If i were to hazard a guess I would say this trip is about briefing Cadde admin about the latest regional intel as communicated by Frazer in her recent visit. Potential items on the agenda: 1- Fighting terrorism 2- Close collaboration with Ethiopia Saajin Sakhar, chip in as you seem to be in the diameter of this circle!

Very interesting stuff... As children, where i grew up, we used to watch kabeebey and luumbi. I also heard about miyyi night clubs where dhaanto and other dances are performed...but this one is totally a different animal!

BOOSAASO : Raysalwasaare Geedi oo Puntland beri ku soo fool-leh Puntland Posted to the Web Apr 09, 15:41 Boosaaso:-Warar hoose oo uu helay Puntlandpost ayaa sheegaya in Raysalwasaaraha DFKS Cali Maxamed Geedi uu maalinimada bari ah uu ka soo dagi doono garoonka diyaaradaha ee Boosaaso , wuxuuna ka soo duuli doonaa magaalada Muqdisho. Raysalwasaare Geedi ayaa lagu wadaa in uu magaalada Xeebta ah ee Boosaaso uu kula kulmo madaxda sarsare ee Maamulka Puntland oo ay ugu horeeyaan M.wayne Cadde iyo kuxigeenkiisa. Shaaca lagama qaadin ujeedada rasmi ah ee Geedi ee uu xiligan ku imaanayo Puntland walow ay suurta gal ay ahaan karto in M.wayne Yuusuf uu isna imaan doono , hase ahaatee waxaa lagu wadaa in ay Madaxwayne Cadde ay kawada hadli doonaan muran soo noqnoqday ee ku aadan baaritaanka iyo soo saarista macdanta iyo shidaalka Puntland taa soo uu in badan hakad galiyay Geedi , kadib markii uu qoraal uu arintan kaga soo horjeedo uu u qoray shirkadaha danaynaya in ay soo saaraan khayraadka Puntalnd. Warar kale oo Puntlandpost ay u sheegeen masuuliyiin aan doonayn in magacooda la sheego ayaa tibaaxaya masuuliyiinta DFKS ay doonayaan in Puntland ay xiriir aad u sareeya oo ka xoog badan midka hada jira ay la yeelato dawlada Ethiopia , gaar ahaan dhanka ammaanka , iyadoo lawada ogsoon yahay in maamulka Cadde uu si wayn ugu janjeero dawladaha carabta gaar ahaan kuwa khaliijka , marka loo eego sida uu uga fogaa dawaldahana C/laahi Yuusuf M.waynaha Soomaaliya xiligii uu ahaa M.waynaha Puntland. C/laahi Cali Ciise Boosaaso , Puntlandpost.com

Captain, is drill on Dhahar too?

Captain, is drill on Dhahar too?

lol@laba jawaan ayaa la siyey. I suppose if Puntlanders give him three, instead of two, he will readily comeback! ^^And there goes this thread!

lol@go join them and defend their looted property! That’s too simplistic Dukow… The tfg is reduced to a mere form for America’s anti-terror plot. The fight is on adeer. As always I cant help but sense your hardened stance against certain Somali clans. I agree that this Diiriye dude is funny and so is your Minster Jeelle !

Given uncle Sam's commitment, that's the new strategy for the shabaabs. The insurgency is real adeer. Your tfg calls it terrorists. It has no solution for it. Reason is tfg is not allowed to talk to these leaders. As for Ina Diiriye’s comedy and his clannish froths, well that’s tolerable, I say, given Ethiopia’s military intervention. As you know the old man had his share on this type of breathing out exercise… The stand off continues. And that says a lot about tfg’s current status and strength.

This is a sad development...the somali tragedy continues.

Now it came down to a mere tribal gathering… Where does the stand off stand? That's the mighty stuff Dukow!

U.S. Allowed N. Korea Arms Sale Shipment to Ethiopia May Have Violated U.N. Resolution By Glenn Kessler Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, April 8, 2007; A15 The United States did not act to prevent a recent shipment of arms from North Korea to Ethiopia, even though sketchy intelligence indicated the delivery might violate a U.N. Security Council resolution restricting North Korean arms sales, Bush administration officials said yesterday. The decision to let the shipment proceed was made by relatively low-level staffers, with little internal debate, and it was unknown to top policymakers involved in the campaign to punish Pyongyang for its test of a nuclear weapon last October, officials said. The January arms delivery occurred as Ethiopia was fighting Islamic militias in Somalia, aiding U.S. policies of combating religious extremists in the Horn of Africa. Intelligence reports indicated that the shipment included spare parts, including tank parts, officials said. Nevertheless, the cargo was not inspected, making it difficult to know whether it violated the U.N. resolution. The value of the shipment is also unclear. An interdiction of the shipment, delivered by a ship under the Ethiopian flag, was never seriously considered, officials said. Policy implications were not raised to Cabinet-level officials or even to those at the assistant-secretary level. The New York Times reported the arms shipment on its Web site yesterday. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack declined to comment on the report but said, "We are deeply committed to upholding and enforcing U.N. Security Council resolutions." Ethiopia and other African countries that rely on Soviet-era military equipment have long purchased inexpensive spare parts from North Korea. The United States has sought to persuade those countries to end their relationships with Pyongyang. After U.S. diplomats learned of the January shipment, Ethiopian officials pledged yet again to look for suppliers other than North Korea, U.S. officials said. The Bush administration has led a years-long campaign to choke off North Korea's access to hard currency by thwarting weapons sales and cracking down on its extensive counterfeiting operations. North Korea recently agreed to shut down its nuclear reactor, but only after the United States ended an investigation into a Macau bank linked to money laundering and counterfeiting operations. About $25 million in North Korea-linked bank accounts was frozen because of the probe, infuriating Pyongyang.

April 8, 2007 North Koreans Arm Ethiopians as U.S. Assents By MICHAEL R. GORDON and MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON, April 7 — Three months after the United States successfully pressed the United Nations to impose strict sanctions on North Korea because of the country’s nuclear test, Bush administration officials allowed Ethiopia to complete a secret arms purchase from the North, in what appears to be a violation of the restrictions, according to senior American officials. The United States allowed the arms delivery to go through in January in part because Ethiopia was in the midst of a military offensive against Islamic militias inside Somalia, a campaign that aided the American policy of combating religious extremists in the Horn of Africa. American officials said that they were still encouraging Ethiopia to wean itself from its longstanding reliance on North Korea for cheap Soviet-era military equipment to supply its armed forces and that Ethiopian officials appeared receptive. But the arms deal is an example of the compromises that result from the clash of two foreign policy absolutes: the Bush administration’s commitment to fighting Islamic radicalism and its effort to starve the North Korean government of money it could use to build up its nuclear weapons program. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, as the administration has made counterterrorism its top foreign policy concern, the White House has sometimes shown a willingness to tolerate misconduct by allies that it might otherwise criticize, like human rights violations in Central Asia and antidemocratic crackdowns in a number of Arab nations. It is also not the first time that the Bush administration has made an exception for allies in their dealings with North Korea. In 2002, Spain intercepted a ship carrying Scud missiles from North Korea to Yemen. At the time, Yemen was working with the United States to hunt members of Al Qaeda operating within its borders, and after its government protested, the United States asked that the freighter be released. Yemen said at the time that it was the last shipment from an earlier missile purchase and would not be repeated. American officials from a number of agencies described details of the Ethiopian episode on the condition of anonymity because they were discussing internal Bush administration deliberations. Several officials said they first learned that Ethiopia planned to receive a delivery of military cargo from North Korea when the country’s government alerted the American Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, after the adoption on Oct. 14 of the United Nations Security Council measure imposing sanctions. “The Ethiopians came back to us and said, ‘Look, we know we need to transition to different customers, but we just can’t do that overnight,’ ” said one American official, who added that the issue had been handled properly. “They pledged to work with us at the most senior levels.” American intelligence agencies reported in late January that an Ethiopian cargo ship that was probably carrying tank parts and other military equipment had left a North Korean port. The value of the shipment is unclear, but Ethiopia purchased $20 million worth of arms from North Korea in 2001, according to American estimates, a pattern that officials said had continued. The United States gives Ethiopia millions of dollars of foreign aid and some nonlethal military equipment. After a brief debate in Washington, the decision was made not to block the arms deal and to press Ethiopia not to make future purchases. John R. Bolton, who helped to push the resolution imposing sanctions on North Korea through the Security Council in October, before stepping down as United Nations ambassador, said that the Ethiopians had long known that Washington was concerned about their arms purchases from North Korea and that the Bush administration should not have tolerated the January shipment. “To make it clear to everyone how strongly we feel on this issue we should have gone to the Ethiopians and said they should send it back,” said Mr. Bolton, who added that he had been unaware of the deal before being contacted for this article. “I know they have been helpful in Somalia, but there is a nuclear weapons program in North Korea that is unhelpful for everybody worldwide. “Never underestimate the strength of ‘clientitis’ at the State Department,” said Mr. Bolton, using Washington jargon for a situation in which State Department officials are deemed to be overly sympathetic to the countries they conduct diplomacy with. Sean McCormack, the State Department spokesman, declined to comment on the specifics of the arms shipment but said the United States was “deeply committed to upholding and enforcing U.N. Security Council resolutions.” Repeated efforts to contact the Ethiopian Embassy were unsuccessful. In other cases, the United States has been strict in enforcing the Security Council resolution. For instance, late last year, American intelligence agencies tracked a North Korean freighter suspected of carrying illicit weapons and pressed several nations to refuse to allow the ship to dock. Myanmar, formerly Burma, allowed it to anchor and insisted that there was no violation. North Korea conducted its first nuclear test on Oct. 9, and the Security Council resolution, adopted less than a week later, was hailed by President Bush as “swift and tough,” and a “clear message to the leader of North Korea regarding his weapons programs.” Among the biggest sticking points during the negotiations over the resolution were Chinese and Russian objections to language requiring inspections of ships leaving North Korea. The United States repeatedly pressed China and Russia to agree to the inspections, saying they were essential to enforcing the resolution’s embargo on North Korea’s sale of dangerous weapons, like ballistic missiles. In addition to the ban on the purchase of weapons from North Korea, the resolution also called for a ban on the sale of luxury goods to it and the freezing of its financial assets in banks worldwide. The measure had special relevance for several African states that have long purchased low-cost military equipment from North Korea. Ethiopia has an arsenal of T-55 tanks that it acquired years ago from the Soviet Union and Eastern European nations. For years, it has turned to North Korea for tank parts and other equipment to keep its military running. The Ethiopians bought the equipment at a bargain price; the North Koreans received some badly needed cash. In 2005, the Bush administration told Ethiopia and other African nations that it wanted them to phase out their purchases from North Korea. But the Security Council resolution put an international imprimatur on the earlier American request, and the administration sought to reinforce the message. “They really are one of the larger conventional arms purchasers from North Korea, and we’re pressing them hard and saying, ‘Let’s get you out of that business,’ ” said the American official. Another American official, who is involved in Africa policy, said: “These are cash on the barrel transactions. The Ethiopians know that they can get the best deal in Pyongyang,” a reference to North Korea’s capital. In late January, the Central Intelligence Agency reported that an Ethiopian-flagged vessel had left a North Korean port and that its cargo probably included “tank parts,” among other military equipment. American officials said that the ship, the Tekeze, a modern vessel bought from a company in Montenegro and named after an Ethiopian river, unloaded its cargo in Djibouti, a former French colony where the United States has based Special Operations troops and other military forces. From there, the cargo was transported overland to Ethiopia. The Security Council resolution’s list of prohibited items included spare parts. Because the cargo was never inspected, some administration officials say the United States cannot say for certain that the shipment violated the resolution. It is not clear if the United States ever reported the arms shipment to the Security Council. But because the intelligence reports indicated that the cargo was likely to have included tank parts, some Pentagon officials described the shipment as an unambiguous Security Council violation. American officials said the Ethiopians acknowledged that the ship was en route and said that they needed the equipment to sustain their Soviet-era military. Ethiopia has a longstanding border dispute with Eritrea, but of more concern to Washington, Ethiopia was also focused on neighboring Somalia, where Islamic forces that had taken over Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, six months earlier and were attacking Baidoa, the seat of a relatively powerless transitional government that was formed with the support of the United Nations. The timing of the shipment was extremely awkward, as the Ethiopian military was preoccupied with Somalia and also quietly cooperating with the United States. Ethiopia began an offensive in Somalia to drive back the Islamic forces and install the transitional government in Mogadishu late last year. The United States was providing it with detailed intelligence about the locations of the Islamic forces and was positioning Navy ships off Somalia’s coast to capture fighters trying to escape the battlefield by sea. On Jan. 7, American AC-130 gunships launched two strikes on terrorist targets from an airstrip inside Ethiopia, though it did not appear that the casualties included any of the few top operatives of Al Qaeda American officials suspected were hiding in Somalia. After some internal debate, the Bush administration decided not to make an issue of the cargo ship. American officials insist that they are keeping up the pressure on Ethiopia. While Ethiopia has not provided an ironclad assurance that it will accept no more arms shipments from North Korea, it has told the United States that it will look for other weapons suppliers. “There was a lot going on at that particular moment in time,” said the senior American official. “They seem to have the readiness to do the right thing.”

^^correct. Did Google give you a hand though? It's your turn per Cents instruction.

Who said: What can my enemies possibly do to me? My paradise is in my heart; wherever I go it goes with me, inseparabble from me. For me, prison is a place of (religious) retreat; execution is my opportunity for martydom; and exile from my town is but a chance to travel. ps--dibdhacayga raali ka ahaada.

^^Yaad ka garateen? lol@Aboowayaalow naga guddooma!

These are nothing but my own raw thoughts on the present state of our beloved country, and the prospect of war. As you are well aware of the Somali conflict seems to have entered into a new phase. Arms, it sadly now seems, will decide the contest. What is at stake is not only the future of Somali people in the south but also the affairs of all Somali people in the republic are to be decided. Peaceful regions like Somaliland and Puntland who prospered and lived on the peripheries of Somali civil war are now about to be swallowed by this new conflict. All indications are that Arabs have found new methods to influence the goings in Somalia to tip the matters to their liking. Initially, America assured them (it was assumed) that their interest in the region will be preserved and Ethiopia is just a convenient tool to settle matters and create a favorable environment for the tfg. As the world has seen last week, Mogadishu has erupted with anger and that, as sad an event as it was, marked the seedtime for all the parties concerned.Here are the glaring facts that stared at the world in the face: Mogadishu is far from being pacified; Ethiopia is in a political/military limbo; America has run out of ideas; and sadly Somalia is plunging deep into the civil war. But this time the Somali civil war will have a far reaching consequences for both the Somali people and for the region as a whole. The multiplicity of our political variables is noted. Although all danced for the same tune during the so-called Somali Contact Group meeting at Cairo, the differences between the participants about the most fundamental questions of Somali conflict were hard to ignore. While America insisted that tfg must be supported and Ethiopian must be commanded for its effort to just do that, others ranted and expressed their deeply held mistrust about Ethiopia’s role in Somalia. So by and large, and despite what the meeting’s final communiqué said, the lyrics were much better as it were than the music. Arabs, it seems, have now understood the Somali game. America will be put in very hard place, as it does not want to anger its friends on an issue as insignificant to them as Somali matter definitely is. All eyes are on the postponed reconciliation conference. Who is going to attend it and under what protection, what issues are open for discussion and what’s off the table, and other hot items are being ironed out and are not going to be left for tfg to decide as the initial impressions gave. Even with that shoot of hope, it’s still very difficult to avoid war, as it requires wise leadership from both sides of the conflict, which it current lacks. Further more, those who are external to our conflict seem to have dominated us and want to decide our destiny. Ethiopia’s intervention into our internal affairs, and that of America as well, are solely from their own interest and not out of especial attachment to us. The enemies they want to fight are our kin, and they fight on their account, and not on ours. Those who ally themselves with them can’t stop them hence they participate in a fight, which they know will ultimately fail us all and destroy the nation they claim that they want to rebuild. So that reduces them to a mere tools utilized in achieving goals that would allegedly benefit other nation’s security and stability, not them or their country. They need to be confronted and stopped. For if they succeed with such a plan (the one they have articulated so far) it will make Somalia worse, and not better. Foreign armies who have their own agenda, an agenda that’s contrary to ours, are using them. The war would be a welcome change (relatively speaking, of course!) if it takes an ideological form, and not a tribal one. It would be most effective if it’s sponsored and financed by states, and not fought under the guidance of clan leaders and run by the mere finances of deep-pocketed individuals with narrow agendas. It would be of a greater worth if it aims, as an objective, to unite Somalis and rebel Ethiopia’s regional ambitions. It would be forever engraved in our history books if it succeeds to demolish our tribal boundaries, and, with it, destroys, or reforms, the political divide that’s breathed by useless entities that are supported by our regional foe for its own interests. ^^That's just a wish! Of course there's a more realistic wish, peace. Peace will always remain a cherished commodity for us, and it’s my deepest wish that Somalis will someday attain it with Allah’s help!

Daariq ibn Ziyad...the man who conquered Ard al Andolus.

Paragon, after icu’s defeat, I thought it was gonna take at least six months for them to initiate guerilla activities. Now I am hearing there’s a well-established network running from Gedo to Jubbooyinka. It was a public knowledge that a highly motivated shabaabs were stationed in Mogadishu. Though pronouncements from certain elders from Mogadishu could be a source of suspicion for some, it’s apparent that armed resistance is the only route as long Ethiopia, enticed by America’s diplomatic cover and logistical funding, has a presence on our soil. But again the tfg brigade will dismiss the whole thing as vapors of our active mind.

^^As expected, it seems that our crisis are deepening! What else would we expect when tfg leaders assert that there is no opposition to talk (extremists...etc), and that the framework of their entity is sealed, and cant be subjected to modification or changes. As for Ethiopia’s part, it’s a war of miscalculation.

Ethiopian official claims no knowledge of Toronto man allegedly in custody Canadian Press (CP) By Jim Bronskill Wednesday, April 04, 2007 OTTAWA (CP) - The Ethiopian government says it doesn't know whether a former Toronto man is being held in an Addis Ababa jail, despite reports he has been imprisoned for weeks. The Ethiopian Embassy said Wednesday that chaos in the East African country has prevented officials from determining the whereabouts of Bashir Makhtal. Once there is enough order to determine the facts, Ethiopia will provide "first-hand information to the Canadian government," said Abdurahim Ali, an embassy spokesman in Ottawa. Makhtal, a Canadian citizen born in Ethiopia, came to Canada as a refugee and lived there for 10 years before moving to Kenya, where he opened a used-clothing business. He was on business in Somalia during the recent invasion by Ethiopian troops. Makhtal fled back to Kenya, but was detained along with several others at the Kenya-Somalia border. A New York-based organization, Human Rights Watch, says Makhtal was among at least 34 people deported to Somalia from Kenya on Jan. 20 aboard an African Express Airways flight to Mogadishu. Makhtal was later shipped to Ethiopia, and Canadian officials have unsuccessfully attempted to see him. "We have made representations to the Ethiopian government, and we continue to do so, to get access to Mr. Makhtal," said Foreign Affairs spokesman Rejean Beaulieu. "And that's where we are at the moment." Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay recently tried to assure the House of Commons that Canada was doing its best to assist Makhtal. Human Rights Watch maintains that beginning in late December, Kenyan security forces arrested at least 150 people of some 18 different nationalities at border crossing points with Somalia. These individuals were then detained in and around Nairobi for periods that violated Kenyan law, the group says. While held in Nairobi, intelligence officials, including American authorities, interrogated several foreign nationals, Human Rights Watch says. Subsequent deportations on a series of special flights amounted to be a joint removal of individuals of "interest to the Somali, Ethiopian or U.S. governments." The group says it is "extremely concerned" that many of them face a serious risk of torture or other mistreatment. The Associated Press reported Tuesday that CIA and FBI officers hunting for al-Qaida militants have interrogated numerous detainees. An FBI spokesman has said U.S. personnel were allowed limited access by governments in the Horn of Africa to question prisoners as part of anti-terrorism efforts. In Ottawa, Ali denied detainees were being tortured in Ethiopia. "This government is a democratic government. We respect the international laws." Makhtal's lawyer, Lorne Waldman, fears his client is at risk of abuse. "This guy is in extreme danger as long as he's not recognized as a prisoner," Waldman said. "I firmly believe that if enough pressure is put on the Ethiopian government, he'll be acknowledged as a prisoner. But if we don't do anything, the risk to him is extremely high." Waldman noted Canada provides generous aid to Ethiopia, which should be used to ensure co-operation of the country's officials. "We have a lot of very strong levers that we can pull." Source: CP, April 04, 2007

^^I beleive these, (the deportees) and rounded up youths ,are two different incidents. I have no evidence yaa ThePoint-ka. But the fact these people were rounded up first, and then a large quantity of explosives were, allegedly, accidentally discovered must be a source of suspicion adeer. NN, what was the reason adeer?

LOL@Faarax! Somaliland, good call!

Jimce, I think you and Che are at risk of excommunication by the Puntland’s cyber Guulwade brigade ! When even deportees allegedly pose a clear threat to the state’s security, wallee wa loo yaaba meesha! Again I am going with what the Somali portal news reported about the diverted plane!

^^No! It’s not that respondents in this thread hate Puntland as you poorly implied yaa wiil_duco! Those who responded including me merely pointed out the political prostitution of Puntland’s elites in their effort of rounding up oppressed Oromos and fellow Somalis who probably fled from Mogadishu war and handing them to Ethiopian soldiers stationed in Gaalkacyo (another sign of prostitution) or jailing them in state’s prisoners. What gives? You and Violet resorted to a weak argument and explained it as a security measure. But since when fleeing refugees become a security threat to Puntland’s security? You might not know the answer yet you seem to be content with the official line. The display of the captured explosives does not seem convincing, and has probably bees staged. You however bought it. Certainly Che is not, and, as a Puntlander, he has every right to criticize what he sees a disgrace and misuse of his name by the current authorities. I don’t have the full story, and what’s reported may not depict the whole picture of this incident. But we can only comment what’s reported in these news portals. Based on that, this smells as a clannish operation intended to aid government’s mission in the capital. And if Puntland starts to hunt oppressed Oromos who often seek refugee in Somali territory, I think it’s another worrisome development that needs be condemned.

It's shame indeed!