There is no secret in Hargeisa. few weeks ago we heard about this. Faysal Waraabe didn't tell the whole story. In Hargeisa people were talking about blows and punches thrown by both men. Nimanku feedh bay is la dhaceen. Guys this are our leaders in Somaliland, and no one is trying to censure or discipline these gangsters. In these parts of the world the later is always worse than his predecessor. Even some elders in Hargeisa are talking about recalling Dahir Rayaale before things go down the drain.

Having a great power of good like Turkey should be enough for Somalia to fend off others and survive. If Farmaajo tries to damage the Turkish relationship he ill be history. Somalis will throw him out in a minute. In Mogadishu it is all about supervising the NGO money that is pouring in Somalia. $44 millions for police, $112cmilions for cities and so on. When was the last time you have seen about 50 million allocated by donors to Somali police?Waar meesha maxaa lacag socota. There is a fear that if you spoke up the river money might dry up. Every politician from Mogadishu will tell you that " Dawlad heblaayo ayaa inoo dhisaysa halkaas iyo halkaas. Last weekend we asked the Somali ambassador to the UN when the foreign soldiers will be living Somalia? and he said, " next year 1000 soldiers will be leaving and the salary of those soldiers will be directed to Somali soldiers". Can you imagine, just a mere thousand . Even the weak Burundi rejected leaving Somalia By demanding that others should also reduce their numbers.

OO, No one had tried to overthrow the fat dictator of Djibouti yet. He is already tired and weak, and i don't see any heir apparent to replace him. It is a one city state dominated by 200 well fed families while the rest of the population is in poverty. I see a delusional boy in Hargeisa, Ina Biixi trying to follow his footsteps. Anyway, Trump himself is in need of saving from the hyenas in America.

Khadafi, That is correct. A well known Somali scholar called Sheikh Ahmed Qudub talked about this as early as 1989. While addressing Somali university students in late eighties , he was shocked the kind of questions they were asking which were concerned about Mowliidtu Nabi and other wedge issues. He said " Students around the world lead revolutions to change governments, yet you keep debating about small issues", he warned about the danger of the Wahabi movement who might not only raise their hands against Muslims but also legitimize the blood of their fellow Muslims. I read the translation of " Al Muwatta" the foundations of the IMam Malik's legal work which was the first and earliest Madhab that combined Fiqh and Hadith. It was translated in the early years on the twentieth century circa 1905. There was a chapter by the writer explaining the treacherous alliance between the Wahabis and their colonial powers. The whole movement was organized to saw discord among the faithful and protect the monarchy. The Wahabi movement is cruel ,rigid and merciless. In Somalia , the proponents of Wahabism were mostly initiated by people from the tough , nomadic and rigid traditional parts of the country. Most the of the leaders and the evangelists of the movement came from Togdheer, Mudug, Galgaduud and Gedo and Jubba region. Sheikh Hassan D. Aweys, Sheikh Cali of Burco and Hassan Turki of Jubba come to mind. Imagine the Bedwoin of Somalia in charge of faith and asking people to join their way or the highway. They were created to annihilated history, culture and civilizations that restrict their destructive nature. Even if you visit Makkah and Madinah, you could see the difference of the two cities, one Medinah ruled by Ottomans and Makkah were the Wahabis had started their doctrine. In Makkah, THey have destroyed every sign of the old Islam and history. After the collapse of the state, with the help of Saudi money they took over business and social life. Al-shabaab could not flourish without quite blessing today. Then the foreign intelligence showed up and directed the wild dogs of Wahabism to nearest meat. As We speak another suicide bomb targeted the Turkish engineers building roads again.Why would the Al-Shabaab Amir hates building roads to poor Somali travelers?

He did save them (Ethiopia) just like George Bush Sr. did in 1991. Unlike we the nomads , they listen and take the advice.

Mohamed Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister tweeted, " "Iran took & concluded proportionate measures in self-defense under Article 51 of UN Charter targeting base from which cowardly armed attack against our citizens & senior officials were launched. We do not seek escalation or war, but will defend ourselves against any aggression". Folks the game continues.

Trump Tweeted after the missile attack that " All is Well", few days ago he even said the response has to be proportional. I am not wishing for war, but the deception of the coming war between Iran and America is probably a deception that intended to destroy others.

Since 2001, we have been hearing Iran being a threat to the west and Israel, yet America and others had allowed her to take over four major Arab capitals. If Iranian Shia through Assad had destroyed the Sunni majority who are over 75% of the populations. Half million dead, eight million out of the country and another four million internally displaced. Like his Shia ancestors of last centuries, general Suleimani had never fought a war to advance a Muslim cause. This general led the sectarian war that destroyed Aleppo and other major towns. Having said that both SAudi Arabia and Iran are threat to the people of the region. This Shia people are very strange. In Islam the dead should be buried as soon as possible, yet they are carrying the body of the dead general around the country for five days.

According to a Faisal Qasimi in Sharq. Tre US and Iran in a secret alliance? It is time for the Arab nations and Turkey to ask America where it stands, an Arabic-language writer says. Other topics: Hamas, Hizbollah and Iran, and the two Sudans. Facts on the grounds indicate a US-Iranian alliance at the expense of Arabs and Turkey Developments unfolding in the region since the start of the century indicate an active US-Iranian alliance in several places behind a transparent curtain of faked US and western animosity to fool Arabs and Turkey, Faisal Al Qassem argued in an opinion article in the Doha-based newspaper Al Sharq. Never mind western sanctions on Iran, Israel's threats to strike the country's nuclear facilities and the aggressive tone of western media against it, the writer noted. While Israel destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor that was still in the works, the West had been negotiating with Iran over its nuclear programme for more than 10 years after it was completed, he said. In politics what matters is not what you hear but rather what you see on the ground. The breakthroughs Iran has been achieving in the region with the blessing of the West at the expense of others are historic by any yardstick. Don't be fooled by the American media and political acrobatics against Iran, he wrote. The idea that the West backs Sunni Muslims in the Middle East while Russia, China and the other Brics nations support Shiite Muslims, Iran and its allies is way off base. There is almost a consensus among major powers in the East and the West about empowering Iran at the expense of other players in the region, although Turkey, which is a major Sunni country, is a Nato member. Iran's growing influence in the region to the detriment of Arab countries and Turkey is palpable. Iran has pulled the rug from under them in Iraq - a strategically located country in the region bordered by both Turkey and Arab countries. Even in Afghanistan, where Americans and Sunni Arabs united to free the country from the Soviet Union, Iran has greater influence than other actors. Remember when Iran's Mohammad Ali Abtahi, the former vice president, revealed the US-Iranian alliance in the region by saying that without Iran's help the US could not possibly invade Iraq and Afghanistan. Through its military wing Hizbollah, Iran's clout in Lebanon outweighs that of Arab and Sunni countries, let alone Iran's significant influence in Bahrain. And Iran's influence in Syria exceeds that of Turkey and Arab countries. This has been clearly with the West's blessing despite farcical condemnations of Iran's interference. How would you explain the Syrian regime receiving weapons from every quarter while the US prevents the opposition gaining them? Those who helped Iran take over Iraq would not allow Iran to lose in Syria. A new Middle East where Iran is playing the leadership role is taking shape under our eyes without Arabs, Turkey and other Muslim nations realising what is going on. The writer concluded that it is time for Arabs and Turkey to ask America: "Are you really our ally?" Reconciliation may lead to more turmoil "Quickly and without hesitation, Hamas rushed to reconcile with Iran and Hizbollah following the collapse of the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt. The relationship had been compromised due to Hamas's stance regarding the Syrian revolution," said Tariq Al Homayed in the London-based daily Asharq Al Awsat. Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood offshoot that governs Gaza, had offered its support to the Syrian revolution - not out of true belief in its merits but as an attempt to make political gains from the rise to power of the Brotherhood in Egypt. "The renewed relationship between Hamas, Iran and Hizbollah is an alliance of convenience at best. Hamas wants to retain its control over Gaza. Its rapprochement to Iran is meant to secure financing, whereas its closeness to Hizbollah helps it keep its Beirut office open," he said. From Iran and Hizbollah's perspective, reconciliation with Hamas helps to clear them from charges of sectarianism. It can also be used to hinder the Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations in the near future and it is a good tool at their disposal to tick off the new Egypt when necessary. "We can expect a return to the old tune of resistance and struggle. It is likely now that a new confrontation between Gaza and Israel is in store as a way to serve a number of Iranian objectives in the region, including easing pressure on the Al Assad regime," the writer suggested. Two Sudans can't do without each other Since their official separation two years ago, Sudan and South Sudan have preferred confrontation to mutual cooperation, even when facing deep internal issues that arise, in large part, from their very aversion to forging strong bilateral bonds, the Dubai-based newspaper Al Bayan said in its editorial yesterday. Up north, the government of Sudan, led by President Omar Al Bashir, is being drained by a fierce political battle with the revolutionary Sudan People's Liberation Movement and militant groups in Darfur province. Down south, the political situation is imploding. President Salva Kiir Mayardit has dissolved the government and sacked his deputy at a time when the country is going through an economic crisis after it stopped shipping oil through ports in the north. "Both sides suffer from this economic crisis … that has erupted ... mostly due to lack of trust and a constant suspicion that the other side's intentions are vicious," the paper said. "Without peace between the two neighbours, growth will not take off in either side of the border. The wars and politico-economic tensions that regularly pit the two countries against each other are hindering their rebirth - a rebirth that is actually achievable, given the tremendous natural resources that both countries have." * Digest compiled by The Translation Desk translation@thenational.ae

The Iranians should lose in Iraq. The Iranians orchestrated the current mess in Iraq. For the last two months Shia Iraqis were protesting about the economic and political strangulation of their country by Itan connected politicians and militia. The protest was peaceful, but when it became bigger Iranians security and their militia came and started shooting people killing over hundred people, just like they did in Iran a month or so ago. If Iraq want to be prosperous it should stay away from the evil Persians and join the Turkish camp to grow their economy. Trump and Erdogan should find common ground and transfer the middle east to Turkey. Who knows , after saving LIbya , Sultan Erdogan might find ways to eliminate the butcher Sisi and take over the Suez Canal. I said last year Turkey will be unstoppable after 2017. As America leaves the middle east the competing powers will be Russia, China and Turkey. Unlike others Turkey got both culture, history and social connection with the developing world. Despite all this unless Egypt, the most important Arab country in the region is reformed and power given back to people, the misery of the Arabs would continue.

OO, I don't think you are familiar with intelligence operations or covert actions. Ethiopia and others do not need top build relations with Al-shabaab or any militant outfit. Here we are talking about a covert take over through manipulation and having access and control for those authorizing operations. In these intelligence matters , you might not even know who you are serving. WE are not talking about an obscure individual like Ahmed Godane hiding in the jungle deciding where to hit in MOgadishu. THe assets that deploy the mules (expandable kids) are clandestine individuals with connections whether its business people or intelligence. They deploy these naive kids to hit a restaurant that did not pay ransom or even a business rival. Do you think the suicide kids would be told that the reason they were dying was for a ransom extortion? No. Let me give you an example: a group of Somali politicians from South WEst region were assembled in a certain Hotel in Mogadishu. THey were opposed the leadership of Shariif Sakiin who was allied with president Hassan Sheikh. Few days later Al-shabaab exploded bombs and stormed the hotel killing most of the opposition leaders including Madoobe Nuunow, the most eligible South West region leader. What is the connection between Al-shabaab leadership and Shariif Sakiin? nothing at all. It is the covert actions of Ethiopia eliminating those who oppose SAkiin through the Mogadishu Amniyaad. Why spare warlord Shariif SAkiin and kill Nuunow and company?. Al-shabaab doesn't wake up in the morning and target soft targets which are too many in Mogadishu. Someone else is choosing the targets even if they are hard or impenetrable target.

You can not bribe your way for " Maamul Samayn". I knew Khayre was in trouble when he spent more than a month in one place. Only God knows how many millions were burned for this quagmire.

In order to understand the current Al-shbaab we must understand its roots and track back fifteen years or more. Most of this article is referenced in an assay wrote by investigative journalist based in Nairobi, N. Gardaad in 2016. What we know today as Alshabab have their roots in the now defunct Islamic Courts Union (ICU) organization, which briefly took control of southern Somalia and Mogadishu in the summer of 2006. In late 2006, several factions of the ICU, representing the more radical elements within ICU, such as the Raskamboni brigade, the Salahudin group, and Mogadishu’s CC district group, came together to form a powerful faction within the ICU. This new faction was to be called “Al-shabab”. Al-shabab, thus, became the military wing of the ICU. Even before the invasion of Ethiopia the power struggle within the ICU had begun. THe ICU was dominated mostly by clerks and individuals who hailed from Galmudug and Jubbaland area. The most notable of the early ICU were Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, Sheikh Yusuf Indhacade, Hassan Turki and the young firebrand Ahmed H. Ayrow who later became the commander of the military wing of the Al-shabaab. Yet, one of the largest groups or clans that is based both in Central shabbelle and Benadir were missing from the movement. In order to make it more acceptable to the central Shebelle group, Aweys and other main principles decided to make the face of the ICU a young judge based in in Jowhar, Central Shabelle. THus, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed became the face of the movement and its leader. In early 2000-2002 many local Sharia courts mushroomed in the capital and surrounding region to allow the movements of the people and create a semi legal courts to address local crimes and confront the warlords. While these courts created some peace among the locals, they usually punish the poor and those without powerful connection. While some of the local Ulema meant well to create law and order others were using the courts for means to gain power. In fact, as early as 1998, Cali Mahdi, the first president since the collapse of the state , in an interview with New York Times, said, " we are both Muslims, but these guys , the courts led by Sheikh Cali Dheere at the time , are using religion as means to gain power". Even before the invasion of Ethiopia, an intense ideological and conflict was brooming among the moderate wings led by Shariif Sheikh Ahmed and the firebrands of the Al-shbaab wing led by Ahmed H. Cayrow, Ahmed Godane and Fuad Shongole. In one famous incident, Sharrif Ahmed cooled down the ICU hrethric and appealed for dialogue. After that statement, in the middle of the night Hashi Ayrow and company took him out and asked him to repent or will be judged and executed. Some members of IC court leadership , like Sheikh Yusuf INdhacade were even Goading Ethiopia for war. When I asked a leading in scholar why hasten a military confrontation with major regional power like Ethiopia knowing well the consequences of all out war, he said, Indhacade wanted to decimate the hated Al-shabaab through the Ethiopian military. Then came the Ethiopian invasion at the end of 2006. The Ethiopian army, supported by the American special operations forces, quickly routed the lightly armed ICU forces. The ICU leaders scattered. The most senior members fled to Eritrea, where they worked with nationalist groups and formed Alliance for Restoration against the Ethiopians. Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the ICU chief, was rescued by the American CIA from the jungles of JUbbaland and transferred to Nairobi unbeknown to most of the IC leadership. He was accommodated in Nairobi and then facilitated to travel to Asmara Eritrea. While the Somali parliament based in Mogadishu was struggling to make ends meet, Walad Cabdalla , the UN envoy for Somalia, paid the salaries of leadership of the Alliance and the exiled parliament while in Asmara. Shariif Ahmed negotiated with the UN and Ethiopia to become the candidate of the Alliance in hastily organized election in Djibouti. THe UN told him to write down in a piece of paper 250 members of parliament and contest the election which guaranteed his victory. Among those voting for Shariif were Ahmed Madoobe freed from Ethiopian jail. In 2011, Ethiopia insisted Madoobe to lead the JUbbaland liberation movement rejecting the architect of the project Proff. Mohamed A. Gandhi. While vying for power today, Shariif Ahmed is well aware by now that the sweet deal arrangement in Djibouti will never happen again in history. As part of the agreement, Ethiopian troops withdrew from Somalia partially. However the Ethiopian invasions impact on Alshabab was to be far more covert and longer lasting. While Al-shabaab was the most fearless elements that attacked relentlessly the Ethiopian army and forced its eventual withdrawal, the new Al-Shbaab became totally a different animal. While the bombings and attacks continued after the Ethiopian invasion, Targets of the the new Al-shabaab mostly became against Somalis . As of today, the casualty ratio of the foreign forces compared to Somalis is probably 100 to 1. THE COVERT COUP: Intelligence takes over Al -shabab. Most people do not realize that targeted killing of prominent Somalis especially former military officers of Somalia started before even Al-shbaab was created. Targeted killing of officers started the year the Carta transitional government was formed in 2000. I had compiled a long list of killings between the year 2000-2006 in a file which i lost two years ago due to virus or some other unknown hacking. Among the early officers in 2000 was a Somali army colonel killed in Lafoole area by three assailants. He fought back and even wounded one of them. General MOhamed Cabdi was killed in MOgadishu after he preformed prayers at a local Masjid in 2004. Even Sheikh Hassan D, Aweys said that the man was his close friends and doesn't understand why would anyone anong the would target. Other Somali officers who did not leave the country after the collapse of 1991 and remained in Mogadishu were killed one by one before even Al-shabaab was formed. In other words, targeted killing of the prominent Somalis was going on before and after Al-shabaab was created. When Alshabab was first created in 2006, the top leadership of the organization consisted of well known members from the Islamist movement in Somalia. Adan Hashi Ayro, the ICU’s top military commander, was chosen to be the overall commander of the new Alshabab forces. Sheikh Hasan Turki, the leader of the powerful Raskamboni Brigade, was elected as the new group’s chairman of the Shura council. Ismail Arale, a moderate Islamist from the Somaliland region, was elected as the Amir (leader) of the group. Ahmed Madobe, the current president of the Jubba regional Administration, was elected as the deputy Amir. This military wing was incorporated with the Islamic court Union whose executive branch and Shura council was led by Shariif Ahmed and Sheikh Dahir Aways respectively. The Ethiopian and other foreign intelligence operatives worked hard not only to decimate the original Alshabab leadership, but also to infiltrate the group and control it. In January of 2007, the Ethiopian forces with the support of American Special Forces captured Ahmed Madobe, the deputy Amir of Alshabab, after he was wounded by an American air strike in JUbbaland. Allegedly, he was betrayed by informants who were part of his group as he was targeted while deep inside the lower Jubba jungle west of the city of Kismayo. But the worst was yet to come for Alshabab. The Amir of the group, Ismail Arale, was captured by American forces in Djibouti while on his way to Eritrea for the opposition conference. He was transferred to Guantanamo Bay where he was incarcerated for several years (as prisoner number DJ9SO-010027DP) before he was finally released. In fact, when the Americans found out that Caraale was not that different than Shariif Ahmed in his views , they released him. Today he lives in Hargeisa. The way Mr Arale was lured into Djibouti and then arrested shines some lights on the nature of the current Alshabab leadership. Khalif Adale, one of the current top leaders of Alshabab, was then an aide to Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the former chief of ICU. Khalif was responsible for facilitating the travel of ICU leaders inside Somalia to Eritrea for the opposition summit. The interesting part is that even though Ismail Arale was not on the list of the delegates invited to come to the summit, since the defeated movement aided by foreign intelligence is now led by two Sheriffs --Ahmed and Hassan, and these two have no desire of bringing Al-shabaab leadership to Asmara. In any event, Khalif Adale sent an invitation letter (allegedly forged) to Mr Arale who was in hiding then. Khalif Adale also sent to Mr Arale $15,000 to facilitate his travel and instructed him to meet him in Djibouti so they could go together to Eritrea for the summit. The Alshabab Amir took the bait and traveled to Djibouti using a forged passport with a false name. He was not arrested initially as he landed in Djibouti, perhaps because he was using an unknown name. However, after he met Khalif Adale in Djibouti, and as they were trying to board a plane to Eritrea, Ismail Arale was promptly arrested by Djiboutian security agents who were waiting for him at the airport. The Djiboutians immediately turned him over to the American forces in Djibouti. Unlike others , Shariif Ahmed the ICU chief , took regular flights from Nairobi to Asmara by way of Doha, Qatar to reach Asmara, Eritrea. In fact, some of us suspect that the spies and those connected with foreign intelligence agencies or managed by them became the new ICU leadership. Shariif Ahmed and Shariif Sakiin and many others were the beneficiaries of the new movement. They went from being exiled in foreign land to become president and fiance minister respectively. Shariif Ahmed was shocked and said, " I was hunting for squirrel ,but I got an elephant instead (Arey Dabagaale ayaan Dabin u Dhigtay Maroodi ayaana iigu soo dhacay). Go figure. With both Alshabab’s Amir and his deputy arrested, and the remaining Alshabab leaders scattered, a group of young, unfamiliar individuals within the organization grabbed the opportunity, and after a quick, unscheduled conference, announced a new leadership for Alshabab.. The new leadership was led by men who were unknown within the Islamist movement in Somalia. A mysterious man by the name “Sheikh Mukhtar Abu Zubayr” was now elected as the Amir of Alshabab. His real name turned out to be Ahmed Abdi Godane from Hargeisa . He was one of about a dozen young men (the Hargeisa network, as they are called by the intelligence people, because their network was organized in Hargeisa, capital of Somaliland region) who came from the northern Somaliland region at the time of the ICU revolution in southern Somalia. He was rather an unknown figure within the Islamists in both southern Somalia and Somaliland. A fellow Hargeisa network member, Mahad Karatay, became his security chief and right hand man. Another member from Hargeisa , Ibrahim meecaad (Afgaani) later became deputy, but was not a member of the Hargeisa network. He was probably one of the few Somalis who fought in Afghanistan and genuinely believed the war was to expel Ethiopian forces from Somalia . He was later executed by Ahmed Godane after questioning his leadership and targeting of innocent Somalia.. A new war had started within Somalia Islamic movements, fought among the spies who were saved by America, the two Sheriffs and the new Al-shabaab covertly managed by Ethiopian intelligence. One was led by Shariif Ahmed and the other by Ahmed Godane. The result was and still is a disaster that engulfed Somalia for the last ten years. Ethiopia’s take over of Al-shbaab. If Ahmed Godane was a questionable figure for the leadership position he got, Mahad Karatay’s ascend was outright suspicious. Mr Karatay was a young man in his early twenties when he joined the Islamist organization “Al-itihad Al-islam” in the early ‘90s. In 1997, after Ethiopian forces defeated Al-itihad forces in the Gedo region bordering Kenya, Mr Karatay became disillusioned with Al-Itihad’s project and left for Kenya. In an event that is yet to be explained, Kenyan intelligence picked up Mr Karatay from Nairobi and handed him over to the Ethiopia intelligence. It was not until 2005 that Mr Karatay surfaced again, mysteriously, in the high security “Mandera” prison in Somaliland. Apparently, the Ethiopian intelligence, which had unchecked influence over the Somaliland leadership at the time , wanted Mr Karatay (whom they kept for many years) to be released for a mission without attracting any ridicule. During the chaotic 2005 parliamentary elections in Somaliland, Mr Karatay was quietly released from the Mandera prison. During the short period he was inside the Mandera prison, he organized a network of young desperate radicals in the prison, who would, when later released, come join him in Alshabab. When he was released from the prison, Mr Karatay linked up with another team of secretive young men in Hargeisa, who were perhaps separately organized either by Somaliland, the gulf countries, Ethiopia or another international intelligence. This later team was headed by Ahmed Godane. The whole group traveled to southern Somalia and with their money and tight organization, quickly climbed through the ranks of the ICU leadership. Before the ICU collapsed, Mr Karatay was named the chief immigration officer at the Mogadishu international airport. This position allowed him (and his Ethiopian handlers) to keep an eye on the movements of the foreign fighters arriving to join the ICU and also the travel itineraries of the ICU leaders. Mr Karatay’s colleague, Ahmed Godane, meanwhile, got an extremely sensitive post in the ICU. He became the chief secretary of the ICU. He evolved From unemployed Hargeisa drifter to the most important job of all. How can a small group of newly arrived outsiders from Somaliland got immediately some of the most sensitive jobs within the Islamic Court movement? With both Ahmed Madoobe, the deputy leader and the Amir Ismail Araale in jail, the high positions of Al-shbaab are for grabs. The ICU leadership , especially Sheikh Yusuf Indhacade and others spearheaded a military confrontation with Ethiopia. When I asked the dean of Mogadishu university why Indhacade was goading Ethiopia for war, he said, " he wanted Ethiopia to crush Al-shabaab militants who took over the ICU". There were many layers of secrets among these groups. When both the ICU and Alshabab leadership collapsed following the Ethiopian invasion, the Hargeisa network members quickly seized the moment and got the Alshabab leadership for themselves. The remnants of the original Alshabab leadership were simply sidelined, except for Adan Hashi Ayrow. Ayrow, the young, apolitical commander of the Alshabab forces was too powerful and too popular among the fighters to be sidelined. At first, he was accommodated by the network members because the network members also didn’t want to be seen as instigating a coup and grabbing the power for themselves. But he would be eliminated later, thanks to the Ethiopian intelligence giving away his location to their American counterparts. Hec was killed by American air bombardment in central Somalia in May 2008. While it took just two years after the defeat of ICU to target Hashi Ayrow, the Americans took more than six years to eliminate Ahmed Godane. Those who replaced Ahmed Godane are hiding in southern Somalia. With american drone technologies and modern GPS, the Al-shabaab leaders are still unreachable for the last six years. The New Alshabab As Hashi Ayrow was eliminated , the new Al-shabaab had open field to implement their agenda. The first act of the new leadership was to create a powerful intelligence agency, the so-called Amniyat. Mahad Karatay, who acted as the security chief of the Hargeisa network, quickly put into action to lead this secret organization. Although none of the members of the Hargeisa network had any official military or security background, it didn’t take much time to assemble and put into action this new powerful intelligence agency. This is because the core membership and leaders of the Amniyat were already there just like Mahad Karatay himself, members connected with foreign intelligence with extensive reach and resources. The Hargeisa network members used the Amniyat to consolidate power. All of the original commanders and leaders of Alshabab were either assassinated or replaced. And in their place, Amniyat members were put in charge. Also, most of the foreign fighters that joined Al-shabaab became very close to Ahmed Godane and strengthened the Amniyaad branch. Later Ahmed Godane used the foreign fighters to eliminate rivals and opposition to his leadership. After consolidating their hold on power, the new Alshabab leaders worked hard to do what their handlers wanted: manipulate the ignorant, zealous, young men in Alshabab to do Ethiopian intelligence’s dirty work. Ethiopia’s enemies in Somalia were to be eliminated by the “mujahidin” of Al-shabab. This is the time that some of the most prominent Somali politicians, academics, singers , authors, generals and civil society members were either assassinated or bombed. Ethiopia also used Al-shabab to eliminate those within the federal government whom it saw as a threat: Nationalists and Islamists. Alshabab conducted a systematic campaign to rid the federal government of Islamists. From 2009 till the end of 2019 , Al-shabaab had targeted and killed the best and brightest among Somalis. They targeted heroic Somali generals and those trying to improve the security of the country. In fact, they deployed both suicide bombers and a dozen men to storm major hotel where senior Somali officers were residing. Just few months ago, Al-shabaab terrorists bombed and stormed one of the best hotels in KIsmayo and killed one of the brightest Somali TV presenters from the Diaspora, Hodan Naaleeye. For the last few years KIsmaayo city was peaceful and major incidents of this nature did not take place. When the time came to eliminate those who brought and hope and peace for Somalia , like Ms Hodan, the killers did not spare any efforts to achieve that bloody murder and penetrate a city that did not experience bombing for a long time. Yet, not one single warlord or pro-Ethiopian politician was ever targeted by Alshabab’s relentless assassination and bombing campaigns to exterminate the best and the brightest. If you look back, almost all Somali warlords in Mogadishu or else where died of natural causes. During the reign oh president Hassan Sheikh even those who called for security improvement or spoke against Ethiopian policy in Somalia were assassinated. Famed singer Saado Ali were killed in a day light. The killers chased her car sprayed a pullet after crushing and disappeared. While security is an issue today, daylight drive by shooting and escaping is not possible today. Colonel Cumar Hashi , who crossed from Ethiopia after the agreement that put them in power, was blown in Beledweyne hotel with his entourage of 80 prominent members of Hiiran region. By far , it was the largest bomb ever exploded in Somalia at the time. Atv that time Al-shabaab did not even have a well established logistical presence in Hiiraan region. Strangely, colonel Hashi was one of those who called Jihaad against Ethiopia as a senior member of the Islamic Courts. Yet as soon as he became the interior minister, he crossed to Ethiopia , stayed about a month and crossed back to Hiiraan with a thousand men. Unbeknown to him a bomb laden vehicles followed him to his hotel. The second biggest one was the one that hit Hotel Shamo which eliminated some of the most prominent members of ICU including four cabinet ministers. Among the notable was Cabdilahi Ahmed Waayeel, the intelectual among the ICU. The new Alshabab’s second task was to attack and punish the two most anti-Ethiopian clans who were at the forefront of the resistance war against the Ethiopian occupation: the Habar Gidir clan and the Ogaden clan. THese two groups from Galmudug /Mogadishu and Jubbaland were the primary founders of Al-shabaab and ICU. After brutal and relentless attacks, the HG especially the Galgaduud group, were forced to seek the help of their former enemies, the Ethiopians. THey formed a Suffi group called Ehlu Sunna Waljamaaca. Ethiopia armed and organized them to fight Al-shabaab. That Sufi group is still active in central Somalia and their Ethiopian connection is managed today mainly through the intelligence community. Before confronting the Raaskambooni Brigade, Alshabab also hunted down suspected ONLF (Ogaden National Liberation Front) members in Somalia. The ONLF had established small bases in the region of Jubba during ihe war against the Ethiopian occupation. However, one year after the Ethiopians withdrew from Somalia , Al Shabab destroyed those bases on behalf of their Ethiopian handlers. THeir members either sought refuge in Kenya while others surrendered to Cabdi Illey, the Ethiopian Somali regional president. Hisbul Islaam, another armed, anti-Ethiopian, islamist organization, also disarmed and destroyed.Their leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys hsa to run for his life and surrender to the Somali federal government. Ethiopia achieved success for what it could not get in all out war in Somalia. In fact, the Raaskaambooni movement who were important segments of Al-shabaab during the war against Ethiopia became their arch enemies. Some might even say that the main reason Madoobe sought the assistance of Kenya was the relentless attacks of Al-shabaab. Today, the former deputy leader of Al-shabaab is an integral part of the Kenyan proxy war in Somalia. He is managed by the Kenyan intelligence while financial resources are provided by the UAE. As events unfolded , the indigenous Somali Islamists of two decades ago, became entangled with foreign intelligence powers they could not adequately handle or match with their limited experience. These movement with no experience of intelligence, diplomacy and world affairs , were used to destroy Somalia from inside with covert intelligence operations. Ethiopia also used alshabab to implement its design for the region. Ethiopia’s magical economic growth for the last few years was directly a result of Alshabab deliberately targeting both Kenya and Somalia, Alshabab had to maintain a level of violence that made Mogadishu, and Somalia in general, unsafe for Somalis from the diaspora to return or attract foreign investment and became dependent on Ethiopian and other foreign troops for security. They also targeted Kenya in a way that drained Kenyan tourism industry. Kenya lost 71% of its tourism industry. The main question is why Al-shabbab never attacked Ethiopia for the last 10 years? Some would argue that the EThiopian army is strong and disciplined enough to defend any Al-shabaab attacks, yet, a suicide bomber could not be deterred by the strength of the opponent. It doesn't take much to direct a bomb laden truck to Ethiopian manned checkpoint or even a border entry points. Al-shabaab went as far as Kampala to attack their perceived enemies, but never attacked Ethiopian bases, troops or towns controlled by them since 2009. Al-shabaab leaders hide in remote area of JUbba and Lower Shabelle region. THeir capacity to manage or execute operations in MOgadishu is limited. Sheikh Cali Dheere might get the microphone to claim everything that happened within the capital, but these attacks and operations are executed by independent cells, regional bosses, criminal cartels and extorsion rachets seeking huge money. Throughout the years the top leaders and ideological leaders of Al-shabaab were from Northern regions of Somalia and Daarood block members. The financial branch and logistics is managed by the mostly by Mogadishu /Mogadishu Clan Clan clan, and most of the young men used in the suicide bombings are either from Bay region or other disadvantaged young men whose land is occupied by others in JUbbaland and Lower Shabelle who are empowered by Al-shabaab. At the same time while foreign money and covert intelligence to be huge part of the Al-shabaab operational success, one can not denying that the Al-shabaab clanless system and merit based way of conducting business as primary attraction to many youths. Many towns in JUbba and Lower Shabelle region young men can select and marry whomever they wish regardless of clan or status. In these towns, when Al-shabaab fighters arrive , the whole town is in a celebratory mood for the anticipation of many weddings. While the local guys are chewing Khat and living a lazy lifestyle, Al-shabaab boys quickly marry the bachelor girls in the town and act like real men. Yet, other than load a truck with a bomb these rural based fighters can not achieve their goals the way intelligence and cartel members mixed with Al-shabaab inflict casualties in Mogadishu. Everyone including Farmaajo and others know that Sim Cards are used for remote detonation of bombs, yet no one was asking the telecom companies to register phones or eliminate telephone banking with These actions and many more are some of the cultures that feeds their system. If you want to reduce and eliminate their reach, one must start with the money train, foreign intelligence and business cartels. .

America could weaken the Ayatollah rule and inflict huge damage to Iran. The best options for Iran is probably destroy American bases in the gulf. THe losers will be UAE and the Saudis. Turkish writer Ibrahim Karagul calls Suleimani a war criminal who is hell bent on advancing sectrain campaign to weaken the region for imperial forces. He was a symbol of Iran/Persia’s imperial power. He stood at the intersection of the neural networks spread throughout the region within Iran’s deep structure. He was the mastermind behind the Revolutionary Guards Corps, Hezbollah, Hashd al-Shabi and other organizations and structures. He was directly linked to religious leader Ali Khamenei, and was in charge of all covert operations, unofficial wars and interventions from Afghanistan to Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen. He was a man that left blood and grief in his wake at every place he went, stopped by or passed through. He was triggering an Islamic civil war, ruthlessly implementing every type of terrorism He was the front man to implement sectarian “Islamic civil war” plans, Persian-Arab wars. Even though he said it was resistance in the name of Iran, he was a man who used every format of “terrorism” and was made a legend by the Shiite world. He was killed yesterday at Baghdad Airport by the U.S. Hezbollah and Hash al-Shabi leaders were also killed along with him. The order to attack was given directly by U.S. President Donald Trump. Prior to the attack, Trump had targeted Iran and said, “This is not a warning but a threat.” US-Iran, Arab-Iran conflict in Iraq may take critical form Tensions that have been escalating for some time now in Iraq were leading into another stage in the Syria and Iraq wars with the killing of Iran’s most important man. Qassem Soleimani had assigned his own man to command the Green zone in Baghdad, who opened the doors of the Green zone to Hashd al-Shabi militias, and they invaded the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. Those who have been holding demonstrations for weeks in Iraq welcomed the attack. It is now clear that the Iran-based U.S.-Iran, Arab-Iran conflict will lead to much critical results. There is great fury and grief for Iran and its affiliated groups. While Hezbollah declared that war is now everywhere, cries for revenge are rising in Tehran and its surroundings. Does US killing him absolve him? Can that photo he posed for in Aleppo be forgotten? He was a hero according to the Shiite world, yet according to the overwhelming majority of the Muslim world, he was a war criminal murderer. The U.S. having killed Soleimani, his elimination by the U.S. and Israel, which have turned our region into a bloodbath, will not absolve him This is not possible for hundreds of millions of Muslims. He was behind incredible human rights violations and war crimes in Syria. He was involved in mass slaughters. The Aleppo massacres in particular are impossible to forget. Back then he had posed for a photograph in Aleppo. He seemed like a victorious commander. But in fact, he was walking over the corpses of the oppressed people of Aleppo. He was fighting against Turkey in Syria That day, I had written, “Qassem Soleimani is a war criminal. He should be held responsible for war crimes.” Soleimani and his murderous teams were openly fighting against Turkey through Syria, with Persian imperialism burning down the whole region. Meanwhile, Soleimani was directly fighting Muslims – not the U.S. – and using all his might against them in all the countries and regions under his influence, without out any limits or room for anything sacred in his attacks. Iran needs US-Israel’s invasions Soleimani’s attitude was emblematic of Iran’s official, ideological attitude. Iran is a state that appears to be fighting the U.S. and Israel but hides behind their invasions in our region and has control over the ground. Those invasions are the reason why Iranian influence has become so widespread, not the U.S. Had it not been for those invasions, Iran would not have been as strong as it is today in Syria and Yemen. Therefore, Iran is in great need of U.S. invasions and Israel’s animosity. Therefore, the U.S. and Israel’s opposition are a veil for it. It is completely sectarian and adjusted to take revenge from Sunni countries. Mohammed bin Zayed, Mohammed bin Salman, Qassem Soleimani: Leading names of Arab-Persian war Soleimani also appeared to be fighting against the U.S. and Israel when in fact he was fighting against Muslims. He was completely sectarian-motivated. He was dreaming of attacking Saudi Arabia from Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. His main goals were Mecca and Medina. This is how the Muslim civil war plotted by the U.S. and Israel was being staged. One side of the war was Iran while the other was Saudi Arabia; both countries has claimed this role. UAE Crown Prince Mohammad bin Zayed and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman were leading the Saudi front of this civil war while Soleimani was leading the Iran/Shiite front. Forcing God to doomsday. US, Israel, Iran’s far-right standing in same position The Muslim war, which appears to be set up as a Shiite-Sunni war, a sectarian war, was in fact planned as an Arab-Persian war. All the wars that erupted in our region since the 1991 Gulf War were planned as Arab-Persian wars and have always taken place on Arab territory. The new situation we have been discussing with Soleimani’s killing is that it will take this war beyond the borders of countries and regionalize it. The idea of U.S. neocons and Israeli far-right schedule the Armageddon war to an earlier date by “forcing God to doomsday,” was being turned into a judgment day war among Muslims. A dirty, bloody scenario was being prepared, and we are still yet to realize this today. Soleimani was one of this idea’s champions on the ground. How will Iran retaliate? What is going to happen next? Will there be a U.S.-Iran war? Will there be an Israel-Iran war? How will Iran respond to this assassination and where? Iran will never fight against the U.S. and Israel. The crisis will not go beyond reciprocal threats. Tehran did not respond even when the U.S. and Israel were hitting Iranian targets in Syria and Iraq. Could Trump’s statement yesterday, “Iran never won a war, but it never lost a negotiation” be indicating that the negotiation period is now over? My probabilities are as follows: There will be great ambiguity in Iraq. Not Iraq but its deputies will respond. They will hit Saudi Arabia not US 1. The retaliation for Soleimani’s killing will be in Iraq. The U.S. and Iran are going to escalate the war for influence in Iraq. This is actually going to take place between Iran and Saudi Arabia. 2. The Iran-Saudi power struggle that has been ongoing for weeks in Iraq is going to grow even bigger. There is great ambiguity in store for Iraq. 3. Iran will not fight directly. It will respond through indirect means, through proxy war. It might hit Saudi Arabia, Gulf countries such as the UAE via indirect means, through organizations. A ‘Houthi missile’ might fall over a Saudi crude oil facility, Dubai 4. A “Houthi missile” might fall over Saudi crude oil facilities, the U.S. military presence in the country, or over Dubai. Iran will use this clout everywhere from Afghanistan to Lebanon. 5. The war and showdown will go beyond the borders of Iraq and intensify in the Gulf. This means Iran-Saudi clashes. It means the threat in the Persian Gulf is growing. Turkey must act fast in Libya 6. What is happening in the Gulf as Turkey has turned towards Libya following the motion? Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt, the anti-Turkey actors of the Libya war, will be turning their attention towards Iran and the Gulf. This is a nightmare for Khalifa Haftar. Turkey must act fast. 7. 2020 got off on an extremely rocky foot. While it was expected in Libya, the Persian Gulf exploded instead. This means everything will be happen extremely quick. Of course, everything will happen very quickly and Iran will retaliate. A new Persian-Arab war will not be confined to a single country.

Good point. Rather than fight within Iran they taken the war to the neighboring Arab nations. When the Iranians welcomed the demise of Mubarak and on the other hand fought to the death to save the butcher Asad, we all understood these Ayatollahs do not care about despots as long as they are Shia. The Americans keep shooting themselves in the foot. No one knows whose interest they are serving. They helped Iran and Iraq created a private Shia militia to fight in the name of the state and armed them well. Now you have tens of thousands of Iran backed militia within Iraq ready to be deployed by Iran. Furthermore, for the last few months Iraqi people had risen up and wanted to take back their country from the political and business oligarchs connected to Iran. Money and resources are looted and deposited to foreign banks, and the rest of the resource goes to those connected with Iran. Now , this American actions might bring the pro-Iran militia and the Muqtada Sadr group to team up and to expel all Americans forces from Iraq. Maybe Trump secretly wanted leave Iraq for good. One thing We learned from America for the last twenty years is they always making Iran bigger and bigger in the region. The multi billion dollar American Patriot missiles in Saudi Arabia could not even shoot down a third rate drone from the Houthis. The fat gulf Arabs are scared to death. No one wants war, but if few missiles land in the fraud capital of the world, Dubai , I would not shed any tears. Finally they might learn the agony of war.

This is huge. Since regime change in Iran is impossible , the chaos theory is in action. THey tried few times but finally succeeded. Do you have a link of the story?

In late December, mainly democratic and elected governments of the leading Muslim nations met in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia. The idea begun when the prime minister of Pakistan Imran Khan, Mahathir Mohamed of Malaysia and Recep T. Erdogan of Turkey met at the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New York. THe idea was to address the huge problems the Muslim nations and people are facing today. How to lift the population from poverty and increase cooperation. Pakistan, Malaysia, Turkey , Indonesia and QAtar signed on and Iran was also invited. With 250 million INdonesians, combined with 200 million Pakistanis, 80 million Turks and 70 million Iranians, you got 600 million people within Asia and Europe. THey could easily create a huge trading block and political grouping that could resolve many of the chronic issues facing the Muslim world. Over 90% of people dying in conflicts today are MUslims. So far no major efforts had been implemented to lift that fast majority of the people from poverty. Infrastructure building , whether it is housing, roads, electric grid and global trade had lifted hundreds of millions of Chinese out of poverty and made them an economic power. This initiative was supposed to create a new common front to tackle both economic and political issues facing these nations and find solutions. The Saudis and UAE felt threatened by these initiatives and begun to abort the summit. The Saudis fear that the new initiative might sideline the bogus outfit called Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Just like the toothless Arab league based in Cairo, this one doesn't have any mechanism to promote peace, trade or conflict resolutions. The Arab league today is just gathering of despots and feudal monarchs, and must be disbanded. Since MUslim unity, democracy and representative government is a great threat to this feudal monarchs, they openly waged war. Just a week before the summit they told Imar Khan and asked him to withdraw. He went to Riyadh and pleaded with Saudis to let the conference happen and gave them assurances that this summitt is not a new grouping or threat to their rule. THe feudal despots gave him an ultimatum . They told him they will expel 4 million Pakistani workers from their country and replace them with Bangladeshi workers, and they and the UAE will withdraw the billions they deposited in Pakistani central banks to prop up their currency. Imran KHan called Mahathir, apologise and told him the threat of the gulf which might endanger his economy. Unfortunately, Erdogan while excusing the difficulty Pakistan faced, also bragged about how poor and needy Somalia stood up to the gulf threat and decided to stay neutral of the rich gulf boys manufactured conflict in 2018. He said, " they were desperate and needed all kinds of help but stood their ground". Well, that speech might have made Somalia as proud and free people among the Arab media and the MUslim world, but it pushed the the gulf butchers to take action against the misbehaving Somalia. THey thought that if 200 million strong and nuclear Pakistan was forced to back down, certainly these poor nomads might change their mind. As Farmaajo visited Saudi Arabia in his early days after his elections, he said, the Saudis had given hom $50 million, but he also mentioned that the king said it up to him and they were willing to offer billions if he supposedly played ball. According to influential Turkish columnist, there was a meeting between a UAE delegation and Somali government last week to downgrade ties with Turkey and start a new beginning with Somalia. Somalis, as expected refused to downgrade the relationship with Turkey. It is very strange that the Somali government keeps courting the Emirates secretly while publicly showing their deep attachment to Turkey. I have no idea whether it is the prime minister who want to keep these secret channels with UAE open or the president. I suspect Khayre might be the guy leading this. Personally , I do not buy about Al-shabaab's admission of the bombs two full days after the fact. The issue isn't about whether Al-shabaab did it or not. Al-shabaab is well connected to criminal cartels and hitmen in Mogadishu. The latest intelligence report indicate the truck didn't even travel the normal highway leading to the checkpoint, but used a secondary road to interject himself to checkpoint to target Turkish engineers and its security convoy that approached the checkpoint. Even before Turkey started building the military base, and their efforts were concentrated on humanitarian help, these killers targeted them. Why would Al-shabaab target those building hospitals and schools?. I do not give any weight to the so called law IQ Sheiks like Sheikh Cali Dheere who usually ordered to read statements. Even the BBC somali service is propagating about Al-shabaab sending condolences. THese operations are probably waged by secondary intelligence units deployed by UAE to wage a proxy war against Turkey in Somalia. THey are helping Kurds to dismember Syria and target Turkey at the same time. THey oppose Turkey keeping Syria united by settling Syrian refugees in their towns. The proxy war will continue unless two outcomes are reached. One is to install military Junta style leaders like Sisi of Egypt, Haftar of Libya and keep Assad in Syria. The second option is for the chaos to continue. In fact, the chaos theory is the main policy of the Pentagon which was used against Pakistan and Afghanistan. By imposing a warlord and dictator in Libya, they can steal the resources without accountability. The UAE can not achieve the first goal of installing a dictator in Somalia. Even the the second theory of the chaos can not be achieved without the assistance of foreign powers and neighboring countries. The British government is helping the UAE on the diplomatic front unless Somalia captulates and joins the camp of despots. President Farmaajo made a great progress toward minimizing the influence of the UN for the last few years, but now it seems they are hell bent on weakening him just a year before the election. The UK government is blocking all Somalia efforts to lift the arms embargo at the UN security council on behalf of Kenya and UAE. How can a nation defend itself if it doesn't have any real weapons. The national security adviser of the president Cabdisaciid Muuse argued the other day that, " Somalia doesn't need arms embargo lifts after it becomes peaceful, it needs arms now". Actually , you might only need one single veto wielding country to object. Since the question at the security council is, do we have to renew the embargo or not?, all you need is China, Russia or USA to say no, we don't have to. The chaos theory will not work without weapons been flooded to Somalia by neighboring countries. THe foreign policy of every Somali government should be two main parallel issues. Lifting the embargo and the withdrawal of foreign forces. THere is no Al-shabaab standing army to invade and occupy Mogadishu today. Thousands of Amisom troops are sitting inside bases without any offensive duties. Our main bases have been occupied by Amisom and others. Arms embargo could be breached easily if real efforts are taken. The UN security council is just a toothless organization that orders around only those who are weak or willing participants. In libya, the arms embargo had been breached openly by everyone. In December 2 2019, they issued statement calling, "on all countries on Monday to implement an arms embargo on Libya and to stay out of the conflict after U.N. sanctions monitors accused Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey of repeated violations." We need our Balidoogle air base and bring in weapons. You can not stop Al-shabaab , criminal cartels and foreign intelligence saboteurs without limiting the monemvets of foreign armies; the movements of money and the movements of Ethiopian troops in the border regions. Al-shabaab can not wage war if their arms are cut off. THeir main sources of weapons is Amisom and Ethiopia. They might buy a gun from hungry soldier but they could not get heavy weapons or huge stockpiles to fight for months. THe Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) doesn't have a full functioning airport without military threat yet, it is fighting and resisting a warlords awash with money and weapons. THe Somali government of today doesn't have any direct military threat to her existence. Yet, A Halane compound resident told me last week that without Amisom the Somali government could not exist, and every sensitive are including Villa-Somalia is protected by them. . I asked him why not use your own Somali soldiers? , Late president Abdilahi Yusuf used his own Somali boys for protection?. He said Al-shabaab would infiltrate and kill the leadership. The movements of money will keep feeding Al-shabaab unless business oligarchs in Mogadishu are stopped completely. The rich relecomes can not even cut telephone lines in Al-shabaab ruled town let alone Mogadishu. The government should get satellite phones and walkie talkies with low frequencies while conducting operations. Cut the internet and telephone for weeks unless we achieve huge successes against the sleeper cells. This town is feeling comfortable while people are dying in large numbers. Last count shows 50 or so embassies in a war torn country. What do they achieve living in Nairobi and visiting trailer homes inside the airport. Everyone is traveling for money and false projects including the prime minister. Last time he spend 50 days in central Somalia to create Galmudug state that no one is interested. THey could not subdue a Sufi group looking more cash than an administration. He is still there while people are buried in Mogadishu by hundred. I want everyone in this town to be uncomfortable. I want the foreigners and false projects pushers to leave the town. Introduce curfews from dawn to dusk. Unless the Proxy war is understood and confronted expect the chaos to continue.

OOdweyne waan ku salaamay. It has been a while. Waxaan islaha malaha Muuse Biixi aaya meelaha u magaacabay ama xagaa iyo Nairobi ayuu hay'ado dhex galay . Anyway, this new revelation about this huge bomb, which was assembled just within the perimeter of the city, should be a game changer for Somalia. I swear to Allah the Almighty, Just about during the holidays, I was writing an article about the extensive war waged by the UAE and the Saudis against Arabs and Muslims world from North Africa to Yemen and all the way to South Asia. I procrastinated and and waited to post for another day or so. Even the famous Somali artist, Amin Amir told me that people had warned him about depicting cartoons against UAE who might even target him anywhere in the world. I knew there was something in the pipeline, but I never thought it could be the same truck bomb that has happened two years ago. I knew there something in the pipeline when I saw the two former presidents heating up their campaign. I knew there was something fishy about Hiiraan online targeting both Turkey and Ilhan Omar, two of the most hated names in the gulf circles, on the front page. The gulf nations were killing us for the last 25 years. Either with their wild WAhabi dogs which bore the Al-shabaab of today, or their direct deployment of terrorists since the formation of Transitional National Government in Kenya in 2004. Somali extremists would not exist today without UAE and SAudi Arabia. Even Qatar were members of that club until few years ago. Almost everything that is killing us today is directly or indirectly connected to the UAE. 1-The business community. With their direct taxation and extortions , the Somali business community willingly made Al-shabaab the richest terrorist organizations in the world. Big telecom companies, with millions of transactions a day are paying monthly taxes exceeding hundreds of thousands . Hotels, import companies, construction companies and most of all the Bakara Market, which is one of the largest business transaction hub in Somalia pay direct taxes to the extremists. The telephone banking transaction alone have $20 million dollar business activity every single day from ZAylac to KIsmaayo. With this kind of resources, the sky's the limit. Everyone of these major businesses have banking accounts in Dubai. Somalia might have stopped direct flights from Dubai with bags of money, but they still have million ways to bring cash to Somalia. THe time has come for the Somali businessman to abandon Dubai and take stand against Al-shabaab. The peace and security of the nation is more important than a stinking businessman. In order to discourage extensions, serious nation reject paying ransom to terrorists and criminals , and by allowing this activities, these people 2-UAE army and intelligence. Somalia had disbanded the UAE mercenary, but its intelligence units are in Mogadishu, Boosaaso and Berbera. Just like in Yemen, the UAE had built its own intelligence within Somalia , and soon will bring their mercenary army to Berbera and claim to be training Somaliland soldiers. Just like in Yemen, they have created two parallel systems that compliment one another. One is to saw chaos within Southern Somalia while pretending to be helping Somaliland. I do believe that just like south Yemen, they will hung Somaliland dry. By paying just 5 million dollars a year , with one of the biggest ports in the country, they check mated Somaliland. THey want to hold on to the jewel of the Red Sea and deny the real investors from the world. This tiny gulf nation is hell bent to destroy any business or port activity within this region for another decade. In fact, for the first time, the American government had declared that a drug cartel type of organized crime to exist within Somalia. The Anti money laundering and anti terrorism financing agencies in America had hired people to monitor movements of money within Somali owned banks and Hawala systems. THey have two employees deployed within the central bank of Somalia to report any fraud or unknown money transactions within these Somali owned institutions , namely Hawala and banks. So far, the Hawala business seem to be clean and their books are open for others to investigate for fraud activity. Most of the killings are committed by these cartels, yet Al-shabaab takes credit. The UAE are holding two major Somali ports with minimum business activity. Only a credible investigation would show their real investment and profits. In fact, the gulf Arabs, including the Qataris who changed course lately, were taking advantage of us for a long time. It was the Egyptians and the Saudis who pushed us to the war of 1977. They either want a despot they could bribe to rule or chaos. A democratic and electioneering Somalia is a great threat for these despots. If they reject people's power in Sudan, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia and Algeria, why would they allow democracy in Somalia?. The prime minister of LIbya made a life and death decision and signed a security agreement with Turkey. With all the threats from major powers, he took a risk to save his government and democracy by confronting the new warlord Hafter. THe time has come for the governments of the region to indict war crimes against Mohamed Bin Zayed of UAE. The UAE took part the NATO war to depose Qadaffi of LIbya, yet they are paying the salaries of the mercenary army of warlord Hafter. Why bring another dictator again? 3- Arms shipments from Amisom and Neighboring countries. No rebel group could survive in the jungle without direct help from a foreign power. Buying small arms and few munitions from the Somali market can not sustain for a rebel group to wage wars daily. Al-Shabaab is using their arms daily just like state actors. It is well documented that Ethiopia used to leave cache of weapons when they leave their baes. Also, Amisom troops had abandoned bases full of weapons and taken over by Al-shabaab militants after fire fights. Other weapons are shipped directly from Eritrea, UAE and Ethiopia. I have a well documented articles about the origins of Al-shabaab and its connections. I will publish soon. When the UAE despot visited Ethiopia few months ago, he signed security and military agreements. Which means UAE intelligence would ship bombs and weapons from the border directly with help of Ethiopian forces in Bay or central Somalia. Even Farah Macalin said that UAE is working with KEnya to delay the extraction of gas and oil from the INdian Ocean. War has been declared against the people of the region by UAE and the Saudis, it is time to take sides and confront the enemy directly. This should have happened long ago. THe problem is Farmaajo is allied with the colonial powers that unleashed the gulf killers from YEmen to Libya. AS the election season heats up, UAE will will increase the campaign of chaos. Intelligence analyst always differentiate bombs assembled by state and non state actors. This one, which destroyed everything within hundred meters is probably assembled by state actors. It is time to control the movements of the foreign soldiers and intelligence people in Somalia. We need our original bases Halane and Baligoogle. Let them build their own camps. Erdogan said that these nations who sent ambassadors to Somalia have no houses but trailer homes beside the airport Turkey built. The time has come for the MUslim world to speak against the Saudis and the UAE , the blood thirsty despots of our time. Finally, we need serious security people in Mogadishu. I will never allow a truck to even enter a checkpoint were the public is traveling. I would patrol the 25 km stretch of the highway with armored cars and intercept every truck, heck, I will not even allow a truck to travel in the rush hour, let them get special permit. Let them stuck hours in special lanes and inspect them with dogs. I Would deploy tire deflators if they try to run away. Do you remember the huge truck bomb that hit Zope in 2017 was chased from the check point all the way to Zope where he exploded. The last truck bomb of 2017 should have changed Somalia both security wise and how we approach it . THis government has an opportunity to seal of this town and inspect every home. INtroduce emergency measures and put a rotating curfew.

While the number of death are higher compared to four years ago, the frequency of attacks are less than few years ago. The two huge truck bombs of 2017 and 2019 certainly skew the real statistics. In 2014, Somali parliament was attacked as well as inside Villa-Somalia. Yet, even before the huge truck bomb, early this year , the attacks were frequent. In March 2019, close hundred people had died in four or five different bombs. I heard that for the first time Americans and others realized that in Mogadishu there is real existence of a " Criminal Cartel" that coordinates its crimes with Al-shabaab. It seems other than blocking roads, they do not have an answer for these bombings. Living within cordoned garrisons like old colonial powers will not fix the problem. The elite live in garrisons and the native lives outside these walls. Other than KHayre, we don't see anyone from the security apparatus explain what happened or where things are going.

We had huge truck laden with bombs explode in Zope with hundreds of casualty. How could you have over two hundred people congregate in one place in this age of checkpoints being targeted? I even heard tax being collected from vehicles traveling from and to the city at this checkpoint. Looking the footage video , this place is more pf market and tax collection than a checkpoint. This idea of collecting cash from the public buses and vehicles is an outdated system. Levy the taxes or user fees when people register their vehicles and add goods taxes from the fuel . Asking money on public bases is a form of extortion, and most of that money is usually pocketed by the police and others. Furthermore, put the check points out of the crowded streets and city zones. You can not have business transactions in security checkpoints. This is not a place for money to change hands. This might look like monday quarterbacking but the same thing is happening again. Big trucks carrying freight whether they are suspicious or not should have separate lanes from public commuter vehicles. Anti terror patrols should stop trucks entering the capital from the two Shabbelle regions before they even reach city limits. Allah ha u Naxariisto.

we all ready know your tribe all the way to the sub clan

THe way he frames the question tells a lot about his Somalihood. If one of us wrote that headline, we would have said , " aren't we Somalis embarrassed ? Waar maxaa inaga siya? ayey su'aashu ahayd. Ma maqashay dambaska dhamac dab ah ayaa ku jirta. Certainly we shall rise. Man, we are probably the most resilient people in the planet earth. Nations fall and rise. We are passing through the era of when the baby is struggling to exit from the stomach of the mother. Despite our huge exodus we are reuniting one family at the time. Our families are intact, our young men and women are getting married every month, although we would have prefered every week. The worst is over, nations fall and rise. The political quarrels are shifting from us to others. I urge this young man to learn the history. Few years back when I met a guy from Zimbabwe, he asked, " Are you Somalis some kind of exiles or refugees?. I told the fool that we were the ones who helped him libertae his country from the yolks of Ian Smith and the white Rhodesians. Do not worry about us . The lion will rise again. Please learn your culture , faith and history.Do not worry about Somalis. We will survive. Few years back, another fool said Will Islam survive in America?, and the learned Sheikh said, Islam was brought by an orphan whose father died while he was in the womb of his mother and his mother died after early days of his birth, do not worry about Islam, and please save yourself.

Rise, pasta and goat meat are expensive. Let us change the diet. I like it.

That point is debatable whether the debt relief is real or imagined. Time will tell, but to argue that " Since when is media free to write whether ever they wish? Someone is deciding articles and copy pasting for all kind of reasons. Besides, media every where do self censoring to protect the values of their readers and promote what the majority of the citizens hold as valuable. Or what those who own them decide to be new worthy. Let my give you an example: In this town we have a large number of Somalis graduating from the local universities compared to other larger groups who might have 10 times the population. Whether they are Indians, Philipino or Africans. Yet, You will never read that wonderful news from the local papers , evening news or feature documentaries including the public Broadcasting agencies. Yet, if one of our youth makes a mistake , it is a headline with all kind of connotations. It is a given thing. But, we expect a Somali website to at least feature our moderate successes. There are well known sites and papers who believe that the "fourth world Somalis" must be expelled, mocked or abused. If a self hating Somali promotes that kind of talking points, then we will point out as usual. I Have seen Hiiraan online promote the dismemberment of Somalia and other anti unity articles throughout the years, and I am pist of about that.