Witnesses said, GaroweOnline bandwagons what is on the news of clannist sites. It is all based on questionable testominials. You should spare us the crocodile tears. The Islamists have to be crushed and rooted out.

Mucaaradka oo ka hadley dagaalada 21 Apr 21, 2008 - 8:34:01 AM Mucaaradka ka horjeeda DF ayaa waxay maanta ka hadleen dagaaladii labadii casho ee la soo dhaafay ka dhacay Muqdisho, iyagoo dagaalladaas ku tilmaamay kuwo lama filaan ah oo dhibaatooyin kala duwan lagu gaarsiiyay shacabka Soomaaliyeed ee Muqdisho ku nool. Afhayenka Midowga Maxkamadaha Islaamiga ah Sheekh Maxamud Sheekh Ibrahim Suleey oo aan sheegin halka uu ku sugan yahay ayaa u sheegay saxafadda Muqdisho in dagaalkii labadii casho ee la soo dhaafay socday ay mugdi weyn geliyeen dadaalladii dib u heshiisiineed ee u dhexeeyay iyaga iyo Dowladda Somalia. Sheekh Ibrahim Suleey, wuxuu shegay in Maxkamadaha ay sii wadi doonaan dagallada ay kala horjeeda ciidamada Ethiopia, wuxuna carrabka ku dhufutay in sirdoonkooda uu ogaaday in ciidamo ka tirsan Ciidamada Ethiopia ay qorsheynayaa inay beegsadaan dadka wax ku ool ah ee Bulshada Soomaliyed; taasoo uu sheegay inay uga digayaan taageerayaashooda iyo shacabka kale ee Soomaaliyeed. Sidoo kale, Xoghayaha Warfafinta ee Isbahaysiga Asmara Axmed C/llahi oo saxafadda ayaa sheegay in dagaalaldii Muqdisho ka dhacay labaadii maalmood ee la soo dhaafay ay ahayeen kuwo xanun badan, balse shacabka looga baahan yahay inay u adkeystan dhibatada ku dhacaysa; isagoo sheegay inay waqti dhow dhammaan doonto waa sida uu hadlka u dhigaye. Labadii Casho oo ay socdeen dagaalladan ayaa waxaa ku dhintay qiyaastii 81-qof, iyadoo ay tirada dhaawaca noqonayso mid kor u dhaaftay 150-ruux oo isugu jiray dad rayid ah iyo kooxaha dagaalamayay. "Hay'adaha u dooda xuquuqda aadanaha ee caalamka waxay indhaha ka laabteen waxa ka dhacaya gudaha Somalia ee ay geysanayan ciidamada Ethiopia iyo ciidamada DF ee la safan; dagaalkaas waxaan ku tilmaamaynaa inay yihiin kuwo xasuuq ah" ayuu yiri Axmed C/llaahi. Mas'uulkaan wuxuu tilmaamay in Dowladda Somalia ee ku sugan Somalia ay ku eedeynayaan dagallada ka dhacaya Muqdisho ee lagu xasuuqayo shacabka Somailyed waa sida uu hadlka u dhigaye, isagoo tilmaamay in taasi aysan mas'uuliyad ahayn. Ra'iisul Wasaaraha Somalia Nuur Cadde oo ka hadlay dagaalladii Muqdisho ayaa sheegay in dagaalladas ay ahaayeen kuwo ka dhashay weerar ay kooxo cadow ah kusoo qaadeen ciidamada DF iyo kuwa Ethiopia; isla markaana ay ciidamadu is-difaacayeen; ayna la dagaalami doonaan mar walba kooxaha aan nabadda doonayn. Hadalka Mas'uuliyiintaan ka tirsan Mucaaradka ayaa wuxuu kusoo beegmayaa iyadoo Guddomiyaha Isbahaysiga Asmara Sheekh Shariif Sheekh Axmed iyo xubno ka tirsan mucaaradka ay si dhaqso badan xalay uga duuleen magaalada Jabuuti iyagoo gaaray Asmara ee dalka Eritrea oo ay saldhig ku leeyihiin. Xaaladda Muqdisho ayaa saakay daggan iyadoo goobihii lagu dagaalamay ay isaga baxeen ciidamada Ethiopia iyo kuwa Somalia ee is garabsanayay oo dagaal xooggan la galay kooxaha hubeysan ee ka horjeeda oo aan la garanayn hadda meel ay ku sugan yihiin. Garowe Online, Muqdisho

He reads Shabelle.com and Dayniile and that has had a quite impact on his thinking.

Dadkaas ha isku wareerin. They see everything from the prism of clan and hence their resistance to the government There is a widespread ascriptive notion that has plagued our society for generations. Our cultural disposition to think of groups in categorical terms rather than in personal terms send the wrong and prejudiced message that whatever achieved in private activities as though it came as a result of tacit disporportionment of resource allocation in favor of one clan. This is not true but it's how we think of ourselves in categorial terms. Experts in Ethnic and tribal conflicts has borrowed from the Marxist, theoritically, that a social class is "fixed social placement and inescapable fate" or the "birth principle" and thus the reason we have popular prejudiced terms in reference of a group vs another. like "Xamaali" "Tribalistic" "Corrupt" "Bad" etc.

^The reason Ethiopia cut off ties with Qatar is Al-Jazeera giving the ONLF significant coverage. --------------- Ethiopia severes ties with Qatar Monday, 21 April 2008 17:11 UK Ethiopia's government has announced it is breaking off relations with Qatar. The Foreign Ministry said it was because of "Qatar's attempts to destabilise the sub-region and its hostility towards Ethiopia itself". Ethiopia is thought to be angry at recent coverage from Al-Jazeera, based in Doha, and financial support given to Eritrea, accused of backing rebels. Although the two countries have diplomatic relations, neither has an embassy in the other's capital. The Foreign Ministry statement accuses Qatar of being blinded by arrogance and remaining deaf to all Ethiopia's attempts to persuade it to change its ways. According to the BBC's Elizabeth Blunt in Addis Ababa, Foreign Ministry sources say that the Ethiopian government believes Qatar is giving substantial sums of money - amounting to something like $150,000 a month - to Eritrea, which then go on to fund insurgents in Ethiopia's Somali region, the ****** National Liberation Front. A reference in the statement to the output of Qatar's media outlets points the finger at the international television channel Al-Jazeera, which is based in Qatar, she says. Al-Jazeera recently broadcast a series of reports from the ******, to which the Ethiopian government took great exception, describing them as propaganda films for a terrorist organisation. Source: BBC

For the pro-Islamists, familiarize yourself on the Convention on the rights of the Child In 1989, world leaders decided that children needed a special convention just for them because people under 18 years old often need special care and protection that adults do not. The leaders also wanted to make sure that the world recognized that children have human rights too. An Islamist group called al-Shabab, which literally means "the lads" in Somali, has been added to the United States' list of "foreign terrorist organisations". Its name stems from its first incarnation as the youth and military wing of a group of Sharia courts who controlled much of southern and central Somalia in 2006. When, at the end of that year, the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) was driven from power by Ethiopian troops supporting Somalia's weak transitional government, al-Shabab melted away into remote and distant parts of the country -BBC

Prime minister Nur Hassan Husein addressed the growing toll of civilian casualties during the latest outbreak of fighting. "The government is sorry about the fighting and loss of innocent civilian lives," he told a news conference Sunday. "Our aim is to restore law and order through reconciliation and peaceful means, but that does not mean our troops and those of our ally Ethiopia will not defend themselves as they come under constant attack." Ethiopian troops supporting the transitional government's soldiers come under daily attack from the Islamic fighters they chased from power in the capital in December 2006. The Islamists receive support from Ethiopia's archenemy, Eritrea. Impoverished Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew a dictator then turned on one another. Source: AP

'They risk everything to escape' 20 Apr 20, 2008 - 9:35:25 PM Thousands of Somalis make a perilous journey to Yemen to flee Mogadishu's chaos Obah Abdisalam Muhammad knew that she might not survive the crossing. She had heard the stories of the smugglers' beatings, of the sharks and the desperate thirst. But after two of her brothers were killed in Mogadishu's endless cycle of fighting one night early last month, the pregnant 19-year-old decided that she had to take the risk. For several days, Muhammad travelled by minibus towards Somalia's northern coast, passing through checkpoints manned by edgy, young militiamen. Then, on the evening of March 15, on an isolated beach near the city of Bossaso, she waded into the sea and pulled herself up into an old wooden fishing boat. In a bag she carried a single change of clothes. Hidden under her headscarf, wrapped in plastic, was a tiny address book and $10 (£5). There were 120 other Somalis crammed into the boat, all sitting with their knees drawn up against their chests, trying to avoid the eyes of the six smugglers who carried assault rifles and knives. "They said that if we moved they would throw us into the sea," Muhammad recalled. The seven men tossed overboard the next day were already dead. Forced to sit in the engine-hold due to lack of room on the deck, they had suffocated after their screams for air were ignored. Late that night, after 30 hours at sea, the remaining migrants were ordered to swim the final few hundred metres towards Yemen's rugged coast. A few boys helped Muhammad make it to the beach, where villagers gave her biscuits and water. In the morning they helped her phone her parents, who had also fled Mogadishu and were living with relatives outside the city. "I told them that I had survived," she said. Her story ought to be remarkable. But in Kharaz, the UN-run refugee camp in southern Yemen where she now lives in a sand-stained tent, new accounts of loss and perilous journeys arrive at the gates every day. From January to early April about 14,500 migrants - mainly Somalis - crossed the Gulf of Aden to Yemen. That represents more than half the number of people that made the journey in 2007, and the main crossing season later in the year still lies ahead. The high death toll is little deterrent. UN figures show that about 1,500 people died or disappeared trying to reach Yemen from Somalia last year, one for every 20 that attempted the journey. Some of the victims drowned after their boats capsized in rough seas, or while trying to swim the last leg to shore. Others were forced into the water by smugglers struggling with overloaded boats. "We have one woman here whose three-year-old child was thrown overboard just because it was crying too much," said Claire Bourgeois, Yemen country director for the UN high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR), which has set up migrant reception centres along the coast. "The migrants know all about these dangers, but they are desperate to escape." Driving the exodus from Somalia is the increasing chaos in Mogadishu. Most of the new arrivals in Yemen this year began their journeys in the Somali capital, which is convulsed by a growing insurgency. Militias linked to the former Islamic Courts authority, which ruled Mogadishu in the latter half of 2006, are waging a guerilla war against the occupying Ethiopian troops who removed them from power and the weak government. With a small African Union peacekeeping force reduced to the role of bystander, several thousand civilians have been killed in the crossfire since early 2007. The UN, which considers a wider peacekeeping mission too dangerous, says 700,000 people fled the city last year. The 10-mile stretch of road between Mogadishu and Afgooye now hosts more than 200,000 people, humanitarian groups say, perhaps the biggest concentration of displaced people anywhere in the world. Those with money run further. Kenya's border remains closed, and Ethiopia is seen by many Somalis as the enemy. Yemen might lie across a hazardous stretch of water, but its policy of offering Somalis automatic asylum makes it the most attractive destination. Muhammad, who had worked as a housemaid in Mogadishu, managed to scrape together $35 for her overland journey to Bossaso, and $50 for the 200-mile sea passage to Yemen. Malyun Hassan Ismail, 30, one of Muhammad's 9,000 new neighbours in the refugee camp, which squats on a stony plain two hours' drive west of the coastal city of Aden, chose a more expensive route. Ismail described how an Ethiopian military vehicle had been blown up near her house in Mogadishu in December. In the ensuing reprisal, her husband, father and brother were killed, she said. With three young children in tow, she paid $600 to travel by road to Somaliland, the self-declared republic to the north, and then west to Djibouti, which is much closer to Yemen than Bossaso is. Smugglers charged Ismail a further $100 to take her family across the sea by boat. "What is happening in Mogadishu is too horrible, people dying every day," she said. "Here I have a tent, two beds and four blankets. I feel safe." But for many migrants safety is not enough. They come to Yemen, poorest of the Gulf states, burdened by promises to help relatives in Somalia. Most men head straight from the UN reception centres to the sprawling Basateen slum in Aden, where a well-established smuggling network helps them travel onwards to wealthier countries. Anab Sheikh Muhammad, who left Somalia in 1993, runs a boarding house in Basateen. Business is good: the floor of her living room is filled with cardboard and bits of foam used as makeshift mattresses by her many customers, including Muhammad Jamale Muhammad, a quietly spoken 23-year-old, who only arrived in Aden the day before. Having left his wife and three children in Mogadishu, he was now trying to scrape together $25 for a ride north to the border with Saudi Arabia. From there, he planned to proceed on foot towards Jeddah, where he hoped to find a menial job. A more likely scenario, UN workers say, is that the Saudi police would soon pick him up and deport him to Mogadishu. And that soon afterwards he would board a fishing boat on Somalia's lawless northern coast. "You see the same people coming over here again and again," said Absher Muhammad Abubakar, who works for UNHCR in Kharaz. "They prefer to risk everything to improve their lives rather than to stay in Somalia and wait to die." Source: Guardian (UK)

Adeer, you can claim all you want. It is a common theme for the any self-styled resistance group to make unsubstantiated claims, but you have to understand that the government will defend itself if it comes under attack. The fact that the government refrained from harming civilians in all these months attest to the fact it won't resort to these alleged drastic measures. It has extended olive branch to the opposition, held many peaceful conferences but the fact remains that the opposition and its unholy alliance, Eritrea and other groups, are determined to topple down the TFG. This would have happened on Dec 2006, almost 2.5 years ago.

^They did a good job seizing a Fishing Boat. What is this fishing boat doing on Somali coast anyway? Ship heads to Somalia to find seized boat Apr 21, 2008 10:31 PM Spain has sent one of its ships to waters off Somalia, where pirates seized a Spanish tuna fishing boat with 26 people on board on Sunday, the foreign ministry said, adding that the crew seemed to be unhurt. Early on Monday, national radio quoted a man it said was the captain of the boat as saying everybody on board was well. A man who said he was one of the captors said in broken English that the pirates were Somalis and wanted money. Kidnapping and piracy are lucrative businesses in lawless Somalia and most Somalis treat their captives well in anticipation of a good ransom. The Spanish foreign ministry said 13 of the people on board the tuna fishing boat, called Playa de Bakio, were Spanish, and added it was in touch with governments with military presence in the area to help find the vessel. Media reported on Sunday that the boat was attacked with grenade launchers about 250 miles from the coast and boarded by armed men. They said the boat was heading towards the Somali coast. Six Somali pirates who seized a French luxury yacht and held its crew hostage for a week were arrested by French troops in the Somali desert last week after they handed over their 30 hostages and fled with their ransom. They were flown to France for questioning. Source: Reuters

Hope not the worse but the guy consolidated his control and derogated electoral laws that it demands sheer force to loose his grip.

Nothing but propoganda intended to garner and stir up blind emotions. This is what the PM said at a news conference. Our aim is to restore law and order through reconciliation and peaceful means, but that does not mean our troops and those of our ally Ethiopia will not defend themselves as they come under constant attack It is also difficult to tell, according to reliable sources of news, who is combatant and who is not, since many of the brutal Al-Shayaadiin wear civilians clothes. My sincere heart goes to the civilians who were caught in the crossfire.

^Gabadh wanaagsan baa meesha ka muuqata

Somali pirates seize Spanish boat BBC April 20, 2008 A Spanish fishing boat with 26 crew on board has been seized by pirates off Somalia, officials in Spain say. They say the Playa de Bakio - a Basque tuna boat - was attacked about 250 miles (400km) off the coast. A source from the Basque regional government said the boat was in "international waters". The fate of the crew is unknown. Somali coastal waters are among the most hazardous in the world, despite the presence of US navy patrols. Grenade launchers A source from the Basque government's Agriculture, Fisheries and Food department told Spanish news agency Efe that four armed pirates took control of the boat using grenade launchers. The source said the crew was made up of 13 Africans and 13 Spaniards, and the boat suffered "some damage" in the attack but is "navigable". The boat is currently heading towards Somalia, the source added. It comes a few days after a Paris court charged six Somalis with taking a French luxury yacht's crew hostage earlier this month. The yacht's 30-member crew were held hostage for a week but released after its owners apparently paid a ransom of $2m (£1m; 1.3m euros). The pirates were then picked up by French commandos in a helicopter raid. Last year, more than 25 ships were seized by pirates in Somali coastal waters. Somalia has not had an effective central government for more than 17 years and is plagued by insecurity.

Originally posted by Xidigo*: Dadkii wadan ku dhashay ee wadani ahaa ayay Insurgents ugu yeerayaan. Xabashka qurunka waynle ayaa insurgen ah. Xidigo, you probably misunderstood what the term means. Ethiopians can't be called insurgents........

Thnx for the link.

I see many non-Somalilanders though?

Somalia: 20 Killed As Insurgents Ambush Ethiopian Soldiers April 19, 2008 At least 20 people were killed in Somalia on Saturday after suspected insurgents ambushed Ethiopian soldiers, local sources said. The intense battle spread out across three districts in the northern quarter of the capital Mogadishu, with Ethiopian troops expanding into insurgent strongholds for the first time in weeks. A witness near Mogadishu's livestock market, in Huriwa district, told Garowe Online that he saw the dead bodies of four Ethiopian soldiers lying on the ground. Other witnesses in Daynile and Yaaqshiid districts reported high civilian casualties, including a shell that hit a crowded restaurant, killing several people. The fighting, which lasted for more than an hour, ended after Ethiopian soldiers withdrew back to their bases at the ex-pasta factory and Stadium Mogadishu, witnesses said. Locals in Huriwa and Yaaqshiid districts reported that heavily-armed insurgents remained on the streets long after the Ethiopian soldiers retreated to base. A spokesman for the Islamic Courts confirmed that seven rebels were killed in the fighting, but claimed that a larger number of Ethiopian soldiers also died. Ali Moallim Bile, an administrator at Mogadishu's Keysaney Hospital, said 20 men, women and children with various wounds were admitted today for treatment. Overnight Friday, four people including a Somali soldier and an insurgent fighter were killed after rebels attacked a government checkpoint. In a separate incident, a Somali intelligence agent was shot and killed by three men armed with pistols, relatives said. Ali Wareto died after sustaining three gunshots to the head in front of his home in Kaaraan district. Relatives said it was the fifth time insurgents tried to assassinate him. Somalia's rebels, led by remnants of the Islamic Courts movement, want to expel Ethiopian troops from the country and topple the weak interim government. Upwards of 7,000 people have been killed since January 2007, when the Ethiopian army overthrew Mogadishu's Islamic Courts rulers. Source: All-Africa/GaroweOnline

The whole casualty reported in this crackdown on the Islamists is 13-20 persons. Please spare us these wild propagandistic statements. It is in the news from reliable sources that The TFG /ENDF troops have also engaged in expanded operation in places of the Islamists' strongly held areas. The articles you referenced all make the absurd and contradictory statements that the ENDF-TFG troops have been completely routed with uncountable numbers of deaths laying on the streets. How will then the routed government troops with their Ethiopian army unit break in to a mosque, grab as many people as they can, and indiscriminately slaughter on a grand-like show.

Somalia: Islamic clerics in Puntland propose private security force 19 Apr 19, 2008 - 9:05:34 PM GAROWE, Somalia Apr 19 (Garowe Online) - Muslim clerics in the northern Somali region of Puntland met on Saturday in the regional capital Garowe to discuss rising insecurity, the impacts of the drought and hyperinflation on the local economy. The conference held at the Garowe local government headquarters was attended by more than 100 people, including Islamic preachers, traditional elders, the business community and intellectuals. Sheikh Abdulkadir Nur Farah and other well-known Garowe religious personalities have recently been holding back-to-back meetings to tackle issues facing the region Last week, the sheikhs distributed food aid to tens of families affected by hyperinflation and the enduring affects of the drought. On Saturday, Sheikh Abdulkadir and fellow preachers proposed that a citizen-oriented council be established to deal with security issues. Further, the council would be tasked with the creation of a private security force to patrol the streets of Garowe, the capital of Puntland. According to the proposal, the funds necessary to implement the private security force would be shared between the business community, the Garowe municipal government and the Diaspora community. One of the Islamic preachers who addressed the conference said the community has "given up" on the Puntland government and its public role. The meeting's speakers called for an immediate halt to the continued minting of false Somali Shillings, an illegal practice that is reported to take place in Puntland towns. Sultan Said Mohamed Garase, a Garowe clan elder, spoke at length about local issues and condemned pirate attacks along Somalia's coast. It is not clear what the government of Puntland plans to do if the local community is allowed to establish a private security force. But critics said the Puntland administration has failed to secure the capital city and other major towns, giving locals little choice but to take matters into their own hands. Source: Garowe Online

‘We are fighting children in Mogadishu,’ says Somali leader MOGADISHU, Somalia Apr 18 (Garowe Online) - Somalia’s interim president has said that his government can crush the armed opposition, which is being spearheaded by “children named al Shabaab.” In a Friday interview with the VOA Somali Service, President Abdullahi Yusuf said the Somali transitional government has the military capacity to completely crush al Shabaab and other armed opposition groups fighting in the capital, Mogadishu. “We are concerned about the safety of civilians for we cannot fight among them [civilians] against these children,” President Yusuf said, adding: “[These children] do not hear anything, do not know anything, have no academic knowledge and are bought for petty Shillings [money] by opposition leaders.” He indicated that al Shabaab is a guerrilla group that is incapable of maintaining control of towns the group captures, saying: “Their [al Shabaab] objective is propaganda to tell the world that they exist and that there is chaos [in Somalia],” President Yusuf added. The Somali leader stated that he is not willing to step down yet, because he has “not given up.” “I am a man with strong principles…if I [ever] do give up, I will not stay,” the President told VOA. The ailing Somali leader briefly described his years in office and the accomplishments of the transitional government, saying that the Islamic Courts group refused to accept peace with the government prior to the December 2006 Ethiopian military intervention. "We [government] came to Mogadishu with power and we are here now...this is a great accomplishment," President Yusuf claimed. Somalia's leader is currently visiting Washington, D.C., where he is scheduled to speak with U.S. government officials. On Wednesday, President Yusuf gave an address at the United Nations Security Council meeting in New York, whereby he called for the removal of a 1992 UN arms embargo on the war-torn Horn of Africa country. President Yusuf also formally asked the UN to deploy peacekeepers to strengthen a small African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia and replace Ethiopian troops serving in the country. Somalia has lacked national order since 1991 when warlords overthrew military dictator Siad Barre and plunged the country into years of civil war. Ethiopia's intervention in late 2006 sparked a bloody insurgency led by Islamist guerrillas, who want to topple Yusuf's interim government and reestablish Islamic Sharia law across the country. SOURCE: Garoweonline

Adam, may you explain to the public why we feel "insecure" of the apostates?

A very Comic piece.

The funny thing is that JB thinks Bosaso does not geographically fall within the traditional lands of Maakhiris. BTw, where the hell is Eastern Sanaag? Is it Dhahar District?

Originally posted by Abu_Geeljire: Kore, I don't have the time to reply to your points. Let us know whenever you get the time?