France chocked again. The Koreans who are known to deliver late in the game have done it again. This was probably the great Zidane's last game. Sad indeed.

TV commentator: "This [Ghana game] is the most breathtaking piece of football I have ever seen". Amazing team. They just dominated Nedved and his team. They just play well, and I am still wondering how Italy won against them. This group is wide open now. Let us see if the Ghana win inspires the Americans to beat Italy. I just have a feeling they will fall apart again. You know how African teams are.

I love this forum. Sensational news every minute. Maxaa la yiri? Wadaadadii Baydhabo ayay us socdaan.

Very worried for the French. Ribery seems to be brisk but the rest of the guys lack vigor. They don't seem to have the oomph. Big names, big money ... no urgency. My team needs to do better or else they will stay goalless for another 4 years. Zidane is still a juggler.

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http://www.guygoma.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Goma The African "taxi driver" the BBC interviewed thinking he was some other dude. Identity mix-up. CNN has a funny report on it. Go to CNN's "WATCH FREE VIDEOS" section and check the "most popular" tab. The title of the story is "WRONG GUY REDUX". His fans on the internet are growing by the minute.

After escaping war in Somalia, terror suspects grew up in Toronto. Stewart Bell and Adrian Humphreys, CanWest News Service; National Post Published: Monday, June 05, 2006 TORONTO -- They came to Canada as children when their homeland Somalia fell into war and chaos. They now stand accused of taking part in a terrorist plot against the country that gave them refuge. Two of the 17 Toronto men charged with terrorism-related offences over the weekend, Yasin Abdi Mohamed, 24, and Ali Mohamed Dirie, 22, are Somali refugees who came to Canada with their families in the early 1990s. Both men are scheduled to appear in court north of Toronto on Wednesday to face charges related to an RCMP investigation into a terrorist bombing plot in southern Ontario. The two friends, college students who made money selling jeans to friends, have led remarkably similar lives marked by war, migration and now alleged involvement in terrorism. Mohammed was five when his family arrived from the Somali capital Mogadishu via Italy. "We were pretty much raised here," said Mohamed's brother Abdul, standing in the doorway of the small apartment they shared in Toronto. "Yasin (is) very religious. Every day he prays," his mother, Asha Muhayadin, said, pointing to the holy book she said her son read every morning. Mohamed would admonish his siblings for not praying more often, she recalled. "He told his brothers, `You wake up, you never say thanks to God. Are you animals?"' "My brother's a broad-minded guy that had goals for his future," Abdul said. He was never violent, he added. "He's never stabbed, shot anybody. From that to plotting on killing people, that's insane. It must be because of his last name." The Dirie family fled Somalia in the late 1980s after their city was levelled in an aerial bombardment. Dirie was eight years old when he arrived in Toronto as a refugee. His father had been dragged out of the family home during the Somali civil war and killed. In his own words, Dirie had a "bad temper" when he was young, and was often angry. He was in and out of various schools. "When he was young, he was trouble," said his younger brother Jafar, 18. But Ali was changing, he said. "He was trying to become a better person spiritually," Jafar said. "He was learning about the religion." He began devoting more time to studying Islam and donned a white kameez and cap. But Ali was not an extremist, his brother said. "No, he wasn't that type." Mohamed's mother, who knows Dirie, agreed, saying, "Ali, he didn't believe like that." In 2003, Dirie returned to the city he had fled as a child. During the visit, an older brother who still lived in Somalia introduced him to a local woman and they were married. "He really matured," Jafar said. Dirie returned to Toronto in January 2005. He took computer courses and started his own clothing-import business. He was trying to save money for college, Jafar said. Mohamed, who was studying at Humber College in Toronto, soon began to work with him. The two friends made repeated trips to the U.S. They would drive to New York state, and Dirie would buy jeans and bring them back to sell to friends and acquaintances. Their last trip was in August. They drove to Columbus, Ohio, but this time they did not buy clothes; they bought three handguns and ammunition. They taped the guns to their legs and stashed the bullets in their socks. http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=2e8f5170-6f5d-451a-857f-938d3b93d532

http://www.somaliaonline.com To supplement the raw "Af-Soomaali" news posted on the forum, SOL front page now features up-to-the-minute news and analysis from newspapers around the world. This, we hope, will afford you the opportunity to read impartial news and analysis. Read what the world is thinking. A new article is posted every couple of minutes.

I am impressed by Sudan's almogran plan. http://www.alsunut.com/ASX/256K_streame.asx

Anigu waxaan odhan lahaa qolo walba tuuladeeda ha ka baarto shidaal, si markaa dhibaatooyinkan soo daba jiitamayey qarniyada ay u yaraadaan, loona loo helo horumar la taaban karo oo jaahilnimada iyo gaajada ummaddan tabaaleysay bedela.

^^ Amelia, congrats inadeer. Waa ku kaa dee waadigaa intaad weynaatey durba qalin jebiyey right in front of our old eyes. Welcome to the real world.

It was Maryan Mursal’s poetry that was mesmerizing crowds couple of years ago, and every white person was talking about her concerts. 2006 belongs to my good friend K’naan. He is a good brother.

This is a toy for marketers and advertisers. Atleast that was the intention.

QacQaac, owguuryo hee saxib. Waan ogaa in guurkaagu aanu kii Tuujiye wax badan ka dambeeyn doonin. Wiil iyo Caano inadeer. Ilaahey kheyr ha idiinka dhigo.

^^ Simple Nomad, you have the contact you need. What do I mean? Well, when Ayan googles herself, guess what comes up on the top ten?! The great SOL. Now don't tell me she has never heard of google, or has never googled herself. Voice your opinion. Say it loud. Keep it civil! Ayan is reading.

If she did in fact take her own life, this would be the second Somali girl in the news for committing suicide over school issues. Harvard Student Maryan committed suicide in 2002 because of difficulties she was having at school. I hope they find her well and alive.

Originally posted by Castro: Now someone remind me again what "union" is the author referring to when Russia is concerned? I thought the Soviet Union disintegrated into many fiefdoms one of which is Russia. I'm confused. Castro Russia's official Name is --- Russian Federation. The Russian Federation is made up of Russia and mini-republics(autonomous). 1. Adygea 2. Altai 3. Bashkortostan 4. Buryatia 5. Dagestan 6. Ingushetia 7. Kabardino-Balkaria 8. Kalmykia 9. Karachay-Cherkessia 10. Karelia 11. Komi 12. Mari El 13. Mordovia 14. Sakha (Yakutia) 15. North Ossetia-Alania 16. Tatarstan 17. Tuva 18. Udmurtia 19. Khakassia 20. Chechnya 21. Chuvashia

Putin Chastises U.S. on Democratic Ideals Wednesday May 10, 2006 8:01 PM AP Photo MOSB114 By JUDITH INGRAM Associated Press Writer MOSCOW (AP) - President Vladimir Putin took a swipe at the United States in his state of the nation address Wednesday, bristling at being lectured by Vice President Dick Cheney and comparing Washington to a wolf who ``eats without listening.'' During an emotional moment in the nationally televised speech, Putin used the fairy-tale motif on the need to build a fortress-like house and to illustrate Russia's need to bolster its defenses. He also suggested that Washington puts its political interests above the democratic ideals it claims to cherish. ``Where is all this pathos about protecting human rights and democracy when it comes to the need to pursue their own interests? Here, it seems, everything is allowed, there are no restrictions whatsoever,'' Putin said, smiling sarcastically in the address to both houses of parliament. ``We are aware what is going on in the world,'' he said. ``Comrade wolf knows whom to eat, he eats without listening, and he's clearly not going to listen to anyone.'' Political analyst Alexei Makarkin told Ekho Moskvy radio the ``wolf'' reference was a response to the ``United States, its actions in Iraq and plans toward Iran, its games on the territory of the CIS (former Soviet territory) and its criticism of Russia.'' Putin's speech came nearly a week after Cheney on May 4 took a verbal slap at the Russian leader, saying the government sought ``to reverse the gains of the last decade.'' In another apparent barb aimed at the United States, Putin said countries should not use Russia's World Trade Organization membership negotiations to make unrelated demands. ``The negotiations for letting Russia into the WTO should not become a bargaining chip for questions that have nothing in common with the activities of this organization,'' Putin said. In April, U.S. senators visiting Moscow said Russia's democracy record and its stance in the Iranian nuclear crisis would influence Congress as it considers Moscow's bid to join the global trade body. Nationalist legislator Alexei Mitrofanov told reporters in the Kremlin that Putin's Russia was in no way looking for a confrontation with the West, ``but we want to be a politically and economically independent state.'' Putin pointed out that Russia's military budget is 25 times lower than that of the United States. Like the U.S., he said, ``we also must make our house strong and reliable.'' ``We must always be ready to counter any attempts to pressure Russia in order to strengthen positions at our expense,'' he said. ``The stronger our military is, the less temptation there will be to exert such pressure on us.'' Putin said the government would work to strengthen the nation's nuclear deterrent as well as conventional military forces without repeating the mistakes of the Cold War era, when a costly arms race with Washington drained Soviet resources. He said Russia would soon commission two nuclear submarines equipped with the new Bulava intercontinental ballistic missiles - the nation's first since Soviet times - while the land-based strategic missile forces would get their first unit of mobile Topol-M missiles. The new missiles and warheads, which can foil defenses by changing direction in flight, would allow Russia to preserve a strategic balance without denting the nation's economic development goals, he said, adding that Russia needs a military that is capable of answering all modern challenges. Two-thirds of the army will be professionals instead of conscripts by 2008, he said, allowing the state to reduce the length of obligatory service from two years to one, and nearly 600 rapid-response units will be formed by 2011. ``We need a military that is able simultaneously to carry on battle in global, regional and, if need be, several local conflicts,'' he said. The military should be able to guarantee Russia's territorial integrity, he said - a reference to the threat of Islamic extremists in southern regions surrounding Chechnya. He said the threat of terrorism remained significant, and that ``extremists of all stripes'' feed off of local and religious conflicts. ``I know that someone very much wants Russia to get bogged down in these problems and, as a result, to be unable to solve a single one of its problems of full-scale development,'' he said darkly without identifying the foe. Turning to health care issues, Putin called the demographic slide that has shrunk Russia's population by millions since the 1991 Soviet collapse ``the most acute problem of contemporary Russia,'' and he encouraged legislators to budget for more generous birth bonuses, childcare support subsidies and educational benefits for mothers to encourage women to have children. ``I am convinced that with such an approach, you will earn words of gratitude from millions of mothers, young families, all the citizens of our country,'' Putin said. He also called on more Russians to take in foster children from institutions where about 200,000 orphans and abandoned children are interned. Most Russian families are small, with couples usually having only one or two children. Putin and his wife have two daughters. Russia's population dropped by about 4 percent to 142.7 million between 1993 and 2006, according to the Health Ministry. Experts attribute the plunge to post-Soviet economic turmoil that has badly hurt the state health care system, leading to a drop in birth rates and life expectancy. Increased poverty, alcoholism, soaring crime and emigration have also taken their toll, leading to an average life expectancy of just 66 years - 16 years lower than Japan and 14 years lower than the European Union average. The ITAR-Tass news agency reported that the comments on reversing the population decline prompted 27 bursts of applause and that listeners in all applauded 47 times - more than in any of Putin's other state of the nation addresses.

8. The replays of the goals are very important. I don't care if I have seen them or I haven't seen them, I want to see them again. Many times. You heard it babe. You heard!

The owner told her and her family they are no longer welcome there. The lady refused to show her face on camera because she is afraid other Chinese buffets will follow suit and ban her.

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War ciyaalkan Boosaaso maxay cuneen? Abaar ayaa wadankii laga soo sheegayee.

Edware Road is good. I actually rented a room at the Hilton Metropole twice just to get the chance of walking back and forth on Edware road. My wife and friends took me there on different occasions and I liked Edgeware road every time. Good food. There are amazing places in London. If you have a veteran being your guide, London is a world class city.

Originally posted by Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar: Intee kusoo koreen? See waalidkooda ula sheekeysan jireen. lol@MMA. That is a very interesting question. What about those parents who defend this act with comments like ... "cunugaygu soomaali kuma hadlo" or "ha igala hadlin Af-soomaali ciyaalka way ku wareerayaane".

Good read. Thanks STOIC.