The best "moderator" is: ------> Use it to your advantage. Be ahead of the game, and keep the troublemakers grounded. Trust me, it works!

Wallee waakaa odaygii Emperor isagoo dhalaalaya soo dhacay. War oodkaca iska kala yaree xaaji, lool. Aamiin to all the duas. Ilaahay reerka cusub ha barakeeyo.

Here is another public transportation bus fight in San Fransisco, California. CHINESE WOMAN BEATS A BLACK WOMAN WHO HIT HER FIRST

Assassins may regret taking on the Arab world's best police force By KSENIA SVETLOVA While the world media continues to point to the Mossad as the most likely contractor of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh’s murder, and Hamas threatens revenge, Dahi Khalfan Tamim, Dubai police chief, is sounding his own warnings. “Anybody who tries to work behind our backs [in Dubai] must watch his back, and this applies to all intelligence agencies in the world, whether this [individual] is affiliated to Hamas or Mossad or any other intelligence agency,” Tamim told Dubai media on Thursday. Tamim has become one of the central figures in this shady, tangled affair. He has been talking frequently to reporters, presenting new information day-by-day – maps, passport numbers and security camera footage of the suspects from airports, hotels and shopping centers. Amid the media frenzy, the remarkable capabilities and efficiency of his Dubai police have been rightly noted. Ever since the January 20 hit, the authorities have managed two difficult tasks: controlling information and providing accurate and trustworthy accounts of the events. The world heard of Mabhouh’s murder only when Dubai’s authorities decided to let it be known, and not a minute earlier. And Tamim has been on hand since with clear, coherent updates. Many people – notably including those who sent the killers to room 230 in al-Bustan Rotana on January 20 – are doubtless wondering: how is Dubai doing it? It fact, this is not the first time that Dubai has dealt with a high profile murder case that involves international assassins, hotel room activities and bizarre clues. Less than a year ago, Sulim Yamadayev, a Chechen leader who was once a close aide to Chechen President Ramazan Kadyrov, was gunned down in the parking lot of the Jumeirah Beach Residence, the luxury Dubai apartment building where he resided, dying later in the hospital. A golden gun, which allegedly belonged to Kadyrov, was left at the crime scene. Dubai Police arrested two suspects in the case, but the main suspect, a Russian Duma deputy named Adam Delimkhanov, is still wanted in the UAE. Last April, Dubai police declared the case solved and forwarded to Interpol a request to arrest Delimkhanov. Police chief Tamim called on Russia to “take responsibility in front of the world to control these killers from Chechnya.” The Dubai Police was established with only 29 members back on June 1, 1956, in Naif Fort, which still operates as a police station. It is reputed to be the most forward-thinking and progressive Arab police forces today, at least according to the Gulf News, and its own website: “Comprising our ranks are 15,000 personnel of the highest educational standard of any organization... under the direction of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.” The force is reputed to have been the first in the Arab world to use DNA testing in criminal investigations, the first to use electronic finger printing, and the first to implement the concept of a paperless department. It is also apparently not afraid to ask for guidance if it needs it. The latest update on its website reports that the “passports of the mercenaries” who killed Mabhouh were not fake. “Dubai immigration officers were trained by European security experts to spot such documents. This training qualifies immigration officers to spot fake passports. They applied these procedures at Dubai airport when the alleged [killers] entered the country,” he said. “No forgery was found in those passports.” Many of the Dubai police personnel come from abroad, while others studied and trained in foreign countries, including Egypt. Considering that almost every possible sphere of life in Dubai is heavily foreign-influenced – only 10 percent of the million-strong populace are local Emiratis – it is likely that its police has enjoyed the best possible training, guidance and help from foreign security bodies. “Dubai is most interested to clear it’s name and reputation as a city of crimes and assassinations, and it will surely do its utmost to solve Mabhouh’s murder,” a local hotelier told The Jerusalem Post this week. Besides, now it’s also a matter of pride: Somebody dares to do something like this on Dubai’s territory? It’s not an easy thing to let go.

Two black girls record an argument between what looks like an big-headed black guy and a 67-year-old bearded white man inside a public transportation city bus. The argument gets out of control and the black guy starts to punch the bearded old man. What follows is not really a fight, but a shameful cry for ambulance by the black dude who started the violence. People love fights specially when a thug gets his butt handed to him by an older thug he underestimated. This is becoming an Internet sensation.

Congrats to our brother Emperor. Ilaahay guurka guur khayr qaba ha idiinka dhigo, wallad wanaagsanna ha idinka siiyo. Aaamiin.

This is big news.

MMA is in Nairobi, Kenya. He'll be back!

REUTERS: Mossad tripped up by underestimating Arab counter-espionage capabilities (Reuters) - The quiet assassination of a Hamas commander gets unexpectedly messy. Exposed and forced to atone before angry allies, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders the spymaster responsible to fall on his sword. That was in 1997, when the Mossad director resigned after his men botched the poisoning of Khaled Meshaal in Jordan. Now premier a second time, Netanyahu faces a similar crisis over the death of another Hamas figure, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, in Dubai. Israel's official silence on the January 20 killing has been outpaced, in the popular imagination, by UAE police footage of the suspected assassins and revelations some of them had copied the European passports of actual immigrants to the Jewish state. The idea that the Mossad, having long cultivated a reputation for lethally outwitting Israel's foes abroad, this time tripped up by underestimating Arab counter-espionage capabilities prompted commentators to demand a public reckoning. Special scrutiny was devoted to Mossad director Meir Dagan, an ex-general now in his eighth year of service and praised by Israeli leaders for spearheading a "shadow war" against Hamas, Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas, and Iran's nuclear program. Amir Oren of the liberal Haaretz daily went as far as to call for Dagan to be fired, describing him as "belligerent, heavy-handed" and predicting a row with Britain, Ireland, France and Germany -- the countries whose passports were used. "Even if whoever carried out the assassination does reach some kind of arrangement with the infuriated Western nations, it still has an obligation to its own citizens," Oren wrote. Several of the foreign-born Israelis who said their identities had been stolen for the Mabhouh assassination voiced fear they could now be vulnerable to murder prosecutions. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman did not deny Mossad involvement in Mabhouh's death but tried to deflect attention, implying in a radio interview that "some other intelligence service or another country" may have had a role. Israel's allies recognize "that our security activity is conducted according to very clear, cautious and responsible rules of the game," Lieberman asserted. UNNATURAL CAUSES Other pundits disagreed about the diplomatic price that could be exacted from Israel, which is already fending off foreign criticism of the hundreds of Palestinian civilian deaths during its offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip last year. But there was little arguing the fact that Hamas had turned the tables on Mabhouh's assassins by insisting UAE police launch a murder investigation after they initially ruled that his death, in a Dubai hotel room, had been of natural causes. "What began as a heart attack turned out to be an assassination, which led to a probe, which turned into the current passport affair," wrote Yoav Limor in Israel Hayom, a pro-government newspaper. "It is doubtful whether this is the end of the affair." Israelis generally rally around the Mossad's two-fisted image -- honed back in the 1970s, when the agency hunted down and killed Palestinians blamed for a deadly raid on Israel's Olympic delegation at the Munich Games. But the Mabhouh hit underscored the difficulties spies must contend with in the digital era, with ubiquitous high-resolution CCTV coverage and easily accessed passport databases. "What happens in the modern world, the cameras everywhere -- it changes things not just for those whose trade is terror but also those trying to fight terror," former Mossad officer Ram Igra told Israel's Army Radio. The UAE is holding two Palestinians accused of helping Mabhouh's assassins. Should they finger Israel, it will deepen the questions about Mossad tradecraft and operational security. Mabhouh had masterminded the abduction and killing of two Israeli troops in 1989 and, more recently, the smuggling of Iranian-funded arms to Gaza. The attempted discretion of his killing indicated the assassins were not on a vendetta but, rather, trying to eliminate what they saw as a current threat. Yet the possibility that the Mossad had so quickly come undone led Yossi Melman, author of two books on the intelligence agency, to suggest such assassinations would not be repeated. Melman said a wider question would be also raised: "Does Israel's assassinations policy pay off?" The 1997 attempted assassination in Amman, by two Mossad officers posing as Canadian tourists, unwittingly boosted Meshaal's status in Hamas. Netanyahu was also forced to free the Islamist faction's jailed spiritual leader, Ahmed Yassin. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61G2PF20100217

Mossad had committed a major blunder NEW YORK TIMES JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Foreign-born Israelis named as part of an Israeli hit squad denied Tuesday any involvement in the assassination of a top Hamas militant in Dubai and said their identities had been hijacked. Seven of 11 suspects named by Dubai in the slaying of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh last month were said to live in Israel, suggesting the Mossad had committed a major blunder, if it turned out that Israel was indeed involved in the attack. One of the suspects, reached by Reuters on the telephone, denied any involvement in the killing, calling himself the victim of an identity theft. "I am obviously angry, upset and scared," Melvyn Adam Mildiner, a British immigrant to Israel, said in British-accented English. Mildiner of Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem, said he had nothing to do with the assassination and had never been to Dubai. "I don't know how this happened or who chose my name or why, but hopefully we'll find out soon," said Mildiner, a technical writer after Israeli newspapers splashed names and photos of the suspects distributed in Dubai. "I have my passport. It is in my house, along with the passports of everybody else in my family, and there's no Dubai stamps in it because I've never been to Dubai," Mildiner said. Three other men on Dubai's list offered similar accounts to Israeli television stations and Web sites. Most shared a profile of having immigrated to Israel from English-speaking countries and had dual national identities. "I don't know what to say. It's a mistaken or stolen identity, it's not me, that's for sure," Michael Lawrence Barney said in a televised interview in which his face wasn't shown. Stephen Hodes, another recent immigrant to the Jewish state, said: "I am in total shock. I don't know how they reached me. The photographs are not of me, of course...I'm mortified." FAKE OR STOLEN IDENTITIES? Dubai said it issued international arrest warrants for all suspects, who also include German and French passport holders. A government source said six other people, not yet identified, were also believed to be involved. As the mystery over suspects' identities deepened, Britain and Ireland said they believed British and Irish passports which Dubai alleged were used by members of the hit squad -- whose photographs were released by the emirate -- were fake. "This was a case of identity theft and it puts the operation in Dubai in a very amateur light. If the intent was to hide the perpetrators' identities, why direct a finger at Israelis?," Channel 10 television's security reporter, Alon Ben-David, said. A security source in Israel said the target, Mabhouh, played a key role in smuggling Iranian-funded arms to Islamist militants in the Gaza Strip. Hamas confirmed the information. Hit squads dispatched by Israel's Mossad spy agency have used foreign passports in the past, notably in 1997 when agents entered Jordan on Canadian passports and bungled an attempt to kill Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal with poison. Mossad is widely believed to have stepped up covert missions against Hamas, Lebanon's Hezbollah militia and Iran's nuclear project. Among killings attributed to Mossad were that of Hezbollah commander Imad Moughniyeh in Damascus two years ago. In the most recent publicized case linking the Mossad to foreign identity papers, two suspected Israeli agents were jailed in New Zealand in 2005 for obtaining that country's passports illegally. In 1987, Britain protested to Israel about what London called the misuse by Israeli authorities of forged British passports and said it received assurances steps had been taken to prevent future occurrences. (Additional reporting by Dan Williams; Sophie Taylor in Paris; Estelle Shirbon in London; Andras Gergely in Dublin; Sabine Siebold in Berlin; Cynthia Johnston and Firouz Sedarat and Tamara Walid) http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/02/16/world/international-us-uae-hamas-israel.html

The best CCTV video clip is from Golf News. This clip details the story minute by minute. http://video.gulfnews.com/services/player/bcpid4267205001?bctid=66672644001 Dubai is a highly sophisticated city and the evidence left behind by the killers would be embarrassing to any respectable secret agency. If it is confirmed that these amateurs were indeed Mossad agents, it is a game changer. Mossad's mythical infallibility will be no more. Let us see where this movie ends.

The story takes another turn ... 11 arrest warrants are issued for the Europeans, and two Palestinians are in jail. Palestinians held in Dubai over Hamas militant murder By Acil Tabbara (AFP) – 4 hours ago DUBAI — The two men, both residents of the United Arab Emirates, had "fled to Jordan" after Mahmud al-Mabhuh was found dead in a Dubai hotel room on January 20, police chief Dahi Khalfan told AFP. He said they were extradited from Jordan "three days ago," pointing to a "strong suspicion" against one of the two who had met a member of the suspected hit team before the assassination. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jLBEbUZOmuKgEdLdoE3K43Pe6jJw

Ilaahay ha u naxariisto marxuumka, dambigiisana ha dhaafo.

Here is a BBC news clip showing the CCTV footage. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8517316.stm

This woman may have been one of the killers. This undated photo released by the Dubai Ruler's Media Office on Monday, Feb. 15, 2010, is claimed by Dubai's Police Chief to show a woman named Gail Folliard of Irish nationality, who the Dubai Police Chief identified as one of eleven suspects wanted in connection with the killing of a Hamas commander, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, in his Dubai hotel room last month. (AP Photo/Dubai Ruler's Media Office) EDITORIAL USE ONLY Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Dubai's police chief said Monday an 11-member hit squad carrying European passports and disguised in wigs, fake beards and tennis clothes was behind the mysterious killing of a Hamas commander in his hotel room last month. Authorities also released photos of the 11. Lt. Gen. Dhahi Khalfan Tamim did not directly implicate Israel, as the Islamic militant group has. But the details he released at a news conference in the Gulf emirate are the most comprehensive accusations by Dubai authorities since the body of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was found Jan. 20 in his luxury hotel room near Dubai's international airport. Tamim said it was possible that "leaders of certain countries gave orders to their intelligence agents to kill" al-Mabhouh, one of the founders of Hamas' military wing. But he did not name any countries. Hamas has accused Israel and vowed revenge. Tamim sketched out a highly organized operation in the hours before the killing, clearly done with advance knowledge of the victim's movements, and said the killers spent less than a day in the country. He said forensic tests indicated al-Mabhouh died of suffocation, but lab analyses were still under way to pinpoint other possible factors in his death. He showed the news conference airport surveillance video of the alleged assassination team arriving on separate flights to Dubai the day before al-Mabhouh was found dead. The members of the alleged hit-squad checked into separate hotels. Story continues below In the surveillance footage, which also included images from the hotel, the one woman among the group of suspects appears to be wearing a wig and at times wears a big hat and sunglasses to blend in as a tourist. Others were also seen on the footage disguised as tourists, wearing tennis clothes and carrying rackets. Authorities appear to have linked the group through the videos. They are seen entering and exiting the hotel, standing together or in pairs in the hotel lobby and going in and out the elevator on the floor where al-Mabhouh was staying. They appear individually, sometimes in pairs or in groups of three or four. They paid for all expenses in cash and used different mobile phone cards to avoid traces, Tamim said. The killing itself took just 10 minutes, he said. Several members of the hit squad followed the Hamas man – even riding with him in the same elevator to determine his room number – and then checked into the room across the hall. Four assassins among the group later entered his room in the Al-Bustan Rotana Hotel while he was out, using an electronic device to open the door. There they waited for him to return. Tamim said they were careful not to disturb anything in the room and somehow left the door locked from the inside to try to hide the fact that they had broken in. The team then headed for the airport, some of them flying to Europe and others to Asia, he said. He added that there was "serious penetration into al-Mabhouh's security prior to his arrival" in Dubai, but that it appeared al-Mabhouh was traveling alone. "Hamas did not tell us who he was. He was walking around alone," said Tamim. "If he was such an important leader, why didn't he have people escorting him?" The killing took place about five hours after al-Mabhouh arrived at the hotel and all the 11 suspects were out of the United Arab Emirates within 19 hours of their arrivals, he said. Tamim claimed the suspects left behind some evidence, but he declined to elaborate. He urged the countries linked to the alleged killers to cooperate with the investigation and said the photos and other information were being sent to Interpol and posted on the Internet. Police released their photos, names, nationalities and details of their passports, which authorities said were not fake. At least some of the photos released appeared to be passport photographs and the one woman among the group looked as if she might be wearing a blond wig in her photo. He did not say whether any of the suspects have been formally charged by prosecutors in Dubai, one of seven semiautonomous emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates. Tamim told reporters the alleged assassination team comprised six British passport holders, three Irish and one each from France and Germany. Hamas has accused Israel's Mossad secret service of carrying out the killing and has pledged to strike back. Britain's Foreign Office declined to comment Monday on the allegations while officials seek more information on the case and the individuals named by Tamim. Israeli officials have accused al-Mabhouh of helping smuggle rockets into the Gaza Strip, the coastal territory ruled by the militant group. A Hamas statement last month acknowledged al-Mabhouh was involved in the kidnapping and killing of two Israeli soldiers in 1989 and said he was still playing a "continuous role in supporting his brothers in the resistance inside the occupied homeland" at the time of his death. Hamas initially claimed al-Mabhouh was poisoned and electrocuted. But Mohammed Nazzal, a Hamas leader, has given a somewhat different account, saying al-Mabhouh was ambushed by Mossad agents who were waiting for him in his hotel room. Nazzal said earlier this month that no poison was involved. But he gave no evidence to back up his charge of Mossad involvement. Top Hamas figures have denied reports that al-Mabhouh was en route to Iran, which is a major Hamas backer. But the group has not given clear reasons for his presence in Dubai. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iwVdaYpYsBz7wKRCUxpcqhtjr31AD9DSQNMG3

Originally posted by Jacaylbaro: oo ku xayiran kaantaroolka bari ee magaalada laascaanood Doesn't the Somaliland admin reach beyond the "kantaroolka bari" of Lascaanood?

Somaliland waa in ay ku soo xirtaa xudduudda xargo iyo fiilooyin si dhaqso ah.

Banff, Alberta This place is heaven in the summer time. The landscape is amazing. The town is little expensive and it is little crowded (there are Europeans and Japanese everywhere), but other than that, Banff is one place that doesn't disappoint. Virtual Tour Click Here

Originally posted by Xaji_Xunjuf: This is very good news indeed Waan gaajaysanahay baqtiga looma cuno. Ummadda masaakiinta ah xasiloonidooda yaan lagu ciyaarin, Isreal waxba cid uma qabanaysee.

Hehe. This reminds me of the Munchkins character in The Wizard of Oz.

Hey, pirates sometimes help. They are not always up to no good. Somali ‘Pirates’ want to send loot confiscated from rich countries to Haiti News & Analysis Submitted by mute on Sunday, 24 January, 2010 - 13:29 By Agencia Matriz del Sur Via Aporrea.org (translated) http://aporrea.org/internacionales/n149313.html[/i] Somali ‘Pirates’ want to send loot confiscated from rich countries to Haiti Agencia Matriz del Sur January 21, 2010 – Spokesmen for the so-called “Somali pirates” have expressed willingness to transfer part of their loot captured from transnational boats and send it to Haiti. Leaders of these groups have declared they have links in various places around the world to help them ensure the delivery of aid without being detected by the armed forces of enemy governments. The “pirates” typically redistribute a significant portion of their profits among relatives and the local population. In their operations, the “pirates” urge transnational corporations that own the cargo confiscated to pay back in cash as banks can not operate in Somalia. ”The humanitarian aid to Haiti can not be controlled by the United States and European countries; they have no moral authority to do so. They are the ones pirating mankind for many years,” said the Somali spokesman. Somalia, located at the eastern end of the Somalia Penisula adjacent to the Gulf of Aden to the North and with the Indian ocean to the east, is located in a very important position in the communication routes between Asia, Africa and Europe and the Pacific. http://www.metamute.org/en/somali_pirates_want_to_send_loot_confiscated_from_rich_countries_to_haiti

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