Originally posted by Nafisa: ^^It only takes few rotten apples to ruin the whole barrel huuno! I agree Nafisa. I wouldn't be surprised if the loudest couple of booers were found to be kuwa caydha ka dhameeyay wadanka.

Honesita, this is a small world. I know many people who are related to the brother. In fact I just came back from Ohio and I did talk to alot people who are related to him. May Allah give your brother a mercy and punish those who wrongly accuse this innocent man. This is the most ridiculous story ever fabricated by the FBI. It looks like the evangelist Aschroft is running out of real cases.

Nerds. The server issues will be finalized soon. Insha Allaaah.

lol@you NIX. You mad Fedora penguins, don't download the Core 2 yet. The pieces are Buggy. Just an advice. Almost messed up our dedicated server. Do any of you use Duke University's Yum to update your fadaro fadoro dhashay? I find this updater to be very handy actually. Less buggier and faster than Red Hat's regular rpm tools.

Was Nicholas Berg an American Spy or a civilian trying to make money? Probably, a question that will never get answered because the CIA never reveals its agents. What is known are these facts: 1. He was Jewish. 2. He crossed illegally into Iraq. 3. He studied Arabic in Israel 4. He was arrested by the Iraqi police for being a spy. 5. He was released with the help of the Americans 6. He had many meeting with the CIA and the FBI

Macruufi, I consider Qaraami(old school) any song that is old and played with guitar only. I am not sure if it has any other meaning. Maybe someone else can enlighten us both.

I was reading the topic Arabic Songs Club posted by our nomad African and I thought I would copy her and create a topic about qaraami songs. Lately I have been into qaraami. Here is a song I really like. Wait for couple of seconds and listen to the lyrics. Cigaal and Khadra My favorite Somali singers are Shahra Axmed Jaamac (the one and only) and Axmed Cali Cigaal. Please share yours with us.

Lakkad, even the fundamentalist Hizbollah organization from Lebanon called the killing an ugly crime that flouted the tenets of Islam. But they called this act very suspicious. Staged by the pentagon? This is what Hizbollah said in a statement. "The timing of this act that overshadowed the scandal over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners in occupation forces prisons is suspect timing that aims to serve the American administration and occupation forces in Iraq and present excuses and pretexts for their inhumane practices against Iraqi detainees." "the executors' behavior was closer to "the Pentagon school -- the school of killing and occupation and crimes and torture and immoral practices that were exposed by the great scandal in occupation prisons." http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5122687

Mobb, inadeer, how is Abduwaaq going to join Puntland when it was Abdullahi Yusuf who rejected such move in the early nineties? He is still there right? He was recently accused by the people of Abudwaaq of taking sides with the other clan which is fighting against them. As HornAfrique stated, untill the old man leaves office, nothing will change in Puntland as far as Abduwaaq is concerned. That is just my thought.

^^ lol. Yeah MMA, he was reer Mufti Marag Cabbe. Known for their fierceness and their combative nature. They were all left-handed.

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Abudwaq city is home to hundred thousands Is Caabudwaaq that big? Or is the guy talking about the surrounding area?

Waraa Lakkad, iska dhaaf carabta nooh adiga. They are extremely angry and humiliated. Human beings sometimes do irrational things and muslims are no exception. It is wrong but somehow justifiable in light of the current situation these guys are in. Ilaahay dambigooda ha dhaafo. That is all we can say bro.

"you were well worth the nine". What happened to the 100 camels? Good one Liqaye.

Nice looking picture. They look young but disciplined. Are these girls part of the Darwiish force? Well atleast they have a job that pays the bills in a poverished country. I solute them. Baashi, Opi is not in there. It is Barwaaqo and Ameenah who lead this brigade.

Libaax's prediction: 1. Suicidal Azzuris will not be seen again after the second round. Sorry Shujui. 2. The English hooligans will be going on a rampage after their defeat at the second rounds. Sorry Northerner and Shaqsii. 3. les blues will take it. No doubt.

I am not sure having a "goverment" is the solution. It was our "goverment" that destroyed Somalia.

my dear nomads i jsut wanted ta mention that ahmed guray was not somali he was ethiopian Checkmate, The Ethiopians know him by the name "Ahmed Gragn" which they translate it into "Ahmed the left-handed" in the official Ethiopian tourist Book. Type the words "AHMED GRAGN" on goole.com and you will see interesting foriegn website talking more about this guy. The Ethiopians have always despised the Somalis and there has been a movement by the Ethiopians lately to put his "identity" in doubt, but I don't think that will work. FUNNY: Here is an article I liked. THE MAN OF THE YEAR lool.

^^ lol@liqaye. "this is a gossipy society where a stranger’s presence is quickly noted." Isn't the above quote an insult to us?

Banaadir, the Country of Harbors, will be republished in the Asian Studies Journal, published by University of Singapore ‘Banaadiri, The renewal of a millenary identity’ is published by Clueb, Bologna, Italy, www.clueb.com. Read the Book Review

Originally posted by Tamina: I'm not permanently leaving I am glad to hear that you are not leaving permanently inadeer. You just can't take off like that. I mean I understand a month on a wedding or something , but nothing else should convince you to desert your dear friends and be gone forever. That would be a foul. By the way, is school done for good?

Checkmate, I knew you would take the time to reflect. You better leave OG_Girl alone. She is highly protected here.

“We hear this man is wanted. Well, I can tell you he stayed here without a problem,” Aliyow Haji, an elder in Gendershe village south of Mogadishu, told Reuters in early April. “We will let him be... It will cause us a headache if we intervene,” the Mogadishu warlord said. Guys, this tells you wadaadadu ninkay wataan looma geli karo. Make friends with Al-itihaad if you want to be safe in Somalia.

Somalia abuzz with glimpses of Al-Qaeda boss Reuters Nairobi May 4: Cyberspace is the only sure place to find the man the United States says is Al-Qaeda’s top Africa bomber, a master of concealment still at large despite a 5-year-old manhunt. The baby-faced features of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed peer mockingly from the Federal Bureau of Investigation most wanted website, which offers $ 25 million for help in hunting the Afghanistan-trained militant. Washington says Fazul is a key suspect in the 1998 bombing of the US Nairobi embassy which killed more than 200 people within minutes of a blast at the US mission in Tanzania. The elusive Comoran-born Fazul, aged about 30, also masterminded an attack on an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya in November 2002 that killed 15 people, US officials say. Failure to apprehend the slender militant has strained nerves along Africa’s eastern seaboard, where terror-related US travel warnings have hit once lucrative tourism income. The trail grows warmest in Somalia, the chaotic country where Fazul, an accomplished linguist and computer expert with at least 18 aliases, is believed to have been hiding for most of the past 12 months. In many ways the ruined country is a logical choice: after 13 years of militia anarchy it has no government or police and is too dangerous for western investigators to visit often. But it has drawbacks for the Comoran too: it is a gossipy society where a stranger’s presence is quickly noted. In the most violent region, the south, it is not hard to find people who say they have seen Fazul. While the FBI reward might inspire unwelcome creativity in informants’ reports, sightings of Fazul or his associates have sometimes proven very reliable. In March 2003, a suspected associate of Fazul, Suleiman Abdalla Salim Hemed, a Yemeni, was captured in Mogadishu with the help of warlord Mohammed Dheere and is now in US custody. Hopes rose of a usable lead to Fazul, but he slipped away. In late 2003, some militia bosses and ordinary residents reported Fazul audaciously moving around Mogadishu with a team of bodyguards recruited from a variety of Somali clans. “We get a look at him two or three times a week,” one of Mogadishu’s top warlords told Reuters in January 2004. “He is guarded by a dozen or so bodyguards.” This year, militia sources say, Fazul has sought sanctuary among the mixed-race, minority communities that live in villages dotted along the coast between Mogadishu and the Kenya border. His Comoran looks blend in well with the coast’s Benadir and Bajuni people of mixed Somali, Arab, Persian, Portuguese and Malay ancestry. Some of these settlements — ancient communities a world apart from Somalia’s major inland nomadic clans — speak a dialect of Swahili, one of Fazul’s five languages. Reliable or not, that account fits with Fazul’s known method of “hiding in plain sight”: adopting the guise of an itinerant Islamic preacher, he settled in a very similar isolated Kenyan coastal village, Siyu, in 2002, evading detection for months. “We hear this man is wanted. Well, I can tell you he stayed here without a problem,” Aliyow Haji, an elder in Gendershe village south of Mogadishu, told Reuters in early April. Local residents said that every morning during a recent visit Fazul exercised on a beach near Gendershe before an outbreak of factional fighting prompted his team to leave for the Hamar Jajab district of south Mogadishu. In a report by a militia on his movements from February to mid-April, Fazul visited southern Kismayo port, the villages of Kudha, Madhomo, Darusalam and the inland town of Dinsor, where he apparently traded precious stones. “Some of those coastal communities are extremely remote, to the extent that he could hide but he couldn’t do much. For Fazul it would be the equivalent of putting yourself under house arrest,” said US Somali watcher Mr Ken Menkhaus. Somalia’s political and militia leaders, themselves collectively responsible for 13 years of bloodshed among their own people, are hardly the most credible of informants. But the sightings by ordinary people beg the question: if Fazul is so visible, why does no one apprehend him? The answer comes in two parts, Somalia watchers say. US policy is that arrests of Guerrilla suspects in East Africa should be made by the “host nation” in order to build a cooperative relationship with Washington and, in Somalia’s case, perhaps also to avoid mishaps in a violent country where US military intervention has a sorry record of failure. That puts the responsibility squarely on Somalia’s de facto government — the warlords. But they are reluctant to act. The militia bosses recall that Dheere became unpopular among many factions in Mogadishu because of Hemed’s arrest, which was seen as an anti-Islamic favour to imperialist Washington. Secondly, capturing Fazul could mean killing his bodyguards, which will involve clan blood feuds, and perhaps also complicate ties with hardline Islamist elements. Just to catch a suspected militant — a matter of no importance to ordinary Somalis simply struggling to survive — the risks just are not worth it. “We will let him be... It will cause us a headache if we intervene,” the Mogadishu warlord said. Brigadier General Mastin Robeson, commander of a US task force based in Djibouti, told Reuters he did not know where Fazul was, adding that it was difficult to work discreetly on the ground with friendly forces. “There are a number of people who have been allegedly sighted but when we investigate those with host nations, frequently those are not true,” he said. “At this point we do not have him pinpointed,” he said of Fazul. “It’s difficult to get anybody who can ‘blend in’ to the countryside, particularly if what you’re trying to do is get host nations to take the lead.”