That's a funny video. Thanks for posting Safferz.

21st October 1987 On the morning of the 20th of October, all was seemingly in place for tomorrow's celebrations. Excitement was rife and we were all looking forward to tomorrow's national celebrations. For the two days preceding our class spent considerable time preparing for the annual festivities. More than just Aabe Siyaad's descent to the throne, the day symbolised so much more for us. It was a auspicious occasion. For me and many others, that particular day has come to be associated with good memories. Until today the mere thought of 21st October is reminiscent with fond memories. I attended SOS school. One of a few select and prestigious schools in Xamar Caddey. The school was established four years earlier for orphans. But that it was attended by the children of the powerful elite was hardly contentious, suffice it to say, that they were not considered suitable. In hindsight, such inherent contradictions were obvious but I was oblivious. Despite my best efforts to fit in, I could never truly be one of them, since I was Northerneur. They were the 'Ubaxa Kacaanka' or the children of the revolution. I, on the other hand, was merely the son of a powerful Northerner with clout. On the 21st of October of every year, at least for the previous three years, we were all united, no doubt because, we played an important role in affirming what must have seemed, retrospectively speaking, a battered national psyche with our innocence, studiousness and the continuity of youth. On the afternoon of the 20th, I was collect from school by our HAG driver in one of our white Mercedes. Rashid was a mild-mannered man who rarely became angry. Certainly, his almost child-like innocence at the time, made it seem impossible that he should metamorphose into a rabid creature capable of cruelty. On first impressions, he struck you as the least likely candidate to develop a fetish for spurts of violence. But better the devil you know. Rashid was a trusted fellow, you could almost say he was family. Though a spoiled child harmed by over-solicitous behavioral problems, I would never have thought Rashid's tolerant nature, would be so intolerant in years to come. In 1993, we heard from close sources he colluded with his kin to unlawfully occupy our family residence. Luckily, much like Hassan's Damul Jadid politics of today, Rashid and his kin's militia were prone to inconsistency, inconsistently enough, for them to abandon our house for the next. Life in Xamar Caddey was blissfully uneventfully, despite how it must have seemed to the elders in our family. On Friday mornings, we were driven to the fish market in Xamar Weyne by Rashid. Lido Beach family picnic excursions are but one of few fond memories. In the evenings, we would go to the cinema in Maka Makarama to watch the latest American movies on the huge outdoor screens. Life was good. Despite my youthful recollections, you only needed to branch out of the compound to see the poverty-ridden dhoofle boys playing in the streets. They weren't fed and it showed. How life must have seemed for them was a latterly afterthought years later in Europe. Poverty lay around us. Yet, we were oblivious to their plight, let alone the problems up in the North. One day my lunch money was 10 shilling, the next day 50 shilling. A state of a country lulling itself into a false sense of scientific socialism. Yet, we and the regime were addled by grandiosity and luxury. Two worlds apart. Two different realities. I recall one particular day, I accompanied Rashid and one of the housemaids to the market. It was a mere 150m in distance but the local neighborhood seemed something out of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Perhaps, this was a prelude to what was to come. Yet, in this strange world, I was 'Colonial Kid', unaware of his position in the world of the Ubaxa Kacaanka. Safe, clean and nestled comfortably behind our landcruiser, I watched as Khadija haggled for consistency in a maize market of fluctuating prices. Yet this world was appealing. Interacting with people and being a commoner was alluring. Later on in life, I was still drawn to this world but it was opaquely impenetrable. I had difficulties fitting in, in more ways than one. I was an outsider in Xamar Caddey then and still seem afflicted by outsider pretensions. Perhaps the result of peaking too early in Xamar. Perhaps Xamar Caddey will give me closure. Our neighbours were foreign and that world was the norm. Slowly the whites left. Then Günter first and Mario after. I wondered where they were going? Why they were leaving? Should I go too? Unbeknownst to me, we would never come to play in these colonial tropics dressed in French clothes, to drive by Italian inspired promenades and boulevards, driven in German cars whilst eating imported kuchen. When they left, I knew Somalia changed indefinitely. This was not my country anymore, something was amiss. Less than 3 months later, I would be in Germany, in Günter's Germany. By early 1988 life seemed more emptier and I displayed higher levels of hostility towards these reer Waqooyi people making themselves comfortable in our house. We knew them as ''xaabadii keentahay''. In the North, they was colloquially mocked as ''xaabadii sugtay''. It didn't come as a surprise the dhar cad made themselves incognito outside our overpopulated compound and house. Inside the compound, I didn't relent in curbing their movements too. A nobody dirta Waqooyi uncle from father's village in Xamar Caddey, didn't sit comfortable with Aabe Siyaad's regime, or for that matter, with me too. By March 1988, our family life was severely disrupted. My schooling was disrupted, too. The austerity measures made themselves visible. Information was sketchy. The seepage of it's recycled sediments made themselves clear eventually, but I would eagerly digest, what little hearsay I came across for lack of direction. One Thursday morning in mid-March, I was abruptly awoken and given instructions. I gulped at the words uttered but the undulating voice of Aabe Siyaad and that of the Ubaxa Kacaanka echoed. On the way to the airport, I saw glimpses of the sun, but it aloofly contrasted itself with the black clouds massing behind it. The muted conversations in the rugged vehicle was one of apprehension and worry. I deciphered their musings but knew better to follow instructions. The questions were aplenty at the airport check-point but a Gullwade Siyaadist intervened. I recognised his face but could't recall the name. He had a distinctive composure about him, almost as though a Saacid of his days. We were at once granted safe passage. The atmosphere inside the plane was sombre and quiet. Once in the air, all the passengers as though conscientious objectors, relieved of a heavy burden, were joyous in their common irreverence. I thought that odd. 25 years later, it’s somewhat ironic, my return home coincides with the rebirth of Somali airlines.

Thanks for all the support. Second part is coming up.

The year was 1988. It was a time of great turmoil in my world. Ben Johnson had just recorded a new world record in the 100m at the Seoul Olympics. But from my vieuw, 1988 will forever be etched in my heart, for something entirely different. We received news of the 'war' against our people in the North. At the time, I didn't feel any empathy nor did I appreciate the disruption it would come to cause to the blossoming spring of my youth. For me, Xamar Caddey was glistening and that's all that mattered then and still matters now. Exactly a year later, it would have been our turn, had it not been for our flight to Holland. 1989 will forever be marked by a callous and calculated massacre in Case Poplare area. Back then we lived in Howlwadaag. The areas settled by Dirta Waqooyi people were leafier and I have since come to realise the position we occupied among the high society in Xamar Caddey. These days, you often hear of looted properties, yet our properties are still protected. Father still remits money to the enforcers who still continue to protect the properties. This story is not about reclaiming the wealth we accrued, nor it is about playing the hero, but rather, it's a story of a more personal nature. My story. My closure Exactly 25 years to the day my life changed forever, I recall feeling the exact same sentiments in the exact same airport. In 1988, we were leaving amid the impending crisis that has since come to define my life. in 2013, i was returning. Stood inside Frankfurt Airport's busy terminal, awaiting my flight back to Xamar Caddey, I struggled for mental continence. I left a boy and yet here I was returning a man. 25 years of longing to go back to Xamar Caddey was now a reality. 25 years of sacrifice, in the hope of returning, was now achieved. 25 year's nightmare haunted by fond memories of yesteryears in Xamar Caddey was now over. This is my story. My journey. My erasure. My closure. I will serialize the journey successively in this thread. :cool:

Maaddeey;981126 wrote: The mother of allproblems in Mogadishu is askartaas, waa tuugo, rapists and all. Meel kasto isbaaro aa u taallo!. Niman qurbajoog ah aa Tarzan uga cawday dhaqan xumada askarta, wuxuu ku jawaabay: 'anigaba tuugmo aan ku maraa e tuuga'!!.

As if the previous goverments were any better.

ANALYSIS - Westgate attack earns Uhuru Kenyatta fresh support President Uhuru Kenyatta's own bereavement and new clothes as commander-in-chief after Westgate NAIROBI Until the Nairobi mall carnage, President Uhuru Kenyatta was a beleaguered and divisive president. But his own bereavement and new clothes as commander-in-chief have earned him fresh support and, some say, a "get out of jail free card" for the International Criminal Court. The deadly September 21 raid on the Westgate mall brings new challenges to the government, which now has to explain why it failed to act on repeated warnings and find ways to thwart future attacks. But President Kenyatta himself, who lost his nephew and his fiancee in the siege, has showed mettle that won him support beyond his tribal constituency. "I did not vote for him but I have to say he showed real strength and determination. I was proud," said Alex Odhiambo, a young taxi driver, said the day after The Head of State announced the end of the siege. "This attack has been a tragedy for him too and people across the country have been impressed that his ability to govern was not affected," said Mwalimu Mati, who heads the government watchdog Mars Group Kenya. In his speeches to the nation during the crisis, President Kenyatta spoke of his loss, called for national unity and vowed to punish the perpetrators. "Whether the security operation was well handled or not has not yet been laid at his feet. He sent the right signals, looked in control. Presidential," said Mati. Not only has the 51-year-old scion of Kenya's founding president earned his stripes, he is now likely to enjoy better support than usual from his traditional enemies. As the country held its breath while the drama unfolded inside the mall, The President strove to cast himself as the leader of all Kenyans and not just the champion of his tribe's interests he has often been seen as. 'The perfect doctor's note' The ratings agency Moody's said it was not all doom and gloom on the economic front either. It said it expected the attack to "galvanise a broader mandate and dull the international and domestic political effect" of President Kenyatta's impending trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC). President Kenyatta was due in The Hague in November to face charges of crimes against humanity over the deadly tribal violence he is accused of having stirred after a disputed 2007 presidential election. The Hague refused to postpone his trial after the attack but observers say he will be in a much stronger position to argue that he is now the guarantor of Kenya's unity and that the country needs his leadership. "Kenyatta has the perfect doctor's note," a diplomat said. With a string of key witnesses retracting or being compromised in dubious circumstances, the ICC case against President Kenyatta and his foe-turned-deputy William Ruto had already been losing steam. "Now there really is a lot of pressure on the ICC," said Mwalimu Mati. Kenya is one of the main purveyors of troops to the African force propping up the pro-Western government in Somalia and battling the Al Shabaab insurgents. The group claimed the September 21 mall attack but is also increasingly recognised as a global threat that could strike Western interests and is turning Somalia into one of Al-Qaeda's main hubs. When President Kenyatta argued before the attack that Kenya could ill afford an absentee president, it was a somewhat academic argument. Now he has a strong reason to ask for leniency. "Kenyatta can now say: 'You cannot ask Kenya to help and at the same time persecute its president," said Mati. Ngunjiri Wambugu, a young leader of President Kenyatta's Kikuyu tribe, wrote in a column on Sunday that as the nation still mourns its dead, there is a "silver lining for (Kenyatta) in this dark cloud". "He now has an opportunity to remind Kenyans and the world that our country is at war, and point to Westgate as why we cannot afford to have a president with divided attention," wrote Wambugu, who heads the Change Associates Trust think tank. Arguing that a crisis should never go to waste, Wambugu said that the raid even presented Kenyatta with a chance to heal the wounds of the post-election violence and completely reform his administration. This attack seems to have secured Kenyatta juniors re-election. A 'perfect' doctors note copy pasted from Bush junior.

Mad_Mullah;980627 wrote: I'm OG but Kenyan troops are being used by us to maintain dominance in the South. Real talk. Get the F out. Somalida, including your lot of borderline Somalis, couldnt even make use of the worlds wealth if they hand it their hands. marka maxaa sheegisaa.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201310030085.html Somalia: Kenyatta - Kenyan Troops 'Will Stay in Somalia' Kenya's top Christian, Hindu and Muslim clerics have led a multi-faith prayer service for the 67 victims of the Westgate shopping center attack, BBC reported. President Uhuru Kenyatta told the gathering that religion had been used to try and divide Kenyans but faith had instead united them. There were plans to set up a commission of inquiry into the attack by Somalia's al-Shabab Islamist militants, he said. Kenyan forces would remain in Somalia until order was restored, he said. On Monday, Kenyan MPs called for camps for Somali refugees in the country to close in the wake of the siege. Al-Shabab, a Somali Islamist group, said its militants stormed the mall on 21 September in retaliation for Kenya's military involvement in Somalia. Kenya is host to the largest refugee camp in the world, Dadaab - home to about half a million people - near the Somali border, while it is believed that more than 30,000 Somali refugees live in Nairobi alone. The prayers were hosted by Kenya's Inter-Religious Council with clerics from different faiths, who sat together on a stage facing the congregation, calling for national unity, reconciliation and healing. President Kenyatta praised them for organising the prayers, which showed that "tolerance and mutual understanding are the cement holding" Kenyans together. Faith "is one thing in 100 different languages, that's why faith unites us", he said. Source: BBC Exclusive - Kenyan peacekeepers aided illegal Somalia charcoal export - U.N. . (Reuters) - A confidential report by U.N. monitors accuses Kenyan soldiers in the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia of facilitating illegal charcoal exports from the port city of Kismayu, a business that generates millions of dollars a year for Islamic militants seeking to topple the government. read more.... http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/07/14/uk-somalia-charcoal-un-idUKBRE96D01C20130714 Kenya's role was just being questioned by the UN. Another coincidence in the benefit of Kenya?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/26/us-kenya-attack-kenyatta-analysis-idUSBRE98P0HY20130926 Analysis: Mall raid rallies foreign support for ICC-indictee Kenyatta NAIROBI | Thu Sep 26, 2013 9:00am EDT (Reuters) - While it hurts Kenya's tourism and investment, the bloody Nairobi mall assault by Islamist militants will help President Uhuru Kenyatta bolster international support as he confronts charges of crimes against humanity at The Hague. Accused by prosecutors at the International Criminal Court of fomenting post-election bloodletting in 2007/2008, Kenyatta leads a nation that is now in the spotlight as a victim of crimes punishable under international law. Saturday's raid on Nairobi's upscale Westgate mall, in which Islamist militants killed dozens of civilians in a hail of gunfire and grenades, has won Kenya words of support and firm condemnations of "terrorism" from leaders around the world. This could shift the diplomatic scenario for a 51-year-old president, whose election in March as Kenya's head of state had already added a new dimension to the ICC prosecution against him. He denies encouraging the post-election violence that killed upwards of 1,200 people. Kenyatta's allies are arguing that the security implications for Africa and the world of the weekend mall attack claimed by the Islamist militant group al Shabaab from neighboring Somalia should take priority over the president's obligations to the ICC, where he is due to face trial on November 12. "Do you want to focus on the ICC when so much has to be done?" Moses Kuria, a strategist for Kenyatta's Jubilee coalition who has worked alongside him, told Reuters. He suggested the ICC suspend its ongoing prosecutions against Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto, for two to three years, to allow them to confront a threat to Kenya's security that the Kenyan leader has called an "international war". "The security concerns of the world at this time would better be served by us focusing all our energies on fighting terrorism, and ... ensuring the whole of Africa will not be a safe haven for terrorism," Kuria said. "Therefore, it will be untenable to have these cases continue," he added. ICC judges on Monday adjourned Ruto's trial, which began this month, for a week to allow him to return home and deal with the mall attack crisis. ICC spokesman Fadi El-Abdallah said Kenyatta's defense lawyers had filed a request for the Kenyan president to not physically appear at his trial in the Hague next month, but participate via video link. All requests for adjustments, suspensions or postponements would be considered by the judges on a "case by case" basis, he told Reuters, without commenting further. Western governments, obliged to walk something of a diplomatic tightrope in their relations with the ICC-indicted pair after their election, now seem willing to work more closely with them, especially in anti-terrorism cooperation. TACKLING TERRORISM: "ESSENTIAL BUSINESS" "I would regard the need to combat terrorism as essential business," the European Union's Africa Director Nick Wescott told Reuters. He was in Nairobi specifically to discuss with the Kenyan authorities the security implications of the weekend attack, which killed several expatriates as well as Kenyans. Asked whether this would mean greater Western flexibility towards dealing with Kenyatta, Wescott said the two issues - the Kenyan leader's ICC trial and his international role in fighting Islamist extremist violence - should be kept separate. But he added: "Let's see how it goes. It is essential that we all work as closely together as possible to deal with threats like this in Kenya, in Somalia, everywhere." Reflecting this intensified cooperation, Kenyan Interior Minister Joseph ole Lenku said the United States, Israel, Britain, Germany, Canada and the police agency Interpol were assisting in the investigation of the Westgate mall incident and the identities of the attackers. But for those who want Kenyatta to face justice and an end to what they call a culture of impunity in Africa, the idea of giving the Kenyan leader any judicial leeway is anathema. "As tragic as the events at the Westgate mall are, the number of people killed there is a fraction of the people who were killed in the course of the events Kenyatta is accused of orchestrating," said Makau Mutua, a Kenyan-born law professor at New York's State University. He criticized the one-week postponement of the Ruto trial, saying the ICC acted emotionally rather than logically. He added he saw "short-term sympathy" over the mall attack but "for Kenya, not for Kenyatta". Global risk consultancy Maplecroft said the Shabaab attack on Kenya's leading shopping mall showed up how the ICC trials against the Kenyan leaders would be "hugely disruptive to the processes of governance" in east Africa's biggest economy. "As such, the attack will provide another opportunity for Kenyatta and Ruto to demand that their hearings are switched from The Hague to Arusha in neighboring Tanzania, or postponed altogether," Maplecroft said in a briefing note. Ratings agency Moody's said the assault would dent Kenya's growth, particularly by depressing tourism. But Moody's Assistant Vice President Edward Al-Hussainy added in a statement: "We also expect it to give President Uhuru Kenyatta's new Jubilee coalition government an opportunity to galvanize a broader mandate and dull the international and domestic political effect of the ongoing International Criminal Court trial of the president and his deputy." "STAND WITH US" Kenyatta, who has up to now publicly pledged his cooperation with the ICC, has made clear that he is actively seeking international backing to confront the widening threat posed by cross-border jihadists like the weekend mall raiders. In a speech addressing the nation and its "friends" late on Tuesday when he announced that security forces had defeated the attackers after a four-day siege, Kenyatta stressed that "terrorism is a global problem that requires global solutions". "Kenya will stand with our friends in tackling terrorism and I ask our friends to stand with us," a somber president told his nation, adding that Kenya had "stared down evil and triumphed". Since the mall attack, Kenyatta has received calls and messages of support from world leaders including U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron. Kenya is seen as a key ally in the fight against violent Islamist extremism in the Horn of Africa and Kenyan troops form part of an internationally-backed African peacekeeping force in Somalia that has put al Shabaab on the defensive. In contrast, another ICC indictee, Sudanese President Omar Hassan al Bashir, who is accused of orchestrating genocide in Darfur and is defying an arrest warrant, is treated as a pariah by the West. Kenya's government, backed by east African states and some other nations on a continent that is increasingly suspicious of a perceived anti-African bias by the ICC, had already asked the ICC to suspend the hearings scheduled for Kenyatta and Ruto. African leaders are due to discuss the Kenyan prosecutions at the African Union next month, amid some calls for a walkout by African states from the decade-old ICC. The Hague court's prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda of Gambia, who is leading the cases against Kenyatta and Ruto, has given no indication so far that the ICC will ease up on the prosecutions. In a statement on Tuesday, Bensouda said she was ready to work with Kenya and the international community to bring to justice those responsible for the weekend raid in Nairobi. "Such attacks by armed groups upon innocent civilians are contrary to international law and may constitute a crime under the Rome Statute, to which Kenya is a State Party," she said. Evelyn Ankumah, Executive Director of Netherlands-based Africa Legal Aid, said that from a legal point of view the Nairobi mall attack should not affect the ongoing ICC cases. But Ankumah, whose organization supports human rights and criminal justice from an African perspective, said she could not rule out the possibility of the U.N. Security Council asking for Kenyatta's ICC trial to be deferred, maybe for a year. "It would be naive to say that international criminal justice is not political," she said (Additional reporting by Thomas Escritt in The Hague, Carolyn Cohn in London, James Macharia, Drazen Jorgic and Kevin Mwanza in Nairobi; writing by Pascal Fletcher; editing by Philippa Fletcher) Two days after the attack and Kenyatta is asking the international community for suppport against the International Crimina Court.

This is hilarious. They arrest a Somali UK citizen at the airport and label him as the Westgate terror suspect. Why? because he had sunglasses on and has a bruise on his face. :rolleyes: Where are the Somali fufu eaters to explain us this advanced form of Kenyan investigation. Where is Tutu, Haatu?

http://boramanews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2966&catid=34&Itemid=53

Blue, The last song you posted is from 2012. Or are you trying to convey the messenge 'ha i raadsan' to a particular person?

Alpha Blondy;979907 wrote: conversation with Abdul Haji and Alpha B. Alpha: Habari Abdul Haji Utapenda kunywa nini? Abdul Haji: really wa nilikula. no really wa nimekula. as you can see i'm ninakula. and as i said i'll nitakula BIG TIME, my father is nitakula, too. he's a minister. Alpha: huu hapa wali, samaki, mbatata, na saladi. Nitakuletea keki baadaye? Abdul Haji: like i said abtinika wa nilikula. ileen i'm a hero eh. Alpha: astante the nation's hero, Mr.Tembo. Unakwenda wapi? Abdul Haji: Westgate Mall. Alpha: ok. good luck. Loooooooll

The poor guy has been arrested the same day he made those comments. This is the second or third time he got arrested for excersising his free speech. Back in 2012 he was imprisoned for months, just for announcing the forming of a political party. http://qarannews.com/2013/09/wadaad-reer-hargeysa-oo-xukumada-siilanyo-xabsiga-u-taxaabtay-caawaamuuraha-xadhigiisa-loo-sibisaaray/ See the thread I dedicated to the poor guy back in 2012. http://www.somaliaonline.com/community/showthread.php/68706-XIsbul-Islam-leader-arrested-in-Somaliland?highlight=free+sheick

“We are dealing with a highly organised outfit. The operation was planned with military precision, nothing had been discounted.” Maybe that's because it was planned en carried out by the National Intelligent Services themselves. http://rinf.com/alt-news/latest-news/some-got-warning-to-avoid-westgate-before-bloody-siege/73876/

Kenya was never planning to pull out from Somalia and now they have a 'justification' to stay for the coming decades. This smells all like a poor Kikuyu version of 11/9.

Kenya vows to keep up war against Shabaab in Somalia Saturday, September 28, 2013 Kenya’s interior minister said on Friday the country would not bow to Shabaab demands to pull troops out of Somalia following a devastating mall attack in Nairobi by the Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents. “We went to Somalia because Al-Shabaab was a threat to national security… We will continue to take action on that front until our security and interests in the country are protected,” Joseph ole Lenku told reporters. Somalia’s Shabaab chief Ahmed Abdi Godane said the Nairobi mall carnage in which at least 67 people were killed was a “message to Westerners,” who had “backed Kenya’s invasion (of Somalia) that has spilled the blood of the Muslims for the interest of their oil companies”. In an audio message posted on an Islamist website, Godane threatened “more bloodshed” unless Kenya withdrew its troops. Kenya invaded southern Somalia to attack Shabaab bases two years ago, and later joined the 17,700-strong African Union force deployed in the country. Five suspected attackers were also killed in the four-day long siege at the mall, while Lenku said police were now holding eight suspects. “We are operating under the terrorism act which allows suspects to be held for longer periods before they are arraigned in court,” Lenku said. Three others have been released without charge.

Kenya has vowed not to bow to Shebab threats of more attacks if troops are not pulled out of Somalia, following a devastating mall attack in Nairobi by the Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents. "We went to Somalia because Al-Shebab was a threat to national security... We will continue to take action on that front until our security and interests in the country are protected," Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku told reporters on Friday. Somalia's Shebab chief Ahmed Abdi Godane said the Nairobi Westgate mall carnage in which at least 67 people were killed would be followed by "more bloodshed" unless Kenya left Somalia. Kenya invaded southern Somalia to attack Shebab bases two years ago, and later joined the 17,700-strong African Union force deployed in the country. Funerals continued Friday for the victims on the third and final day of official mourning, with President Uhuru Kenyatta attending the service of his slain nephew. As well as scores of Kenyans, many of the dead were foreigners, including from Britain, Canada, China, France, the Netherlands, India, South Africa and South Korea. Nigerian Nobel literature laureate Wole Soyinka and other writers paid tribute to renowned Ghanaian poet and statesman Kofi Awoonor who was among the dead. "We denounce these enemies of humanity," Soyinka said, accompanied by several writers and authors at a press conference in Freedom Park in central Lagos, Nigeria's largest city. Dozens more are unaccounted for, with 59 people still listed by the Red Cross as missing after the attack, one of the worst in Kenya's history. The extremists Friday gloated at the massacre, which saw a group of gunmen storm the part Israeli-owned complex at midday Saturday, firing from the hip and hurling grenades at shoppers and staff, before holding off Kenyan and foreign forces with a barrage of bullets for four days. "The mesmeric performance by the Westgate Warriors was undoubtedly gripping, but despair not folks, that was just the premiere of Act 1," the group said in one of a string of messages posted on social media. Since the unprecedented 80-hour siege ended late Tuesday, the Shebab have claimed responsibility for an attack Thursday on a police compound on the border with Somalia, killing two officers. Attacks are common in Kenya's northeastern border with Somalia, with regular grenade blasts or shooting ever since Kenyan troops crossed into southern Somalia two years ago. Close to 200 people were wounded in the four-day mall carnage in one of Nairobi's largest shopping centres, which was popular among wealthy Kenyans, diplomats, UN workers and other expatriates. Police continued to scour the fire-blackened rubble in Westgate for bodies and clues, with Lenku insisting that contents of smashed shops would be protected from looters. Kenya's parliamentary defence committee meanwhile ordered army, security and intelligence chiefs to answer questions about the handling of the siege next week. Police have pleaded for patience as Kenyan and international teams -- including from Britain, the United States, Israel, Germany, Canada and Interpol -- painstakingly examine the mall. With around a third of the building collapsed -- as though hit by an earthquake -- and with the risk of booby traps amongst the mangled wreckage, the work of international forensic and security experts will take days to complete. Several members of the Kenyan forces involved in battle inside the mall said that the fire broke out Monday after Kenyans fired at least two bazooka anti-tank rockets at the gunmen, who were holed up in the strong room of a supermarket. "In the end we had to use full force, we had to finish with these guys," said one member of the elite force. Top Interpol official Jean-Michel Louting, speaking near the mall, told AFP the challenge for investigators was to try "to remove the three levels that collapsed and see what is underneath". Interpol issued an international arrest notice at Kenya's request for 29-year-old Samantha Lewthwaite, dubbed the 'White Widow', a reference to her marriage to one of the suicide bombers who killed 52 people in London's July 2005 terror attacks. Nairobi accuses her of alleged links to the Shebab and the possession of explosives in a 2011 plot, and there has been widespread media speculation over her possible role in Nairobi's deadly siege, despite no concrete evidence so far. Five suspected attackers were killed in the mall and eight other people detained, officials said. Three others have since been released without charge. Kenya further sought to shrug off the threats with the government issuing a defiant statement to say plans to raise close to $1.5 billion (1.1 billion euros) in a debut international bond issue were unaffected. "The Kenyan economy, just like the spirit of our people, is unshaken by the recent tragedy," Treasury Secretary Henry Rotich said in a statement. Still the country remains traumatised. Somalis living in Kenya are terrified of retaliatory attacks, against the half a million refugees as well as members of the native ethnic Somali community.

There are to many weapons in Somalia.

Dowlad cusub iyo mucaarid cusub. Wakhti wa ina siino, inte la qabsaniyaan shaqada.

http://rinf.com/alt-news/latest-news/some-got-warning-to-avoid-westgate-before-bloody-siege/73876/

ElPunto;979183 wrote: Somalis for all their education and time in the west seriously lack a basic understanding of democracy and governance. 1- Protesting a President or other high official does NOT equal you don't support the Government of Somalia just as Tea Partyers protesting Obama does not equal no support for the Government of the USA 2- Protesting a President does NOT equal 'perpetual opposition' and 'stealth secessionism' - just as protests in Somaliland don't mean the whole state is crumbling and regions are seceding ElPunto, what most of us don't understand is. Why protest now while the State is recovering and why against Culusoow, we have seen worser leaders who had real blood on their hands?

Somaliland wexe noqotay another, Hongkong or Zanzibar. "Special" region within those countries.