lol@the men's responses. What a bunch of haters! Malika and Ismahan, thank you for your contributions. You both got great taste, impeccable almost in guryo unlike dhooreyashaan gunuunaca badan. We can dream nooh, yaa noo diidey bal, and since when dreaming big was a crime? ' If you can dream it then you can achieve it' soo maadan maqal wah? @gettin droopy- Ismahan, I really like your Island dream home idea. Knarly. How many ppl will be living with you on your Island bal? I'm doing tirokoob, ee don't mind me. Malika, KK ameey gurigeeda u laaban weysaa oo iska dhiibtaa Cayman Islands. lol Sheekoyiin aan loo dirsan ayeyba dhex galeen nimankaan. War wax ku soo dhejiya halkaan, kiyaakarehiinana naga yareeya fadlan. @JB, I have absolutely no clue what you mean. lol@Dhagaxtuur, anigaa iibsadey (riyadeda), ma ii diidantahay? looool Waxba la iskuma ogola halkan. I love my Somali folks. p.s. Emperor is not included in dhooreyaasha, the bro got good taste n he is not a hater.

I'm still lost on the foreign language you're using, however, I can pretty much guess where you parked your car. Dawladan waa in la ansaxiyaa sida ugu dhaqsaha badan si uu Somali idin baro. p.s. Awoowe, isku dad beynu nahay, ee aan iska yareyno cayda badan. Waan wada dhaqmi karnaa si peaceful n civilized ah. Waa talo uun.

^^^Thanks sis. You should post pics of your dream house here. That is if you have an idea of what you want it to look like. Salaam ------ Oh yeah! before I forget, my Canadian baabuur ayaan waiting list ugu jiraa. AS can't touch me when I'm cruising around the Bakara market in Mogadishu. Dream big folks! dream big I say!

lol@ciidankii djibouti. Why do you always change the subject markaan wax ku weydiiyo? Ciidanka tababar uun bey usoo socdeen oo dagaal ma galeyn awalba sida aad la socoto. In a related news though, 10 sarkaal from Somaliya ayaa shalay ka qalin jebisey tababarkii loo sameyey in Djibouti, soo maadan aqrin joornalada? waa ku sidee. By the way, intaad soo qortey, the djibouti portion uun baan fahmey ee what language aad ii qortey (nobody's)? I need translation dee. Goorma la idin aqoonsan horta oo aad noqoneysiin "somebody"?

Patience is virtue ayaan maqli jirey. I've waited n waited patiently and finally voila! a dream come true ee noqotey. Gurigaaga soo u yaala bal, now that you have had the pleasure of seeing mine.

Xaaji, "nobodies" maa tiri. Xashac! Think about this following question for awhile ok "Yaa la aqoonsanayn ilaa iyo hadda?. Yeah, that's what I thought. If your flag is not flying outside of the UN headquarters, then you're a nobody, you got it? eh! grazie mille for your nobody time.. Ok, then. Jimco wanaagsan.

looool@Che, my bad, the pic wasn't visible initially n I didn't bother checking the url, too lazy. Waxaa ii muuqde wax kale nooh (i.e. saxamo, bakeeriyaal, toastmaster iyo iwm)... lol Good looking out though, thanks.

Jabuuti oo tababar u soo xirtay Saraakiil Soomaaliya 2010/11/26, 06:23 am 10 saraakiil ciidanka Soomaaliya ayaa tababar ugusoo dhamaaday akaademiga milatariga ee dalka Jabuuti. Saraakiishan ayaa ah kuwo tababarkan ku qaadanayey akaademiga milateriga ee gobalka Carta ee jamhuuriyada Jabuuti tan iyo lix iyo labaatanki bishii oktoobar ee sanadkan. Xafladda xiritaanka ee tababarka saraakiisha ciidanka Soomaaliya oo ka dhacday isla xaruunta akaademiga milateri ee Carta waxa ka qeybgalay taliyaha guud ee ciidanka qalabka sida ee Jabuuti Janaraal Fatxi Axmed Xusseen, taliyaha difaaca qaranka Janaraal Sakariye Sheekh Ibraahiim, madaxa amniga qaranka Jabuuti Xassan Saciid Khayre, siihayaha safaarada Soomaaliya ee Jabuuti Cabdiraxmaan Maxamed Hiraabe iyo saraakiil ka tirsan ciidamada jamhuuriyada Jabuuti Dhamaan 10ka sarkaal ee ciidanka Soomaaliya ayaa loogu tolay darajada laba xidigle waxaana la guddoonsiyey shahaadoyin ay ku qaadteen tababarkaasi. Taliyaha difaaca ciidanka dalka Jabuuti janaraal Sakariye Sheekh Ibraahim oo ka Khudbadeeyey xafladda ayaa kula dardaarmay saraakiisha ciidanka Soomaaliya inay si wanaagsan ugu adeegaan qaranka soomaaliya. Tobabarkan ayaa ku soo beegmaya xilli dhawaanta la filayo in Jabuuti tababar kale uga furmo illa shan boqol oo ka mid ah booliska soomaaliya. Source: Bar-kulan

Aah! fresh bread! hmm... “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

Sayid loves moos very much as you can all see.

Gorgeous black n white photos of Zeylac, Somalia. Thank you Muriidi for the link. Aqoon la'aan waa iftiin la'aan.

For Zack... Wed Nov 24, 3:31 PM LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston on Tuesday announced the birth of their third child, a baby boy born nearly two years after the death of their 16-year-old son Jett. The baby, named Benjamin, was born at a hospital in Florida on Tuesday evening weighing more than 8 lbs (3.6 kg), according to a statement from Travolta's publicist. "John, Kelly and their daughter Ella Bleu are ecstatic and very happy about the newest member of the family. Both mother and baby are healthy and doing beautifully," the statement said. Jett, the first child of Travolta, 56, and Preston, 48, died of a seizure in January 2009 while the family was on vacation in the Bahamas. Travolta confirmed after the death that Jett was autistic. The "Pulp Fiction" and "Grease" star and his actress wife spent a year out of the public spotlight grieving for Jett. The family was also the victim of an alleged $25 million extortion plot over the death that ended in a mistrial for those accused. Travolta was back on the red carpet in January to promote his comedy adventure movie "From Paris with Love" and Preston appeared in the Miley Cyrus movie "The Last Song" in April. (Reporting by Elaine Lies; editing by Paul Casciato)

Written by: Megan Rowling 24 Nov 2010 17:37:00 GMT LONDON (AlertNet) - Somali women from minority groups uprooted by conflict are targeted for rape because men believe there will be no redress due to the women's low social status, researchers for Minority Rights Group International (MRG) say. A report on discrimination and abuse of Somalia's ethnic and religious minority groups, released on Wednesday, says minority women in particular "suffer egregious abuse in the context of displacement". Last year the researchers visited camps for people driven from their homes by violence, located in Somalia's northeastern semi-autonomous region of Puntland, and were told of "a disturbing and persistent pattern of rape of minority women, perpetrated by majority men and sometimes by members of the Puntland police, army or security service". "Tens of thousands of minorities have been displaced from south-central Somalia due to the civil war," MRG Executive Director Mark Lattimer said in a statement. "Now they are vulnerable to renewed abuse." The report notes that all Somalis - whether from majority or minority groups - have suffered "immense violations" of their human rights for decades, from the torture and political oppression of the era of military dictator Mohamed Siad Barre to today's humanitarian crisis, caused by nearly 20 years of intermittent civil war and frequent drought in the Horn of Africa country. But it says the situation is worse for minorities than for other groups because, unlike the majority population, they lack protection from the lawless nation's traditional clan structure. There are four main clans in Somalia that have dominated politics, the economy and urban life since independence in 1960, the report says. The country's minority groups, however, have struggled to gain a voice. The Bantu, made up of descendants of former imported and runaway slaves, and indigenous farmers, are Somalia's largest minority. The other minorities are occupational groups who traditionally carried out crafts, such as blacksmiths and leatherworkers, or ritual tasks like genital mutilation; the Benadiri who constitute mercantile communities of Arab origin living mainly in southern coastal cities; and religious groups, including a small population of Christians, as well as minorities within Islam. The report notes that statistics regarding minorities are speculative and disputed. But in line with a 2002 U.N. estimate that they accounted for around a third of the population, MRG says they may number up to 3 million of the estimated 9 million Somalis today, including the self-declared state of Somaliland. The report says majority clans continue to exclude minorities from politics and economic opportunities, deny them access to justice, and punish couples who inter-marry. And minority groups affected by conflict also told MRG researchers they receive relatively little humanitarian aid, with majority clans able to secure a larger share because of their dominant social status. The report also says hardline Islamist group Al-Shabaab, which controls much of the south, has targeted minorities because of their religious practices, particularly Christians, citing local media reports of killings - including beheadings - and the desecration of graves by Al-Shabaab. "WE ARE DESPERATE" Mariam Yassin Hagi Yussuf, a Somali researcher based in Italy, who interviewed women at the Puntland camps last year for the MRG report, told AlertNet the problem of sexual violence affects women from all groups, but minority women have less chance of obtaining justice, leading men to think they are easy prey. "The minority women said they seemed to be more vulnerable because there will be no revenge for it, or there will be no justice at the end," she said. "Minority women are often displaced or living in slums, and they are vulnerable anyway, so they are more exposed to the problem." The report contains accounts from several minority women of horrific and repeated sexual violence against them and other female members of their families. One widowed Benadiri woman living with her daughters in a camp in the coastal city of Bossaso in Puntland described how, seven months earlier, two men had entered her hut, beaten her and raped one of her daughters in front of her. When she reported the incident to the police, one of the men was arrested, but he was freed the next day and came back a few weeks later. "He raped me in revenge for reporting him to the police. I did not report to the police this time. I need medical treatment for the physical damage," the report cites the woman as saying. "My daughter is pregnant now, from the same man who raped her mother. We are desperate. Someone take us away from this land!" In another case, a 50-year-old woman of the ******** minority group (historically known as ******) living in Bossaso tells of how her daughter, 14 at the time, was snatched by six men in military uniform on her way to the market, raped until she passed out, and dumped - barely alive - in the same spot. "After five years she still has problems while urinating ... My daughter is seriously injured and she needs medical intervention. If we had been from another clan we would have been given compensation but we are just 'poor ******, who nobody cries for'," says the woman, who has tried to get journalists to investigate the incident. :mad: :mad: Managers of one camp in south-central Somalia told Yussuf that between three and five cases of rape were being reported every one to two weeks, but she says many women stay silent about sexual violence because of the stigma. To grasp the true scale of the problem, more effort is needed to document cases. Yussuf also urged international and local organisations to work together to put in place a justice system that is accessible to women of all groups, as well as raising awareness about abuse and discrimination against minorities. "International organisations are (in Somalia) to provide aid, but the more these issues come out, they will understand them better, and start to focus their interventions on minority groups," Yussuf said.

by Ali B feat Akon & Yes-R LMAO@KK....knarly

Player of the day maa rabtaan? ok fine! Hoo bariiska then! Naah naah naah nana naah naah!

Abdirahman Abukar Abdi Ullusow "Inaa Lilaahi Wa Inaa Ileyhi Raajicuun" Abdirahman wuxuu ka mid ahaa ardaydii dugsiga Xaawa Taako - Regina Elena. Waxaa eedo u aheyd Xaawa Xirsi oo maamule ka aheyd Xaawa Taako - Regina Elena. Waxay ka horeysey Maamule Xaliima Abdi Aruush. Ilaahey samir iyo Imaan ha inaga wada siiyo

LOL@CX's responses..saas miyaa comrades? yaxaaska aad igu tuureysiin that easily eh! xaasidnimadiina meel aan ku qortey haddaba. Che you r no longer afhayeenka CX, interview adoon ka qaadin ayaad gift la soo boodeysaa. Unbelievable spokesperson you r. lol lol@KK--u sheeg yaaqo nooh. p.s. stop hijacking this good news thread Taleexi

Taleexi I have no clue what you just wrote. Aawey CX? how dare they ignore my SOS?

Originally posted by General Duke: lool@professor Samatar talking out of his ***.. why dont they just recognise them aready? Exactly! where is the recognition folks?

Mayee Dalabeey! looooooool

^Admit what madax hyena-yaho? that you are sick? is that it? lmao

By Brandon Miles Wednesday, November 24, 2010 Annandale junior Ahmed Bile is the son of a 1987 world champion Abdi Bile from Somalia. 99.9% of today's high school runners in Virginia probably do not know who Abdi Bile is and probably a majority of their coaches do not either. However, both Virginia high school cross country coaches and runners know who Ahmed Bile is or now know all about him after his dramatic and remarkable last 100 meters kick to run down top ranked Silas Frantz of Douglas Freeman for the Group AAA state cross country title. He has only been running seriously for a year now after giving up soccer, which is scary for the competition to consider how much more development and potential is left in the tank for Bile. Fresh off his thrilling state meet victory, Bile now prepares for the Foot Locker South Regional and figures to be a late surging contender for a top 10 national berth. Earning a trip to San Diego this year or next fall would certainly show Ahmed is making a name for himself on his own accord and a different path to success than taken by his father, a NCAA champion at George Mason University. MileStat.com interviewed the 2010 Group AAA state cross country individual champion Bile on Monday evening after the state meet... Interview with Ahmed Bile MileStat.com: How has life been for you since winning the state title on Saturday? Ahmed Bile: Life has been really good. The whole Northern Region was very supportive and happy for me after the race as well as my family and friends. (Photo right by Mike Fewell) MileStat.com: What was your race plan going into the state meet? Bile: My race plan going into the state meet was just to stay up there with the leaders and hold on as long as I could before making a move in the final straight away. MileStat.com: Silas Frantz had broken away from the pack before the 2 mile mark and shortly after the 2 mile...you started to break away from the chase pack. What were you thinking at that point of the race when you decided to make a break to go chase after Silas? Bile: The pack I was in before the two mile mark was starting to slow down so I decided to just go after Silas on my own. I knew that Silas would’ve had the race in the bag if no one challenged him so I just went for it. I felt good so I was confident I could break out of the pack I was in. MileStat.com: When you guys entered the gate for the final 600 meters or so finish, Silas had a lead of about 25 meters or so on you, which did not seem to change until the final 100 meters. Did you think that was a good enough striking distance to hold then for final kick or were you trying to close that gap more? Bile: I was trying to close the gap more the best I could, but he just had so much distance on me. In the last 100 meters, something just clicked and I was confident in my kick, so I feel I made my move at the right time. MileStat.com: What was your injury exactly earlier in the season and when did you realize you were hurt? Bile: I had a bad sprain on the top of my right foot. It happened during a duel meet against Thomas Jefferson and it was uncomfortable to walk after that race, but I continued to train through it. After Monroe Parker I sat down to take my shoes off and when I got back up I literally couldn’t walk on it so my coach knew it was time for me to take some time off. MileStat.com: What did you do during the time that you were hurt to stay in shape? Bile: I rode the bike in the training room for about a week but stopped so I could completely rest. So for about a month or so I was just working on the bands for my foot and icing. MileStat.com: How is the relationship between you and your father in regards to your running since obviously he has lots of great running genes, knowledge, and accomplishments being a world champion 1500 meter run? Bile: My dad and I are really close and when I started running he just told me to have fun and not overwork myself. He has given me a lot of tips about warming up, stretching, cooling down properly, etc. and he also taught me the importance of speed because that is what every event boils down to in the end. MileStat.com: What advice did your father give you before the state meet race and what was his reaction following your win? Bile: My dad just told me to go out there and run a smart race. He also told me to be patient and to find a good rhythm so I could feel as comfortable as possible during the race. After the race I called him, because he’s currently out of the country, to tell him the news and he was extremely excited and congratulated me on my achievement. MileStat.com: How did your family end up in Virginia and you attending Annandale High School? Bile: Well at first we lived in Virginia when I was just a few years old, and then we later moved to Georgia because my father was coaching some athletes down there and then we moved back up here when I was in second grade and have been here ever since. My father ran for George Mason so he knew a lot of people up here and we also have a lot of family in the area. MileStat.com: You probably have enjoyed a lot more comfortable life in the states growing up than your father did during his childhood in Somalia. A lot of people believe the harder lifestyle of the East Africans is what also makes them great and dougher runners. What do you see as the maybe the drawbacks as well as advantages of trying to become a great ru~ner in the states instead of say an East African country? Bile: Well in East Africa, a runner's main focus is running and training, where as in the states there are a lot more factors such as school, school work and other extracurricular activities, but a lot of runners including myself normally don’t have too much trouble balancing everything, except for those occasional late nights doing work when I should be sleeping. I feel that my advantages growing up in the states in regards to becoming a great runner are that there are more resources in terms of facilities and there are more meets all over the country that runners like myself can participate in which leads to more exposure that could lead to more success in the long run on and off the track. MileStat.com: Do you plan on competing at Foot Locker South. If so, how do you feel about your chances of cracking into the top 10 and qualifying for Foot Locker Nationals? Bile: I will be competeing this year at Foot Locker South and I feel that if I can run as well as I did at states, if not better, then I will have a good chance of making it to nationals. MileStat.com: What was your confidence entering this season on how well you could fare at the longer distance of 5K and 3 mile races especially since you had not done as well in cross country last fall? Bile: I was a lot more confident going into XC this year then I was the year before because of the success I’ve had in the mile during the spring, and I hoped that my mile time would translate over to a better 3 mile and 5k. My coach was confident in my ability which also helped my confidence a lot. MileStat.com: I believe you played soccer more so growing up and early part of high school and really have not started running seriously until the past year. Is that correct? Bile: This is correct. I’ve played soccer for about 8 years and during the fall of my sophomore year my dad told me to do cross country to get in shape for soccer. I ended up quitting soccer because I loved running so much and wanted to focus on that. I have never run before that, so I have been running for only about a year now. MileStat.com: I'm not sure how many races of your father you got to watch since you were born near the end of his career, but are there any races of his which you find watching now that are the most memorable and inspire you? Bile: The 1989 1500 meter World Cup race in Barcelona is very inspirational to me because he sits in nearly last place for a majority of the race until he finally makes a move in the last 400 meter and again in the homestretch to win it. MileStat.com: You ran 4:18 in the 1600, 2:36 in the 1000, and 1:54 last year on the track as a sophomore. What are some junior year goal track times which you would like to run? Bile: I have high hopes for the upcoming track seasons. For the 1000 meters, I am looking to get 2:30 or faster, in the 1600 meters I expect to finish the year under 4:15 and in the 800 meters I would like to run 1:52 or faster. MileStat.com: How important is it for you to make a name for yourself as a runner and not be just considered as Abdi Bile's son?0 Bile: Even though I enjoy being thought of after my father, I am looking forward to making a name for myself this year and being known for what I have done. Source: MileStat

Originally posted by Che -Guevara: ^Yes, he's Athenian and invented democracy

Waraysi: Mudane Ismaaciil Hurre Buubaa (Bartamaha Nairobi) Oo ka hadley