Ciidamada Ethiopia oo weerar lala beegsadey 7 Jan 7, 2007, 14:22 Abaarihii sideedii fiidnimo ee xiliga Muqdisho ayaa la sheegay gaari Ural ah oo ay saarnaayeen in ka badan 72 Askari ay kooxo hubeysan oo la sheegay iney wateen gaari MarkII ah ay la beegsadeen qoriga 7-ka loo yaqaan. Asad Max'ed Cali oo ku sugnaa xiliga falkaasi uu dhacay agagaarka KM4 ayaa GO u xaqiijiyay inuu indhihiisa saaray 7 Askari oo Ethiopian ah kuwaas oo meydkooda uu daadsanaa hareeraha wadada. Goobjoogaha ayaa sheegay in uu arkay gaari Ural-ka oo gubanaya isla markana inta badan ciidamada gaarigaasi saarnaaa ay ku geeriyoodeen marka laga reebo 2 askari oo uu sheegay inuu arkay iyagoo rasaas iska furaya. Ciidamada DF iyo kuwo Ethiopian ah oo ku dhowaa goobta falkaasi ka dhacay ayaa la sheegay iney rasaas aan cidna loogu aaba yeelin iska fureen iyagoo garan waayay jihada laga jiro. Ilaa hada ma jirto cid xaqiijin karta khasaaraha dhabta ah ee halkaasi ka dhacay, iyadoo mas'uuliyiinta DF ay beeniyeen in Askar badan laga laayay. Wixii tafaasiil dheeraad ah kala soco Garowe online Dowladda Eth Ethiopia oo sheegtay in wadanka hub ka dhigis u imaan iopia, ayaa markii ugu horaysay shaaca ka qaaday in aysan wadanka Somalia , u iman hub ka dhigis, balse ay baacsanayeen kooxo Mucaarad ku ah dowladda KMG ee Somalia, oo ku sugnaa gudaha dalka. Sarkaal u hadlay xukuumadda Addis Ababa, ayaa qiray in ciidamada Ethiopia, marka ay dhameystaan hawgalkooda ay dib ugu laaban doonaan wadankooda. Hadalka sarkaalkani ayaa soo baxay, xilli magaalada Baladweyne laga soo sheegayo in hubkii ay ciidamada Ethiopian-ku ka qaadeen Maxaakiimta Islaamiga ah dib loogu celiyeen Maleeshiyooyinkii lahaa. Ilo-wareed kale, ayaa xaqiijinaya in Ethiopian-ku ay sidoo kale dib ugu celiyeen beelihii iska lahaa hub ay kula wareegeen dagaalkii ka dhacay Gobalada dhexe. Cabdi Fatax Axmad,GO

Last Updated: Sunday, 7 January 2007, 14:59 GMT E-mail this to a friend Printable version Protests hit Somali border town Many Somalis want the Ethiopians to go Demonstrators in a Somali town close to the Ethiopian border have demanded the release from detention of a local official, burning tyres in protest. He was arrested by Ethiopian troops in the town of Beledweyne after refusing to hand over a leading member of the ousted Union of Islamic Courts. There are reports of gunfire and casualties from the town. Ethiopian forces backing the Somali interim government have driven Islamist forces out of large areas of Somalia. A nurse in Beledweyne, some 300km (188 miles) north of the capital Mogadishu, said three people had been brought to the town's hospital with bullet wounds. "I think there will be more casualties because the demonstration is continuing and there is heavy fire in the town," Hassan Ali Der was quoted as saying by AFP news agency. Clashes in capital In Mogadishu, militiamen loyal to the Somali transitional government have been patrolling the streets. Thousands of Ethiopian troops - who clashed with local residents on Saturday - are camped just outside the city. The interim President of Somalia, Abdullahi Yusuf, has returned to the government headquarters town of Baidoa after talks in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa with Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi. Mr Meles said Ethiopian troops should leave Somalia within two weeks.

Muqdisho: Weerar lala beegsaday ciidamada cadowga Itoobiya Posted to the Web Jan 07, 13:50 Aayaha.com, 07 Jannaayo 2007 - Waxaa caaway dagaal xooggani ka dhacay magaalada Muqdisho gaar ahaan inta u dhaxaysa Hotel Naaso-hablood iyo Xarunta CID da oo saldhig u ah ciidamada Tigreeda. Dagaalkaan ayaa ka dambeeyey kadib markii ay xoogagga xaq u dirirka Soomaaliyeed ku qaadeen dagaal qorsheysan kolonyo ka mid ah ciidamada Itoobiya oo maraysay wadada ka timaada dekadda weyn ee Muqdisho kuna siijeedey xarunta CID. Weerarka ayaa ku bilowdey kadib markii la la beegsadey xabad nooca baasuukaha gaari nooca uuraalka ah, kadib waxaa ay goobtii isku badashay goob la isku waydaarsado hubka noocyadiisa kala duwan, waxaana halkaas ka dhacay dagaal qaatay ugu yaraan labataan daqiiqo. Dadka degan agagaarka xaafadda Kilomitir afar oo aan teleefoonka kula xiriirney ayaa Aayaha.com u xaqiijiyay in xabadii tigreedu rideysay ay ku geeriyootey gabar yar oo Somaaliyeed halka uu nin kalena ku dhaawacmay. Wararka ayaa tilmaamaya in ugu yaraan todobo askari ka bakhtidey ciidamada Tigreeda halka tiro kale oo badana ka dhaawacantay. Waxaa muuqata inuu si rasmi ah u bilowdey dagaalkii looga xoreynayey gayiga Soomaaliya ciidamada kusoo duuley ee Xabashida. Dagaalka noocaan ah ayaa ah midkii uu ummadda Soomaaliyeed ugu baaqay Sheekh Shariif Sheekh Axmed gudomiyaha gudiga fullinta ee Maxaakimta Islaamiga Soomaaliyeed. Aayaha News Desk

Lets hope and pray for the Mujaahidiin IA. War degdeg ah:-Ciidamo Itoobiyaan ah oo marayey wadada Km4 ee Muqdisho, ayaa waxaa rasaas xoogan ku furay ciidamo aan la garaneyn cidda ay yihiin. Dad goobta ka dhawaa ayaa hobyonet u sheegay in ciidamada Itoobiyo ay waxyeelo xoogan gaartay, ciidankii weeraryna ay ka tageen goobta. www.hobyo.net

Wararkii: Jan 7, 2007 www.somalitalk.com Ciidamada Ethiopia oo Hadda Isku urursaday garoonka iyo Dekedda Muqidisho Dagaal ka dhacay Xuduuda u dhexeysa Kenya iyo Soomaaliya.. Halkee ku dambeeyeen hogaankii Sare Maxaakiimta.. Cali Cabdala Saalax oo kulan la yeeshay kaaliyaha.. Ciidanka Ethiopia oo Diley Wiil 13-jir ah... Banaanbax looga soo horjeedo ciidamada Itoobiya.. Dowladda Kenya oo sii deysay xildhibaanadii… Muuse Suudi Yalaxow oo Sabtidii dib ugu laabtey

May Allah protect and bless Sh.Shareef and the many other genuine men and women in the ICU IA.

Ethiopian army eager to learn from U.S. soldiers See Original Article for More Pictures By Monte Morin, Stars and Stripes Mideast edition, Friday, January 5, 2007 DIRE DAWA, Ethiopia — The Ethiopian army trainees crept slowly through the thorn-studded East African brush, clutching well-worn Kalashnikov rifles. Somewhere in this rocky landscape a simulated ambush awaited them. U.S. Army 1st Lt. Ben Daughters, 24, of Chillicothe, Ohio, stands behind an Ethiopian army lieutenant and trainee during a recent class on conducting ambushes. “Tell ‘em their heads need to be on a swivel,” U.S. Army Sgt. Robert Conley yelled to the squad’s Ethiopian interpreter. “What?” said the interpreter, scrunching his face into a question mark. “A SWIVEL!” yelled Conley, 27, of Assaria, Kan. “I need to tell them what?” said the interpreter, looking even more confused. Photo: Stars and Stripes Military instructor and U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Bill Flippo, 27, of Winfield, Kansas, illustrates a point by drawing in the sand while training Ethiopian army soldiers as a translator looks on. Conley, who has been training Ethiopian troops in basic infantry tactics here for the Combined Joint Task Force — Horn of Africa, raised his hand as if animating a sock puppet and rotated his wrist from side to side. “You know — a swivel,” Conley said. The interpreter looked on in silence. “Tell ’em they need to be looking around,” Conley said at last. Language barriers notwithstanding, U.S. military trainers at the sprawling Ethiopian Training Academy in Hurso say they’ve been pleasantly surprised by how rapidly Ethiopian troops have taken to their instruction. Soldiers with the 1st Infantry Division’s 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment and the Guam Army National Guard are training soldiers in basic infantry tactics, noncommissioned officer skills and officer logistics. The so-called military-to-military training is part of a larger U.S. effort aimed at preventing Islamist militants from gaining a foothold in a region that has been plagued by poverty, armed conflict, drought and famine. The training has taken on added urgency recently, with the Ethiopian military’s battle against Muslim militants in Somalia, and the ongoing threat of war with its breakaway rival, Eritrea. “They’re willing to learn and we’re willing to teach,” said Sgt. 1st Class Bill Flippo, 27, of Winfield, Kan., another 1st Infantry Division soldier. To be sure, Ethiopia has shown a historic eagerness to learn from many militaries, not just America’s, and the story of its defense forces is the story of shifting global alliances. More than a decade before the U.S. government identified Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti as allies in the global war on terrorism, the Ethiopian military took aid and instruction from the former Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, Yemen and a number of Eastern Bloc nations. Yet Ethiopia’s Cold War alliances were not always with the communists. At the very outset of the conflict, Ethiopia played host to thousands of U.S. military personnel who helped train and equip the East African nation’s military and operated one of the world’s largest radio relay and communications monitoring stations in the world. The relationship between Ethiopia and the U.S. military began in 1953, when the two nations signed a defense pact that allowed the U.S. to operate the Kagnew Communications Station in Asmara, now the capitol of Eritrea. For much of its 24 years of operation, the Kagnew Station hosted some 4,000 U.S. military personnel — more than double the size of the current Djibouti-based Horn of Africa task force. Among other things, Kagnew relayed communications from Washington to U.S. troops during the Korean War and eavesdropped on Soviet Union outposts in the region during the Cold War. The U.S. military also conducted extensive mapping of the nation and operated small training camps near the Sudanese border, instructing and equipping more than 20,000 Ethiopian military personnel. By 1974 the U.S. government had supplied hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of aid and military equipment to Ethiopia. However, the relationship between the two allies had begun to cool. Advancements in satellite technology were eroding the importance of Kagnew Station, and the ouster of Ethiopia’s Emperor Haile Selassie by a group of Ethiopian soldiers known as the Derg, or “committee,” touched off a bloody purge in which thousands of Ethiopians were killed or tortured. The Derg, a number of whom were trained by the U.S. military either in Ethiopia or in the U.S., adopted a communist form of government and turned to the Soviet Union, Cuba and other communist nations for military backing, equipment and training. The regime then broke ties with the U.S. in 1977 and ordered all U.S. military personnel to leave the country. The move triggered a peculiar Cold War flip-flop of allegiances. While the Soviet Union had backed Somalia, a longtime foe of Ethiopia, and the U.S. had backed Ethiopia for decades, the two superpowers quickly re-arranged their backing, with the U.S. offering its support for Somalia and the Soviet Union turning to Ethiopia. By the late 1980s however, the Derg began to crumble with the fall of communism and growing insurgencies throughout Ethiopia, droughts and famine. In the wake of its collapse, Ethiopia’s transitional government pledged that it would form a multiparty democracy, while Eritrea became independent by 1993. Today, the Ethiopian National Defense Forces consist of roughly 200,000 personnel, making it one of the largest militaries in Africa, and, in the eyes of U.S. policymakers, a force for stability. Even so, reminders of Ethiopia’s shifting military ties can still be found on military bases like the one in Hurso. In the tiny, fenced compound where U.S. military trainers live and teach, a weathered concrete monument bearing Ethiopia’s national colors and a communist hammer and sickle stands behind a row of Soviet-constructed block houses that now serve as classrooms. “That’s pretty old,” a Guam Army National Guardsmen said of the monument recently. “Everybody likes to get a picture of that.”

In Somalia, Confusion Remains in Command Premier Exhorts Revived, Ragtag Army By Stephanie McCrummen Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, January 6, 2007 MOGADISHU, Somalia, Jan. 5 -- The revived Somali national army assembled here Friday in the sand-blown yard of the former parliament, a hollowed-out building splashed with grenade blasts and scrawled with apocalyptic graffiti. About 1,000 men sat in the sun, soldiers who had been inactive for 15 years, old men with graying beards wearing whatever shade of camouflage they found at the market or dug out of storage. Few had boots; most wore leather loafers, sandals or thin-soled tennis shoes. They squinted at the newly ascendant prime minister, Ali Mohamed Gedi, who was swept into power last week on the strength of Ethiopian soldiers now pointing machine guns at the crowd. "As prime minister, I say let us go back to our national interests," said Gedi, a former veterinarian. "This capital of Somalia is not for clans or tribes. It's for all Somalis. Is this clear? Will I repeat it, or have you got it?" They all stood to sing the Somali national anthem, with many soldiers simply moving their lips, having forgotten the words. When it was over, 100 or so civilians heckled the new force -- "Traitors!" -- and Gedi zipped off in a convoy. Even at such orchestrated events in Mogadishu, it is unclear who is in control, and the same could be said of Somalia itself. Candidates for the title include the heavily armed Ethiopian forces stationed at strategic points around the city, without which Gedi's government would have failed to take the country from the popular Islamic Courts movement. There is Gedi himself, who leads an internationally recognized government but is perceived by many Somalis as a puppet of the Ethiopians. The Ethiopians, in turn, are perceived as closely tied to the United States, which has expressed concern that Somalia could become a stronghold for terrorists. There is the fractious parliament, which Gedi is set to meet with in the next few days and whose members include warlords formerly backed by the United States, and others tied to webs of clans, sub-clans and sub-sub-clans, most with their own militias. And somewhere in the oceanside city of sand, goats, poetry and barbed wire, an estimated 3,500 former Islamic Courts fighters who shed their uniforms are thought to be awaiting instructions to attack the Ethiopian troops. On Friday, al-Qaeda's deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, posted a message on the Internet calling on the fighters and other Muslims to attack the invading "crusader" force, Ethiopia, which has a government and army dominated by Christians and a population that is nearly half Muslim. All week, pamphlets circulating in the city have warned residents to stay away from Ethiopian soldiers. "This is a funny question," said Gedi, when asked who is controlling Somalia. "The transitional federal government. It's a fully inclusive and representative government. This is my commitment, this is my responsibility as a prime minister to lead the Somali people." Gedi's government is frail, however. He has not reached out to any moderate Islamic Courts leaders, widely credited with bringing security to Mogadishu, choosing to provide amnesty instead of inclusion in the government. A process of disarming the city is going badly, and Gedi said this week that he has only half the security forces he needs. Although the United States pledged $40 million in aid Friday, the government has practically no revenue to pay soldiers and set up ministries, or to assist thousands whose farms were ruined by recent floods. Somalia's parliament, where representation is based on clan and sub-clan, includes many of the old warlords who had organized as an "anti-terrorism coalition" funded by the U.S. government, and otherwise made money by setting up roadblocks across the country to extract bribes. They were defeated by the Islamic Courts in June and are now seeking to wield power again, with some, such as Mohamed Qanyare Afrah, growing impatient with Gedi, whom they accuse of favoring his own people. "They don't have any real power or any real authority," Qanyare said of the government. "My people want a government of national unity, not a government of certain clans, and that is what this government looks like." Qanyare, a charismatic man known as the founder of the anti-terrorism coalition, sat in his armed compound on a hill at the city's crumbled edge, a place that seemed more like a military position than a home. He is from a sub-clan that is a rival of Gedi's. A fleet of trucks was parked behind a wall, and militiamen armed with AK-47 assault rifles clustered at the door. Qanyare wore a bright yellow shirt with an abstract print, his hair wild and gray, and compared the prime minister and the various clans to a man with many unequally loved wives. "If you don't love them, they will get a divorce," said Qanyare, adding that, at the moment, he is reading a book titled "Global Intelligence." Ordinary Somalis are not sure who is in charge: the Ethiopians, the government, the warlords or the exiled Islamic Courts leaders and their underground fighters. Asked who he thought was wielding the most power, Amir Sheihk Elmi, who is in the cellphone business, said, "Allah." Security continues to be the main concern in Mogadishu, where many residents fear that without an effective government force, authority in the country is reverting to the old collection of warlords and freelance militiamen. Former Islamic Courts fighters in the city are hoping to harness those fears, along with resentment toward the Ethiopian troops, to reassert control. "We are in Mogadishu, and we will challenge anyone to get security back," said Ali, a 21-year-old former fighter who declined to be identified further. Late Friday afternoon, Ali said he had not heard about Zawahiri's Internet message. But he said that "shebab" fighters -- the young volunteer core of the Islamic Courts militia thought to be the most serious fighters -- were in "full contact" with Islamic Courts leaders who had fled the city last week. Asked whether he had a weapon, Ali shrugged and said insouciantly: "I have an AK-47 at home." "When I hear about disarmament, I laugh," he said. "Who is supposed to take the guns? Who will be doing this?" Asked who was in control of Somalia, he said without hesitation, "Sheik Sharif," referring to Sharif Ahmed, a top Islamic Courts leader reportedly among those on the run along the Somali coast. The United States and Ethiopia have accused the Islamic Courts leaders of harboring three suspects in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and of cooperating with al-Qaeda. Intelligence analysts disagree over the extent to which al-Qaeda has influenced leaders in the Islamic movement, if at all, and whether the three terrorism suspects were in hiding in Somalia or being sheltered. On Friday, U.S. Navy warships patrolled off the Somali coast to prevent suspects from escaping by sea. And Ethiopian troops were preparing for a major attack on Ras Kamboni, a town near the Kenyan border that is thought to be the last stronghold of fleeing Islamic Courts fighters.

Xabash lover wrote: ma xeeshode, caato iyo wexe la mid ah ba wa la karbashi doona. {1)ma xeeshode=maxishoode {2}wexe = wixii {3}karbashi=karbaashi {4}doona=doonaa You need alot of improvement, maybe you should give more attention to your Somali teacher, you never now you might need it when Xabashos are liberated from Somali soil.

The city of 2+ million moved forward volunterily during 6+ months of ICU rule after the defeat of the warring fiefdoms. Remember business community dissarmed volunterily when ICU requested and the public was next to be dissarmed before the Ethiopian invasion. Now are you saying they should hand their weapons to the same warlords[government of warlords] and their Ethiopian master which was their main supporters during those dark days..Sxb lets not blind ourselves from the reality in Somalia..

Yeey-Ahmaar hoping to score a goal against his enemies before his masters[uS and Ethiopia]leave the scene..

Xildhibaano ka tirsan golaha baarlamaanka dowladda federaalka Soomaaliya oo ay tiradooda gaareyso ilaa 3 xildhibaan, ayaa la sheegay in Booliska Kenya ay kala baxeen hoteel ku yaala magaalada Nairobi, kuwaasoo la dhigay xabsi ku yaala Nairobi. Hobyonet. Muqdisho. Jimco, Jan,05, 2007 Warar ka imaanaya Nairobi, ayaa tilmaamay in booliska Kenya ay u dhaceen hoteelka Barakaad, halkaasoo oo ay dagan yihiin xildhibaano taabacsan guddoomiyaha baarlamaanka Shariif Xasan Sh. Aadam, oo siyaasad ahaan si weyn uga soo horjeeda xubnaha sarsare ee dowladda federaalka Soomaaliya. Ma jiraan warar rasmi ah oo la xiriira xarigga xildhibaanadaan, balse wararka qaar ayaa la xiriira in ay dowladda Soomaaliya ka codsaday in booliska Kenya ay qabqabtaan xildhibanadaas. Xildhibaano kale oo baarlamaanka ka tirsan, ayaa waxaa la sheegay in ay iyaga baxsad yihiin, iyadoo maamulaha hoteelka Barakaad ee Nairobi uu sheegay in la tusay liis ay ku qoran yihiin ilaa 26 xildhibaan oo ay booliska Kenya baadi-doonayaan. xildhibaanadaas, la doonayo, ayaa waxaa la sheegay in ay ka mid yihiin Xildhibaan Suleymaan Colaad Rooble, xildhibaan Cismaan Xasan Cali ( Caato), xildhibaan Axmed Ducaale Geele Xaaf iyo xildhibaano kale oo la sheegay in ay haatan baxsad ku yihiin gudaha magaalada NBairobi. Waa markii ugu horeysay oo ay Booliska Kenya baacsadaan xildhibaano ka tirsan dowladda tan iyo markii ciidamada Itoobiya ay kala wareegeen maamulka maxkamadahja magaalada Muqdisho. Wasiirka arrimaha dibedda dowladda federaalka Soomaaliya oo arrintaan wax laga weydiiyey, ayaa waxa uu sheegay in dowladda aysan waxba ka ogeyn arrintaan, balse waxaa muuqata in maalin kadib markii uu M/weynaha Soomaaliya tagay magaalada Nairobi ay billaabatay in la doondoono xildhibaanada ku fikirka ahguddoomiyaha baarlamanka Shariif Xasan. Warar aan la sjaacin isha laga helay, ayaa tibaaxayey in M/weynaha dowladda federaalka Soomaaliya uu ka cudur daartay in kulamo dhexdhexaadin ah la yeesho guddoomiyaha baarlamaanka oo ku sugan dalka Kenya. Axmed Daahir Hobyonet. Muqdisho Soomaaliya

Duke,as we speak,you are romanticing the occupation of Ethiopians of your capital,don't you see this,well I gues not,because you are desperately trying to draw attention from this shameful period which your uncle and Geedi is to be blamed for,nice try but hey I am not one that will let you off the hook. Ethiopian tank in our national airport. A dark history which will unfortunately be coded in our psyche.

Qabqable Muuse Suud Yalaxow Oo Hargeysa Kusugan! Iyo Jabaq la’aanta Xukuumada Rayaale iyo Kulankii Gudoomiyaha Xisbig Mucaaridka ee UCID Eng, Faysal -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (muuse Suudi Yalaxow) hadhwanaag 2007-01-05 (Hadhwanaagnews) Hargeysa(HWN):- Qabqable Muuse Suudi Yalaxow oo ka mid ahaa qabqablayaashi dagaal ee meelo ka mida magaalada Muqdisho ka talin jiray ayaa maanta duhurnimadii ka soo degay gegeda diyaaradaha ee Cigal International ee magaalada Hargeysa.Kadib markii ay dayuuradii ka soo qaaday Abuday ay sheegtay inaanay tageyn muqdisho. Muuse Suudi Yalaxow oo degen Hotelka Ambassador ee magaalada Hargeysa, ayaanay cadeyn u jeedada socdaalkiisa uu ku yimi magaalada Hargeysa,balse waxa la sheegay inuu transit ku yahay magaalada Hargeysa una sii dhaafidoono muqdisho. Gudoomiyaha Xisbiga Mucaaridka ee UCID Eng, Faysal Cali waraabe iyo xubno ka mida xisbiga UCID ayaa kulan casho sharafa oo qaatay dhowr sacadood ku ku yeeshay Hotel Ambassador ee uu degenyahay, Kadib ayey shabakada wararka ee hadhwanagnews.com kula xidhiidhay khadka Mobilka oo ay wax ka weydiisay Eng, Faysal Cali Waraabe waxyaabaha ay ka wada hadleen Muuse Suud Yalaxow, waxaanu sheegay Faysal inuu ka la hadlay Xaalada Soomaaliya ka taagan wakhtigan iyo Ciimada shisheeye ee lakeenayo Soomaaliya, waxa intaa raaciyey Inaanay dawlada Embegati ee uu Madaxweynaha ka yahay C/laahi Yuusuf aanay ahayn dawlad wada hanankarta wadanka, Ayuu yidhi Faysal Sidoo kale waxa uu sheegay Md, Faysal Cali Waraabe inay isla soo qaadeen Qabqable Muuse suud Yalaxow oo uu sheegay Ciimadii caawinayey Ciimadii Ethiopianka ee ka caydhiyey magaalada muqdisho Maxkamadihii islaamiga ee mudada yar gacanta ku hayey magaalada ayaa waxa uu tilmaamay inaanay ahayn Ciimado ay soomaalidu u wada dhan tahay, ee waa ciidamo ay isxigeen C/laahi Yuusuf Ayuu yidhi Faysal Gudoomiyaha Xisbiga UCID Faysal kale oo uu tilmaamay inay isla soo qaadeen Muuse Suudi sidii loo qaban lahaa shir-dib u heshiisiineed oo ay u koonfurta oo dhami u dhan yihiin la qabto oo ay iska saaraan xubnaha ka soo jeeda Somaliland ee Shirka ka burburin karaa. Waxa kale oo uu tilmaamay Fayssal Cali waraabe wixii ay Somaliland uga baahdaan aan la qabandoono.Macada inay xukuumada Somaliland la kulantay Qabqable Muuse Suud Yalaxow, laakin sida la sheegay inay iyadu ka danbeysay inuu ku dego Hotelka Ambassador ee magaalada Hargeysa. Waxa kale oo la sheegay inay la kulmeen Qabqable Muuse Suudi Gudoomiyaha Golaha wakiilada C/raxmaan Maxamed C/laahi, Xildhibaan Khadar Aadan Xuseen oo ah mulkiilaha Hotel Ambassador, Gudoomiyaha Golaha deeganka Hargeysa Eng, Xuseen Maxamuud Jiciir Muuse Suudi oo ka mid ahaa qabqabklayashi dagaal ee ka talin jiray magaalada Muqdisho ee ay maxaakiimta islaamugu ka caydhiyeen magaalada muqdisho, isagoo markaas baxsad ku tagay Caasimada Yugandhana ee Kambala. halkaas oo isaga iyo Qabqable Bashiir Raage lagu xidhay. Waa marki ugu horeysay ee uu wadanka yimaado Qabqable Muuse Suud Yalaxow Weriye, Mustafe-janaale Reporter Hadhwnaagnews.com/Hargeysa E-mail, janaale94@yahoo.com

Hoggaamiyekooxeedkii Muuse Suudi Yalaxow Oo Yimi Hargeysa Somaliland.Org — Hargeisa, Somaliland — 5 January, 2007 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hargeysa (Somaliland.org) – Muuse Suudi Yalaxow oo ka mid ahaa hoggaamiya-kooxeedyadii la baxay Isbahaysiga La-dagaalanka Argagixisada ee Maxkamadaha Islaamiga ahi ka qabsadeen Muqdisho June 2006, ayaa ku sugan magaalada Hargeysa oo uu soo gaadhey maanta. Muuse Suudi Yalaxow waxa uu maanta ka soo degey gegida diyaaradaha ee magaalada Berbera, halkaas oo sida wararku sheegayaan saraakiisha ammaanka ee Madaarku ay ku qabteen markii ay aqoonsadeen. Lama garanayo halka uu ka yimi, waxaase la filayaa inuu ka soo kicitimay Dubai, dalka Imaaraadka Carabta. Sidoo kale, waxa aan caddayn ujeedada uu u yimi Hargeysa. Wararka qaar waxay sheegayaan in ciidanka ammaanka ee Madaarka Berbera ay u soo gudbiyeen Hargeysa, halka warar kalena ay sheegayaan in Suudi Yalaxow uu ku soo maray Somaliland socdaal (transit) uuna u sii jeedo magaalada Muqdisho oo uu ka baxsaday bishii June sanadkii hore, kadib markii dagaal kulul oo dhexmaray Isbahaysigiisa iyo Maxkamadaha Islaamiga ah lagaga adkaaday. Isla markaana uu ku yimi ogolaansho uu ka haysto xukuumadda Somaliland, waxaana la dejiyey hotel Maansoor. Bishii hore waxa madaarka Hargeysa laga celiyey Kiimiko oo ka mid ah siyaasiyiinta reer Muqdisho, isla markaana madax ka ahaa maamul-goboleed laga dhisay Gobolka Mudug sannadkii horeoo socoto ku soo maray Hargeysa, isagoo u sii jeedey dalka Jabuuti, waxayna xukuumaddu ku macnaysey celintiisa in aanay u ogolayn dalka hoggaamiya-kooxeedyada isku haya Soomaaliya. Hoggaamiya-kooxeedyadii laga qabsaday magaalada Muqdisho ayaa dib ugu noqday magaaladaas, kadib markii ciidamada Itoobiya oo taageeraya dowladda Cabdillaahi Yuusuf ay weerar cir iyo dhul ah ku qaadeen Maxaakiimta Islaamiga ah, isla markaana ay ka safeeyeen koonfurta Soomaaliya oo ay in badan ka talinayeen.

Friday, January 5, 2007 - Web posted at 8:18:35 GMT A New War in Africa GWYNNE DYER "THE Ethiopians now are advancing, but that is not the end," Omar Idris, a senior official of Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), told the BBC Wednesday last week. "We know what happened in Iraq, the experience of the Americans... I think this is very, very early to say that the Islamic Court forces were defeated." The war is starting in Somalia, but it may end up being fought in Ethiopia and Eritrea, too. Together, the three countries contain almost a hundred million of the poorest people on the planet. The next day, the Ethiopian army took Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, and the UIC, the closest thing to a government that Somalia has had since the country collapsed into anarchy fifteen years ago, retreated south towards the border with Kenya. Ethiopia has tanks, jet fighters and the tacit support of the United States; the UIC has only light weapons and the support of Somalis who distrust Ethiopians (i.e. almost all of them). So the UIC will probably win in the end, but it will take a long guerrilla war. This is a war founded on a misconception and driven by paranoid fantasies. The misconception was the US government's belief that the Islamic Courts, local religious authorities backed by merchants in Mogadishu who wanted someone to curb the warlords, punish thieves, and enforce contracts, were just a cover for al-Qaeda. So the US instead backed the warlords who were making Somalis' lives a misery. American support is the kiss of death in Somalia, so the warlords were finally dislodged in Mogadishu last June by an uprising led by the UIC and supported by most of the population. The warlords fled to an American ship offshore, their clansmen went to ground, and the UIC rapidly took control of most of southern Somalia, bringing order for the first time since 1991. Washington's principal instrument in this enterprise was Ethiopia, Somalia's giant neighbour to the west. Ethiopia's 75 million people outnumber Somalis by more than seven-to-one - but although the Christians of the highlands have always dominated Ethiopia, almost half of its people are Muslims, like the Somalis. In Ethiopia's sparsely populated eastern desert, the ******, most of the people are not only Muslim but ethnically Somali. This is where the paranoid fantasies kick in. Most of Ethiopia's Muslims are too busy scratching a living to challenge the Christian near-monopoly of power in their country, but the last thing Ethiopia's rulers want to see is an Islamic regime next-door in Somalia. To make matters worse, the Ethiopians suspected that their enemies, the Eritreans, were sending troops and arms to help the Islamic Courts regime in Somalia. Ethiopia has fought and won two wars with Somalia over the ******, in 1964 and 1977 (back when Somalia had a government and an army). It fought a bitter border war in 1998-2000 with Eritrea, a breakaway province that won its independence in 1993. (Ethiopia has rejected the decision of an independent panel on the border, and that war is just waiting to start again.) So over the past year, Ethiopia's paranoid fantasies have come together with Washington's. The official American position, stated last week by Jendayi Frazer, assistant secretary of state for African affairs, is that the UIC is now "controlled by al-Qaeda cell individuals. The top layer of the Court are extremists. They are terrorists." Even US diplomats in the region privately reject this assertion. Ethiopia accuses the UIC of "threatening Ethiopian sovereignty," which merely means that senior UIC members make the same claims about the Somali-Ethiopian border that all Somali nationalists of every party have always made. No UIC troops have even approached that border - but just after the UIC took control of Mogadishu in June, Ethiopia started sending troops into Somalia. The Ethiopians said they were there to support the so-called "transitional government" of Somalia, a body led by Abdullahi Yusuf, a Somali warlord who is a long-standing ally of Addis Ababa. But the "transitional government," which emerged from UN-backed talks between Somali factions in 2004, lacked popular support and never controlled much except the town of Baidoa, near the Ethiopian border. In early December, Islamic Court troops moved on Baidoa with the declared intention of driving the Ethiopian troops out. On 24 December, Ethiopia responded with the offensive that has now taken Mogadishu. With overwhelming material superiority and US-supplied satellite surveillance data, the Ethiopians have won an easy victory, and already the warlords who used to dominate the capital are reasserting their control under the shelter of the "transitional government." But this is just the start of a long guerrilla war that will sap the strength of the Ethiopian army, a Christian-led force backing unpopular warlords in a Muslim country. It will radicalise the Islamic Courts and turn them into exactly the extremist force that Washington and Addis Ababa fear. The Ethiopian invasion is illegal, unjustified and deeply, deeply ******, but it has Washington's strong support. From the same folks who brought you Iraq.... * Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries. http://www.namibian.com.na/2007/January/columns/076BD7072A.html

Fragile peace fuels Somalia fears By Karen Allen BBC News, Nairobi Ethiopian troops are very visible on the Somalia's streets Ethiopian troops are very visible on the Somalia's streets With the Islamic courts now overpowered by Somali and Ethiopian troops, the pressure is mounting to get African Union (AU) peacekeepers in to protect the fragile Somali transitional government. Although Uganda and Nigeria have agreed to contribute soldiers, it could be many months before any deployment. A UN resolution in December approved an 8,000-strong peacekeeping force, but the African Union peace and security council would have to meet in an emergency session to agree technicalities, most pressingly the issue of just who would fund such a force. Seven thousand of its troops are already serving in Sudan's Darfur region and questions remain about whether the AU would have enough troops available to deploy. The danger is that the continued presence of Ethiopian troops on Somali soil for some months to come could inflame tensions. The Union of Islamic Courts may have restricted recreational pursuits - such as watching football - but they were credited with bringing a degree of stability not seen before to Somalia. Insurgency fears In contrast, many Somalis see the presence of Ethiopian troops on their streets as the ultimate humiliation. Security experts warn that elements of the Shabbab - the radical youth wing of the Union of Islamic Courts - remain in Mogadishu and are planning guerrilla-style attacks. Ethiopia is viewed by many as a proxy of the US Who supports who? As the UIC claimed their withdrawal was simply a "tactical move" there are real fears of a protracted insurgency along the lines of that being fought in Iraq. The reluctance of Somalis to disarm as part of a weapons amnesty is a reflection of this. In a city of two million people, where it is estimated there are at least one million weapons, it is clear many people simply do not trust the forces of the transitional government to provide protection. Indeed, the price of an AK-47 in the gun markets has doubled in recent days. Regional importance Somalia's neighbours have a clear interest in seeing a peaceful settlement in a country that has experienced massive instability over the past 15 years. Kenya has suffered two terrorist attacks in the past eight years. The men thought to be behind those events are among those believed to be in hiding after the recent retreat of the UIC from their last stronghold in Kismayo. Kenya also assumed the role of peace-broker during attempts to establish an administration across the border, which finally resulted in the installation of the transitional government two years ago. Nairobi has a political imperative to make the transitional government work. Uganda and Sudan have their own conflicts, which influence their stance. An unstable Somalia facilitates the easy flow of weapons and cash. And Ethiopia - Somalia's long-time foe - wants to keep its neighbour in check. Ethiopia helped install President Abdullahi Yusuf to counter Islamic expansion and the threat posed by its long-time enemy, Eritrea. Ethiopia receives military training and lavish funding from the West, which has accorded it special status and is viewed by many as a proxy of the US. In the US many still remember the disastrous events of "Black Hawk Down" in Somalia in 1993. But they also know that as part of its "war on terror", the US ignores Somalia at its peril.

^Taliban, he should not run so quickly. Revenge against the dirty Amxaaros is sweeter than the dirty Dabadhilifs.

World Affairs How hopes of peace have evaporated Rageh Omaar Published 08 January 2007 Print version Listen Welcome to an uncertain and dangerous 2007 For the Arab world, 2007 began several weeks ago with a series of events that will be central to the politics of the Middle East and the Islamic world in the coming year and will make it tumultuous in more ways than one. Before Christmas, I wrote of a war almost certain to start between an Islamist movement, holding power in Somalia (my country), and neighbouring Ethiopia. The US was encouraging Ethiopia to invade and oust the Islamist group. Neither Washington nor Addis Ababa wanted to draw much attention to this war and so they launched their invasion on Christmas Eve. As I write, Ethiopian forces using fighter bombers, helicopters and tanks are occupying swaths of Somalia, including its shattered capital, Mogadishu. Barely any government or international body has said a word. The Islamists have retreated, taking much of their weaponry with them into the bush, and the weak and warlord-dominated transitional government, despised by most Somalis, has been brought to power and into the capital under Ethiopian guns. There is no doubt that the Islamist militiamen were being supported and funded from Arab states, either by governments or by Islamic movements. But there is also no doubt that the Islamists were genuinely popular, if only because they had ended the venal rule of the warlords who had preyed on Somali society. What's more, the Islamists had restored security to Mogadishu for the first time in years. The UN believes that Ethiopia's invasion has displaced at least 30,000 people and killed hundreds. As Ethiopia expelled the Islamists from Somalia, brinkmanship over Iran's alleged nuclear weapons programme passed a significant milestone. On 23 December, the UN Security Council voted in favour of imposing limited sanctions on Iran because of Tehran's refusal to halt uranium enrichment. In truth, Washington has found it hard to convince others of the need to confront Iran robustly and had to fight tooth and nail to get these limited, cosmetic sanctions in place. But a symbolic red line was crossed, producing fury in Tehran, where the ruling authorities realised that Iran would face a lot more harrying over the nuclear issue in 2007. With an increasingly desperate and still ideologically zealous Bush administration, military action cannot be ruled out. In the same week, Washington got predictable support from Tony Blair who made absurd tub-thumping pronouncements to a bemused audience in Dubai. Iran was "at war" with the "moderate Arab world" and had to be confronted, he said. And, just as 2007 hove into view, came the recklessly sectarian execution of Saddam Hussein, even down to the detail of killing him on the day Sunnis celebrate the Eid al-Adha festival, rather than the following day, when it is celebrated by Shias. The worst is yet to come in Iraq. I find it hard to believe, but Blair, George W Bush and their Iraqi allies have made a former dictator seem a hard act to follow. Those of us who reported from Iraq while Saddam was in power can hardly believe that the man who murdered hundreds of thousands and invaded two neighbouring countries has been made to seem dignified while his executioners, Shia Iraqis, appear like balaclava-wearing thugs. In Lebanon, only the most fragile of ceasefires holds in check the unfinished war between Hezbollah and Israel. In Afghanistan, time has run out for the Nato commander who said the west had six months to turn the security sit uation around. That the Taliban, who once destroyed journalists' cameras, now court western reporters suggests they feel the tide of events is with them. Welcome to an uncertain and dangerous 2007.

Somali militia group 'surrounded' Mogadishu is full of weapons and people are reluctant to disarm Somali troops backed by Ethiopian forces are fighting about 600 Islamist militiamen in the south of the country, says an interim government spokesman. Abdirahman Dinari told the BBC soldiers had surrounded the militia group near the Kenyan border - which has been reinforced to stop their escape. US naval forces are deployed off the Somali coast to prevent leaders of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) escaping. The UIC controlled much of Somalia until retreating over the past 10 days. Location of militias and US Navy patrols Kenya's government has shut its border with Somalia, despite criticism from the United Nations' refugee agency. Foreign Minister Raphael Tuju said he believed that combatants were sending their families into Kenya posing as refugees and therefore the country had every right to defend its borders. Meanwhile, talks are continuing across the region to try to secure an African Union peacekeeping force for Somalia. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer have been in Ethiopia meeting Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Ms Frazer is expected for high level discussions with African leaders and other international representatives in Nairobi on Friday. In other developments: The US is to provide more than $16m in aid to Somalia as an "initial response" to its humanitarian needs arising from the recent conflict A three-day government disarmament exercise in the capital, Mogadishu, has had little success, raising fears of renewed instability In Mogadishu, new judges, including one woman, are sworn in Interim Interior Minister Hussein Aideed claims there are some 3,500 Islamist fighters still hiding in the capital, warning they are "likely to destabilise the security of the city" Three people have been seriously injured in a rocket attack on a truck in Mogadishu. Weapons demand Interim Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi is reported to have said forcible disarmament will begin in Mogadishu at the weekend. I still hope that key AU members will be glad to associate their name in what I believe is the most important peace undertaking in the recent history of Africa AU's Said Djinnit Fragile peace fuels fears African press frets Few residents have responded to a call to disarm and the demand for AK-47 rifles, hand grenades and land mines has risen. In a city of two million people, there are an estimated one million weapons. The BBC's Mohammed Olad Hassan in the capital says although calm has returned, tension is high and people fear anarchy may return to Mogadishu. Power vacuum threat Ethiopia sent heavily armed troops into Somalia to back up forces loyal to the transitional government after accusing the UIC of having links with al-Qaeda. SOMALIA IN NUMBERS Ethiopia troops: 8,000-15,000 Government troops: 10,000 Islamists: 600 near Kenyan border; 3,500 around Mogadishu Recently displaced: 30,000 Refugees in Kenya: 160,000 Estimated numbers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sources: Somali government, UN, correspondents They swept the Islamist militias from areas they had controlled for six months, but the Islamists said their retreat was tactical and threatened to launch an insurgency. Ethiopia's prime minister has made it clear he wants to withdraw his troops within the next few weeks. The Ethiopians want international peacekeepers to be deployed to prevent a vacuum which would allow the re-emergence of former warlords who controlled the country since 1991. Uganda has offered to commit 1,000 troops to a 8,000-strong regional peace force. Mr Museveni says he has troops trained and ready for this role, once his country's parliament gives its approval. The AU commissioner for peace and security said he hoped other African countries would follow suit. "I still hope that key AU members will be glad to associate their name and the name of their country in what I believe is the most important peace undertaking in the recent history of Africa," Said Djinnit told the BBC's Network Africa programme. US naval forces on the Somali coast

Resounding boo for Ethiopia's invasion 03 Jan 2007 19:34:00 GMT "Slow genocide" is the phrase a Somali, who runs a humanitarian relief organisation, used to describe the reign of warlords before the Islamists' six-month rule of his country. And he's not alone in thinking that the recent ousting of Islamists, in power since June 2006, is far from good news for Somalia, according to Martin Fletcher, Britain's Times correspondent who recently visited Mogadishu. It is true that the Islamists reintroduced public executions and discouraged Western music, dancing and films, but they also brought stability after 15 years of anarchy and civil war. The official government, however, is now back in Mogadishu, and not without considerable help from neighbouring Ethiopia. So, what does the world's media make of the latest change of government in Mogadishu? "It is a dangerous gamble," says Fletcher. Washington's implicit backing of Ethiopia in its war against Somalia's Islamists could indeed backfire and Somalia may become what Washington fears most -- a breeding ground for Islamist terrorists, he concludes. "There are many other reasons why the change of power in Mogadishu risks creating at least as many difficulties as it solves," says Britain's The Independent . It points out that the people appeared to be tolerating sharia, the brand of Islamic law that Somalia's Islamists were propagating. Surely sharia was a price worth paying for the stability the Islamists brought to the chaos-ridden Somalia, the paper implied. So, instead of a war within Somalia, there is now the possibility of a regional war in which not just Somalia's neighbours, but also the U.S. and the Arab world have a stake, concludes The Independent. Britain's Times agrees the country faces a grim future. Islamists are likely to regroup and possibly find help from Eritrea, which doesn't like the look of Ethiopia getting cosy in Somalia. In the worst case, the country is on the road to becoming "... the East African equivalent of Lebanon during the 1980s," says the paper. The U.S. has just made yet another mistake by supporting Ethiopia in its Somalia venture, says W. Scott Thompson in New Straits Times. Instead of young and inexperienced soldiers of the Council of Islamic Courts, what we'll soon have is Jihadists descending on the country making serious trouble for "... government forces, ... the Ethiopian military occupiers and American 'advisers'". In its own editorial, the paper laments the fact that "the obsession with the war on terror" has given grounds for defending the inexcusable Ethiopian intervention. If you want a good example of what happens to invaders, consider Rwanda and Uganda's enterprise in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), says Charles Onyango-Obbo in Kenya's East African. The two "most battle-hardened" armies in sub-Saharan Africa certainly didn't have an easy ride in the DRC conflict, which ended up killing millions of people. Salim Lone, U.N. spokesman in Iraq in 2003 and columnist for Kenya's Daily Nation, sums up the mood of all those voicing their disagreement with the intervention. In Britain's Guardian he says: "the Bush administration has opened another battlefront in the Muslim world" for the sake of fighting terror. But the best way to fight the terror is "to engage with the Islamists to ensure that they have no reason to turn to terror". Very few papers offer arguments in defence of the invader. "The Ethiopian armed forces were the only practical instrument for immediately halting (the Islamists') advance. For that, the region and the wider world should be thankful," says Britain's The Daily Telegraph. But the paper does remind Ethiopia of America's intervention fiasco in Somalia in 1992 and warns that its own meddling will suffer the same fate unless a U.N. force can be in place soon. "It is ironic, but the Ethiopian military incursion in Somalia, controversial as it is, could be just what the doctor ordered for the stateless Horn of Africa nation", says Kenya's East African --another rare paper in favour of the intervention. Ironically, Somalia - normally bereft of media coverage -- is accused of stealing the show from Darfur at a crucial moment. As a result the Sudanese government may feel the pressure to accept the U.N.-mandated forces in Darfur is loosening, says the Christian Science Monitor. Reuters AlertNet is not responsible for the content of external websites.

Remnants of Somali Islamists still pose a threat - official Thursday 4 January 2007 13:26. Printer-Friendly version Jan 4, 2007 (MOGADISHU) — Remnants of Somalia’s Islamic movement still pose a threat in the capital, the interior minister said Thursday, days after his government’s and Ethiopian troops chased most of the militiamen from Mogadishu. "There are 3,500 Islamists hiding in Mogadishu and the surrounding and they are likely to destabilize the security of the city," Interior Minister Hussein Aideed told journalists at a news conference. Over the past 15 days, troops of Somalia’s transitional government and Ethiopian forces routed the Islamic movement, which had controlled most of southern Somalia. Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi has said he believes major fighting was over. But the Islamic movement has declared it would keep fighting, raising the specter of an Iraq-style guerrilla war. Aideed said that there are about 12,000-15,000 Ethiopian troops in Somalia, and when peacekeepers arrive in the country the Ethiopians will leave. Ethiopia has put the number much lower, at around 4,000, and said it would pull out within weeks. A proposed African peacekeeping force has not yet been organized, though diplomatic efforts are under way to get one on the ground. (AP)

"His Claim is that the boys toasted it,a weak attempt of net propaganda.Bring them on!" ^Emotionally disturbed Dabadhilif. "We are targeting the wrong folks. Kill the Dhabalif first, and the Amxaaris will disappear eventually. Besides, Ethios have their own issues, and could hardly afford to stay in hostile terrotories.N Uncle Sam won't be financing their operations for long." ^True Somali nationalist will prevail against Dabadhilif and their Tigree masters soon IA.

"His Claim is that the boys toasted it,a weak attempt of net propaganda.Bring them on!" ^Emotionally disturbed Dabadhilif. "We are targeting the wrong folks. Kill the Dhabalif first, and the Amxaaris will disappear eventually. Besides, Ethios have their own issues, and could hardly afford to stay in hostile terrotories.N Uncle Sam won't be financing their operations for long." ^True Somali nationalist will prevail against Dabadhilif and their Tigree masters soon IA.