awesome song. one of my top 5 favourites. other top 5 favourites include: immigrant - Nitin Sawhney Eddie Vedder - Society/ Hard Sun

feeling extremely tired. i don't know why? maybe it's to do with the 6:30am start? i don't know.

Nuune, what's your assessment of how this will affect AS's long term viability? so daa the analysis. wax bad ogtahay malaha eh.

Haatu;978986 wrote: Alphow, war berigii aan Jabuuti tagay ma kaaga sheekeeyay? maya, abti. baal so daa sheekada. ;)

Safferz;978977 wrote: Your name is pretty horrible, inabti Say my name, say my name, If no one is around you, say baby I love you, If you ain't runnin' game, Say my name, say my name, You actin' kinda shady, ain't facebookin' me baby. Better say my name. waa iga taalo. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLPHAOOOOW.

Hobbesian_Brute;978983 wrote: " innaa khalaqnaakum min thakarin wa unthaa wa jacalnaakum shucuuban waqabaa'ila litacaarafu inna akramakum cindallahii atqaakum " Haatu dagaweyne, please read this and tell me what you understand by it. you flirty swine jaajus of the gaal. :mad::mad::mad::mad: i will not tolerate this anti-Islam propaganda BS. this is a warning, ma garatay? abti, wax isku faal. isku xishood hoyaada laxwase eh. :cool:

Hobbesian_Brute;978961 wrote: well it depends what they named you, if as is expected yours is among the annoyingly limited pool of generic arabic names somalis have used/abused to death like mohamed, ahmed, abdullahi, ali, et al then i strongly suggest you change your name asap to a beautiful uniquely somali name. i am actually in the process of harmonizing my documents to reflect my name change, i had an islamic/arabic name but i discarded it. i couldn't be happier runti. the last of the shackles, miyaa? well done and welcome to name hell, abti. sure it's easier to avoid interrogations at airports and what have you........sure it might give you an aura of the mysterious, present itself to be the perfect outlet to express your afro-centricity........but my 'ethnic' name has been a curse. I've carried this shame all my life. i've been the butt of all jokes from primary school to graduation, where i was forced to write it phonetic for the announcer, for fear she'd mispronounce it, and ruin my one single greatest accomplishment to date.... sometimes, i wonder, if my life would have turned out differently if i had a normal name like everyone else?.....but it's futile to base your life on speculative wax-la-yidhis, ma garateen? unless, of course, like Alpha, your name is beyond strangest of strange names, you know. like 1 in 15,000 or something rarer. something special. my strange name has accorded me the pleasure of being a 'hit' with the xalimos and probably living longer than most.......;) my name is Alpha ee sida uula soco, abtiyaal

Haatu;978957 wrote: Alpha, I was just recalling what I was doing that night 53 years ago? Talow what were you doing? ^ on the 22nd of September 1960, the fault lines were rather obvious by now and i was coming around to rue a mistake. a mistake so grievous. my friends and i, didn't think it would come to this. we'd hoped things would improve but they didn't, did they? in those early days, the world was a different place, not like it is now. despite our foolish mistake....... we eventually came around to accepting the reality............. balse, i still had plenty of hope. had i known things would have taken a turn for the worse, i wouldn't have committed my people to a future of futility. but hey everything is qadaar, maha? now, the young people with their fancy gadgets don't want to understand that we sacrificed for the greater good and some not-so-young folks, with no vision and no agenda, still try to rectify our regrettable mistake, to no avail.;) i'll be 86 soon, i've seen a lot and i've come to experience a lot but hey when you've lived through the rise and fall of your people, you're never surprised nor disappointed.......particularly, if your children or the future generations, don't inherit your beliefs and values. do i have any regrets.......YES! of course.............. but i wouldn't want to be anything like a Djibouti. it's better to be in this quagmire of sorts, than to still be a colonial outpost of the French. those Frenchies, eh?....... we use to call them the faras faakars in the early years. now, i hear they call them the yaakhi faakars

Apophis;939811 wrote: Kenyan First Deputy President William Ruto is currently at the ICC. he's asked the ICC to adjourn his hearing because of the Westgate Mall Attacks. :D Uhuru''I will save the day''Kenyatta will have his much anticipated trial in November, apparently. this is because the Kenyan Constitution doesn't allow a President and a Vice President to be both out of the country at the same time. What will Kenya do when both are convicted for orchestrating the 2007/2008 post election violence?:p

^ what are you talking about, abti? who or what ruined your night?

Safferz;978949 wrote: AJE is still reporting it as AS on their website (and AS is taking credit for it too)... this sexy Asian AJE female presenter was interviewing Abu Omar (AS military commander) via the phone. the guy had a London accent and good telephone manners. caajib.

Blackflash;978947 wrote: Nothing says 'warrior' like gunning down civilians at a mall. or a drone that kills at the touch of a button.

Houari Boumedienne served as Algeria's Chairman of the Revolutionary Council from 19 June 1965 until 12 December 1976, and from then on as the second President of Algeria to his death on 27 December 1978. Early Life Mohamed Ben Brahim Boukharouba was born near Héliopolis in the province of Guelma and educated at the Islamic Institute in Constantine. He joined National Liberation Front (FLN) in the Algerian War of Independence in 1955, adopting Houari Boumediène as his nom-de-guerre (from Sidi Boumediène, the name of the patron saint of the city of Tlemcen in western Algeria, where he served as an officer during the war, and Sidi El Houari, the patron saint of nearby Oran). He reached the rank of Colonel, then the highest rank in the FLN forces, and from 1960 he was chief of staff of the ALN, the FLN's military wing. But at this point of the war, the ALN had been defeated and badly hurt by the French operations and Boumediene accepted a difficult command. Post Independence In 1961, after its vote of self-determination, Algerians declared independence and the French announced it was independent. Boumedienne headed a powerful military faction within the government, and was made defence minister by the Algerian leader Ahmed Ben Bella, whose ascent to power he had assisted as chief of staff. He grew increasingly distrustful of Ben Bella's erratic style of government and ideological puritanism, and in June 1965, Boumédienne seized power in a bloodless coup. The country's constitution and political institutions were abolished, and he ruled through a Revolutionary Council of his own mostly military supporters. Many of them had been his companions during the war years, when he was based around the Moroccan border town of Oujda, which caused analysts to speak of the "Oujda Group". (One prominent member of this circle was Boumédienne's long-time foreign minister, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who, since 1999, has been Algeria's president.) Initially, he was seen as potentially a weak ruler, with no significant power base except inside the army, and it was not known to what extent he controlled the officer corps. But after a botched coup against him by military officers in 1967 he tightened his rule. He then remained Algeria's undisputed ruler until his death in 1978, as all potential rivals within the regime were gradually purged or relegated to symbolic posts, including several of his former allies from the Oujda era. No significant internal challenges emerged from inside the regime after the 1967 coup attempt. Domestic Policy Economically, Boumédienne turned away from Ben Bella's focus on rural Algeria and experiments in socialist cooperative businesses (l'autogestion). Instead, he opted for a more systematic and planified programme of state-driven industrialization. Algeria had virtually no advanced production at the time, but in 1971 Boumédienne nationalized the Algerian oil industry, increasing government revenue tremendously (and sparking intense protest from the French government). He then put the soaring oil and gas resources—enhanced by the oil price shock of 1973—into building heavy industry, hoping to make his country the Maghreb's industrial centre. His years in power were in fact marked by a reliable and consistent economic growth, but after his death in the 1980s, the drop in oil prices and increasingly evident inefficiency of the country's state-run industries, prompted a change in policy towards gradual economical liberalization. In the 1970s, along with the expansion of state industry and oil nationalization, Boumédienne declared a series of socialist revolutions, and strengthened the leftist aspect of his regime. A side-effect of this was the rapprochement with the hitherto suppressed remnants of the Algerian Communist Party (the PAGS), whose members were now co-opted into the regime, where it gained some limited intellectual influence, although without formal legalization of their party. Algeria formally remained a single-party state under the FLN, but Boumédienne's personal rule had marginalized the ex-liberation movement, and little attention was paid to the affairs of the FLN in everyday affairs. Pluralism and opposition were not tolerated in Boumédienne's Algeria, which was characterized by government censorship and rampant police surveillance by the powerful Sécurité militaire, or Military Security. Political stability reigned, however, as attempts at challenging the state were generally nipped in the bud. As chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, Boumediene and his associates ruled by decree. During the 1970s, constitutional rule was gradually reinstated and civilian political institutions were restored and reorganized. Efforts were made to revive activity within the FLN, and state institutions were reestablished systematically, starting with local assemblies and moving up through regional assemblies to the national level, with the election of a parliament. The process culminated with the adoption of a constitution (1976) that laid down Algeria's political structure. This was preceded by a period of relatively open debate on the merits of the government-backed proposal, although the constitution itself was then adopted in a state-controlled referendum with no major changes. The constitution reintroduced the office of president, which Boumedienne entered after a single-candidate referendum in 1978. At the time of his death, later that year, the political and constitutional order in Algeria was virtually entirely of Boumediene's own design. This structure remained largely unchanged until the late 1980s, when political pluralism was introduced and the FLN lost its role as dominant single party. (Many basic aspects of this system and the Boumedienne-era constitution are still in place.) However, throughout Boumedienne's era, the military remained the dominant force in the country's politics, and military influence permeated civilian institutions such as the FLN, parliament and government, undercutting the constitutionalization of the country's politics. Intense financial or political rivalries between military and political factions persisted, and was kept in check and prevented from destabilizing the government mainly by Boumedienne's overwhelming personal dominance of both the civilian and military sphere. Foreign Policy Boumédienne pursued a policy of non-alignment, maintaining good relations with both the communist bloc and the capitalist nations, and promoting third-world cooperation. In the United Nations, he called for a new world order built on equal status for western and ex-colonial nations, and brought about by a socialist-style change in political and trade relations. He sought to build a powerful third world bloc through the Non-Aligned Movement, in which he became a prominent figure. He aggressively supported anti-colonial movements and other militant groups across Africa and the Arab world, including the PLO, ANC, SWAPO and other groups. A significant regional event was his 1975 pledge of support for an Western Saharan self-determination, admitting Sahrawi refugees and the Polisario Front guerrilla national liberation movement to Algerian territory, after Morocco and Mauritania claimed control over the territory. This ended the possibility of mending relations with Morocco, already sour after the 1963 sand war, although there had been a modest thaw in relations during his first time in power. The heightened Moroccan-Algerian rivalry and the still unsolved Western Sahara question became a defining feature of Algerian foreign policy ever since and remain so today. Death In 1978, his appearances became increasingly rare. After lingering in a coma for 39 days, he died of a rare blood disease, Waldenström's macroglobulinemia, following unsuccessful treatment in Moscow. Rumors about his being assassinated or poisoned have surfaced occasionally in Algerian politics, perhaps due to the rarity of the disease. The death of Boumédienne left a power vacuum in Algeria which could not easily be filled; a series of military conclaves eventually agreed to sidestep the competing left- and rightwing contenders, and designate the highest-ranking military officer, Col. Chadli Bendjedid, as a compromise selection. Still, factional intrigue mushroomed after Boumédienne's death, and no Algerian president has since gained the same complete control over the country as he had.

^ JKIA airport was plundered recently. the fire was just a cover up and now this mall? this has all the hallmarks of the Mungiki.

Haatu;978907 wrote: (Shame I missed the Arsenal game tho------>MOTD). does Adrian Chiles still host MOTD? :cool:

AJE is reporting this is NOT AS. 30 remain inside the mall. sources report KDF is on the roof of the building.

ADMIN;978881 wrote: ******************please respect the rules of the website and stop the insults****************** my reaction was legitimate against a deluge of pro-KDF insults. nonetheless, this didn't warrant my reaction. full and unequivocal apologies. cafwan.

Khadafi;978893 wrote: Nuunow, your 100% but nothing can prepare an army or commandos for an assault by gunmen who are suicidal. If one's mission is todie and take so many people you can with you , their will be great difficulties in stopping them. Askari keenyaati oo baashaalka iska jecel maa kula eh in uu u dhimanaayo difaacida meel suuq ah?. Apophis: It's confirmed that a somali father with three children died. My thoughts are with those who died on this horrible terrorist act. .......and i suppose Somalis are just ripe for occupying, miyaa? abti, it's sad that 60+ people have died. Kenya should have seen this coming? are you telling me this surprises you? are you telling me the Kenyans weren't expect this? this bantu nation has been militarising rapidly. its proliferating it's mechanism. it wants to be a regional military power. this is not surprising. it's clearly stated in Kibaki's 2030 Vision. nonetheless, Kenya has to be held to account for the tens of thousands of Somalis it has merciless slaughtered, it has maimed, and whose livelihood it has destroyed without remuneration. what is 10,000+? are they not humans? were these people complicit in these disgusting atrocities? are these people a legitimate target? are these people just a figure devoid of place, pain and personality? NO! Kenya has NO RIGHT to be in the Somali territories. they've broken countless international conventions....? wayoow? because it's a client state of the Western imperialist pigs, miyaa? YES! why did Kenya invade the Somali territories? because it's a greedy little bantu kleptocracy desperate to become a regional power to lay claim to Somali resources? YES! what 'legitimate' right, reason or pretext did the KDF have to invade our land? it is because it's a experimenting with it's jacbur-like second-hand military ware that it purchased from Russia? is it because it's demonstrating to Musevani that it's a force to reckon with? because of a few kidnapped whites on a sex tourism holiday package? YES! NO other country in modern history has invade another region for a more pathetic justification! for 22 years, Kenya has leeched off the ''Somali Problem''. for 22 years, Kenya has pillaged, raped beyond reason, and left the Somali people in these conducive terrorist friendly landscapes. for 22 years, Kenya has become synonymous with the ''Somali Problem'' facilitating every major INGO the opportunity to mashruuc'ise the suffering of our people.....for 22 years, Kenya has benefited greatly from these problems. Kenya has become the middle income country it is, maanta, because of the problems in the Somali territories. Kenya is obsessed with Somalis. Kenya is nothing but a third-rate African misery without Somalis, whether in Eastleigh, Dadaab, Kismayo, Mogadishu or in Ceel-Buur. Kenya is a Somali creation. they know this and we are becoming aware. indeed. we say NO MORE. join me in condemning these beastly creatures to, at ONCE, leave the Somali territories. join me in the defence against the Bantusation of the occupied territories and elsewhere. join me in calling these Gog and Magog leech-like creatures to account. join me in condemning their human rights abuse. join me in condemning their vileness, baseness and their moral repugnancy. join me in fighting against their occupation. join me in weeding out their Somali collaborators! NO MORE, we say. forever more, once more. indeed. Al.

Alpha Blondy;978891 wrote: LIVE: Man City vs Man Utd. city just scored. 15mins. city 4 - 0 united. 53mins K.O! Moyes has to go. :mad:

big chuuuuuuune pon di riddim. talk di ting singablinga!

Hobbesian_Brute;978887 wrote: saying JAH bless is clear cut shirk, don't you know that alpha. i fear for you. stone me to death. :mad:

LIVE: Man City vs Man Utd. city just scored. 15mins.

Capleton y'all. JAH Bless.

Calaamadaha - Airport Road Junction - welcoming parade of President AMMS's return from Baligubadle. welcome back Mr. President. Salute for madax sare. last thursday 19th

Sept 2013 - Downtown Hargeisa - Calaamadaha