Rag hadaad colowdaan asaad ciidan badan weydo, Hadba waxaad ku ciil bixi kartaa kuu cawo adduun ah! Poet ~Unknown~ ------------------------------------- A perilous excursion into the distant past, starting seven whole weeks ago Hezbollah, Hamas and Israel: Everything You Need To Know By ALEXANDER COCKBURN As the tv networks give unlimited airtime to Israel’s apologists, the message rolls out that no nation, least of all Israel, can permit bombardment or armed incursion across its borders without retaliation. The guiding rule in this tsunami of drivel is that the viewers should be denied the slightest access to any historical context, or indeed to anything that happened prior to June 28, which was when the capture of an Israeli soldier and the killing of two others by Hamas hit the headlines, followed soon thereafter by an attack by a unit of Hezbollah’s fighters. Memory is supposed to stop in its tracks at June 28, 2006. Let’s go on a brief excursion into pre-history. I’m talking about June 20, 2006, when Israeli aircraft fired at least one missile at a car in an attempted extrajudicial assassination attempt on a road between Jabalya and Gaza City. The missile missed the car. Instead it killed three Palestinian children and wounded 15. Back we go again to June 13, 2006. Israeli aircraft fired missiles at a van in another attempted extrajudicial assassination. The successive barrages killed nine innocent Palestinians. Now we’re really in the dark ages, reaching far, far back to June 9, 2006, when Israel shelled a beach in Beit Lahiya killing 8 civilians and injuring 32. That’s just a brief trip down Memory Lane, and we trip over the bodies of twenty dead and forty-seven wounded, all of them Palestinians, most of them women and children. Israel regrets… But no! Israel doesn’t regret in the least. Most of the time it doesn’t even bother to pretend to regret. It says, “We reserve the right to slaughter Palestinians whenever we want. We reserve the right to assassinate their leaders, crush their homes, steal their water, tear out their olive groves, and when they try to resist we call them terrorists intent on wrecking the ‘peace process’â€. Now Israel says it wants to wipe out Hezbollah. It wishes no harm to the people of Lebanon, just so long as they’re not supporters of Hezbollah, or standing anywhere in the neighborhood of a person or a house or a car or a truck or a road or a bus or a field, or a power station or a port that might, in the mind of an Israeli commander or pilot, have something to do with Hezbollah. In any of those eventualities all bets are off. You or your wife or your mother or your baby get fried. Israel regrets… But no! As noted above, it doesn’t regret in the least. Neither does George Bush, nor Condoleezza Rice nor John Bolton who is the moral savage who brings shame on his country each day that he sits as America’s ambassador (unconfirmed) at the UN and who has just told the world that a dead Israel civilian is worth a whole more in terms of moral outrage than a Lebanese one. None of them regrets. They say Hezbollah is a cancer in the body of Lebanon. Sometimes, to kill the cancer, you end up killing the body. Or bodies. Bodies of babies. Lots of them. Go to the website fromisraeltolebanon.info and take a look. Then sign the petition on the site calling on the governments of the world to stop this barbarity. You can say that Israel brought Hezbollah into the world. You can prove it too, though this too involves another frightening excursion into history. This time we have to go far, almost unimaginably far, back into history. Back to 1982, before the dinosaurs, before CNN, before Fox TV, before O’Reilly and Limbaugh. But not before the neo-cons who at that time had already crawled from the primal slime and were doing exactly what they are doing now: advising an American president to give Israel the green light to “solve its security problems†by destroying Lebanon. In 1982 Israel had a problem. Yasir Arafat, headquartered in Beirut, was making ready to announce that the PLO was prepared to sit down with Israel and embark on peaceful, good faith negotiations towards a two-state solution. Israel didn’t want a two-state solution, which meant -- if UN resolutions were to be taken seriously -- a Palestinian state right next door, with water, and contiguous territory. So Israel decided chase the PLO right out of Lebanon. It announced that the Palestinian fighters had broken the year-long cease-fire by lobbing some shells into northern Israel. Palestinians had done nothing of the sort. I remember this very well, because Brian Urquhart, at that time assistant secretary general of the United Nations, in charge of UN observers on Israel’s northern border, invited me to his office on the 38th floor of the UN hq in mid-Manhattan and showed me all the current reports from the zone. For over a year there’d been no shelling from north of the border. Israel was lying. With or without a pretext Israel wanted to invade Lebanon. So it did, and rolled up to Beirut. It shelled Lebanese towns and villages and bombed them from the air. Sharon’s forces killed maybe 20,000 people, and let Lebanese Christians slaughter hundreds of Palestinian refugees in the camps of Sabra and Chatilla. The killing got so bad that even Ronald Reagan awoke from his slumbers and called Tel Aviv to tell Israel to stop. Sharon gave the White House the finger by bombing Beirut at the precise times -- 2.42 and 3.38 -- of two UN resolutions calling for a peaceful settlement on the matter of Palestine. When the dust settled over the rubble, Israel bunkered down several miles inside Lebanese sovereign territory, which it illegally occupied, in defiance of all UN resolutions, for years, supervising a brutal local militia and running its own version of Abu Graibh, the torture center at the prison of Al-Khiam. Occupy a country, torture its citizens and in the end you face resistance. In Israel’s case it was Hezbollah, and in the end Hezbollah ran Israel out of Lebanon, which is why a lot of Lebanese regard Hezbollah not as terrorists but as courageous liberators. The years roll by and Israel does its successful best to destroy all possibility of a viable two-state solution. It builds illegal settlements. It chops up Palestine with Jews-only roads. It collars all the water. It cordons off Jerusalem. It steals even more land by bisecting Palestinian territory with its “fenceâ€. Anyone trying to organize resistance gets jailed, tortured, or blown up. Sick of their terrible trials, Palestinians elect Hamas, whose leaders make it perfectly clear that they are ready to deal on the basis of the old two-state solution, which of course is the one thing Israel cannot endure. Israel doesn’t want any “peaceful solution†that gives the Palestinians anything more than a few trashed out acres surrounded with barbed wire and tanks, between the Israeli settlements whose goons can murder them pretty much at will. So here we are, 24 years after Sharon did his best to destroy Lebanon in 1982, and his heirs are doing it all over again. Since they can’t endure the idea of any just settlement for Palestinians, it’s the only thing they know how to do. Call Lebanon a terror-haven and bomb it back to the stone age. Call Gaza a terror-haven and bomb its power plant, first stop on the journey back to the stone age. Bomb Damascus. Bomb Teheran. Of course they won’t destroy Hezbollah. Every time they kill another Lebanese family, they multiply hatred of Israel and support for Hezbollah. They’ve even unified the parliament in Baghdad, which just voted unanimously -- Sunnis and Shi’ites and Kurds alike -- to deplore Israel’s conduct and to call for a ceasefire. I hope you’ve enjoyed these little excursions into history, even though history is dangerous, which is why the US press gives it a wide birth. But even without the benefit of historical instruction, a majority of Americans in CNN’s instant poll –- about 55 per cent out of 800,000 as of midday, July 19 -- don’t like what Israel is up to. Dislike is one thing, but at least in the short term it doesn’t help much. Israel’s 1982 attack on Lebanon grew unpopular in the US, after the first few days. But forcing the US to pressure Israel to settle the basic problem takes political courage, and virtually no US politician is prepared to buck the Israel lobby, however many families in Lebanon and Gaza may be sacrificed on the altar of such cowardice. Source

Addiga korontada maa kaa maqan inna Sheekh Muqtaar? See issugu qaladay Qariindi iyo Cismaan Geedi Raage? Qariindi waxuu ahaa H/wadaag H/Dhexe's twin and the two shared the same building! Whereas Geedi Raage uu ahaa high school ku yaala Tokyo. Plus ur own big bro went to Qariindi!! C'mon yaa Maxruug Mashalaaye Majixinjixe Anyway, Hassan Cilmi Qariindi waxuu ahaa barre in badan ka soo shaqeeyey hay'ada waxbarashada. Waxuuna ka mid ahaa raggii wax ka dajiyay curriclum-ka waxabrashada Somaliya. BTW awoowe maxkamadaha waa niman wado fiican haya e taageer. Perfect ma ahan laakiin kuwii hore bay wax badan dhaamaan.

Timely rebuttal.

Xiinoow recite that poem plz, will u? Sida gaadhi raadkii ninyahow gees walba ujeeda, Labada ginni ee aan is galin, ninyahow jeeb issugu geeyey, Ninyahaw shalay ila joogay ee galabata Goday ka sheekeeyey, Laaba garaadloow wallee kaama guro sheeko!!! Mark my word Inna Yussuf has already overplayed his cards. Wrong move, wrong move.

^ That's it! And the name of the school? Wow!!!!

Alla ya cizak. Sheekh Sheriif Sheekh Ahmed for president Awoowe Xiinoow annigu issagaan la hayaa. Wiilku waa caadil.

Adduunyo!

Suldaan awoowe “interest†is very interesting word. It has no permanent foe in the political jungle. This word is what makes poltical world go round. It may well be the case that Abdullahi is using Ethiopian might so he can kick the ball to the other end of the field. It may well be the case that he knows that he is sitting on Zenawi’s lap but sees it that shameful act as a necessary political give-and-take moment. He is calling the relationship a one based on the “mutual interest†between the two neighboring countries . Does that ring a bell It goes like this Abdullahi will make sure Somalia will not be used as a proxy backyard by Ethiopian “enemies†and Ethiopia in return will assure the TFG’s survival. At this level of the game it is if I scratch your back you do the same for me kinda thang. What would you call your SNM “Mujahids†when Mengistu used them as proxy force to destabilize Somalia that once existed? I bet it is one of those “mutual interest†thang eh! Make no mistake buddy I’m no fan for the old man. As a Somaliweyn sympathizer I abhor everything Ethiopian (politically speaking of course). I oppose the E factor in our politics. Now that qualifier out of the way let me say this one out loud: Consistence is in order sxb!

Suldaan I dunno He can perhaps qoute Siyad Barre's famous line that "Dagaal will kuma dhashee, wilil baa ku dhinta" That may ring a bell in some circles Your hypocracy knows no bound awoowe Look who's complaining about Ethios

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Muruqmaaloow firing couple of loners won't do any good. The best thing to do, in my humble opinion, is to go to Khartoum and talk to the ICU reps. By doing so, the old man has notthing to lose and everything to gain.

Chatters in the Fadhi-ku-Dirrir circles – another dispatch from ground zero Waxa-La-Yiri weekend column By Ma-Shalaaye inna Hawo July 22nd, 2006 Two standing militia, forces loyal to ICU and TFG, are gearing up for a deadly conflict none of them is ready for. Union of Islamic Courts in Benadir made it clear that they don’t intend to wage a war against the TFG. The TFG leadership in Biadowa is divided on what to do with the ICU’s offer spelled out in the Memorandum of Understanding signed in preliminary meeting held in Khartoum two weeks ago – a meeting sponsored by a concerned Arab League. Because of deep mistrust between the two and irresponsible comments made by senior leaders in both camps, an “accidental†clash seems unavoidable. Some of ICU leadership is trying to cement its gains in Benadir. They also want to build up the capital‘s security apparatus by putting effective single command in place. That needs disarming all the loose cannons lurking in the city’s alleys. All of these tasks require political consensus of how best to disarm the loose cannons. Time is the essence here and another fight with foreign backed TFG is the last thing they want at this point of time. By the same token, the TFG is in deep dhooqo. The ground the Baidowa faction stands on is cracking. There are serious differences within TFG leadership. For starters the speaker of the parliament Mr. Sherrif who hails from Biadowa wants to continue the dialogue between the TFG and ICU. On the other hand, Yussuf wants to get his militia in a military footing first before sitting down with ICU. As a military man he believes in negotiating from position of strength; whereas Geedi doesn’t want to engage with the ICU at all. Geedi is deeply troubled by the fall of his hometown and from his vantage point he regards the ICU as occupiers who hail from a particular clan; an erroneous view that ignores the tribal composition of the ICU forces and leadership as well. It stands to reason that another conflict is not only disastrous in a humanitarian point of view but it is also a mutually assured destruction in the both camps. The legitimacy of TFG will evaporate overnight if and when they get bogged down in non winnable civil war. Abdullahi knows AU boots won’t march on Somali soil so long the civil war is raging in that part of the country. For a peace-keeping force to get deployed there has to be a peace to maintain and willing factions to disarm! Likewise the ICU will face a formidable opponent backed by Ethiopia. ICU has no indefinite logistical supply and they know that US warships are monitoring the sea routes especially Eritrean shipping movement. Not to mention the shifting allegiances Somali Muslims are known to practice when the tough gets going! Ethiopian involvement is a complicating factor. This is a regional power that assures the TFG’s survival if worst come to pass. It is this Ethiopian protection that encourages the old man to boycott the Khartoum peace initiative. Melez Zenawi made it clear what his army has in store for the ICU if they threaten the fledgling TFG. His country will neutralize the ICU if they threaten Ethiopian interest he said. He conveyed this threatening message in a diplomatic language. To Ethiopia, stabilized Somalia led by its friends is a goal worth pursuing. Stabilized Somalia led by ICU who has hardened fighters of Oromo and Somali-Ethiopian origin in its ranks is a threat that justifies, in Addis Ababa’s view, preemptive border crossing - an exercise it undertook against Col. Aways in Gedo not long ago. However you look at Somali conflict and its history Ethiopia has always played a central and critical role. Current confrontation is on another level. It is the first time that Mogadishu came under the total control of one group. It is the fisrt time that the prospect of clan exploitation and the dividi et impera tactic have a little chance of succeeding, and it is the first time that Ethiopian friends have no say or control in all key southern ports.

Hambalyo. Mid barwaaqo iyo bashbash ku waara Allaha ka dhigo.

^ I don't agree with everything this macho man said but I gotta tell u buddy the guy got me nodding big time. Take notice fellas another manly man is in da house PS: women is not like a car, NO simply means no regardless of hints and invitations, and there is no generic formula that applies to all women. They come in different tastes and shades.

Poor Muslims! My heart goes out to innocent people who are caught in the middle.

Sagal arooryaad in Iceland. Can anyone top this? Sunrise...Iceland

Checkmate, wlc back bro. And no that wasn't me bro My old man (Allah yarxama) was no poet.

Here u go Xiin, Usha dheer maantaan sitee, geelayaga ugubka soocaaye, Ee Amaan, Idil, Ooman, iyo Olosho laameeye, Arrin baa i dhaaftaye Aadanoow hadaan uumiyaha eego, .... Awoowe, Ahmed Dirrir was innan-la-yaal. Not only he was living with his in-laws but he was also a camel-less if I can use the word. What that meant in the nomadic culture is that he was under the mercy of his in-laws. Whenever they move or whereevr they move to, he had to go with them for he couldn't afford to stay behind. The legend has it that Ahmed Dirrir had twenty five she-camels when he asked his wife's hand from her uncle (she was an orphan). Her uncle demanded all the twenty five she-camels from Ahmed Dirrir's family. Ahmed paid the dowry thinking, as was the case with reer Buuhoodle's tradition that, half of the she-camels will be returned to him. This particular uncle kept the dowry to himself violating a well-understood and well-observed tradition. Therefore became innan-la-yaal. He stayed with his in-laws with the hope that they, for the sake of their daughter’s well being if nothing else, will return several she-camels or at least will give him a he-camel (awr) for his transportation needs. Ahmed lamented in this famous and much quoted poem. This poem conveys a rare sympathy for women’s plight in nomadic culture. It is one of my fav poems. Speaking of his wife (an orphan) he coined a well known proverb. He seems to realize that women (living in nomadic existence) without a protector is a simply a toast. Had she had a caring and loving father she would probably have shed tears for his mercy lest he sympathize with her plight. The legend has it that Ahmed’s in-laws moved out without notice leaving Ahmed’s family behind. Referencing that particular incident he said: Ileyn waxa ooya innan aabe leh oo ehel u muuqdaaye, Arxan li’ida waa waxa cidlada loogu ood jaraye! What makes this poem particularly interesting is Ahmed starts with above quoted lines depicting how keen and excited he was when he was selecting the best of his family’s beasts for the hand of his would-be wife adding that move was a major mistake for the family he wedded from were ignoble family (the nomadic standards). He says he was tricked by the good name of her family: Abtirsiimihii bay hoday Aadan caraboow e, Dadkaa uufaneyskaa hadaan arri-jir weydiisto, Isla jog baraar iyo wan weyn ma arki waayeene, Amarkii Ilaah iyo waqtigu waa wax kaa adage e, Nin anbaday halkuu aaday wey ula ekooneede, Annigoo arkaaya yaan waddada aydho-goo jadhaye. The last three lines quoted by many literature-versed Somalis when giving in to qadar is a masterful stroke from Ahmed Dirrir’s part. His conviction in Divine predestination is a recurring theme in Somali poems – an indication of their unwavering faith in Allah’s wisdom in everyday event. However Ahmed was rebuked by Adan Carab as well as his kinfolk by his use of dakaa uufaneyska ah a reference of several clans in the area! Waryaa gabayga yaqaan oo dhamaystira fadlan! Any correction is welcomed. My source are from Waxa-la-Yiri cilmi dhegood.

Kix kix kix @ iga tag ninkaas nin jiro ma ahan. And Kashafa wanted to paraphrase this stanza: Wiil haduu labiyo toban jiroo laqan ahaan waayo …. Raganimo ludeed kuma jidhee leexaye ogaada! Here is one for you yaa Kashafa. Adduun gaban ah, ubad wada habla ah, oori kululaatay, Waa waxaan sidaa ula engagay, urugadoodiiye, Ilma-adeeradaaa geela way, igu ag maalaane, Ayaantii kastaba boostadaan ku ag wareegaaye, Haddaan aradka gaalada fadhiyo, kuma ilaaweene, Haddaan aabahaa ahay maxaad, ii anfici weday? 1. Words of interest: gaban: ubad: engag: urugo: 2. Moral of the poem? Now the poem is about a hard-pressed father with extended family trying to make the ends meet. As urbanite fleeing from tragic and cut-throat civil war, he was forced to live at the country side. He didn't get any support from relatives and in-laws! Once proud and slef-reliant civil servant, this father has tasted the bitter life of nomadic existence. With spoiled daughters coming of age and go-getter wife who used to live in a la vita dolce, he was struggling to provide his family and at the same time keep his head up. His only son didn't come to the rescue. He had a high expectation from his son. One day he met someone from Finland, the story goes, who happen to know his son. This guy was leaving within hours. Mohamed Daad wrote this poem on a letter and asked the man to pass along to his son. Once he read the letter, heart-broken and guilt-feeling son emptied his accounts and send every penny he has to his family. The second letter he recieved from his father read: Xamdi mahad Allaa igu xawilay, walad xalaaleede, Xamdi mahad anoon xoogsan baan, xayn ka buuxsadaye, Xamdi mahad xigaalo iyo tol iyo, xidid haddaan yeeshay.

Magnifico! Last paragraph is what is expected from an accomplished budhead Just briliant Many thanks Mr. Oodewene. Awoowe meel shishe bay ka degaysaa. For the first time Tanks will be taking part in this "uncivil" war! Awoowe mar labaad diirad saar oo nagu akhri waxii Ilaaheey ku baray. ---------------------------- Armed to the teeth TFG vs. Public supported Courts – a decisive showdown Waxa-la-Yirri up to the minute war iyo wacaale By Sheeko Xariir (Cyber-ku-Dirir vet and Waxa-la-Yiri trophy winner) July 14th, 2006 Fadhi-ku-dirir crowd went ballistic as they tried hard to get the latest feeds from their groupthink-oriented circle of buddies. Both sides of the aisle have friends on the ground helping them in the war iyo wacaale department. The latest word is that TFG’s so called “national army†is on the move. The target? Balli-Doogle, Somalia national air force base now in shambles. There are three arrows on the plan layout hanging on the war room. Surprisingly enough they are all pointing to far away cities of Qoryooley via Diinsoor, Bu’aale, and Balli-Doogle. Our dept. has received sensitive and highly classified information from high-ranked official in the TFG’s upper echelon circle. The idea is to draw the courts out of Mogadishu into the Southern theatre. This will facilitate the propaganda agenda of TFG. TFG wants to paint the courts as aggressive and violent Taliban-like regime expanding its circle of influence to the rest of the country. The TFG will spare no effort in order to define the courts as clan-based courts. Attacking Qoryooleey from the North West will compel segment within the court system to rush Indho-Cadde’s aid at the Qoryooleey offensive The sagacious Sheikh Sharif, if he has his way, is trying to fortify Mogadishu’s security and focus on improving the courts’ enforcement muscle within the city limits. He is also trying to invite reporters to Mogadishu. Our feeds report that the Court’s delegation will go to Khartoum regardless of TFG’s plans. The idea is to underscore their pacifist attitude and their willingness to talk to the TFG for the peace’s sake.. There are other elements within the courts’ executive branch that want to preempt the TFG. They want to make their stand at Belli-Doogle theatre. If they have their way, the TFG’s military muscle will be tested thoroughly and the outcome of Balli-Doogle upcoming showdown will serve as useful indicator for the viability of foreign troops in the area. Waxa-la-Yiri Khabaar Desk Spinning the ball like the one and the only Zidane

TFG is making a big mistake. Negotiating with the new power in Mogadishu for the sake of peace and stability is the right way to go about this. And let's be frank the courts are power to reckon with more so than any previous grouping that stepped up to the southern theatre. Delay the meeting if you must but don't you boycott the peace conference!!!! (Imagine if TFG concedes all their demands including constitutional revision within TFI framework) and I mean anything short of undermining its authority then TFG may have a chance to have Mogadishu on a dish. Think about it! You see TFG doesn't have to choose between the International recognition and support for its fledgling institution and reaching a workable and practical understanding with the courts. There are ways of reconciling these two seemingly irreconcilable political tracks. If the top brass in Biadowa don't wise up they will end up cornering the courts into a box and if that were to happen I can assure you the TFG will lose 1 - nill to Courts. Think about it! Unless the clan matrix come into the picture and I don't think it will (provided the courts manage willkaa indhaha cad cad), I don't see Somalis symapthizing with foreign -backed TFG boys against Jihad-declaring Islamists! On the other side of spectrum Courts' interest will be well served if they find a way to deal with TFG without outside interference. I am extremely impressed by how shrewd and calculating the Sherif is. This guy knows how to put the ball back into where it belongs. Provided the Aways followers withing the court don't complicate the internal politics of the alliance he Sharif that is will keep projecting pacifists stand. This sof-spoken and moderate guy can within reason do wonders for the courts. If they don't wise up, if they don't distance themselves from IndhaCadde, if they don't put all their resources in fortifying the city and instead go offensive in a preempt move they will facilitate speedy foreign troop deployement and the TFG will have what it always wanted which is military support that answers to her as well as financial handout. The thing is that the old man has an assurance from the Ethiopians that his base will be safe and sound if worst come to materialize. I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer but I'm absolutely confinced that this looming civil war can be prevented if the folks at the top have what it takes. We've been there before! There was a time when Ceydiid Sr thought he made it to the top and he almost did but events he couldn't forseen transpired to the point where he has fallen from grace, (remember him welcoming Bush Sr.) In short span of time he became a hunted man with price on his head!

Awoowe waxaan qoonsaday sida aad igu riixaysid xaafad kale. Erayga ah "keep up the spin" waxaan u qaatay in aad iga ilaalinayso taageerada aan u hayo Maxkamadaha. Awoowe nimanku ma aha macsuumiin. Dabcan wax badan baa qaldan. In la bidhaansho oo taxliil lagu sameeyo sida wax u socdaan kolay ka fursan meyso. Awoowe waan iska sheekaysaneynaaye wiilka indhaha cad cad ee la yirri waa toobad keen oo maanta hor Ilaahay iyo Kitaabka oo la isku xukumuu Jowhar dagaal lagu qaaday wax uga galay macnahiisa ma fahmin. Cagaha dhulka dhig brother waad lalmaneysaaye Dabcan Islamku in miyir iyo siyaasad talaabada loo qaado iyadaan laga tagayn principleska Islaamiga ah diidi mayo. Danta waxay ku jirtaa in aysan TFG-du helin taageero ajnebi iyo awood qarbi oo lagu jabiyo Maxkamadaha. Annigu waxay ila tahay in khidco iyo siyaasad wax lagu maareeyo oo Maxkamaduhu aysan marna diidin jiritaanka TFG-da. Xikmad weyn baa ku jirta |mutual recognition" approach. macnahu waa in dib loogu laabto awood qaybsiga iyo constituionka labadaba. Sidoo kale in warlordyo siman oo wada daalimiin ah lakala xigsado ma ahan wax islamka sal ku leh. Aashaa awoowe dagaalka sokeeye oo la sii hurriyo iyo in shisheeyuhu helaan marmarsiiyo ma aha guul ee waa ayaan darro.

War qasaaro sxb kitaabka kulligayo waanu wada doonaynaa e maxaad ka tiri willka wiil hooga ah ee indhaha cad cad issaga ma galin danbaa howshiisu? Sxb horta anniga iyo qaraabadeyda real state ciidaa ka badan baa la iga haystaa oo xoog la iiga maquunsaday. Waa alla mahadii mar haddii warlordkii la cayriyay. Bal raggii ii dhacay maantana shaarka diinta ii soo gashaday ee salaatu leylka gurriga boolida ah Allahu Akbarta ku haya ina abti iyaga bal maxkamada soo taag. Ilayn maxkamadu waa shaqaynaysaa maanta e! Beerta Indhacade iga dhacay ee qoryaaleey daaftaa koonfur galbeed kaga aadan fadlan tol iyo qaraaba haddii la yahay oo Islamku idin ka dhab yahay bal ama iga iibsada ama ii soo celiya. Awoowe waad na wareerisay oo diintii waad naga xigsatay oo qofkii afka kala qaada haw baad ku soo leedahay misana nin hor ilaahay xaajada hoos u eegaya ma tihid. See wax kaa yihiin brother?

Waryee Qasaaro , saaxiib waa adiga fariidka ahaaye fadlan bal wax i fahamsii oo dee ii xoog warran sxb. Waxan moodayay in heshiiskii Suudaan uu qodobka ugu wayn ahaa in laba garab ay is aqoonsadaan awalan deetana wada xaajoodaan. Awoowe maalmahan safar baan ku jiraye maaneey sidaa arrinku ahayn?

Pacifist, Yes the plicemen with guns are still around and yes they do ask sharci every now and then especially late at night. I haven't encountered them. By all indications they are not a problem though. My experience at the airoport was as smooth as that of Heathrow. As everybody else you pay 50 bucks and bang! three month visa is stamped on ur passport. If anything the kenyans were eagerly trying to strike a convo with me in a friendly manner. "Are you a waryaa?" is the ice-breaker and from there on they opened up like easy going laid back Somali! None of them asked me a bribe. If anything they were trying to help me carry my luggage. It was truly amazing how things have changed. As to the food I preferred to eat at the hotel I was staying. I went out twice to the restuarants and I didn't like it. As to whether I went to other countries the answer is no. My colleagues went to Tanzania and Rwanda and the pictures they shared with me is absolutely stunning. Magnifico!...will share with SOL Allah-willing. MCXamar, the problem with Dalsan was never about the services they were providing. It is rather a problem betwwn the investors and folks who run the business. Dahabshiil Co. is truly revolutionary in Somali standards. It is owned by one man and hence he has a complete control over its operations. That's awesome. Stoic, Abaadir, Jimcaale and other folks who implied that "wadaads" are somehow guilty of something that's far from the truth. This is about particualr individuals who happen to be folks with Islamic orientation. To blame the whole movements is a blanket statement. I hope that's not what you guys meant. Jimcaale, no is the answer to ur question. No there is no help other than the lil sadaqa they got from devout and likeminded folks. What I'm talking about is just poor people majority of whom are women with children. I mentioned them because their ordeal kinda broke my heart. No one can get rid of poverty and this was a manifestation of the poverty in some segment of Somali folks in East Leigh.