^^They should've spoken against mutilation part, i agree. In fact they should do that now. It never too late.

Could this be true???? TAFAASIIL KU SAABSAN KHASAARAHA QARIXII LALA HELAY ETHIOPIAN-KA. Posted to the Web Mar 27, 16:41 MOGADISHU - Ugu yaraan Sodomeeyo Askari oo ka tirsan Ciidamada Ethiopian-ka ee ku sugan deegaanka Ceelcarfiid ee Muqdisho ayaa la xaqiijinayaa in lagu dilay Kontomeeyo kalana lagu dhaawacay ka dib Qarax xoog leh oo shalay lalahelay.. Weerar loo adeegsaday gaari walxaha qarxa lagusoo qariyey ayaa shalay mar qura lagu gilgilay xerada Ciidamada Ethiopian-ku ay ku leeyihiin Ceelcarfiid, iyadoona qaraxaasi uu fuliyey qof naftii hure ah sida la sheegay. Dadka deegaanka ayaa sheegaya in ay arkayeen Sodomeeyo Askari oo maydadkooda laga gurayo goobta qaraxa uu ku asiibay,iyadoona dhaawacyo aad u fara badan oo konton in ka badan lagu qiyaasay sidoo kale goobta laga qaaday. Ethiopian-ka ayaa si daran u adkeeyey amaanka wadada dheer ee isku xirta Muqdisho iyo Degmada Balcad, gaar ahaan xerada uu Qaraxu ka dhgacay ee Ceelcarfiid, waxaana ay gabi ahaanba maalintii labaad xanibeen dhaqdhaqaaqa dadka iyo gaadiidka ee wadadaasi isticmaali jiray. Xafiiska Wararka Soomaalinews

Kuwa kasoo horjeeda looma ogola inuu la kulmo, hence his doom.

^^You are down to discussing the means now, eh. I thought your position was the tfg is so powerful that it will win this war hands down.

^^War bal shab-shablana igu dayya weeyye xaalku.

Originally posted by Captain Xalane: No my drill is on and in fact,Its official! ^^ What a hard-headed Captain you are. The facts are staring at you in the face. Address them adeer, and aayar with the swagger!

^^It benefits the Maxkamadaha adeer. They need to concentrate fighting Ethiopians and refrain from coaching tribal elders what to say and what not to say. Tribal elders are what they are, just tribal elders with no sound political agenda. They just caught in a middle of a bigger game than they can participate. Their bluff does not astonish anyone, and tfg knows who the real fighters are. The ultimate exit strategy is to let Ethiopia go.

Al- shabaabs war drill is on. It seems. At least two dead after Mogadishu suicide attack Tuesday, March 27, 2007 MOGADISHU (AFP) - Two cars exploded in overnight attacks on an Ethiopian military compound in Mogadishu, killing an apparent suicide attacker and a taxi driver who was shot when Ethiopian troops retaliated, officials said Tuesday. "A suicide car targeted an Ethiopian military compound, crossed the checkpoint and hit a wall at the main gate. The car exploded, the driver was killed but we don't know if there was fatality on the Ethiopian side," said a senior Somali military officer, who requested anonymity. "Another car in the same area which was abandoned exploded at night without damaging anybody." An Ethiopian officer confirmed the attacks had taken place at an Ethiopian base in Darmole, in the northern outskirts of Mogadishu, and said troops had fired back to defend themselves, killing a taxi driver. Residents said the taxi driver had not been involved in the attack but had been near the second car that exploded. "It was very difficult for everybody to tell whether he was an attacker or not," said resident Ahmed Gutale. "These kind of attacks will further complicate the situation in Mogadishu," said another resident, Abdullahe Mumil. Somali soldiers closed part of the road, a major highway leading from Mogadishu to the northern Puntland region, to carry out further checks after the attacks. A shaky ceasefire has been in place in Mogadishu since Friday after a week of some of the deadliest insurgent attacks since Ethiopian-Somali troops drove out an Islamist movement from south and central Somalia over the New Year. Somalia's powerful ****** clan on Tuesday asked the government to release an unknown number of its fighters a day after releasing 18 government forces captured during bloody clashes last week. The ****** on Friday made a ceasefire deal with Ethiopian troops backing the Somali government. A bloody power struggle that followed the 1991 ouster of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre exploded into a full-scale civil war that has defied more than 14 attempts to restore a functional government in Somalia. Source: AFP, Mar 27, 2007

Captain Xalane, your drill is off . Not on. Madaxweyne C/llaahi Yuusuf iyo Hoggaamiye Kooxeedyadii Muqdisho oo kulan ku yeeshay Villa Somalia Talaado, March 27, 2007(HOL): Shir ay albaabada u xiran yihiin ayaa maanta waxaa uu ku dhexmaray xarunta Villa Somalia Madaxweyne C/llaahi Yuusuf Axmed iyo Hoggamiye Kooxeedyadii Muqdisho. Shirkan oo ay saxaafadda banaanka ka joogtay ayaa waxaa la sheegay in ay labada dhinac uga wada hadlayeen Xaaladda Magaalada Muqdisho iyo sidii ay hoggaamiyayaashan uga qeybgeli lahaayeen shirka dib u heshiisiinta ah ee ay Dowladda Federaalka ku baaqday. Hoggaamiye Kooxeedyadan oo ah kuwii ay Maxkamadihii Islaamka ka ceyrsadeen fariisimadoodii Magaalada Muqdisho ayaa xarumahoodii dib ugu soo laabtay markii ay Dowladda Federaalka Muqdisho ku tagtay Taangiyada Itoobiyaanka, waxayna hubkoodii ku wareejiyeen Dowladda Federaalka. Hoggaamiye kooxeedyadan oo qaarkood ay Dowladda Federaalka ka mid yihiin ayaa waxay taageersan yihiin joogitaanka Ciidamada Itoobiyaanka ah ee Dalka Soomaaliya, inkastoo ay qaar ka mid ah Hoggaamiyayaashaas ay horay u cambaareyn jireen faragelinta ay Dowladda Itoobiya ku heyso Dalka Soomaaliya. Dhanka kalena, Magaalada Muqdisho ayaa waxay u muuqataa mid deganaanteedii ku soo laabaneysa kagadaal dagaallo khasaare ba’an geystay oo muddo seddex maalmood ah ka socday, inkastoo aysan weli soo laaban dad badan oo dagaalladaas ka qaxay. Salaad Iidow Xasan (Xiis), Hiiraan Online sxiis@hiiraan.com Mogadishu, Somalia

Originally posted by Jaylaani: quote:Originally posted by xiinfaniin: ^^If it's only Garoowe that's preventing you from joining your brethren in Xamar, i think arrengements could be made... By who? ^^By Puntlanders themselves to allow the country to stay together!

^^If it's only Garoowe that's preventing you from joining your brethren in Xamar, i think arrengements could be made...

Horn is struggling to find his center, eh! Kashafa, you’ve given too many cues about your subclan. You should’ve made it a bit more difficult for Pi .

^^Fair enough adeer. Lets wait good Baashi’s take on this.

^^ . wait till Duke comes back and throws in his indhacade-this-Aweys-that defensive line of argument.

^^Praying is simply an act of worship from an Islamic perspective. When it comes to Allah and His powers, nothing is off the table adeer. That does not mean however answered prayers have no assignable means/causes. But what I found interesting is your assertion that one’s prayer for blessing could be another man’s ruin. Where did you get that yaa JB? I pray for Jannah, forgiveness, risq waasic ah, guidance, awlaad saalax ah, gabar raaliya ah, and alike. Now educate me how these prayers could disappoint others adeer?

Bilaal: I beg to disagree saaxiib. The notion of crossing the border and going to Ethiopia to satisfy one’s own political ambitions, so conveniently, regardless of sovereignty and national considerations is the most negative, and prevailing one, of our political ills. I hold it’s this type of political attitude of ours that’s the most paramount. It feeds and exacerbates our other political ailments. As Somalis, we were clans---and still are. At times we were warring clans. Today’s clannish hatred though is a function of the said political attitude. Ethiopia fuels the fire, but does not create the conditions. The political attitude does. Do you see my point adeer? Baashi, I know you are busy adeer. But I still don’t quite get how a conference held under the shades of Ethiopian tanks could produce any results. Meaningful results that is! Xoogga & Alle ubaahane: I agree that Islam is the final solution to our problems. From theological standpoint, it’s simple to say that, and agree with it. Given the historical fact that even our salaf failed politically, to certain degree, how could we translate such a grand concept to a practical solution that solves out political problems is the question? Khalaf, you seem to be fixated on this tfg, and rightly so. View it as the most negative aspect of Somali politics. It’s a living scandal adeer. Tribally inspired and greed driven men are in its driving seat. Its tunnel-vision-like approach will hasten its demise. The losers are Somali people. The victors are our enemies. What else might you suggest other than tolerating this disgrace yaa Khalaf?

^^Had it landed on the qasru- al-ri'aasah, where the old man resides, i would've agreed with you. edit: i suspect China for i heard it shot down one of its toys few weeks back!

^^Subtext messages need not define your core understanding of these terms yaa Kashafa. If Quran is where you get your religious instructions, you should adhere to its teachings and resist to compromise your true understanding of these terms just to combat negative connotations that certain media outlets tend to propagate adeer. Islamists is good term, regardless of what those who coined it intended it to mean. Jihadist is another term I like and take a special pride in subscribing to it. But to embrace ‘extremism’ and throw ‘moderateness’ out in the fear of being what those who use it imply is simply wrong. We are moderate, in the middle road, and just society. That’s what we ought to strive to be anyways.

Somalia has become the camping-ground for every devil, and alien objects are attracted to it. Yaa Allah. I heard this thing is making loud noises and is causing quite a panic in that area. Allow sahal.

^^Why let 'gaalo' define what moderates mean? It defeats the purpose, does it not?

CG, There are weak Muslims. There are ghulats (extremists). But there are also moderates. A wine-drinking Muslim is a weak Muslim, and not a moderate. Ideally, we should all strive to be in moderate category. Taliban, seems to think weak Muslims are moderates.

^But must it not entail something yaa Talibka?

^^That was not helpful at all. come again yaa Magoosha...

^^What constitutes a Muslim moderate yaa Taliban? Khat chewing tobacco smoking wine drinking sbaaro-profeteering war-lord supporting hijab bashing ...

Nuruddin Farah, Never Writing Far From Home By Neely Tucker Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, March 25, 2007 African novelists can become international celebrities, but it's often as much about the politics as the writing. Nigeria's Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, might be best known for his fiery denunciations of his home country, which executed Ken Saro-Wiwa, the famed playwright. Egypt's Naguib Mahfouz, another Nobel laureate, stayed at home in Cairo -- and was stabbed by Islamic militants for his political liberalism. Kenya's Ngugi wa Thiong'o fled for 22 years; when he and his wife returned for a brief visit, they were given a hero's welcome -- then brutally beaten in a home invasion. Nuruddin (NEW-ru-deen) Farah, the acclaimed Somali novelist, whose latest book, "Knots," is now in bookstores, is trying to find a middle ground. He lives thousands of miles from Mogadishu, in Cape Town, South Africa, but remains on the mother continent, writing story after story about Somali women trying to make their own way in a country gone to hell. He's 62 years old and has been doing this since the 1970s. After a flurry of awards, he's considered by some to be the best African candidate to win the Nobel for literature. He was banned from his home country for more than 20 years for his criticisms of the regime but made a quiet trip back home last fall to try to mediate peace talks between the "Islamists" and federal forces. Wow. Major breakthrough? "Actually, they paid me no mind at all," he says, laughing, in Bangkok Joe's Restaurant in Georgetown, while on a recent stop on his North American book tour. "Absolutely none. It just didn't matter." He's of medium height and build, soft-spoken. He's wearing a plaid Burberry scarf. His salt-and-pepper hair is cropped close. His manners are impeccable. No wonder the men with the guns paid him no mind! He's clearly more at ease with stories and characters than firearms and political brimstone. You try to picture him pounding the lectern like Soyinka discoursing on Nigeria, calling his home country "the open sore of a continent," and you get no image. He's lived in Europe and America, always in pursuit of the meaning in fiction, and always just below the radar line of international fame. He speaks English, Italian, Amharic, Arabic and Somali. He tried a stint as a Hollywood screenwriter 30 years ago, an adventure that left him a collapsed film project and not enough money for a plane ticket back to Africa. "I haven't been back to L.A. since." But mainly, he sits alone in a rented apartment he uses for a writing studio in Cape Town and maps out novels. He works from 8:30 a.m. till 4 p.m., on the theory that it's the hours and discipline that matter. Going for a word count encourages hasty work to fill a quota, he figures. He writes about women. There was Ebla, fleeing an arranged marriage in his first novel, "From a Crooked Rib." It's still in print after 37 years. Most recently, there is Cambara, a Somali living in Canada who returns to Mogadishu, in "Knots." (Publishers Weekly, in giving it a starred review, dubbed it "mesmerizing.") In between was "Maps," named one of the best 100 African books of the 20th century (a category encompassing fiction, nonfiction, plays, poems, children's books, the works), winning the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1998 (and a $50,000 award, one of the richest in world lit) and becoming that rarest of things, a full-time creative writer. "There may be four or five African novelists who survive just by their writing, and he's probably the only one who doesn't do academic stints," says Charles Larson, the American University professor who has chronicled the rise of African literature for 40 years. "I saw him in India last year at a conference, at this exotic, five-star, 14th-century palace, and at the end of every day, he went back to his room and wrote. He works at it every single day, no matter where he is." He once said that he was "trying to keep my country alive by writing about it." Now he says that sounds like "something that I said when I was very young." He has a 13-year-old daughter, Abyan, who has already won a national literary prize in South Africa. His 11-year-old son Kaahiye wants to be a soccer star. Would he consider moving his family to Somalia, to live amid the gunfire and devastation? No, no, he says, wrapping his scarf back around his neck and trekking back uphill to his hotel, the posh Latham. He loves Somalia, but his children know it only as a place their dad goes on about. And yet, he misses the political give-and-take, the heyday when African writers were key players in the continent's post-colonial drama. "When Soyinka, Ngugi, Achebe, were on the continent, there was lots of change and possibility, and they produced very intense, lively works. I feel a bit like the Lone Ranger, riding around on a depleted landscape. Cacti and not much else." He stops into the three-story Barnes and Noble in Georgetown, where he walks about until he finds his books. There are four or five of his titles. No one recognizes him, so he is free to wander, alone, next door for tea and a glass of wine, the night unwinding, his children awaiting his return, and Somalia in the back of his mind: indifferent, nurturing, hostile, endearing, a million miles away, home. Source: Washington Post, Mar 25, 2007