her schedule as first lady and ever since. Think of the thousands of staged events, the tens of thousands of times she has pretended to be delighted to see someone she doesn’t know, the hundreds of thousands times she has recited empty clichés and exhortatory banalities, the millions of photos she has posed for in which she is supposed to appear empathetic or tough, the billions of politically opportune half-truths that have bounced around her head. No wonder the Clinton campaign feels impersonal. It’s like a machine for the production of politics. It plows ahead from event to event following its own iron logic. The only question is whether Clinton herself can step outside the apparatus long enough to turn it off and withdraw voluntarily or whether she will force the rest of her party to intervene and jam the gears. If she does the former, she would surprise everybody with a display of self-sacrifice. Her campaign would cruise along at a lower register until North Carolina, then use that as an occasion to withdraw. If she does not, she would soldier on doggedly, taking down as many allies as necessary. ny times

If true, this is a good start.

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^^You are agreeing with Duke without noticing it! Both of you want to win this war by destroying the other part of somali conflict because they are evil!

^^ Today all Somalis are desperate entities, and reintegration of some sort will be required for peace and stability to take hold. You are after a ‘legal’ partitioning of a failed state; waana halkaa meeshaad naafada ka tahay adeer!

Reintegration is more probable than a forced partition of a failed state! But that's not what my freinds would like to hear...

This just preempts good Nur Cadde’s effort to draw al shabaab youths into some sort of negotiation! Alas, both the designees and the designator seem to be agnostic about the consequence of this move as it regards Nur’s recent peace gestures! Nur Cadde’s effort, however noble it might have been, seem to have still-borne, and we are left to pray for some other mode to be found to settle and resolve this stubborn SOMALI conflict! Nin walaalki geed ugu jiraa geesi noqonwaaye Gacantii ninkeed goynayyaa waa gumuduntaaye…

Che wrote: Ethiopia is our good friend,but I'm ticked at what they are doing in Xamer. I think that partially captures the tone of this thread! p.s. Che you have officially become the party-booer of this thread…

^^Allow alle. Waa markiisii.

Hillary’s New Math Problem:The delegate calculus just got worse.

^^The Gabay is utter rubbish, more so that I felt sorry for its author! As for this Gabre-slapped-Yey gossip, it’s a measure of desperation from some circles of this old man’s nemesis to seek moment’s repose in a mere hearsay! You know if one wanted to cite Ethiopia’s abuses on Yey, one could easily refer, with certain degree of credibility, to his imprisonment in Addis in Eighties. But to drive this nonsense is… desperate! Ethiopia and her troops do lot of abuse, indeed. We all know who her victims are! We also know who provide her the means to exact Xamar atrocities. Lest you forget, entities in PL and SL facilitate and play direct role in enabling Ethiopia’s dominance in the South. To be sure, their motives of doing so are different but effect is the same! Whether one aspires for independence or one seeks a return of clan majesty makes zilch difference for the innocent who perished in the hands of Ethiopian troops. This alliance between Ethiopia and these two Somali entities, and other small time contractors out there in the south, share the shame of this politics of dishonor. Debate the degree, but don’t deny it saaxiib! And that is the crux of the matter for me!

Tonight is crucial for Clinton! If she loses, the game is over! If she wins big though, she would be able to withdraw from this race with a credible grace---By dropping out of it while she’s perceived competitive, that is! If tonight’s results produces mixed results however, where by both Clinton and Obama could reasonably claim victory by dividing the two major states, then Clinton loses by not winning big! The pressure from her party and the democratic tribal elders for her to drop out would be too much to bear.

^^These leaders could’ve said no and continued instigating the violence. The fact they accepted to compromise is commendable, and reflects that they are better leaders then ours. If you don’t appreciate that, adeer I do. If any one knows what the price of instability is it must Somalis. Yet they can’t even talk to each other let alone compromise on something, and that’s must a measure of something adeer.

I have seen you argue many times on these very points and I am not impressed with your line of reasoning saaxiib! If you object for Somalis to reconcile on the basis of practicality yet offer no alternatives, I am left to assume that you are indeed rooting for the Xamar violence. And that’s sad adeer! When the Courts emerged I supported them because they had both the political infrastructure and support they needed to effectively help change our country’s status. It was not meant to be for many reasons. Continuing a fight our side lost simply because we were wronged without national consideration of the consequences of it is simply desperate. Attempting to rule your subjects from the top of foreign tanks is even more pathetic and desperate. Those are the two opposing realities on the ground. I have the luxury and mental peace to observe it from a distance. I can see the bigger picture. I realize Somalis will lose big time if this violence continues at the rate it’s continuing. Others thought, ignorantly and unintelligently, I was rooting for a particular warlord! Some said I was impatience, and promised me victory if I waited on a little while. Political reconciliation is the only way out of this. Some will say NO., and some will accept! Those who say NO out of pride, history will judge them very harshly. Those who wait fro clues from others to join this call of peace would be footnotes of Somali history. Nothing is impractical adeer if you have a positive attitude and forgo the urge of taking vengeance on those who wrong you! You can be bigger than this Geeljire. Stop this analytical feign. Don’t swim in a theological gloom to obscure what’s obvious and clear to everyone! Al shabaabs are on the fringes even if we consider the larger resistance. Their bravery and heroism will be all lost if they don’t compromise for the sake of their tired shacab! If you learnt and know how to fight, you must learn how to reconcile! Allow ma iri.

What can we do to change the situation? Asks good Mr Smith! Change your political attitude toward Somalia, I say. Instead of seeing them as warring clans, consider them as internally imploded, externally exploited, politically divided communities. Don’t celebrate those divisions. Celebrate unity, adeer, on the basis of religious conviction and regional convenience! Borrow the diversity and coexistence that you’ve witnessed in Europe to heal some of the mistrust that resulted from Somali civil war. If they tell you what you preach is impractical given the political reality on the ground. Tell them that you can! If you even need a slogan to drive that unity point home, steal Obama’s ‘yes-we-can’ motto…

^^come again. Leadership matters. That’s what you lack as a Somali and Kenyans have. You are no equals. Swallow that with camel milk!

^^Make up your mind adeer. You have an unnecessary attention for details! Look at the big picture. Al shabaabs are on the fringes of Somali conflict. Here’s why; Somalis are clannish, and they are divided along those clannish lines. Their division is merely political. They don’t hate each other based on their respective clan lineages. Take it from me: Somalis have no theological divisions.

^^^Believe me Somalis are wild beasts when it comes to authority! They are entrepreneurial in spirit but lack patience for organizational growth. They are politically mature yet too segmented and tribal to capitalize on that natural tendency. Kenyans are everything that Somalis are not! Civilized. Educated. Peaceful. And their leaders are wise enough to accept compromised settlements for the current political crisis. Xadhaarah is taqaddum. And taqqaddum yaa camel boy requires a measure of istiqraar and amni. Somalis don’t appreciate both!