yeey is better moving to kismaayo since some of his people live their. sincere advice.

It is really amazing the pity you guys have for these munafiqs. they joined whatever they joined knowing the consequences. for some odd reason somalians think that no somalian can be a kaafir or a munaafiq.

I was hopping the stick and his big head would have died.

By Andrew McGregor The U.S.-supported Ethiopian invasion of Somalia has an unsettling resemblance to the British-supported Ethiopian incursions in the early years of the 20th century. In both cases, the Western powers became involved because of perceived strategic considerations, while their proxy, Ethiopia, went to war as a result of Somali resistance to Ethiopian domination of the ethnic-Somali ****** region. Last December's invasion succeeded in bringing the Ethiopia-friendly Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmad to power in Mogadishu. Although the Islamists have been dispersed for the moment, there are signs that a guerrilla campaign is in the making. Like the late 20th century, the late 19th century witnessed an international Islamic revival, spurred in part by the military occupation and economic domination of Muslim nations by the Western world. The Egyptian withdrawal from its short-lived occupation of the Somali coast in the 1880s and the failure of the Ottoman Empire to press its claims on the region opened the region to the advances of Britain, Italy, France and Ethiopia. In Somalia, there was a rare shift in public affairs as religious leaders became involved in traditionally secular Somali politics, using their unique position to transcend traditional clan divisions. The most notable of these leaders was Sayyid Muhammad 'Abdullah Hassan, who led his "dervishes" in a 21-year struggle against foreign domination. Introducing Political Islam As a young man in Mecca, Muhammad adopted the austere teachings of the Salihiya sect of Islam. Like today's Somali Islamists, Muhammad rejected foreign influence and enforced the strict observance of Islamic law. The uses of alcohol and tobacco were forbidden, as was the use of Qat, a narcotic leaf widely consumed in Somalia. In Somalia's devastated economy, the Qat trade continues to be one of the most reliable ways for entrepreneurs to make money. The prohibition of the trade by the Islamic Courts Union damaged local support for these modern Islamists only weeks before the Ethiopian invasion (Terrorism Focus, November 28, 2006). Sayyid Muhammad was a harsh critic of Somalia's dominant (but relatively tolerant) Qadiri Sufi order, who in turn called the renegade holy man "the Mad Mullah," the name by which he is best known to history. Like many modern Islamist leaders in Somalia, Muhammad cut his teeth as a political militant in the ****** region, preaching resistance to the Christian Ethiopians who were steadily occupying the area. One of Muhammad's greatest strengths was his mastery of oral poetry, a powerful social and political tool in Somalia, where a man could be ruined by an effective attack in verse or a tribe brought to war by skillful alliteration. At first, the British imperialists who occupied his native northwestern Somalia tolerated Muhammad's preaching, believing that adherence to Sharia law would help bring order to the wild tribesmen of the interior. It was not long, however, before Muhammad turned his attention to the British because of their support for Ethiopia. By 1899, he had broken with British rule and enraged the Ethiopians with a ferocious but ultimately unsuccessful attack on their forces in the ******. With Britain's colonial army forced to concentrate on the concurrent war in South Africa, British authorities invited Ethiopia to join the campaign against this troublesome preacher. Sayyid Muhammad grew concerned that the Ethiopian and Western Christians sought to destroy Islam in Somalia, a fear shared by Somalia's modern Islamists. In the period 1901-1904, the dervishes repulsed four Anglo-Ethiopian expeditions, although their own losses were often severe. Sayyid Muhammad's stern and often ruthless measures in dealing with rivals cost him the opportunity of uniting the Somalis against foreign rule. Somalia's social structure is also a major obstacle in the development of a unifying Islamist cause. Muhammad never quite succeeded in overcoming the reluctance of Somalia's many clans and subsections to join a movement that was not directly devoted to enriching or empowering their own group. Military success brought supporters, while failure led to desertions. The problem persists to this day, accounting in large part for the quick collapse of the Islamic Courts Union when an Ethiopian victory became obvious in December. The Ethiopian and British Campaigns The first Ethiopian campaign against Muhammad was a disaster. A massive army of 14,000 men chased the dervishes around the near-waterless ****** in 1901, its numbers shrinking daily from heat, hunger, thirst and disease. With typical Somali fractiousness, some ****** Somalis accompanied the Ethiopian forces against their would-be liberator. To the British authorities, the lesson was obvious, and it was decided in typical colonial fashion that Somalis must fight Somalis. Thousands of tribesmen were recruited under Indian NCOs and British officers to destroy Muhammad's army. Similarly, the United States engaged Somali warlords under the guise of the "Anti-Terrorist Coalition" to depose of the Islamists last summer. The strategy was a complete failure, with the warlords being driven from most of the country. A second Ethiopian expedition to the ****** in 1903 killed only a few of Muhammad's men, while suffering terrible losses of their own from lack of food and water. In familiar language, the dervishes were at one point characterized as "terrorist thugs," and joint British/Ethiopian campaigns continued until the devastating loss of 7,000 dervishes at the 1904 battle of Jidbaale. During these four campaigns, Ethiopian troops were accompanied by British advisers. There are reports that British SAS units are now acting as advisers to Kenyan border forces in an effort to trap fleeing Islamists (Sunday Times, January 14). After the defeat at Jidbaale, Sayyid Muhammad agreed to settle peacefully in Italian Somaliland, but within months he and his followers were again raiding the ****** and British territory in an attempt to drive out the "infidels." Ethiopia had dropped out of the fighting, leaving Britain to carry on alone. Today, there is a danger of U.S. forces meeting the same fate, as Ethiopia is seeking only a brief occupation and most African Union states (except for Uganda) are very reluctant to commit peacekeepers to a conflict they view as intractable. As Under Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1908, Winston Churchill pointed out the enormous expense involved in holding this deeply impoverished wilderness and the unlikelihood of British-led Indian and Somali troops ever providing security in the interior. Churchill suggested withdrawing to the coast and leaving the barren interior to the dervishes. It was two years before this policy was implemented, but the withdrawal did nothing to end the fighting. A strong blow was dealt to Sayyid Muhammad's movement when two defectors succeeded in obtaining a letter in 1908 from the leader of the Salihiya movement in Mecca condemning Muhammad as a heretic and an infidel. Despite this, Muhammad's call for an anti-colonial jihad continued to spread and his quick-moving horsemen dominated the desert wilderness. As the First World War broke out in Europe, fierce fighting continued in Somalia, almost unnoticed by the outside world. The conflict continued as Sayyid Muhammad grew older and ever more corpulent, no longer able to perform the feats of horsemanship for which he was once known, but still able to use his poetic oratory to inspire his dervishes. Sayyid Muhammad's army was finally broken in a combined infantry and Royal Air Force assault on their fortresses in the Somali desert in 1919. Most resistance collapsed with Muhammad's death from influenza in 1921. Conclusion The dervish/Islamist war with Britain was a direct result of the empire's cooperation with Ethiopia, which sought to use British support to solidify their rule of the ****** region. Although Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi speaks of the importance of joining the "war on terrorism," it was threats from the modern Somali Islamists that they intended to "liberate" the ****** that brought Ethiopia to war. There are signs that Ethiopia is taking advantage of its occupation to round up members of the Oromo and ****** rebel movements (Garowe Online, January 13). Others have been intercepted trying to flee into Kenya (Ethiopian News Agency, January 8). With growing opposition to his government at home and international criticism of his regime's human rights abuses, Zenawi has strengthened himself by achieving the inviolable status that comes with being a "vital partner" in the U.S. war on terrorism. His power base in the Tigrean-dominated army has improved through U.S. funding, training, intelligence cooperation and the practical (if limited) experience of mobile warfare gained through the invasion of Somalia. The war is also seen as an antidote to recent defections in the officer corps to the Oromo Liberation Front (an Ethiopian resistance movement). The ****** National Liberation Front (ONLF) declared on January 7 that "the ONLF will continue to resist the presence of Ethiopian troops in ****** and we shall resist the use of our territory as a logistical and planning center for Ethiopian occupation troops in Somalia" (ONLF Statement on Ethiopian Occupation of Somalia, January 7). With political unrest in his own country, Zenawi cannot spare the best units of his army for long. Despite an al-Qaeda video released on January 4 urging Muslims to go to Somalia to fight the Ethiopians ("the slaves of America"), there is little indication that any have done so. Somalia has always provided an inhospitable environment to foreign adventurers. Popular support for the Islamists was not an expression of approval by Somalis for international terrorism, and Ethiopian/American suggestions that al-Qaeda fugitives had usurped the leadership of the Somali Islamists seem highly unlikely in light of the traditional patterns of Somali power structures. The United States, like Britain, often tends to regard militant Islam in any form as "fanaticism," directed by irrational religious impulses. Too frequently, however, foreign intervention is the fuel that allows political Islam to grow in an otherwise hostile environment. TFG Minister of the Interior Hussein Aideed (a former U.S. Marine) provided the Islamists with a rallying point by urging Somali integration with Ethiopia, including the use of a single passport (Shabelle Media Network, January 7). Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan, the TFG speaker, does not share President Abdulahi's pro-Ethiopian position, stating "I believe that the security created by the [islamic] Courts during their six-month rule cannot be recreated by Ethiopian troops, even if they stay in Somalia for another six years" (Garowe Online, January 13). Despite their desperate position, Somalia's Islamists remain defiant: "If the world thinks we are dead, they should know we are alive and will continue the jihad against the infidels in our country" (Shabelle Media Network, January 7). Their words are a modern echo of Sayyid Muhammad's verse: "And I'll react against the malice and oppression unleashed upon me, Yes, I am justified to smite, to sweep through the land with terror and fury, And I'll go out to make the country free of infidel influence" (Quoted in Said S. Samatar: Oral Poetry and Somali Nationalism, Cambridge, 1982, p.192).

no one is forcing you to stare at it.

"the center was filled" lol it shows the desperation of the TFG.

ofcourse yeey tribesman will do their best and sign up for the clan army.

are you happy worshiping axmaar 24/7? you people are a disgrace to all somalians.

note: the attack was between freelance militias and the TFG and did not included UIC fighters.

No one asked him to join the kaafirs to uproot an islamic govt. and you no what the so called police ran away from the burcad when they went into battle. the ICU never ran away from thieves.

yes.

http://shabelle.net/images1/meyds.jpg

Iska horimaad sababay dhimasho iyo dhawaac oo ka dhacay Muqdisho Daawo Sawirada Mogadishu 28, Jan.07 ( Sh.M.Network) 2 ruux ayaa ku geeriyootay 5 kalena waa ay ku dhaawacantay inta la ogyahay, ka dib markii iska horimaad hubeysan uu ku dhex maray wadada Ex Ctrl kooxo hubeysan oo aan la garaneyn iyo ciidamada booliska dowladda Somalia. 5ta ruux ee dhaawacantay ayaa waxa ay ahaayeen dad rayid ah oo qaarkood xabadaha ay si habow ah ugu dhaceen, iyagoo jooga xaafadahooda, ka dib dagaal saacado qaatey oo ka dhacay aagga Ex-ctrl ee magaalada Muqdisho. Dad goobjoogayaal ah ayaa waxa ay sheegeen, ka dib markii falkaasi uu dhacay in dirirta ay u dhaxeysay kooxo hubeysan iyo ciidamada booliska, waxaana sidoo kale ay sheegeen in ciidamada booliska ay isaga carareen aagga Ex Ctrl, iyadoo mid ka mid ah ciidamada booliska meydkiisa halkaasi uu yaalay, ayna ku xoonsanaayeen dadka deegaanka oo ku qeylinayay halku dhigyo ka dhan ah dowladda. labada geeriyootay ayaa mid ka kale waxa uu ahaa qof rayid ah oo rasaas habow ah ay ku haleeshay halkaasi. Dadkii ku dhaawacmay halkaasi ayaa waxaa loola cararay qaarkood Isbitaalada ku yaala magaalada Muqdisho, iyadoo aan wax faahfaahin ah laga helin. Ma jiraan wax war ah oo ka soo baxay dowladda KMG ah oo ku saabsan dagaalkaan iyo sababaha keenay. Xalay ayay aheyd markii kooxo hubeysan ay weeraro ku qaadeen saldhigyada booliska ee degmooyinka Wardhiigleey iyo H/wadaag. Dhinaca kale 24 kii saac ee la soo dhaafay ayaa waxaa la dhigay Isbitalka Madiina ee magaalada Muqdisho 10 ruux oo siyaabo kala duwan ugu soo dhaawacmay qaraxyada iyo israsaaseyntii ka dhacay magaalada Muqdisho sida uu shabelle u sheegay madaxa Caafimaadka Isbitalkaasi Dr, Daahir Dheere. Waxa uu sheegay in 5 ka mid ah dadkaasi ay ku dhaawacmeen qaraxyadii dhowaan ka dhacay Muqdisho, kuwaasi oo ay ku jiraan labo caruur ah oo mid xaaladiisa ay liidato. Askari ka tirsan ciidamada booliska oo ku geeriyooday isku dhacii maanta Wiil yar oo dhaawac uu ka soo gaaray iska horimaadkii maanta

UIC captured a kenyan base and freed all the prisoners. took some military equipment http://kismaayonews.com/newsdetails.php?subaction=showfull&id=1169844803&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1&

"he aided terrorist" some people are so out of touch with reality. do you call him a terrorist for helping to install the laws of allah? then what do you call the person who aides kaafirs to install demon-crazy, western paganism onto muslims? i wonder how such a person calls himself a muslim.

"he aided terrorist" some people are so out of touch with reality. do you call him a terrorist for helping to install the laws of allah? then what do you call the person who aides kaafirs to install demon-crazy, western paganism onto muslims? i wonder how such a person calls himself a muslim.

waxaad ilowdey dagalada beledyada ka wada socda somalia. laga bilowdo galgudud ila sh/hoose/bay/bakool waa la is cunaya. waxa dadka isku dirayana waa tigrega oo raba somalidu in eey is leyso.

let them come for money, they will leave in body bags!!!

I guess you 'mystic' is an axmaar worshiping muslim. your arguments are worthless as you support an illegal invasion of your own country, such hypocrasy!!!

waxaan layabanahey somali kusheegan rumeysanayaa wuxuu eeyka bush u sheego sidii asago nabi ah.

offcourse muslims will win, no doubt.

yes majority of the TFG supporters are the same tribe as the current made-to-believe leader of somalia. I sense you are trying to say that the islamic courts were clan based. true it was, they were different clans majority of them (...) who united to rule in their religion. but that was going to be expanded once things calm down, now they are no longer clan based, they are a guerrilla movement and most of those who were supporting them for clan reasons have switched sides. only the true believers are left.

the proof that mujahideen are not finished just yet. these ships that are behind these attacks will go back to afghanistan wants the winter is over while the taliban are set to take back kabul this year god willing.

wallahi its not a clan comment, 90% of the tfg supporters are puntlanders thus making a clan Govt. a puppet govt of a puppet govt of a puppet govt. (somalia) (ethiopia) (USA)