Kacaankii Oktoober!!

We all gonna die!! (Magool's Death) Zainab Haji Ali "BAXSAN" A Somali legend in some unbelivable misery!

Rice Field in Jowhar

Jeenyo Wiilasha iyo Gabdhaha Horseed Jeenyo Horseed (Xooga) Munishiibiyo baaldi ku xaare Kubadda kolayga Basket

AFUR WANAAGSAN Sambuusi Canjeero Canjeero iyo Suugo

Studying Hard Got Milk?

Mosque next to the house in Shiikh Suufi neighborhood behind the theatre Mosque on small island off the coast north of Mogadishu. Small town of Warsheikh along the coast north of Mogadishu Somali nomads setting up camp on the coastal plain north of Mogadishu.

Dhar Jaale: Before the Saudization ( Siyaad Barre Time ) After: the saudization of Somalia

This is classic and priceless...Somewhere in Somali region in Ethiopia ... WHAT A KISS!! Waxar iyo cunug Scared of the One-Man-Show Moryan?

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/10/10/toiletpaper.shtml Putin, Bush and Blair to Appear on Ukrainian Toilet Paper Created: 10.10.2005 11:31 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 11:31 MSK MosNews A publishing house in Ukraine has started selling toilet paper with pictures of a number of world politicians, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. President George Bush, Belarussian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, U.S. State Secretary Condoleezza Rice and Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky, the Korrespondent.net website reported Monday. The Inspired B publishing house prepared three “editions†of the product for sale in Ukraine, Russia, the United States and Great Brtain. The retail price for the Russian and Ukrainian products was announced at about $0.30 per roll. The toilet paper is made in China by the Zhucheng Senke Paper-Making Company.

I love this!! http://www.doollo.com/mainpage/maqal/Jacbur1.rm http://www.doollo.com/mainpage/maqal/Jacbur2.rm what is your favorite verses! Mine are many but these ones cracked me up most!! ----- ma cabsooto oo hooyadeedana waa la didirtaa . ----- hadaad rooti gadaneeyso waan kuugu riyoodaaye ------ Amran waxaa tiraahdaa Qabliga Muufo kaa noqoye --- Asli waxaad tiraahdaa adigaa jeer ka qurux weeyne ----- Ama habar yar oo tobon jira ah oo naasku dhagaxoobay.... .... The guy is really funny!!

He was really creative gentle soul! He was able to survive the bullets of Xamar, travelled all over Somalia with his car and even militia of road blocks when they are told of who he is ...they will let their guns down. I know people who are related to him and they are not the only saddened by his death. All their neighbors, all their friends are coming to pay tribute and condolences to them and they live here in Minneapolis. My family is saddened by this too. May Allah have mercy on him and forgive his short-comings. A great Somali man who was loved by every one is dead. Ilaaheey jannadiisa ha ka waraabiyo dhamaanteenna samir iyo iimaan ha naga siiyo Aamiin http://www.aftahan.com/maqal/yamyam.ra

and this all came out to the fore because of the clannish obsession of Yeey's cheerleaders around thw world. They are taking us back to 1991. My suggestion, Let us have a president from a "neutral" background...so that we will be spared of the ignorance of all these spirited clannish "Geel-Jirayaal" from Mudugh and above.

true! I hope we all see this lunacy and do some soul searching! it is really depressing to keep perpetuating this ignorance. Somalia need prophets! It ain't blasphemy no more to ask Allah to send us some kind prophet or saviour in this dark moment of ignorance I am mentally and spiritually tired of Qabiil nonesense. these diabolical ruthless warlords and their callous cheerleaders....should not be allowed to corrupt and steal our humanity!

Orgi - calm down bro ? what is wrong with being Jew? all prophets were jewish. They are very astute people. They are so passionate about their causes and are very upfront with it. again, I am going ask you this in another way.... Are you the only Somali person who suffered or lost loved ones in Somalia's civil war?

No Orgi... but r u jewish?

" Allah beerka " is my adoloscent sister's favorite sarcastic phrase when she jokes around with her peers... Qurbahaa loogu yimid rag sidii foodleeyda u suurooda!!

what you guys think of the contradictions of this Somali fellow? Is he mentally sane? to me he is a lying two-faced charlatan...

I remember Jamal was an avid supporter of Galaydh back then. I will find out the article where he is defending Professor Ali Khaliif.. But for now check, how the guy who runs Brain Coyle Saeed Fahia is defending him. Saeed and Jamal are both Yeey cheerleaders now. ------------ Ali Galaydh, The Newest Professor At University Of Minnesota, After Reportedly Stealing $ 1 Million From Qasim Salad. Eric Black and Lourdes Medrano Leslie Star Tribune Published Aug 3, 2002 SOMA03 The newest professor at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute will have to juggle teaching responsibilities, his role as a liaison between the institute and the Somalis of Minnesota, and the joy of rejoining his wife and kids, from whom he was separated for years while they were in Owatonna and he was in Mogadishu. But that juggling act will be nothing compared with the double bind he confronted in the aftermath of Sept. 11. Or maybe it was a triple or quadruple bind. You do the math. Ali Khalif Galaydh was prime minister of Somalia at the time, except that the government he led controlled hardly any of the country. He was feuding with his boss, the president. Then, after Sept. 11, he was trying to keep the United States from bombing his homeland. While he was in Washington arguing that Somalia wasn't a hotbed of terrorism, his boss was in Mogadishu spreading rumors. The president was saying that Galaydh had stolen $1 million, and engineering a vote to oust Galaydh. (This is according to Galaydh, who says he did not steal the money. At least one prominent Minnesota Somali believes the rumors, and many more have heard them.) So what does an ex-prime minister do in a case like that? Why, he lands a teaching job in Minnesota. Galaydh, 60, is joining the Humphrey Institute as a visiting professor where, for three years at $90,000 a year, he will teach on the politics of public affairs, economic development and non-governmental organizations. "I'm eager to return to teaching and am excited about the opportunity to forge ties between the university and the local Somali community," he said. Left country suddenly Although the numbers are notoriously unknowable, between 10,000 and 30,000 Somalis now live in Minnesota, and the Twin Cities is probably the Somali capital of the United States. Galaydh's wife, Mariam Mohamed, and their three children, ages 13, 11 and 10, have lived in Owatonna for three years. They will move to the Twin Cities. Galaydh holds master's and doctoral degrees from Syracuse University. He was an Interior Ministry official under the last democratic government of Somalia, headed two sugar corporations and became minister of industry in 1980 under the dictator Muhammad Siad Barre. Galaydh left the country suddenly in 1982, believing he was about to be arrested. Other pro-Western colleagues of his were imprisoned the following month. "Siad Barre thought we were hatching a coup," Galaydh said. Rumors that he had misappropriated funds from the sugar plants have followed him ever since. Galaydh says the charges were trumped up. Galaydh taught at Syracuse, then returned to Somalia after the fall of Siad Barre, hoping to contribute to the rebuilding of his homeland, he said. A group hoping to create a new government that would pacify and unite the country met in neighboring Djibouti in October 2000 and created the Transitional National Government (TNG). Galaydh was appointed prime minister. The TNG has never controlled more than about half of the capital, Mogadishu, and none of the countryside. After Sept. 11, rumors that Somalia harbored terrorist bases and that the country was a likely place for Al-Qaida leaders to hide made it a likely target for U.S. attacks after Afghanistan. Galaydh said that for a while many U.S. officials felt it was not a question of whether but when to bomb Somalia. Galaydh flew to Washington, where he argued to anyone who would listen that Somalia had no terrorist bases and that the TNG wanted to join the anti-terror coalition. Ousted While Galaydh was in Washington, Somali President Abdiqasim Salad Hassan seized the opportunity to get rid of him. Galaydh says the root of the problem was that he quarreled with Hassan over his habit of exceeding his powers as president. Galaydh said the president used a combination of bribes and intimidation to get the TNG parliament to oust him. The officially stated reason for the vote was that Galaydh was a failure as prime minister. The rumored reason was that he had stolen a check for $1 million. Galaydh returned to Somalia and served as caretaker prime minister until a new government was established. He says that if he had really stolen any money, he would not have dared to return and if anyone had any evidence against him, they would never have allowed him to leave. After traveling and lecturing the last several months, he became a candidate at the Humphrey Institute. Abdi Samatar, a Somali and a long-time University of Minnesota professor of geography, opposed Galaydh's appointment, and wrote John Brandl, then the Humphrey dean, a letter recapping the allegations of corruption against Galaydh from both the sugar factory and the $1 million check. Samatar said Galaydh "has a long and unsavory public record that might substantially damage the professional integrity of the institute and the university." Brandl said he asked Samatar for evidence to back up the allegations and Samatar had none. So Brandl spoke to everyone he could find in the U.S. government, the United Nations and at Syracuse who had worked with Galaydh -- and found that none believed the allegations while all vouched for Galaydh's integrity. "I concluded there's a campaign of character assassination against this man by I-don't-know-who," Brandl said. He decided that it would be unjust to reject Galaydh over unproven allegations and that the strong references suggested Galaydh would be a great asset. Saeed Fahia, executive director of the Confederation of Somali Community of Minnesota, said the controversy is familiar to Somalis. "But in Somalia it's really hard to know who's telling the truth about these things," Fahia said. "Once you are out of favor with some people politically, they'll accuse you of anything." Fahia said he'll give Galaydh the benefit of the doubt and believes his political background could serve students well at the Humphrey Institute. Eric Black is at eblack@startribune.com.Lourdes Medrano Leslie is at lleslie@startribune.com.

http://www.startribune.com/dynamic/story.php?template=print_a&story=5644855 startribune.com Close window Last update: September 30, 2005 at 7:08 PM Omar Jamal: This Somali government mustn't fail Omar Jamal Published October 1, 2005 The Sept. 25 Associated Press article "Far from home, Somalis press U.S. to aid emerging government" created concern among the Somali community in this state. Somalis in Minnesota are not divided, and therefore support the reinstitution of the Somali government after 15 years of brutal civil war. The collapse of the Somali government in 1991 was followed by vicious civil war that led to the complete dissolution of the state and the institutions. During the 15 years without a functioning government, there were many peace conferences, all of which not only failed but also dragged an already impoverished Somali people into more misery and suffering. Any leader would be wise to consider why the preceding peace conferences in Somalia were unsuccessful. The last failed attempt was held in the small town of Arte 30 kilometers south of Djibouti capital in 2000. On Aug. 26, 2000, 245 Transitional National Assembly elected Abdiqasim Salad Hasan as president, and in October 2000, President Hasan appointed Ali Khalif Galaydh as prime minister. This government, better known among the Somalis as the Arte government, simply evaporated after a short time without returning any stability to the country, creating more political obscurity than before. The daily business of the Arte government become a policy of diversion: shifting the political ailments of the country to neighboring countries such as Ethiopia and occupying itself with corruption and embezzlement. Besides the incompetence and lack of practical vision from the Arte group, Somalia is still awash with weapons and has become a breeding ground for terrorism. After this miserable failure of the Arte group, the IGAD countries (Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Eritrea, Djibouti and Sudan) initiated another peace conference on October 2002 in Kenya that lasted for almost two years. This conference brought about the current federal government, led by President Abdullahi Ahmed Yusuf. The Somali people everywhere will not let this chance slip away and therefore once again get caught in the web of hopelessness and misery. It was the outcry from Somali women and children to which lawmakers such as Sen. Norm Coleman responded. The community is divided over two issues, according to the AP article: • Military support from neighboring nations to bring the rule of law back to Somalia. • Whether the United Nations should lift the arms embargo on Somalia. Recent history shows that Somalia failed to disarm itself without support from outside. Actually the international community, led by the United States, disappointingly failed to undertake that task under the operation of restore hope to Somalia. The United Nations ought to respect the integrity and sovereignty of the recent Somali government by exempting it from the arms embargo so that it can rebuild the national army to ensure good governance and the safety of its citizens. Ali Khalif Galaydh apparently has not given up his ill-considered policy toward Somalis, and I wonder what he would suggest to remedy the political crisis in a country as fragmented as Somalia. The practice of democracy is a fairy tale without the rule of law. I do not see how anyone can pull the Somali country back together democratically within our lifetimes without some use of force. The Somali people are not divided about having a government back in Somalia whatever the cost it might be. The concern expressed by the Prof. Galaydh that military support from a country like Ethiopia to disarm the militias would reignite civil war is politically impetuous. It is time that Galaydh stop trying to evade the real issue, and accept the need to bury enmity against neighboring counties and start a new page of collaboration and peaceful coexistence. Omar Jamal is executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in St. Paul.

Friday, September 16, 2005 From New York to Minnesota, Somali leaders rally support WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Somalia's new president mingled with U.N. figures in New York on Wednesday, while his country's new parliament speaker huddled with State Department officials in Washington. But President Abdullahi Yusuf and Speaker Sharif Hassan didn't talk with each other, and haven't for weeks. They head groups locked in a power struggle that Somali experts fear will derail the strife-torn, East African nation's most auspicious attempt at forming a government in the past 14 years and possibly set off a new civil war. "Another outbreak of violence would be disastrous," said Ali Galaydh, a University of Minnesota public policy professor who was picked to be prime minister in an earlier, failed attempt to create a Somali government. "I think it's fair to say the situation is delicate," said Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., who joined Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., in meeting late Tuesday with Hassan and several other parliament members. Hoping to return The outcome carries high stakes for thousands of Somalis in the Twin Cities, home to the nation's largest population of refugees from the African nation. Many of them are hoping that their country will at last be stabilized so they can return home. Omar Jamal, director of the Minneapolis-based Somali Justice Advocacy Center, said he traveled to New York along with about 400 Twin Cities Somalis to seek Yusuf's support Wednesday. Jamal said Yusuf met briefly with the Minnesota Somalis and plans a more extensive meeting with them tonight in New York. Meantime, five parliament members siding with Hassan plan to fly to Minnesota today to seek support from the Somali community, Gov. Tim Pawlenty and state legislative leaders. A deputy prime minister, Mohamud Jama, plans to join them Friday. The potentially incendiary impasse developed when it came time to set into motion the transitional government created during two years of exhaustive talks in Kenya -- negotiations that involved everyone from statesmen to warlords. After hundreds of officials were elected and appointed, Hassan and the 275 members of parliament traveled to Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, and began setting up offices. But Yusuf, a former military commander who led a failed coup attempt in 1978 against then-Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre, felt that Mogadishu wasn't yet safe enough to be the seat of government. The city for years has been a haven for armed militias and, in recent months, the scene of bombings and the murder of a peace activist. Tensions rose several months ago when Yusuf instead set up operations in the outlying city of Jowhar. The situation turned volatile when reports circulated that he had accepted military assistance from neighboring Ethiopia, which has fought a series of border wars with Somalia. Use of Ethiopian troops in an attempt to control Mogadishu "would inflame the situation, not only in Somalia, but also would have regional implications," said Galaydh, a Hassan backer. "Mogadishu is a city of about 1.5 million to 2 million people. Everybody is armed. This is going to be house-to-house fighting ... really bloody." Watching closely The Bush administration weighed in this summer, urging Somalia's neighbors to stay out of any conflict. And the U.N. Security Council issued a statement in July warning that any party persisting "on the path of confrontation and conflict, including military action, would be held accountable." U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has assigned a special representative to try to mediate the dispute. Jamal said Yusuf met Wednesday evening with new U.N. General Assembly President Jan Eliasson of Sweden. Jama, the deputy prime minister and a former University of Wisconsin student, said Hassan's group has spent months improving the climate in Mogadishu by persuading about 2,500 young men from rival militias to move into camps miles from the city, where they are being trained by police officers. He blamed the distrust between Yusuf and parliament figures partly on the "series of competitions" in deciding on a government, each of which "left a legacy of conflict." Coleman said he is urging the State Department to do what it can to keep both sides talking. If Somalia can't be stabilized, he said, "then you run the risk of it being a haven for terrorism. That's the real concern." Greg Gordon is at ggordon@startribune.com. Somalia: A recent history review Somalia gained independence from Britain in 1960, and Mohamed Siad Barre became president in 1969. Siad Barre was overthrown in 1991, sending the country into 14 years of civil strife. Many attempts were made during those years to form a national government, but all failed because of clan warfare. Various regions are dominated by warlords and militias. In June 2003, the Somali National Reconciliation Conference started meeting in Kenya. In 2004, an agreement was reached by warlords and politicians to create a transitional parliament. Abdullahi Yusuf was elected president. This was seen as the best chance for the formation of a lasting centralized government, but it is now in danger of falling apart. The parliament is based in the capital of Mogadishu, but the president has set up in the small city of Jowhar and says he does not feel safe going to Mogadishu. The United Nations is working with various factions trying to save the government. http://action.web.ca/home/somalicanadians/news.shtml?x=81619

Somali Warlord Heads to Seattle Fundraiser with Slade Gorton Angers Refugees BY SANDEEP KAUSHIK Every day Miriam Ali Ahmed cries in her small, darkened Tukwila apartment. A refugee for the last five years, she has much to mourn; all three sons and four of her nephews have been murdered during Somalia's decade-long civil war, the most recent shot point-blank in the head less than one month ago. All seven were killed, she says, on the orders of Somali warlord Colonel Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, the self-styled president of Puntland, a breakaway region of the war-torn country. "He's killed all my children, and his are living in luxury," she exclaims in her native Somali. Col. Yusuf will visit Seattle later this month, where he is to be feted before 500 attendees at the Sea-Tac Double Tree Hotel as the co-guest of honor, along with former Washington Senator Slade Gorton, at the "2002 Somalia Celebration," a $75-a-plate fundraiser for Yusuf, who talks of ruling over the rest of Somalia. Miriam Ahmed is not alone in thinking a warlord like Yusuf ought to be arrested rather than honored. The upcoming event has angered many local Somalis. Indeed, another man whose brother was murdered by Yusuf's forces declined an interview with The Stranger, expressing fear of retaliation against still-living relatives. "Yusuf's record speaks for itself," says Awale Farah, an electrical engineer who is leading the local effort to expose Yusuf's violent history. Somalis such as Farah see Yusuf as an exemplar of all that has gone wrong with Somalia since its decline, into the anarchy and civil war in the 1990s. Since the collapse of a flawed U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mogadishu, the capital, in 1993, in which 18 American soldiers died--enshrined in Black Hawk Down--Somalia was divided among about a dozen warlords. "We need to bring a spotlight on [Yusuf], and not only him, but on all the warlords," explains Farah. Seattle is home to an estimated 20,000 Somalis, third most in the U.S. behind Minneapolis (50,000) and Columbus, Ohio (30,000). A July 17 press release by Puntland's government stated Yusuf intends to use his U.S. visit "to strengthen diplomatic ties between Puntland and the U.S." and to explain to American officials his "plan to unify Somalia under a democratic regime." Yusuf had been waiting for weeks in Ethiopia for a visa to visit the U.S. But on Monday, September 16, Koshin Mohammed, a local Somali and Yusuf's designated "U.S. Representative of Puntland," revealed that Yusuf's visa had finally been approved. According to Mohammed, he was scheduled to arrive in Washington, D.C., on the 17th to meet with CIA and State Department officials, and would appear with Gorton on Sunday, September 22. Busy preparing for Yusuf's arrival, he declined further comment. Gorton defends his decision to appear with Yusuf. "The question is, is he a good warlord or a bad warlord?" Gorton asks. Though he is "in no position to provide any warranty" of the Somali's good intentions, Gorton says Yusuf's "part of the country seems more peaceful and secure than the part in Black Hawk Down." Therefore, he will "attend, meet Mr. Yusuf, and see where we go from there." Other politicians are less sanguine. Jane Sanders, head of U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott's Seattle district office, says the congressman originally agreed to meet Yusuf but changed his mind after learning more about him during a meeting with the anti-Yusuf group. Human-rights reports and other documents paint an ugly portrait of the warlord. Somaliawatch.com says he was "responsible for the killing of hundreds of his own clansmen" in 1992--when most of Miriam Ahmed's relatives were killed--and condemns his "penchant for assassinations." Though elected president of Puntland in 1998, Yusuf refused to step down at the end of his term in 2001, and his successful effort to topple his elected successor killed dozens, BBC stories and U.N. sources reveal. The State Department's human-rights report acknowledges "the use of torture" by Yusuf's administration, and this year he evicted two BBC reporters and shut down independent radio and television stations in his domain. Moreover, on August 17, Sultan Hurreh, Miriam Ahmed's nephew and an outspoken traditional clan leader, was gunned down by Yusuf's personal bodyguards in front of journalists, a killing Yusuf's government has labeled as "accidental." In short, Yusuf is "a classic Somali warlord," argues Omar Jamal, head of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in Minneapolis. Expatriate Somalis have been unsuccessful in pushing the U.N. to create an international criminal court for Somalia, but at least one preliminary effort to form such a tribunal has included Yusuf's name on a list of potential war criminals. Part of Yusuf's intention in visiting the U.S. is to build an image as an ally of the post-9/11 war on terrorism, his opponents say. Given Somalia's fractured politics--similar to Afghanistan--even the hint of American support will cow other warlords into recognizing his supremacy. Sources report that American officials, including FBI agents, have been spotted in Puntland recently, and they say Yusuf has turned over two men, a Syrian and Palestinian, to the U.S. Yusuf's opponents contend, however, that neither man was actually a member of al Qaeda, and Yusuf is manipulating American officials' ignorance for political gain. "All of these warlords are pointing fingers at one another," Jamal explains. "They all claim to be fighting for democracy, and against al Qaeda. It's just a way of getting the Bush administration's support." http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=11947

Somali 'Black Hawk Down' suspect arrested Suspect arrested on war crimes charges while in Sweden STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- A Somali suspected of being a militia leader during the 1993 "Black Hawk Down" battle that left 18 Americans dead was arrested Monday on suspicion of war crimes while attending a conference in Sweden, police and organizers said. A man identified as Abdi Hassan Awale, who once served as Somalia's interior minister, was taken into custody after Somalis living in Sweden recognized him and reported him to police, said Gillian Nilsson, an organizer of the conference on development in the Horn of Africa. Awale, also known as Abdi Qeybdiid, was a commander in warlord Farah Aidid's militia when it fought a 19-hour battle against American troops in Mogadishu on October 3, 1993. Two U.S. helicopters were shot down and hundreds of Somalis died, in addition to the American soldiers. The story was featured in the book and movie "Black Hawk Down." Police spokesman Karl Sandberg would not confirm the suspect's identity, but said the 57-year-old Somali man was arrested on suspicion of war crimes early Monday at a hotel in Lund and taken to Goteborg for questioning. The suspect's lawyer, Pieter Kjessler, told Swedish public radio that he denied the allegations against him during questioning on Monday. Somalia was thrown into civil war and anarchy after clan-based warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. More than 500,000 people have been killed and some 3.5 million have been driven from their homes, 1.5 million of whom have taken refuge in neighboring countries. Awale, who was a colonel in Somalia's former army, was named interior minister in the internationally unrecognized government that was declared in the capital after Barre's ouster. News of Awale's capture was welcomed by Somalis living in the United States. "We were joyous to hear this," said Omar Jamal, executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy center in St. Paul, Minnesota. "It sends a loud and clear message to all the other Somali war criminals." Jamal said Awale was involved in the 1993 militia fighting with American troops. Nilsson said Awale was part of a six-member Somali delegation headed by Parliamentary speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden that attended the development conference in Sweden. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.