Did he actually break a coin? The sex frequency claim is by no means an inimitable act, but bending a coin with the eyebrow bone is just astonishing and is indicative of a "real" extraordinary power, unless the coin was made of Gallium and the whole thing was a con show that is.

Originally posted by J.a.c.a.y.l.b.a.r.o: They should go to Eyl for training. Someone should tell them that is not how piracy works. That is very true. If you are a "professional" pirate you don't be-head the most important commodity you hold. Dead bodies are worth zero dollars.

A British man has been murdered aboard his yacht off the Thai coast, after his killers locked his wife in the cabin. Early police reports suggested that Mr Robertson had been beaten to death with a hammer. It was alleged later that the killers cut his throat as he shouted for help and threw him overboard. His body has not been found. Thai police said that three fishermen, migrant workers from neighbouring Burma, had confessed. Piracy along the Thai-Malaysian sea boundary was common in the 1990s, but intensive patrols by both nations have reduced the attacks. SOURCE: http://www.timesonli ne.co.uk

May Allah make it easier for you. Ilaahay muraadkaaga ha sahlo.

Now I know NGONGE doesn't have the luxury Cadillac he was bragging about the other day. What a big mofo lie. I see the same old 1989 beater parked outside of his flat. Shame on NGONGE. I just visited Paris. I am planning to go on a virtual tour one of these weekends.

The four individuals mentioned are all good and decent nomads. I solute them! To honor this milestone, we have now modified the title ranking system for the first time in 8 years.

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Here is a clever crow in Japan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-coVXH15us&feature =related

Great stuff. Nation-building is moving ahead with sonic speed.

Fascinating read indeed. China's last eunuch spills sex secrets By Emma Graham-Harrison BEIJING (Reuters) - Only two memories brought tears to Sun Yaoting's eyes in old age -- the day his father cut off his genitals, and the day his family threw away the pickled remains that should have made him a whole man again at death. China's last eunuch was tormented and impoverished in youth, punished in revolutionary China for his role as the "Emperor's slave" but finally feted and valued, largely for outlasting his peers to become a unique relic, a piece of "living history." He had stories of the tortuous rituals of the Forbidden City, Emperor Pu Yi's last moments there and the troubled puppet court run by the Japanese during the 1930s. He escaped back to the heart of a civil war, became a Communist official and then a target of radical leftists before being finally left in peace. This turbulent life has been recorded in the "The Last Eunuch of China" by amateur historian Jia Yinghua, who over years of friendship drew out of Sun the secrets that were too painful or intimate to spill to prying journalists or state archivists. He died in 1996, in an old temple that had become his home, and his biography was finally published in English this year. It unveils formerly taboo subjects like the sex life of eunuchs and the emperor they served, the agonizing castrations often done at home and also often lethal, and the incontinence and shame that came with the promise of great power. "He was conflicted over whether to tell the secrets of the emperor," said Jia, adding that Sun preserved a loyalty to the old system because he had dedicated so much of his life to it. "I was the only person he trusted. He did not even confide in his family, after they threw away his 'treasure,'" Jia added, using traditional eunuchs' slang for their preserved genitals. They were discarded during the chaotic 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, when having anything from the "old society" could put lives at risk. "He only cried about two things; when telling me about the castration and about the loss of his 'treasure'," said Jia, who works as an energy bureaucrat, but devotes all his spare time to chronicling the dying days of Imperial China after a childhood enthralled by the eunuchs and princes who were his neighbors. STERILITY AND POWER Over years of painstaking research, he has gleaned arcane details about every aspect of palace life, along with secrets about the emperor's sexuality and cruelty that would look at home on the front page of tabloid newspapers. For centuries in China, the only men from outside the imperial family who were allowed into the Forbidden City's private quarters were castrated ones. They effectively swapped their reproductive organs for a hope of exclusive access to the emperor that made some into rich and influential politicians. Sun's impoverished family set him on this painful, risky path in hopes that he might one day be able to crush a bullying village landlord who stole their fields and burned their house. His desperate father performed the castration on the bed of their mud-walled home, with no anesthetic and only oil-soaked paper as a bandage. A goose quill was inserted in Sun's urethra to prevent it getting blocked as the wound healed. He was unconscious for three days and could barely move for two months. When he finally rose from his bed, history played the first of a series of cruel tricks on him -- he discovered the emperor he hoped to serve had abdicated several weeks earlier. "He had a very tragic life. He had thought it was worthwhile for his father, but the sacrifice was in vain," Jia said, in a house stacked with old books, newspapers and photos. "He was very smart and shrewd. If the empire had not fallen there is a high chance he would have become powerful," Jia added. The young ex-emperor was eventually allowed to stay in the palace and Sun had risen to become an attendant to the empress when the imperial family were unceremoniously booted out of the Forbidden City, ending centuries of tradition and Sun's dreams. "He was castrated, then the emperor abdicated. He made it into the Forbidden City then Pu Yi was evicted. He followed him north and then the puppet regime collapsed. He felt life had played a joke at his expense," Jia said. Many eunuchs fled with palace treasures, but Sun took a crop of memories and a nose for political survival that turned out to be better tools for surviving years of civil war and ideological turbulence that followed. "He never became rich, he never became powerful, but he became very rich in experience and secrets," Jia said. http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE52E0 6H20090316?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

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Duke's his initial request sounds so spine-chilling, specially the "Would be much appreciated lads" last sentence. Appreicated by who? Spies? Is he trying to make Gabiley Puntland's spy heaven? Somallilanders, I don't know about you, but this sounds a grave matter to me. Be vigilant!

Forbes 2009 Billionaires List is out. Many are gone from the list. Gates is back to the top spot. Few new faces have joined. UK is nowhere to be seen in the top 25. Here is the top 25. source: forbes.com

Originally posted by Blessed*: Wallee, wax idin dhaafayaa iska yar. Bal yaa idin waydiistay inaad howlaahaa gashaan. It reminds me of the saying, 'hadaad cay rabtid, guurso'.

The concept of shared “mass wedding” seems an alien culture (it was probably seen on TV). Unfortunately it comes off as spectacle made for the news media and a PR stunt for the donating entity (already Reuters is on top of this). The brothers could have been prearranged to accept a small sum of money spent already to have their own unique individualized event or spend the money on whatever they choose.

Abu, so you don't like the Camel pic? Now that is just being strange because the camel is a symbol of this forum. Lets hope Xiin doesn't read your comment. He loves the camel. Inshalah few things shall be fixed about the forum soon. Nin Yaaban, websiteka Ilaahay baa iska leh.

He is using this threat to try to bring Al-Shabaab and others to the table.

lool@his element. Riyaale will always be the only true magician we have. His tricks are plenty.

Good for Somali airline companies.

lool@race. The Singaporean Chinese majority wants to keep an eye on the other ethnics. Suparman and Batman are normal Indonesian names.

Caano, good to see you alive and kicking.

Obama delivers an address to the Marines. Among them are few that seem sort of unhappy. February 27, 2009 Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

Ilaahay ha u naxariisto adeerkaa. Samir iyo iimaan walaal.