PART IV Fadhikudirir At Islee, Nairobi the tea shop named “ Yeelkadaa” is very popular for fadhikudirir chatting. Iftiin, Xiif, Murad, Qablan and Taagane prefer to sit at the far left corner of the shop. They avoid to chat with the guys who have symptoms of Isbuufis (depression). Sheikh Abu Al-Burhaan: who sometimes leads the prayers at the nearest Mosque approached their seating area. Murad: Welcome Sheikh and have a seat, please! Sheikh Abu Al-Burhaan: Thank you. Taagane: Let me grab a cup of tea for you or do you prefer something else? Sheikh Abu Al-Burhaan: Orange Juice, please! Ifiin: Sheikh Abu Al-Burhaan, is it a given name by your parents or did you give it to yourself? Qabalan: Iftiin, please don’t criticize the Sheikh’s name. Ifiin: I am sorry Sheikh, I am so curious about these new names Abu Bilal, Abu Al-Cattas, Abu…Abu… which are not part of our culture and are probably not Kittabi names. Qablan: Sheikhuna, please don’t answer this inappropriate question. Iftiin: Sheikh, forget about these names, I would like to ask you a meaningful question: How do you see the conference going on in Imbegati? Sheikh Abu Al-Burhaan: It seems as though it is more of an Ethiopian conference than one of a Somali reconciliation conference. Xiif: Sheikh, have you seen Ethiopians sitting in the conference hall? Sheikh Abu Al-Burhaan: You will see the outcome in couple of years, so you don’t need my answer now. Iftiin: Good, I like you sheikh, even though I don’t like your name. Xiif: Sheikh, she is obsessed with Ethiopians and she believes they want to own Somalia. And all of a sudden, she likes you, because you supported her gossip about our Good Samaritan Ethiopian brothers. Sheikh Abu Al-Burhaan: She has a good judgment and it is enough for me. Xiif: What? Sheikh, she is here with us, chatting in public all day with men… she does not cover her head as required by our religion …..she does not even stand for Salat, yet she impressed you?! Sheikh Abu Al-Burhaan: That is between her and Allah, but we have a common understanding about Somalia vis-à-vis Ethiopia and I like her common sense regardless of your assertions. Taagane: Sheikh, is she from your clan? Sheikh Abu Al-Burhaan: I am not sure about her clan and I don’t see the relevance when we are talking about quote: Ethiopia’s plan for our self-destruction. Xiif: That is the most controversial statement I have ever heard. You are calling this self-destruction and you are holding Ethiopians responsible ? Sheikh Abu Al-Burhaan: Yes, from 1993 Ethiopia was directly or indirectly supporting these warlords, both when they were fighting against each other or reconciling with each other. Taagane: Ethiopia was helping the Somali people and in return you blame them for our problems : Ciirtaa dhamaa caydaa yaqaan.(He, who consumes your milk curses you the most) Sheikh Abu Al-Burhaan: Well, have you ever heard the saying: baadida nin-baa kula day-dayin daalna kaa badane oo aan dooneyn in heshana daa-in abidkaaye. ( There is a man who shows enormous effort to help you find your lost animals, yet he does not want you to ever find them). Iftiin: That is a good response Shiekh! By the way, did you all hear what Daniel arap Moi said the other day? Qablan: What did he say? Iftiin: He supported what Farah Maallim and other Politicians from NFD were saying for years. Murad: What about the thousands of civil servants, politicians, military officers, diplomats, and scholars who were originally from Kelli5 and fled to Ethiopia after the civil war erupted? We never really hear their voices. Now, most of them have good positions in the Ethiopian government, but they never say a word about Somalia’s problem, while the Somali-Kenyans (NFD) never stop raising their voices about Somali issues. Sheikh Abu Al-Burhaan: How do you expect to hear their voices when they can’t even talk about the atrocity and the crimes going on in Kelli5? Tagaane: Maybe they are waiting for our help. Iftiin: It is a cultural matter. Most of them came from Ethiopia during the era of Haile Selessie and Mengistu Haile Mariam, and “emancipated” in Somalia during the time of Siad Barre. They were never given the opportunity in Ethiopia or Somalia to express their opinion freely. They have always been in a situation of kud ka guur oo qanje u guur (fleeing from a badly infected area, only to land in an even worse place) Unlike Ethiopia and Somalia, Kenyans have always had free press and independent judiciary. Murad: Iftiin, are you saying that any country which has no free press and independent judiciary will fail sooner or later Iftii: Absolutely. And I am warning all Somalis to respect these two institutions otherwise their days will be numbered and their legacy will be a disaster. You have to understand that citizens will express their opinion either by pen and microphone, or by gun and violence. If the leaders choose to silence their citizens they will warrant the end of their leadership and a tragedy for their country. Sheikh Abu Al-Burhaan: Bravo Iftiin, I like you very much, even though you don’t cover your hair. Now, I have to run to the Mosque. It is Salaat time. Thank you all for the lovely conversation. Xabashida weyn na dhameyse sidii hilib ceyriinka eey laqaan!

Who Spoiled Ethiopian Dreams? Union of Islamic Courts: Sheikh Warsame, Sheikh Abu Waqaas, Sheikh Abu Alxildiid, Sheikh Daahir and Sheikh Omar have been selected by the council of UIC to prepare the guiding principles and the strategy of restoring the Somali nation-state. Sheikh Abu Waqaas: Our first strategy is to reach every corner of Somalia and kick out all the warlords from every city and town as soon as possible. Sheikh Warsame: I don’t agree with you. Strategy number one is a call for peace, which our people is hungry for. Strategy number two is PEACE and no more killings among our people. We have to be humble to our people and enlighten everyone including the warlords, because they are part of our society. Also, instead of being hostile towards them, we should extend a friendly hand and open rehabilitation centers for them. Sheikh Omar: Strategy number one is to stop drinking Khamro (alcohol), smoking cigarettes, chewing Khat, playing all kind of games, and watching movies and TV. This society is full of fusuq (corruption) and we have to purify them. Sheikh Abu Alxildiid: Ya akhwaani (borthers) so far non of you have addressed our mandate. Our first strategy is to liberate all Somalis under non-Muslim rulers regardless of the ruler’s faith. Then we have to go all over the world and convert every human being on to our faith, the right faith, the Islam faith. Sheikh Warsame: Haddigleyso Burco!! Dawacadii waxay tiri” Walle reer aan ogahay ma guuro” (Let Burco beat the drums!! A jackal sworn that a certain family would not move from their place). Basically, what your saying would not lead us anywhere. You need to see the movie titled Burn (original title ‘Queimada’) that was directed by Gillo Pontecorvo and acted by Marlon Brando, which was released in 1969. Sheik Omar: What?

Ethiopia launches air strikes as war in Somalia escalates Published Date: 26 December 2006 By GULED MOHAMED AND MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN IN MOGADISHU ETHIOPIAN warplanes attacked two Islamic-extremist held airfields in Somalia yesterday, witnesses said, in the most dramatic strikes yet of a war threatening to engulf the Horn of Africa. The attacks - one on the capital Mogadishu - came just hours after neighbouring Ethiopia formally declared war, saying it was protecting its sovereignty against a movement run by terrorists. Fighting raged for a seventh day near Daynunay, close to the government seat, Baidoa. Witnesses reported lorryloads of Ethiopian wounded being evacuated. A MiG fighter struck Mogadishu's international airport with machine-gun fire soon after dawn, Abdirahim Adan, the airport's managing director, said. Three jets later attacked Somalia's biggest military airfield at Baledogle, 60 miles west of Mogadishu. "We heard the sound of the jets and then they pounded," said Abdi Mudey, a soldier with the Council of Islamic Courts. The week of intense fighting between Islamic militants and the Ethiopian- and Western- backed secular interim government has turned long-running hostilities into open war. Analysts say Ethiopia seems to have halted the initial Islamic assault and saved the government from being overrun. The Somalia Islamic Courts Council's (SICC) website hailed "mujahideen" troops who, it said, chanted passages from the Koran as they went into battle against militarily superior Ethiopian "crusaders". Ethiopia is a largely Christian nation. Addis Ababa and Washington say the Islamic militants, who hold most of southern Somalia after seizing Mogadishu in June, are terrorists backed by Ethiopia's enemy, Eritrea, and by al-Qaeda. Ethiopia has vowed to protect the government, which is virtually encircled by Islamic fighters in the town of Baidoa, halfway between Mogadishu and the Ethiopian border. A government spokesman said the administration approved of Ethiopian use of air power. "Anywhere terrorists use to bring in arms and ammunition deserves to be hit," said Abdirahman Dinari. The government said it had closed all borders - a largely symbolic measure given that it has little power beyond Baidoa. Ethiopia said it had attacked the capital's airport to stop "illegal flights" following the closure of Somalia's borders. "It was also reported some of the extremists were waiting for an airlift out of Mogadishu," an Ethiopian spokesman said. Aid agencies, struggling to get help to more than a million Somalis afflicted by conflict and weeks of floods in one of the world's poorest countries, said they had not been told about the closure of borders. The Islamic militants accused Ethiopia of targeting civilians, and repeated a threat to attack its capital. "We shall strike Addis Ababa the way they hit Mogadishu," said the SICC's Abdirahman Ali Mudey. "These air strikes will not continue ... even if it means getting weapons from outside." Ali Mohamed Gedi, the Somali prime minister, said 8,000 foreign fighters had poured into Somalia to back the SICC. He agreed with a US accusation that the movement's top ranks were controlled by al-Qaeda. Both sides say they have killed hundreds of opponents in days of battles with mortars, rockets, machine-guns and tanks, but there has been no independent verification. Residents said Ethiopian troops took control of Baladwayne town yesterday after a day of bombing to uproot the militants. To the south, locals in Baidoa saw Ethiopian military lorries ferrying wounded troops to the airport. The militants claim broad popular support and say their main aim is to restore order to Somalia under sharia law after years of anarchy since the 1991 ousting of dictator Siad Barre. Addis Ababa fears a hardline Muslim state on its doorstep and accuses the SICC of wanting to annex Ethiopia's ethnically Somali ****** region. Experts fear the conflict could engulf the already volatile Horn of Africa. A recent UN report said ten countries have been illegally supplying arms and equipment to both sides of the conflict and using Somalia as a proxy battlefield.

Originally posted by Juje: quote:Originally posted by AYOUB: ^^ I hope he won't have an "accident" like Suldaan Hurre among others. AUN Suldaan Hurre lol@he won't have an "accident". Classic!

As always.

d/p

As always.

lol@'the cssino threw him out .. he was winning too much .. with his system'

Duke jahwareer ayaa ku dhacay maanta, karbaash badana wuu ka dhargey maalmahan ee labadoo saac kale haloo dulqaato.

lol@Hijack Und p.s. wixii isbedeli doono aan aragno IA

see loo gaabin magacaas, AST? What about Xisbul Bajaq? (ninkaas Tuujiyena Amiir u noqonaa)

Magacooda muxuu noqon taloow?

Waa normale alaabahaan, wadan kale daadsan wax walba waa laga dhex arkaa.

Gabdhaheena ayaan u guurineena (foreign fighters), dhulkeenana waa siineenaa ayaaba lagu faanaayaa. Caruurta sida ay u brain washgareeyeen waa cajiib!

Say wallaahi (E-Slee brothers) oo u heesaayo Alshabaab; Dalkeygii hooyo, dadkii weey baaba'een! Dhulkii Soomaliweyn, Allah ciidey ku darsoomeen (chorus) AS AS! AS! yaa ku dhalley? shaatigii qabiilkaad AS ku bedesheen KK alaabtaan tugada loogu shactireysanaayo daawo

lol@Duke is already famous Waa runtaa taas.

Somalia: Reuters in media war against the Somali prime minister September 17, 2010 Reuters Thompsons, the British news agency, joined the media war against the Somali prime minister by publishing story entitled Somali PM to face confidence vote in parliament. Prime minister Omar Sharmarke is in power struggle with the TFG president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. “Somalia’s parliament has already voted once to oust Sharmarke and his Western-backed government. But the prime minister rejected the previous vote in May as unconstitutional and refused to resign,” REUTERS reports. The Somalia’s transitional parliament did not voted in May; the former parliamentary speaker, Shekh Adma Madobe, who was booed at my law makers, and told president Sharif that the government lost vote of confidence and asked for the president to accept his resignation as a speaker. President Shariif accepted the speaker resignation and dissolved the government. Prime minster Sharmarke described president Sharif’s decision a violation of the transitional charted. President Sharif reinstated prime minister Sharmarke under the pretext that the former speaker of the parliament has lied to the president about the outcome of a parliamentary meeting. The Reuters reporter, Abdi Sheikh quoted Abdullahi Sheikh Ismail, one of president Sharif’s supporters, who said: “The prime minister has no chance of maintaining his seat. The majority of the legislators will surely vote against him.The other option is that he may resign.” Prime minister Sharmarke told VOA Somali Service that the government has already won a vote of confidence and that there was no need for a new vote of confidence from “anti-law and order people”. “The former parliamentary speaker who lied to the president in May about a parliamentary speaker about the outcome of MPs’ meeting is now a cabinet member and deputy prime minister. Reuters’s fact-checking procedures were not applied while the story was being edited. Reuters has unwittingly joined a media war against Somalia TFG prime minister. Horseed Media

September 20, 2010 War-torn Somalia and earthquake-wrecked Haiti are two of the worst countries on the planet to be a schoolchild, a study suggests. Rich countries breaking promises on overseas aid and funnelling money into their own universities should be blamed, say campaigners. The recession has meant countries cutting back on overseas spending, according to the study, drawn up by Oxfam, Save The Children, VSO, Plan International and Education International, which ranks countries according to access to basic education and the ratio of teachers to pupils. Somalia comes off worst, followed by Eritrea and Haiti. The report also accuses some countries – including France and Germany – of using aid budgets to underwrite their own university systems. Backing calls for stronger action, ex-prime minister Gordon Brown said: ‘If education budgets are not protected, generations will be condemned to poverty.’ Source: Metro

Soomali ayaad soo qortey camalaa? Waa ka helay the AS threadka aad u furtey! halganka noo wad.

Didn't your boys release him? how come you like karbaash so much! Sidaad u soo indhacadahyna, reminds me of this other gentleman that I know.

Alhamdulilaah! you? I was enjoying the show.

Al Shabaab oo Jihaad khasab ah ku baaqday 010/09/20 | la daabacay Abdikafar Bar-kulan: Baydhabo- Horjoogaha maleeshiyada al-shabaab u qaabilsan gobolka Banaadir oo ku sugan magaalada baydhabo ee xarunta gobolka baay ayaa ugu baaqay dadka baay iyo bakool inay ka qaybgalaan wax uu ugu yeeray jihaadka ka socda Muqdisho. Cali Maxamed Xuseen Cali Jeesto ayaa xalay dadka Baydhabo kula hadlay mid ka mid ah misaajidyada magaalada Baydhabo waxuuna sheegay in gobalada ay maamulan oo dhan lagu soo socdo loona baahanyahay in dadku inay tagaan goobaha ay wax ku tababaraan. Horjooge Cali Jeesto wuxuu tibaaxay in dagaalka dowlada ay kula jiraan mid ka wayn inay ka war heleen taasi oo keentay in maleeshiyadu ay dadku ku buraarujiyaan inay aadaan goobaha tababarada. Hadalka Cali Maxamed Xuseen Cali Jeesto ayaa u muuqday mid amar ah waxaana uu ku soo aaday waqti dhaqdhaaq ciidan oo dhan ka ah alshabaab uu ka socdo degmoyinka Doolow, Yeed iyo Ceelbarde ee goballada Bakool iyo Gedo. Xoog ayaa dadka loogu qasbaa iney dagaalamaan oo ay isqarxiyaan, dilaana walaalohooda.