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^^ damn. It seems the cruise passengers had plenty of digital cameras for sightseeing. Watch the Video Here

MMA in la rifo waaye. Quraarad madaxa ha looga xiiro.

Where is my inadeer Barwaaqo? I hope you are bussy getting ready for the interview. But then it all depends on "salary".

Mobb is trying protect his little pictures so much he had to put them into a flash demo. Mean **** .

Thanks Femme. Great article.

Waa Wiilal yar yar oo kibray.

Welcome to SOL. Nice avatar. Looks like an old nomad.

These are few pics from Mobb_Deep's trip to the motherland. Source: nomad Sky Nugaal Valley Pictures

The boys who put this together haven't done their research very well.

The week Paris burned Sunday November 6, 2005 The Observer The riots that have convulsed France over the past week have raised huge questions over the country's ability to integrate its Muslim population - concerns which have implications for the rest of Europe, writes Alex Duval Smith in Aulnay-sous-Bois No one knows if the two boys saw the skull and crossbones as they frantically clambered up the two-metre yellow wall. Even if they did, the warnings did not deter Bouna Traore, 15, and Ziad Benna, 17, from going into the electricity substation in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois. According to a friend, the boys had panicked when they saw other black youths running from police and, worrying they could be mistaken for those being pursued, looked for somewhere to hide. Bouna and Ziad died when 20,000 volts of electricity found them instead. Two families were left devastated and France exploded into urban rioting such as it has not seen for a decade. By last night, the ninth of unrest and protest, there had been 258 arrests, a dozen men and women had been injured and more than 2,100 vehicles burnt. The suburbs of Paris are ablaze and the fever has spread uncontrollably to Lyon, Strasbourg and Rouen - political mismanagement fuelling the rage of the most impoverished of France's citizens and belying its claim to be a modern, racially integrated society. More broadly, from Britain to Italy, the riots have raised urgent questions about multiculturalism and why successive models of integration over 30 years have gone wrong. The continent has woken up to its inability - frightening in the age of radical Islam - to embrace the destinies of thousands of youngsters estranged from the societies their parents entered into. The past week has also shown that many of the 14- to 25-year-olds now rioting, as distinct from those who took to the streets a decade ago, are not crying out for jobs, training or integration. Amid unemployment rates of 20-30 per cent on the housing estates and racism outside, they have given up. Crime, especially drug dealing and petty theft, has become a means of survival. Whether Bouna and Ziad were simply playing or being pursued by the police will be decided in court. But it will be too late for the rumour-mill of the Parisian ghettos, where word spreads faster than the wind that whips between the tower blocks. Two Thursdays ago, within two hours of Clichy-sous-Bois plunging into a power blackout as a result of the boys' electrocution, 100 young men had begun throwing stones at police and fire officers. Cars were torched and buildings smashed. Riot police moved in, firing rubber bullets and tear gas. Fighting escalated. The rioters grew in number to 400. Last Sunday word spread that a tear-gas canister of the kind used by the police had been thrown on to the doorstep of the Bilal mosque. When calm returned on Monday, after 63 cars had been burnt and 53 people arrested, the police could not claim credit. Spirits had been calmed thanks to the intervention of a handful of young men from the mosque, known as les grands-frères, who stood between the rioters and the police, shouting 'Allahu akbar!' - 'God is great'. Khalid El-Quandili, a former world kick-boxing champion, who in the past few days has been acting as a mediator in Clichy-sous-Bois, says that few have any authority over the young men, who are mainly of North African origin and 'more or less practising Muslims'. 'The fathers have the least authority of all,' he adds. 'They sometimes have no work and live on benefits, or have a very traditional outlook so are out of phase with France. The mothers can be a powerful influence, but they are hamstrung by the very macho culture that prevails on the estates. 'Schoolteachers in these zones are very often young and inexperienced. The grands-frères play a role, but they are self-appointed peacekeepers, which is dangerous.' Many - but far from all - of the rioters have been children of North African immigrants. France is home to Europe's largest Muslim population and a third of its estimated six million people of Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian origin live in the ghettos. But also among those arrested last week were children of French parents and grandparents and the offspring of sub-Saharan immigrants. What they all have in common is their alienation from mainstream society and, often, an Islamic upbringing. For years, French integration policies have been based around the republican tenet of secularism. On the basis that France should be indivisible and able to assimilate all its components by officially erasing their particularities, the government does not allow official statistics to be broken down by ethnicity and religion. But because of the nature of its post-colonial immigration, France finds itself with more Muslims than it had reckoned with. In the age of Islamic militancy, that is a worrying trend - especially since so many of the Muslims are stuck in the ghettos. Christophe Bertossian, an immigration specialist at the French Institute for International Relations, believes it is time for a rethink: 'Part of the problem is the French approach to integration, based on the concept that everyone is equal. The idea that we are equal is fiction. Ethnic minorities keep being told they do not exist.' El-Quandili argues that integration policies have been undermined by the very people who created them: 'Twenty years ago we had a wave of policies aimed at supporting neighbourhood associations. But these groups were, in time, co-opted by politicians and lost their credibility. Other associations had their funding cut.' The Muslim upper hand is clear at Aulnay-sous-Bois, which has a population of about 90,000 and was the scene of some of the worst rioting in the past week. Here, 41 per cent of the population is under 25. Amid the four- and five-storey buildings that have in recent years replaced the tower blocks of the 1970s, dozens of cars and lorries were burnt or damaged, as was a police station, a fire station, a school, an old people's home and a car salesroom. On the Rue du 8 Mai, leading into the Mille-Mille estate, hairdresser Agnès Fréchon, 36, waits anxiously for electricity to be restored to her salon. The Crédit Lyonnais branch next door was rammed with a car in the night, then burnt, along with a kebab shop in the parade. 'If you look at the shops that have been burnt down, you can tell that the Muslim grands-fréres have had their say,' she adds. 'The halal butcher has not been touched, neither has the pizzeria, owned by a Moroccan. I try to stay neutral - after all, I cut everyone's hair - and I get the impression that, if my shop has been damaged, it is by accident because it's next door to the bank.' Her customers, a steady stream of whom turn up during the afternoon to re-book their appointments, agree that the rioters probably wanted their mothers to be able to continue to go to the hairdresser. Sonia Mabrouk, a 45-year-old secretary with two children, says she regularly confronts young troublemakers on the estate when they have set fire to dustbins or cut off the electricity in her building. 'For them, vandalism is something to do in the evenings. The vandalism has simply taken a new turn in the last few days because they feel provoked by [interior Minister] Nicolas Sarkozy's comments about "louts". They are blaming everything on Sarkozy, but the problem is much bigger.' Mrs Mabrouk, who is of Algerian descent, has lived on the estate for 34 years. 'There has been a malaise on this estate for the past 15 years,' she says. 'I do not think the trouble will stop until Sarkozy resigns. But even if he goes, the underlying problems will remain.' Yesterday the right-wing mayor of Aulnay-sous-Bois, Gérard Gaudron, led a silent march of 600 residents between the destroyed fire station and the burnt-out pensioners' day centre in Mille-Mille. 'This march is neither a provocation nor a demonstration of force, but a republican response to acts of delinquency,' he said. Gaudron, who proudly boasts of Aulnay's capacity to attract business - a Citroën plant, l'Oréal and a range of hypermarkets of warehouse stores along the motorway leading to Charles de Gaulle airport - is perceived by many as a Sarkozyist. The Interior Minister's rivalry with Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has probably worsened the spate of riots. Not only do suburban youths loathe Sarkozy's rhetoric about them, but in the past week they have seen evidence that the Interior and Prime Ministers are obsessed only with their own ambitions to be become the next President. It became so intense during the past week that both politicians cancelled foreign trips to position themselves at the centre of the riots issue. On several occasions, Sarkozy made comments about the Clichy-sous-Bois deaths that were, at worst, ill-informed and at best sought to blindly defend the police. Yet in a country where 28,000 cars have been burnt on housing estates this year alone, Sarkozy's gamble for the intolerant right-wing vote could still pay off. In today's Le Monde, the Interior Minister is unrepentant in a personal opinion piece titled 'Our strategy is the right one'. Last week, on the day Bouna and Ziad were killed, Jean-Claude Irvoas, 51, got out of his car in Epinay-sur-Seine to take a photograph. As his wife and daughter sat in the car, Irvoas was attacked by three men, said to be Arabs from a nearby housing estate, and savagely beaten. He died in hospital later that evening. While speaking of the perpetrators, Sarkozy speaks to France's 'victims' - and they don't live in Clichy-sous-Bois or Aulnay-sous-Bois. If in the past the 'louts' were forgotten, it looks like they could now be used as pawns by France's politicians.

Will the disadvantaged muslim/Black youth in countries like the UK and USA do the same thing? I am very sure everyone is watching. The French revolution taught these kids something. George Bush would have deployed the "national guard" just like his father did in LA, along with the infamous "Shoot to kill" policy. I am glad the French goverment is not using excessive force to commit mass murder. French urban unrest hits new high Sun Nov 6, 2005 2:18 PM GMT PARIS (Reuters) - Urban violence scaled new heights in France as gangs of youths torched cars, shops and firms in the 10th straight night of violence in poor suburbs of Paris and provincial towns, despite heavy police reinforcements. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was to meet police on Sunday afternoon and teachers from tough neighbourhoods to discuss how to respond to youths who have defied all appeals for calm from top officials and exasperated residents. Rioting started 10 days ago with the deaths of two youths apparently fleeing police. The deaths ignited pent up frustration among ethnic minorities over racism, unemployment, police treatment and their marginal place in French society. The Socialist opposition chided the ruling conservatives over their law and order record and demanded President Jacques Chirac, who won re-election in 2002 on security issues but who has kept a low profile, speak out. Residents in affected zones wept and vented their dismay. "This is too much, stop! Stop, do something else, but not this, not violence," sobbed a woman in Evreux, a normally quiet Normandy town where a shopping mall, 50 vehicles, a post office and two schools were destroyed. "My wife's out of a job now," fumed another resident. "I've two kids, a house to pay for and a car loan. What do I do now?" Evreux mayor Jean-Louis Debre, a Chirac confidant who is speaker of the lower house of parliament, told reporters at the scene: "A hundred people have smashed everything and strewn desolation. Well, they don't form part of our universe." GOVERNMENT RESPONSE Authorities say the rolling nightly riots are being organised via the Internet and mobile phones, and have pointed the finger at drug traffickers and Islamist militants. Across France, 1,300 vehicles went up in flames, with 32 cars destroyed in the city of Paris for the first time. "Why would people do such a thing? You should go and ask them. Of course it's not normal -- it's pure vandalism," said one pensioner in the 17th district of Paris where the wrecks of six burnt-out cars sat surrounded by shards of glass. Previously quiet towns like Dreux, to the west, and the western city of Nantes, were also affected. Seven police helicopters buzzed over the Paris region through the night, filming disturbances and directing mobile squads to incidents. Police made 349 arrests and an extra 2,300 officers have been drafted in. The violence has tarnished France's image abroad, forcing Villepin to cancel a trip to Canada, while Russia and the United States have warned their citizens to avoid troubled suburbs. Authorities have so far found no way beyond appeals and more police to address a problem with complex social, economic and racial causes. "Many youths have never seen their parents work and couldn't hold down a job if they got one," said Claude Chevallier, manager of a burned-out carpet depot in the rundown Paris suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois. WHERE IS CHIRAC? As the government continued to struggle for a response to the crisis, Socialist Party leader Francois Hollande said the riots were a failure of government policy and leadership. "I want to hear Jacques Chirac today," Hollande told reporters. "Where is the president when such serious events are taking place?" Villepin has consulted widely but has released no details to date of a promised action plan for 750 tough neighbourhoods. "I'll make proposals as early as this week," the weekly Journal du Dimanche quoted him as saying. Communist and Green Party officials demanded one symbolic measure -- the resignation of Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. Accused of stoking passions by calling troublemakers "scum", Sarkozy has ignored calls to quit. A survey published on Sunday indicated his public image was holding up, even if many disapproved of his strong language. Villepin also has ambitions to be the right wing's presidential candidate in 2007 and has tried to position himself as a much more consensual figure than Sarkozy. The effect on the crisis on his ratings is still unclear. (Additional reporting by Paul Carrel in Evreux)

Ciid Mubaarak to each and everyone of you nomads.

Classic piece my brother. Just classic. Eid Mubarak.

Blue, I am still waiting for the random twilight pics from Mog. Hope you had a nice trip back home.

conspiracy theories, misinformation. Nothing more.

"World Universities' ranking on the Web" ... the key word is "WEB". Nothing about academics. Pay attention boys. This ranking is just based on the universities' "web presence" only. This is how they calculated the rank based on the University's website. Size Number of pages is calculated using four engines: Google, Yahoo, MSN y Teoma. For each engine, results are normalised to 1 for the highest value. Then for each domain, maximum and minimum results are excluded and every institution is assigned a rank according to the combined sum. Visibility The total number of unique external links received (inlinks) by a site can be only confidently obtained from Yahoo and MSN only. For each engine, results are normalised to 1 for the highest value and then combined to generate the rank. Rich Files After evaluation the “academic†relevance and the volume of different file formats we considering for our purposes the following 'rich files': RANK = 2 * Ranking(Size) + 4 * Ranking(Visibility) + 1 * Ranking(Rich Files) MOGADISHU did very well to be on that spot considering the situation in our country.

I think Hafun Island should announce its sovereignty from Puntland. At this moment, the Hafun army of 7 soldiers is all set to defend the island against any violent activities from Puntland.

Innaa Lillaah Aa Inaa Ilayhi Rajicuun. Legend, may Allah shower your father with mercy. Ilaahay Samir iyo Iimaan ha idinka siiyo adiga iyo familka oo dhan.

Originally posted by Alle-ubaahne: ^^Saaxiib, adiga sawirka meesha kuugu dhagan haduu yahay, indhahaaga waxaa la moodaa nin xanaaqsan oo ka tirsan waaxda danbi-baarista iyo sirdoonka. Ok, koley hada waan ku fahmee, meeqaad u shaqeyneesay qoladaas. Kuma caarifaayi ee hoos iigu sheeg arinta! We are aware of your activities.

Allaha u naxariisto marxuumka. Eheladiisana samir iyo iimaan Ilaahay ha ka siiyo. Aaamin

Originally posted by Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar Actually, a while ago a family member was telling me Virginia waa laga kala cararay, especially Fairfax County. A big lady basaas was in their midst, who was paid per commission. So, she reported all the innuendos and rumours. looool MMA walaahi you cracked me up with this. looooool@ "BIG LADY BASAAS in their midst". Virginia waa lagu kala cararay.

Despite the large expenditure, solid infrastructure based on sound engineering from the BinLaden Group can only make the future brighter for the port city.

Corruption map Corruption list check the country rank here

Alle-U-Baahne waa laga baxsan la'yahay. Inadeeroow maxaa inanta Ilaahay ku daba dhigay miyaanad xishoonayn? Aerowen, congrats inadeer. Keep that pretty smile on your face all the time. *** Libaax sees a huge demo outside and people are shouting ... bring Barwaaqo back ... bring Barwaaqo back.***