He pleads not guilty. His lawyer: "He's a boy who fishes and now he's ended up in solitary confinement, it's truly terrifying." http://www.miamihera ld.com/news/nation/A P/story/1059108.html

Very interesting development indeed.

IGAD is out of touch with reality again.

Let us be fair for once and call spades a spade. Out of all the factions fighting in Somalia, Al-Shabaab is the least likely one to raid for riches. The key term here is "least likely" and I say that as a contrast to other groups because no matter what faction, all these feuding factions are always going to have the undisciplined, out of control minority within them. This unpleasant incident, if true, could have also been part of a calculated effort to harm the UN of which its presence is widely viewed by the Mujahedeens as the embodiment of all that is unwell with the society.

H&M has the best plain white t-shirts in the world. Good quality simple, smooth cotton t-shirts you won't find anywhere else. White t-shirts that make you feel great after 2 long hours of serious work-out at the Gym.

Oodweyne, Mujaahid aniguna waxaan is lahaa ninkii Hargeysa iyo halkaa ayuu u hayaamay oo arrimihii qasnaa ayuu xallintooda ku dhex jiraa. Waadh bal update na sii. Mujaahid Siilaanyo iyo Riyaale halkaa arrintoodu maraysaa?

African Americans are fuming with anger at Iman for saying that. I think her words were misconstrued and spun sensationally. I don't think Iman was knocking the first lady down. I think she was just highlighting the shortcomings of being born pretty and how age affects people differently. To me it seems sort of compliment that went south. The media took the first quote and run with it. Here is the full article on Parade Magazine and see if Iman really meant to attack Barack's wife. http://www.parade.co m/celebrity/2009/05/ iman-you-get-better- with-age.html

Mujaahidiineey, ka faa'iidaysta inta balaayadu qasan tahay oo qoraalo internetka ku daldala. Haaheey!

^^War ninka waan garanayaa. Bal iga gaarsii ina Libaax-Sankataabte ayaa ku soo salaamayay u sheeg.

NEW YORK (AFP) – US First Lady Michelle Obama is not a "great beauty," but will "just get better with age," Iman, one of the first black supermodels, says in a magazine interview. "Mrs Obama is not a great beauty," the Somali-born model and wife of rocker David Bowie tells Parade magazine's Sunday issue, reflecting on the first black US first lady, who is a lawyer by training and a former executive. "But she is so interesting looking and so bright. That will always take you farther. When you?re a great beauty, it?s always downhill for you. If you?re someone like Mrs Obama, you just get better with age," she said. Iman, 53, also told Parade that her rise to catwalk superstardom did not free her from racism. "You suddenly represent a whole race, and that race goes, ?Well, that person does not represent our ideals of beauty.? For lack of a better term, it becomes what it was like during slavery," she said. "One had the field n...(expletive) and the house n...(expletive). There was this notion that I was chosen by white fashion editors to be better than the rest, which I am not. I did not like being thought of as the house n...(expletive)." Source

He's a number scribbled in a captain's cabin, a name inside a Somali pirate's head, a voice of reassurance to the family of a captured seaman. His government wants him behind bars while strangers rush to shake his hand. He is, according to one headline writer, The Pirate Whisperer, and his story could soon be known around the world. "So you're going to Hollywood," shouted a security guard as Andrew Mwangura walked through his hometown of Mombasa, Kenya, this week. Actually, Hollywood is coming to Mwangura, who runs the non-profit East African Seafarers' Assistance Programme and has become a pivotal figure in reporting and resolving hijacking cases off the coast of Somalia in recent years. The actor Samuel L Jackson has teamed up with filmmaker Andras Hamori to secure the life rights to Mwangura's story for a new action movie about Somali piracy. In it, Jackson is set to play Mwangura, a softly spoken 47-year-old who lives in a two-bedroom house outside Mombasa with no running water or electricity. Short of money and worried about personal safety – he says he has received several death threats recently – he keeps his office in his pocket, four mobile phones that seldom stop ringing. "The film will be a great honour for seamen everywhere," said Mwangura, who has never seen any of Jackson's films, but agrees they bear a passing resemblance. "I hope it will tell the truth about Somali piracy." Mwangura is in a unique position to tell the story. A former seaman, he has spent 20 years helping colleagues who had been underpaid, exploited or caught up in other trouble at sea. The trouble often involved Somalia. As far back as the early 1990s, when Somalia descended into chaos, Mwangura started receiving reports about foreign vessels kidnapped off the Somali coast. At first he assumed it was simply a case of piracy, and publicly condemned the attacks. Then one day a Somali hostage-taker called him after finding his emergency contact number on board a captured ship. "He said to me: 'We are not the pirates – you seafarers and the foreign ship owners working illegally in our waters are the real pirates'." The man sent Mwangura photographs and lists of names of ships that were plundering Somali fish stocks, sometimes within five nautical miles of shore, and damaging the local fishing boats and equipment. Other ships were dumping industrial and other hazardous waste. "I realised that these Somalis were vigilantes, not pirates," said Mwangura. "What they were doing was wrong, but the illegal fishing and dumping was wrong too." But as the anarchy on land dragged on, the vigilante nature of the Somali attacks began to shift to straight criminality, putting the lives of thousands of innocent crewman at risk. "People got greedy," said Mwangura. "The Somali mafioso realised this hostage-taking was a way to make good money. They became more hi-tech, using radios and satellite phones." Mwangura suddenly found his phones ringing night and day, with people seeking information or passing it on. "The messages come from Somalia, from crewmen and their relatives, ship owners who have lost contact with a boat, or diplomatic missions. It is not always direct – the message can go from Somalia to India to London and then to me – but it always gets to me somehow." Mwangura, in turn, quickly sends information to his contacts using text messages, to save on the cost of calls. Once he has the facts, he immediately gives it to journalists, which he says is his way of communicating with the families of the hostages. "We don't exactly know how Andrew gets his information – that's a grey area for us – but in most cases it's very accurate," said Cyrus Modi, manager of the International Maritime Bureau, in London. "He does a very good job in protecting the interests of the seafarers." Often that job involves talking to the pirates – or at least the clan elders who are the initial contact points for the seven main pirate gangs in Somalia – especially when negotiations between a ship owner and the pirates have stalled. "I try to soften the pirates' hearts. I say 'I am on your side; please let us send some supplies to the crew and we can get this resolved quickly'. It's conflict resolution – getting people to put down their guns and talk." In Mombasa, Mwangura's work on behalf of the seamen is clearly appreciated, with shopkeepers giving him discounts and customers ushering him to the front of queues. But the government is less fond of his efforts. In September last year the MV Faina, a Ukrainian ship loaded with 33 Soviet-era battle tanks, was hijacked en route to Mombasa. Mwangura had seen earlier consignments of tanks coming through the port before – they were heading to south Sudan as part of a secret deal with the Kenyan government, he and foreign diplomatic officials believed. When Mwangura announced that the seized consignment was for Sudan and not Kenya as the government claimed, he was arrested and charged with making alarming statements that threatened national security, and with possessing marijuana – a charge he strongly denies. He spent nine days in jail before he was able to raise bail. Among his fellow prisoners were several Somali pirates who had been tried in Kenyan courts. "They had heard of me and came to see what sort of man I was. They said: 'We thought you were against pirates but now you are with us – this is crazy!'" With the proposed film Mwangura could now be set for a lucrative payday of his own after years of scraping by on his earnings as a part-time maritime consultant. "I can tell you from personal experience that he is an incredible negotiator," said Hamori, who flew to Mombasa earlier this year to negotiate the story rights for his company, H20 Motion Pictures http://www.guardian. co.uk/world/2009/may /15/somali-pirates-n egotiator-hollywood- movie

War aanu ka helnay magaalada Muqdisho isla caawa ayaa sheegaya in cruise missile lagu weeraray gurigii uu deganaa Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys.. Warkan oo hordhac ah ,laguna soo tebiyey khadka telephoneka magaalada Muqdisho oo weli habeenimo ku jirta ayaan weli la ogey inta uu khasaare geystey madfaca lala beegsaday aqalka Sheikh Dahir Aweys. Goobtan ayaa wararku sheegayaan inay ku sugnaayeen taageereyaashi Sheikh Aweys ilaa hadana ma cada inta dhimasho soo gaadhey Sheikh Aweys iyo kooxdaas guriga ku sugnayd. Wixii ka soo kordha weerarkan lala beegsaday Sheikh Aweys kala soco Xargaga Online. http://www.xargaga.n et/modules.php?op=mo dload&name=News&file =article&sid=3895

Originally posted by Libaax-Sankataabte: The title “Sheikh” may or may not be a misnomer, but the interesting question here is why XDA chose to come to Mogadishu. If XDA came to Mogadishu as part of a secret peace accord with the TFG, I will be the first to herald him as a champion of peace at a time of great turmoil and mistrust. But if the old man entered the city without any change of view towards the TFG, then his unfussy arrival in Mogadishu may very well be an open indication of the TFG’s apparent inability, once again, to control the capital. If anything, this is a harbinger of ominous things to come and perhaps the prolongation of the same septic practices we got so used to. We shall see what he is up to. I guess it is now all clear as to what Aweys's intentions were.

misleading title.

1. St Albans Average income per year: £43,500 Average income tax paid per year: £10,500 2. Windsor Average income per year: £42,100 Average income tax paid per year: £10,100 3. Guildford Average income per year: £38,200 Average income tax paid per year: £8,850 4. Wokingham Average income per year: £37,500 Average income tax paid per year: £8,240 5. London Average income per year: £34,700 Average income tax paid per year: £7,740 6. Macclesfield Average income per year: £34,500 Average income tax paid per year: £7,540 7. Wycombe Average income per year: £33,900 Average income tax paid per year: £7,220 8. Reigate Average income per year: £33,400 Average income tax paid per year: £7,080 9. Chelmsford Average income per year: £30,000 Average income tax paid per year: £6,050 10. Basingstoke Average income per year: £30,300 Average income tax paid per year: £6,020 And the ten lowest… 1. Hull Average income per year: £17,300 Average income tax paid per year: £2,360 2. Blackpool Average income per year: £17,400 Average income tax paid per year: £2,400 3. Caerphilly Average income per year: £18,700 Average income tax paid per year: £2,630 4. Leicester Average income per year: £18,500 Average income tax paid per year: £2,690 5. Sunderland Average income per year: £18,800 Average income tax paid per year: £2,720 6. City of Dundee Average income per year: £18,800 Average income tax paid per year: £2,730 7. Middlesbrough Average income per year: £18,700 Average income tax paid per year: £2,740 8. Blackburn Average income per year: £18,700 Average income tax paid per year: £2,740 9. Knowsley Average income per year: £19,100 Average income tax paid per year: £2,800 10. Nottingham Average income per year: £18,900 Average income tax paid per year: £2,810 St Alban's population has an average salary at £43,500 per year, according to research from UHY Hacker Young, whilst residents of Blackpool (pictured) earn an average of £17,400. The average wage in the UK, amongst those lucky enough to still have a job, is currently £24,292 - with £4,333 of that going to the taxman in income tax. http://timesbusiness .typepad.com/money_w eblog/2009/04/the-uk -average-24292-4333- ---1-st-albans-avera ge-income-per-year-4 3500average-income-t ax-paid-per-year-105 00.html By Lauren Thompson

priceless list. TFG, Looma dhama, Isbaaro, warlord, wadaad, Ashahado-ladirir, kaligii muslim, khaa'1n, mujaahidiin, dab0dh1L1F, Burcad badeed, Ahlusunna, Muqaawamo, Maxaakim, assassination, Cadowga, Abuu Hebal.

JB, ma waxaad leedahay Siilaanyo wuu ogolaaday in loo qayilo. Waa hagaag. Riyaale inuu sixiroole yahay waakaa oo odaygii Siilaanyo waa isaga "caravan" aan la hubin dusha ka fuul yidhi.

^^And I was waiting for some amazing pics of sheep and goats from SL. I guess you now have an excuse to say the pics were ready last week but you couldn't post them because the forum was down.

Is the skinny guy with the white hat from Toronto?

sourc: Daily Telegraph

BMI Airlines Deletes Israel From World Map Britain's BMI Airlines are suffering the wrath of Israeli passengers flying into Tel Aviv, due to an apparent glitch whereby Israel is left off of the in-flight map, AFP reports. BMI is denying any political agenda and cites the aircrafts' previous owners -- who flew predominately in Muslim countries. According to AFP: But the airline denied any anti-Israel agenda and insisted there was a simple explanation: the planes were recently bought from a bankrupt charter company that flew mainly to Muslim countries. "For this reason the inflight entertainment system in the two planes was made to adapt to the passengers flying to and from those destinations and therefore the map showed mainly places holy to Islam," BMI said in a statement. For passengers flying into Tel Aviv, the outdated imaging software apparently refers to the city by its pre-1948 name, Haifa, the Jerusalem Post reports. With the recent outcry, the issue has been sufficiently called to BMI's attention. According spokesman Phil Shepherd speaking to Jerusalem Post: "Because of the routes that [bMED] flew at that time, that's why the digital map was showing what it was showing... When we bought [bMED] out, we integrated it into BMI... The moving map should have been disabled when the software was updated, so the moving map shouldn't have been operating at all. It only came to light recently that it was still showing. We had a procedure to switch it off... when we started the Tel Aviv route... but for some reason it wasn't disabled." Another quirk left over from the planes' previous owners that caters to Muslim passengers is a distance and direction counter for the plane's proximity to Mecca, according to Haaretz. Source

http://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=wGowA8Uhv D4 "The panic about swine flu reached a new pinnacle of absurdity this morning when a Mexican soccer player apparently threatened a Chilean rival with swine flu. In the 88th minute of a tied match in Latin America's annual tournament for soccer clubs, the Libertadores Cup, Hector Reynosa, of the Guadalajaran squad Chivas, coughed and launched snot into the face of Sebastián Penco, a forward on Chile's Everton team." source

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