Originally posted by Goonle: ...I guess trend now is to just bypass all of that and hope Folks from Galcaio that never had a successful military offensive anywhere in somalia will now put fear in warlords and militia in mogadishu lol... Thnx Goonle,,,,, that was good one! Una bella battuta da ricordare per sempre! Let me add my two cents to this prank! These forces who never had any military success anywhere will not only liberate Xamar from the warlords but pave the way for the coronation of Yeey and his due monarchy! what a lofty mission! ....that is stomach-churning sarcasm! sorry folks!!

Nomad ...i let you be.... and ignore such rubbish venom you have posted above! now back to the subject: The traits that boost the psyche of warlord Yeey are well-known and comprehensive: criminal, mafia, dictator, megalomaniac, irrational, con artist, warlord, despot, tyrant, impostor, buffoon, gangster, just to name a very few. That shows how well charged is the psychological portrait of Warlord Yeey. And a very thorough analysis also shows that it bears an unequivocal resemblance to that of Third-world dictators. A general consensus among Somalis also indicates that Warlord-President Yusuf (Yeey) has unquestionably character traits that resembles those maniacs before him, i.e. Afweeyne and Aideed (Waaw). And about his so-called southward march will not work as it is impractical. In his ill-defined and deranged masochism, as the principal Somali warlord now in Somalia, Yeey, after amassing arms and ill-gotten wealth from Sana’a and Addis Ababa has convinced his megalomaniac self to start a campaign of divide and rule amongst the residents below the Hiiraan region. Thanks God that the people of Hiiraan region understand this deceptive plot and refused to cooperate. A representative there today told him to quit such ridiculous hallucination and come to Jowhar by air and get inline with the negotiations going on between the two opposing factions of this bogus inept TFG. The "Rep", Mr. Jelle is not only worried about the security of the warlord but is corcerned if Yeey, a feeble octognerian, could survive the long 14 hours trek from Galkacyo to Jowhar.

No Sky! it is the other way! I was just mocking and sarcastically poking fun of the melodramatic insularity of my Maryooleey nomads! I can't sometimes afford to play the part of the deferential erudite guru. Some characters here seem to take things personally and that is a field day for me to come in and make use of it ....for my own amusement

Good News, Young Halima was flown to Austria where she is now hospitalized thanks to a very awsome Somali brother. There is also another awsome Somali sister who did collected more than $5000 in Norway for the little baby. I had sent $ 500 (collected from few friends) to Dr. Jiya. Halima's father was rewarded $6,900 as he was accompanying his sick child. Some borthers in Rochester, MN were also involved, trying to get Mayo Clinic's help and also they were able to secure a US visa for Halima. There other kind ladies who were collecting money for her in different parts of the world. I hope the doctors in Austria will be able to treat her well and let us all pray to Allah to make it easy for her. Just recite few Quranic verses for that poor baby! Ilaah ha caafiyo Haliima yareey... Aamiin!

Build institutions of governance first! and empower and let women lead! they have been the backbone of the Somali society. They have suffered the most under the leadership of clannish men! we have a plenty of educated conscious Somalis who could become great leaders in the future. let us first get rid of warlords and Barre's ramnants.

and I am STILL Somali/Italian/Canadian/American!! kind international man of mystery!!! I like this ....it is even getting more hilarious!!

Amazing! back then, I was not an "ethnic" Somali and now all of sudden, I am of "European" backgorund! The "Maryooleey" brainpower doesn’t fail to amuse me! where are the Jumamatu's hilarious pictorial emoticons when you need them most! "Ooyintu Orgiga Ka weyn" I am really enjoying this!! bravo!!! let me get my Hookah and blended weed....to fire things up!!

wow!! good for u mr. Nomad Activist. Play fire with fire! This "fire" talk reminds me of Billy joel song "We didn't start the FIRE!" Seriouly, I am also a professional boxer and I have been KO my opponents at gym in the first round! BTW, here is the lyrics of that history ladden song so you may learn from it. Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television,North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom, Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye" Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new Queen, Marciano, Liberace, Santayana good bye CHORUS We didn't start the fire It was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it but we tried to fight it. Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev, Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron, Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock" Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team,Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev, Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez CHORUS Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac, Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai" Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball, Starkweather, homicide, children of Thalidomide Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia, Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy, Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo CHORUS Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land", Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion "Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania, Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex, JFK blown away, what else do I have to say? CHORUS Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again, Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock, Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline, Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan. "Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide, Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz, Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law, Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't TAKE it anymore! We didn't start the fire It was always burning since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire But when we are gone It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

Ina-Xaggaa Dheere sheekadiisii markaan aqriyay waxaan ka jecleeystay oraahda dhaheeyso: " haddaaan aamusnana, ariga dilka lagama dhaafayo, haddaan hadalnana waa af salax ku dheg" I have been cautioned (by the moderators) to refrain from personal attacks( which I am good at it) or otherwise I will be censored or banned. So Mr. Nomadic Activist and (HornAfrik in some other thread), you are off the hook for now thanks to that admonition. Nevertheless, I expect this rule will be applied to all.

Kudos to somaliland people! I wish I could at least be present at or witness how the civilised Somalilanders run their elections. Most candidates competing for Somaliland parliament are educated intellectuals with impressive background! No wonder they are living in an oasis of peace and sanity unlike the south! http://www.ucidparty.com/

here is an excerpt of his latest article [... Deployment of Puntland militias It appears that President Abdullahi Yusuf intends to deploy armed militias form Puntland to confront his opponents in Mogadishu. It is reported that a convoy of well-equipped militias are enroute to Jowhar. This has further heightened tensions and could rekindle a more sinister phase of civil war. Most people in the Mogadishu and other Somalis consider the deployment of Puntland militias in and around the capital to be tantamount to a clan-based invasion. The faction leaders and others in Mogadishu intend to fiercely respond to what they deem to be an illegitimate attack. Both Abdullahi Yusuf and the faction leaders in Mogadishu need to recollect that the late Somali dictator thought that he could subjugate the nation by tribalizing state institutions and particularly the armed forces. The factionalist opposition imagined that it could topple the tyrannical order and remake the nation by employing the same tactics. Unfortunately that strategy has turned a crisis into a calamity. The people in the northeast must not be fooled into a destructive and futile adventure...] A Warning for the Ages The Somali public must embrace a peace agenda as the current speaker of parliament recently articulated. The TFG institutions are vehicles for reconciliation and as such must seek peaceful solutions to our political problems. The Mogadishu faction leaders and Abdullahi Yusuf must recognize that if reconciliation is to be sustained it will require a win-win outcome. By its nature a compromise is a peaceful agreement and the use of violence is an anathema in such an accord. The faction leaders can not hold Mogadishu, and by implication the country, hostage as they have done over the last decade, and Abdullahi Yusuf can not violently impose himself on the country as he has done in the northeast. He can not claim to be president for all of Somalia and at same time organize clan based militias as a national force. Such behavior is exactly what destroyed Somalia’s government and is unlikely to set an inclusive foundation for a lasting peace and national reconstruction. Accordingly, the faction leaders in the capital must withdraw their militias from the city and put them under the control of a neutral third party (the Africa force, excluding Ethiopia). Second, the international community must urgently support the African force to be deployed without delay. Further, the international community should provide food for work to the encamped militias and to give this first phase of reconciliation a chance to succeed. Third, Abdullahi Yusuf and the TFG should relocate in Mogadishu once the African force secures the capital without bringing clan based militias from outside. Finally, the rule of law and the art of compromise must govern further development. Any attempt to use force for particularistic political ends will ruin whatever promise this last conference has engendered. I urge all Somalis who care about our destiny, and particularly those in Banadir and the northeast to say no to political violence and clan politics. Abdirazak H. Hussen Prime Minister 1964-67 E-mail: Hussen100@yahoo.com

Siyadists cadres will never cease defending their adored chief comrade. Their worship for him corrupts their rationale and reasoning. Dear Folks, no one absolves Aideed from crimes. His intransigence has caused mass starvation and more destruction. He was worse than Afweyne and I have acknowledged that fact in my article. Unfortunately, for the lack of grasping alluded information, people overlook the particulars and take things out of context. Let us not defend maniacs simply because they hail from our immediate clan. These three stooges and their Protégés ( current warlords ) are the ones responsible of our painful catastrophe. We need to empower enlightened peace-lords and civil society activists who are immune of this clannish malady. That is the only way we could rescue us from further doom.

nin farsamayaqaan ah oo xamar dowladii siyaad barre ku qasabtay inuu gaalkacyo ka shaqeeyo aa waxuu ku arkay Sabuul Galeey suuqa, yaabka yaabkiis eey ku noqotay! waxuu sabuulkii ku dhahay " aniga waa la i fahmay dawlo aa i keentay meehaan, ee adiga yaa ku keenay?" hadda waa yaab! road blocks and Galkacyo! the city is itself a road block from Hell!! a small rocky deserted city having a road block reminds me a scene of the Mad Max Movie!

now here is my edited version of the previous message without any personal attack! Thanks to the moderators for pointing out my shortcomings! To begin with; I don’t think Yeey’s hallucinations will bear any fruits and no one will fight for an obsessed lunatic. He will fail miserably and will persih in it. The Somali reality confirms that his downfall is imminent and so near. (kabteey inteey ka baxday hadeeysan ka dhicin!) the comparison is not only about Yeey's impractical stance on the gloomy affairs of the TFG. By and large, it is about the manners of these obstinate soldiers. It is always some nuts who ignite clan animosities and launch destructive civil wars. Men from these camps have not been schooled on the art of compromise and concession. They have been blinded by some absurd pride. Until, we come to the realisation that a pigheaded soldier from such background will not lead us to the promised land of peace and prosperity but will continue to lead us to the unlucky path of mayhem and destruction, we will continue to be backward, poor society that keeps fighting for nothing and we will be in this self destructive path for generations to come! History has shown us that is the case. we should not let these kind of nut-heads to hold any position of leadership if we want to get out of this mess! let us all campaign to exclude and alienate these military men.

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Yeey's southward march: Familiar and Disastrous. About a decade and half ago, Siad Barre, the Somalia’s last dictator, besieged by USC rebels, vowed he would never negotiate with "reactionaries" and a "rogue" anti-revolutionary forces after meeting with a moderate group of Somali politicians, consisting of Manifesto signatories and other influential Mogadishu elders. Meanwhile, the late general Mohammed Farah Aideed, at the height of his glory as commander-in-chief of the USC rebels in quest of power, declared that he wanted Afweyne ousted and dead, thus indicating he wanted Barre’s presidency by all means, at all costs. Both known stubborn maniacs, Afweeyne and Aideed kept their words. Afweeyne was ousted and fled the country. Later, He vowed he will march back to Mogadishu to recapture it from the USC traitors. It was an impractical miscalculation from his side. At the end, he was buried in an unidentified grave in Nigeria. Afweeyne have managed to single-handedly lead Somalia to a total economical, political and societal destruction and destitution. His regime was responsible of the murder and killings of more than 200,000 innocent Somalis. Aideed didn’t get the presidency he sought either. He too had some impractical plans to wipe out Said Barre’s remnants from the country and led a southward march to chase his foe. After not until 300,000 people died of starvation and killings and the entire country destroyed, he too was buried in a somewhat identified grave inside Somalia. Now, history is back where it was a decade and half ago. We have another diabolical maniac of the same league. As he sits in a presidential seat, Abdullahi yusuf Ahmed (Yeey) has vowed never to negotiate with the powerful opposing warlords in Mogadishu who have elected him to continue the Somali lunacy from where Afweeyne & Aideed left. Warlord-President Yeey, who have not signed the previously attempted fourteen peace agreements and reneged on all since they did not offer him clear prospects for his presidency, now finds himself where Afweeyne was a decade and half ago. The Warlord-President said he will not negotiate with warlords who held the country hostage for more than a decade and half and will march to south building up forces and collecting militias to oust these renegade Mogadishu warlords. Yeey’s statement is so baffling that he appears to be working to his own demise and destructive campaign for power. It is crucial to remind Yeey and his clique that they carry the burden of Somalia’s doomed destiny and that Yeey’s very presidency and his clannish ambition are painful reminders of the unforgettable scars of horror and poverty that left on many Somalis still helpless and hopeless. Mogadishu warlords, too, are now determined to counter and prevent Yeey’s declared southward march. They have illusively hinted a soon-to-be-launched military assault on the president’s assumedly power base as a prerequisite to end his impractical clannish aspirations and to protect their turf while maintaining the "Status quo" of lawlessness and anarchy in the Capital. Most peace loving Somalis find these militaristic maneuvering troubling. Worrisome is also the political ineptness of current Somali parliamentarians and their inability to come to other alternative ways to restore Somali people’s desire towards an everlasting peace and dignity. Both Afweeyne and Aideed’s refusal to acknowledge their opponent’s political contention led to their demise and worst of all, the killings of half a million innocent Somalis who were caught in the callous web of atrocities and deathly crossfire for the search of power and influence. The stubbornness of both men led to the total destruction of the country. Peace loving Somalis are troubled over Yeey’s bullying behavior as a sing of another disastrous civil war. The past Somali experience has shown that it is easier, far more convenient, for stubborn warlords to wage a war than to reconstruct and heal the painful wounds of their suffering people. A ruthless ambitious warlord may have reasons not to negotiate with his equals because they share the same values and pursue the same diabolical goals. But in the case of troubled and destroyed Somalia, all the warlords, including Yeey and other member warlords in the current conflict see no tangible benefit to negotiate and save the country from further destruction. The inescapable reality is that the ghosts of Afweeyne & Aideed are indeed today lingering on Yeey’s soul (if he has one) since he is in the same league with these dead maniacs and is still insisting on the same idiotic narrow-mindedness. Now the subliminal question, even though scary and unfathomable, is where will Yeey’s grave and final resting place be and how many innocent lives will be lost along this impractical southward march?

15-ka XUBNOOD EE KA MASUUL NOQONAYA HADDII DAGAAL SOKEEYE DIB UGA BILOWDO SOOMAALIYA SULDAN HURRE HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP suldanhurre@yahoo.co.uk Sabti: 16-07-2005 Anagoo ah Suldan Hurre Human Rights Group (SHHRG) waxaan cadaynaynaa in Col.C/Yusuf u istaagay inuu Soomaaliya ka huriyo coldaan horle, taasoo maanta aysan ummadda Soomaaliyeed sinaba ugu baahnayn. Waxaan cadaynaynaa in gulufka colaadeed ee uu Col.C/Yusuf hor kacayo loogu magac daray OPERATION RESTORE STABILITY SOUTHERN SOMALIA, inkastoo laga yaabo in la bedelo magacan. Kadib markii aan si qoto dheer baaritaan rasmiya ugu ku samaynay waxaa noo cadaatay in 15 xubnood ay yihiin dadka u ololaynay in dagaal lagu qaado degaanada Muqdisho, Baydhabo iyo Marka. 15-kan xabnood ayaan cadaynaynaa inay yihiin dadka haddii maanta Soomaaliya ay dib uga bilaabato colaad hor leh dadka masuuliyadeeda lagala xisaabtamayo. 15-ka xubnood ayaa kala ah: 1.Col.Cabdullahi Yusuf Axmed (Puntland Warlord) 2.Cali Maxamed Geedi (PM Ethiopian Stooge) 3.Axmed Cabdullaahi Yusuf Axmed (Yeey’s son) 4.Maxmed Cumar Xabeeb (Maxamed Dheere) (PM’s clansmen and Middle Shabelle Warlord) 5.Islaan Bashiir Islaan Cabdulle (Yeey’s clansman) 6.Yusuf Cumar Azari (Yeey’s clansman) 7.Col.Cabdulaahi Mire Careys (Yeey’s clansman) 8.Capt. Siciid Axmed Xirsi (S-dheere) (Yeey’s clansman) 9.Col.Cabsirisaaq Afguduud (Yeey’s clansman) 10.Cawil Dhiig-sokeeye (Yeey’s clansman) 11.Cabdirashiid Aadan Seed (Qoor) (Yeey’s clansman ) 12 Injineer Ismaaciil Xaaji Warsame (Yeey’s clansman) 13.Maxamed Aadan Bidaar (Yeey’s clansman) 14.Daahir Mire Jibriil (Yeey’s clansman) 15.G/ Sare Jaamac Geyre (Yeey’s clansman) Waxaan xasuusinaynaa ummadda Soomaaliyeed in markii uu istaagay dagaalkii 2aad ee adduunku, lana jabiyey dawladdii Jarmalka ay go’aan gaareen Bishii May 1945 Winston Churchill, Harry S.Truman, Joseph Stalin iyo Charles De Gaulle, isku raaceen in maxkamad caalamiya la soo taago raggii hoggaaminayey Dawladdii Jarmalka ee laga adkaaday. Waxaana la diyaariyey liis ay ku qornaayeen 21 nin oo Jarmal ah, oo ahaa raggii go’aanka iyo talada hayey, kana mid ahaayeen, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Albert Speer, Julius Streicher, taasoo la saaray Maxkamadii Nuremberg War Crime Trail. Waxaana 21-ka nin lagu soo eedeeyey inay la haayeen talada iyo go’aanka dagaalkii 2-aad ee milaayiintu ku dhinteen, waxaana raggaas qaarna lagu xumay dil, qaarna xabsi dheer. Sidoo kale waxaan ummadda Soomaaliyeed u iftiiminaynaa in haddii maanta dagaal sokeeye ka bilowdo Soomaaliya ay 15-ka xubnood yihiin dadka masuulka ka ah. Qofkasta oo Soomaaliya ee dhibaato ka soo gaarto dagaalkaasna uu ogaado cida dhibkaas ka dembaysay inay yihiin xunahan kor ku xusan. Waxaan taageersan nahay qoraaladii ay soo kala qoreen Mudane Cabdirisaaq Xaaji Xuseen iyo Mudane Cabdillahi Axmed Caddow kagana hadlayeen in arrimaha siyaasadda ee la isku haysto lagu dhameeyo wadahadal, hajabaadda iyo gulufka colaadeed ee uu wado Col.C/Yusufna uu ka tanaasulo. Waxaan si buuxda u soo dhawaynaynaa go’aankii (14.07.2005) Golaha Amaanka ee Qaramada Midoobay ay ku qaadaceen in Cuna-qabateynta hubka saaran laga qaado wakhtigaan Soomaaliya. Waxaana aad iyo aad ugu hambalyaynaynaa ummadda Soomaaliyeed ee nagala qaybqaadatay qoraaladdii is-daba jooga ahaa ee aanu u diray xafiiska Qaramada Midoobay ee aanu ugu muujinay in aan Soomaaliya laga qaadin cunaqabadaynta hubka ee saaran. Anagoo ah Suldan Hurre Human Rights (SHHRG) waxaan kula talinaynaa 15-kan xubnood inay tusaale ka qaataan Dalka Suudaan oo muddo 30 sano ah dagaal sokeeye ku jiray. Dagaalkaas oo ay ku nafwaayeen dad kor u dhaafay 2 milyan, hadana maanta la soo afjaray colaadaas. Labada dhinac ee colaadu ka dhexaysayna ay ******** in wax horumara oo laga gaarayo in dagaalku sii socodo aysan jirin. Sidoo kale ayaan kula talinaynaa 15-kan xibnood inay ka tanaasulaan dagaalka iyo colaada ay ka wadaan dalka Soomaaliya. Una istaagaan nabadaynta iyo sidii ay Soomaaliya isugu keeni lahaayeen, taas ayaana sharaf, wanaag iyo xasanaadba ugu jiraa adduunka iyo aakhiraba. Waxaan ugu baaqaynaa culumadda Soomaaliyeed inaysan arrintan ka aamusin ee ay ka hadlaan inaan Soomaaliya dagaal dib looga bilaabin gaar ahaan, Shiikh Cumar Faaruuq, Shiikh Maxamed Shiikh Cusmaan, Shiikh C/laahi Cali Xaashi, Shiikh Daahir, Shiikh Mustafe Xaaji Ismaaciil, Shiikh Maxamed Cabdi Umal, Sh. Maxamed Idiris, Sh. C/raxiim Dhabar, C/raxmaan sh.Cumar, SH. Maxammed Rashaad, Sheekh C/qaadir Cukaashe, Sheekh Nuur Cali Jaamac , Sheekh Maxamed Axmed Rooble, Sheekh Shariif Maxamuud, Sheekh Cumar Cali cabdule, Sheekh C/kariim Xassan Xoosh, Sheekh Axmed Imaam, Sheekh Axmed Daahir Aweeys, Sheekh Axmed Maxamuud (Axmed Yare), Sheekh C/laahi Macalin, Sh. C/Raxmaan Janaqow, Sh. Cali Warsame, Sh Cusmaan Cali Xuseen iyo culumada kale ee Soomaaliyeedba. Waxaan culumada Soomaaliyeed ku baraarujinaynaa inay tahay waajib saaran inay saxaafadda ka hadlaan ee aysan idhaha ka daboolan, sidii looga baajin lahaa ummadda Soomaaliyeed ee 15-ka sano dagaalka ku jirtay, inay haddana dib ugu laabato colaad iyo dagaal hor leh. SULDAN HURRE HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP suldanhurre@yahoo.co.uk

Well, let us see what these so called buzz words in the media mean and play a word association game. let us take the word Terrorism...it is now synonymous with Islam/Muslims. It has become a fact that we have been inundated and can’t escape. The media pundits with their hidden agenda have coined it to program people's mind.... and they have successfully managed in their scheming expertise to spin facts and create everlasting perceptions. Guerilla terrorism is what it was supposed to be termed but this has been scrubbed off from the western parlance simply because it will implicate some western governments who terrorize innocent civilian ...who do unilateral governmental terrorism on a distant non-western Muslim lands. You are not permitted to define terrorism. No.. back off Ahmed, your insight doesn't count anymore. Muslims, brown and black skinned people die on acts of violence and terror by thousands on daily basis and no one cares about it. 50 people die on acts of terrorism in the western world and we held vigils, condemn Muslims and blame this barbarism of the whole Muslim world. Muslim Imams and scholars are forced to apologize for the acts of the few as if the whole Ummah is repsonsible and if they speak on the injustices against Muslims, they are held indefinitely in jails and branded as terrorist sympathizers or conspirators. Muslims have now been reduced to apologists who have been labeled as progressive and moderate ones. The least intellectual and opportunistic sell-outs who defame Islam and Muslim culture are propped up to positions of fame and celebrity and rewarded with a large sum of money and some unparalleled veneration. Example of this, look no further but our disgraceful whore Miss Ayan Hirsi Magan... in the meantime, it is open hunting season for uncle Sam and his Union Jack friend, Bush & Blair can bomb the Muslim civilians, kill and maim them with their precision laser guided, surgical missiles and call it a collateral damage. They can starve millions of brown and black children around world with sanctions and unfair trade and call it free markets. They can change regimes by force and by violence and call it democracy. They can deny and delete from history centuries of colonialism, slavery and genocide and pay lip service to eliminating poverty and Aids and held few rock concerts in their lush gardens. This gives rise to a new blueprint on humanity and equality. According to this post modern modus operandi (new western bill of rights), human beings are not created equal. If you are from a white European descent, you are worth more than the lives of 100 dirty smelly sand-niggers and jungle niggers in Asia, Africa and Latin America. If you die on terrorism act regardless whether it is governmentally sanctioned or conducted by insurgent guerilla, in the streets of Baghdad, Mogadishu, Kigali, Freetown, Gaza City, Kabul, Groznyy, Sarajevo, your death and suffering means nothing.

The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi Translated by Sir Richard Burton [1886] Written in the 16th Century, this volume is one of the oldest texts on the subject of erotica. It provides a fascinating look into the sexual customs and behavior of Arabia in the Middle Ages, much like the Kama Sutra reflects ancient Hindu culture. Translated into English by the renowned explorer Sir Richard F. Burton, The Perfumed Garden Of The Cheikh Nefzaoui explicitly sings the praises of intimacy. Sections include "Concerning Everything Favorable to Coition," "Of Matters which are Injurious in the act of Generation," and "On the Deceits and Treacheries of Women." With complete candor, this classic celebrates sensual pleasure with beautiful prose. "I swear before God, certainly! The knowledge of this book is necessary. It will be only the shamefully ignorant, the enemy of all science who does not read it, or who turns it into ridicule." --Cheikh Nefzaoui http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/garden/

another Extract: By Way of a Response to Cheikh Nefzaoui [...I, Bedra, proclaim to be certain of one thing only: I am the one with the most beautiful .... on earth, the best designed,the best developed. the deepest, warmest, wettest, noisiest, most fragrant ad singing, the one most fond of .... when they rise up like harpoons....]

Arab author tackles the last taboo - a Muslim woman writes a bestselling erotic epic Jon Henley in Paris Tuesday June 21, 2005 Guardian It passed almost unnoticed when it was published in France last year, but L'amande or The Almond, a slim brown volume billed as the "first erotic account written by an Arab woman", has now sold rights in 17 countries, including Britain, where it is to be published next month. The book is explicit enough to have prompted comparisons with the sex films of Catherine Breillat, whose preferred actor is the porn star Rocco "the Italian Stallion" Siffredi, and with Catherine Millet, the intellectual art critic whose sex-stuffed but strangely unerotic confessions, The Sexual Life of Catherine M, recounted a life of staggering promiscuity. But the difference is that Nedjma, the 40-something North African woman who wrote The Almond and who wants, not surprisingly, to remain anonymous, sets out not only to celebrate the sensuality of the female body but to strike a real moral blow against Islam's longstanding repression of women. "In these lines where sperm and poetry mingle," she writes in the preface, "my ambition is to give women back the speech that has been confiscated by their fathers, brothers and husbands. I lift these words, as one lifts a glass, to the health of Arab women." She told the New York Times: "The body is the last taboo, the one where all the political and religious prohibitions are concentrated. "It is the last battle for democracy. I didn't want to write politically, but I did look for something radical. This book is a cry of protest." The Almond's 260 pages tell the story of Badra, a Moroccan girl living in a small village, who is pushed, at 17, into an arranged marriage with a local notary of 40. After being dramatically deflowered ("He broke me in two with a single stroke") and five years of what she describes as "a hideous marriage", Badra flees to the bright lights of Tangier and the home of her emancipated Aunt Selma. There she falls under the spell of Driss, a sophisticated, European-educated cardiologist who initiates her into the pleasures of the flesh and becomes at once "my master and my torturer". As their adventures become more debauched, Badra becomes disillusioned and pulls back, winning her freedom but also losing her capacity to love. Nedjma has said 40% of the work is autobiographical and the rest based on the experiences of dozens of Muslim women she knows. She has also criticised Islam's "disfigured" approach to sex, noting that the ancient Arab world produced classics of erotic literature such as The Perfumed Garden. The Almond would never have been published in the Arab world, she says, where male subjugation of women is "not the work of the Prophet or God ... but of the sharia, the way laws are interpreted, the writings, the clerics who rule Islam in place of God." The Arab world, she said, is "a sick old man, consumed by gangrene, illiteracy, poverty, dictatorships, fundamentalism". French critics have been positive, talking of a book that combines "eroticism, anger, sensuality, vitality and poetry with a real finesse" (Lire magazine). The reviewer from L'Express said the work was "an alchemy of opposites: lubricious and sensual, modern and traditional ... an ode to female desire that marks the debut of a highly talented - and courageous - writer." Published in August, it has so far sold 50,000 copies in France, "an excellent figure for a book of this type", said a spokeswoman for the publishers, Plon. But the take-up abroad has been more spectacular: The Almond has spent weeks on Der Spiegel's bestseller list in Germany, and is selling "very well" in the US. In Britain it is being published by Transworld. Extract 'I had become liquid ... '

The report also implicates Ethiopia secret agencies, freelance gunmen working for US counter-terrorism, Yeey and his clique for organizing killings of foreign journalists and also staging some dubious claims to depict Mogadishu as unsafe ..... read the excerpt below ... 1. The murder of Kate Peyton In early February 2005, a parliamentary delegation from the new TFG arrived in Mogadishu to pave the way for relocation from Kenya. An unspoken purpose was to forestall the interim president's deeply unpopular plan to bring in foreign troops, including Ethiopians. Kate Peyton, a producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) based in South Africa, was in the city with a colleague to prepare features on relocation of the TFG. Hours after arriving on 9 February and as she was emerging from the main gate of the Sahafi Hotel, where the parliamentary delegation was staying, she was shot in the back by a gunman in a passing car. She died later that day. Initial investigations traced the abandoned vehicle to its owner in Afgooye, a man named Qasim Sharif, a former member of al-Itihaad. Sources in Mogadishu told Crisis Group he had trained in Afghanistan and was a specialist in explosives.87 It began to appear as though Peyton had become the latest victim of jihadi assassins. As investigations continued, however, a different picture began to emerge. Eyewitnesses identified the killer as Mohamed Salaad Tafey, a freelance gunmanfrom the Ayaanle sub-clan of the Habar-Gidir 'Ayr.'Sources familiar with Tafey claim he was born in Ethiopia, served as a junior officer in the army, and hasa close relative in the parliament in the Ethiopian Somali region. Tafey himself had allegedly been involved in the abduction of Oromos from Mogadishu, in collaboration with Ethiopian intelligence services. More recently,sources in Mogadishu allege, he had begun workingwith Abdi Waal, a freelance Habar- Gidir militia leader occasionally involved in U.S.-backed counter-terrorism operations.In light of these revelations, the suggestion Jihadis were behind Peyton's killing began to seem less plausible. Tafey's supposed links with Ethiopia and the counterterrorism community persuaded many Somalis in Mogadishu to seek an alternative explanation, namely that the attack had been organised by supporters of the Yusuf faction of the TFG in order to scuttle the parliamentary delegation's mission. Whether or not this was true, the spin-doctors in the President's camp predictably seized upon Peyton's murder to advance their Agenda.UntilTafey or others responsible for the killing are apprehended, the motives will remain a matter of speculation. For now, the only certainty is that Peyton was a victim of a vicious new chapter in Mogadishu's dirty wars.

This is an excerpt of an interesting and eye-opening article on Mudulood.com Reer Dhuusamareeb iyo Reer Puntland war baa isugu laaban. http://www.mudulood.com/OpinionPage1140.htm " Waxaanse rabaa inaan hal mid cad oo sax ah oo xasaasi ah (concrete, critical and concise) ugu bishaareeyo Soomaaliya weligeed kama dhalan doonto dowlad inta ay sidaas u hanqaltaagayaan waayo siduu sawiray Amiin Caamir ummadda Soomaaliyeed ee maanta joogtaa waa ummad indhaheedu balaqan yihiin, ummaddii ku hoos jirtay xukuumadihii lixdamaadkii waxay ahaayeen ummad indhaha deyn looga qaatay ee aan loo soo celin siduu Yaxaasku ku sameeyey Dawacada, nidaamka dowladnimo ee Maxamuud iyo ragiisu jecel yihiin waa nooca hoos ku lifaaqan: 1. Yuusuf Cumar Al-Azhari – La Taliyaha Madaxweynaha dhinaca siyaasada 2. Jamaal Cumar – La Taliyaha Madaxweynaha dhinaca sharciga 3. Yuusuf Cusmaan Baribari – Afhayeenka Madaxweynaha 4. Cabdirashiid Seed – Agaasimaha warfaafinta madaxtooyada 5. Daahir Mire Jibriil – Agaasimaha Madaxtooyada 6. Axmed Yuusuf – Xoghaynta gaarka ah ee Madaxweynaha 7. Cabdullaahi Dheere – Madaxa ilaalada Madaxweynaha 8. Axmed Cabdullaahi Yuusuf – wiilka Madaxweynaha, ahna qasniga Madaxtooyada 9. Yuusuf Weyrax – La Taliyaha Madaxweynaha dhinaca Dhaqaalaha 10. Xasan Cali Yuusuf – Madaxa borotokoolka Madaxweynaha 11. Hibo Maxamed Cilmi - La Taliyaha Madaxweynaha ee dhinaca xiriirka Kow iyo toban koodu waa caa’ilada hoose ee YEEY " Another interesting paragraph and I qoute "Balse sirtu intaas waa ka weyn tahay, wuxuu Maxamuud ku jiraa shufto aqoonyahanno sheegta oo mar kasta dadka internetka akhrista u sheega inay qabaan baahi dowladnimo, laakiin baahida ay hadda sheeganayaan kuma jirin markii Djibouti Madaxweynaha loogu doortay Dr. C/qaasim Salaad Xasan, sida ka muuqata baahida waxay dareemeen markii la doortay ina adeerkood Col. C/laahi Yuusuf oo ay aaminsan yihiin inuu ka wada dhigi doono Wasiiro, Wasiir ku xigeenno, Agaasimeyaal guud, Safiirro, Qunsullo, Isuduweyaal, Maareeyeyaasha wakaaladaha, loona gacan gelin doono dalka kadib marka Itoobiya ay u qabato, baahida Maxamuud iyo kooxdiisu sheeganayaan waa baahidaas, waxay baahi u qabaan inay dadka u dowladeeyaan oo madax u noqdaan oo dadka xoolihiisa la dhaco, laguna boobo qaab canshuureed sida ka dhacday Boosaaso ee baahi uma qabaan inay dalka badbaadiyaan oo nabaddiisa hagaajiyaan, dhaqaalihiisa kobciyaan, horumar gaarsiiyaan ‘Boosaaso ayaan boobay maxaa Banaadir iga galay’. "

A Perilous Impasse in Somalia Abdirazak H. Hussen Prime Minister 1964-67 July 7, 2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It has been more than eight months since the TFG was established in Nairobi, but the leadership has yet to translate that mandate into a functioning government inside the country. Keen observers consider the pattern of developments to mirror that which followed all previous peace conferences and fear the fate of the TFG might be as grim as earlier dispensations. As the causes for past failures are well known they do not require further elucidation. Since a better alternative can hardly be improvised at this stage, it is vital that every effort should be made to turn a calamitous civil war into a win for all of us by transforming the nominal TFG into a functioning transitional government. Four factors mark the rift that divides the two political camps, apart from the unspoken tribalistic sentiments that fuel inherent mistrust. These are: • Relocation of government to the capital, Mogadishu, or elsewhere due to the lack of security; • Deployment of foreign troops, including/excluding those from Frontline States; • Deployment of a garrison of armed militias from Puntland, at the behest of President Abdullahi Yususf, in Jawhar/Baidoa to ensure President/government security; • Accusations and counter-accusations of weapons smuggling into the country between President Abdullahi Yusuf and some Mogadishu-based faction leaders, in violation of the U.N. Security Council’s Arms Embargo Resolutions on Somalia. This essay briefly describes the challenges and proposes ways of resolving them. Relocation It is legitimate to insist that the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) should be relocated to the capital – Mogadishu – and not elsewhere, as stipulated in the Transitional Federal Charter. But, security and peace in Mogadishu and vicinity is a necessary prerequisite for such relocation to occur. Over the last few months a beginning has been made in securing the city. Civics, and more crucially, faction leaders, members of the government and parliamentarians have been engaged in removing militias from the city. This is a painstaking work and the aforementioned agents deserve our commendation for their continuing effort to rid the city of private militias. But this endeavor has a long way to go and those who have the cards in their hand must scale up their effort to eliminate all the roadblocks, free-lance gangs and organized militias within the next two months before Mogadishu could legitimately claim to be the nation’s capital. All these should be done in good faith and in the belief that without it national reconstruction would remain an illusion. If peace-making in Mogadishu is successful, the President, parliament and government would have no legitimate choice but to embark on rebuilding Somalia’s public authority and institutions right in the capital. President Abdullahi Yusuf’s words and deeds, from the start, have unnecessarily made reconciliation more complicated. He has made no attempt to use his office to bring people together to facilitate the government’s relocation in Mogadishu. He has pinned his hopes and those of the nation only on the intervention of foreign troops, particularly from Ethiopia. In addition, he also made many provocative statements that have alienated most of the public and deepened mistrust among groups. Likewise, most opponents of the President both in the parliament and government have opportunistically transformed national issues into self-serving and clanistic gimmicks. The irresponsible pursuit of the President’s strategy or those of his opponents will precipitate a nasty civil war and open up deep new wounds. Security In the absence of a national security force(s) that could adequately guarantee security in Mogadishu, it will be foolhardy to contemplate relocating the incipient organs of government in such an environment. Realistically, it will take at least a year, given current conditions, to create a nucleus of sufficiently trained, equipped, and mentally de-tribalized police force. Character and competence are foundational qualities for an effective security force and consequently, non-partisan professionals must guide the establishment of this vital national force. In this regard, it is worth recalling of the reported British Government’s offer to assist Somalia in training its new national police force. Foreign Troops Deployment There is a general consensus, baring some dissidents in Mogadishu, that the deployment of foreign troops is essential in order to help secure Mogadishu, jumpstart the peace-making process, and enable the TFG/TFA to consolidate its authority. However, different viewpoints on where such troops have to come from have been expressed. President Abdullahi made no mystery of his preference for Ethiopian troops although he has lately accepted troops from any other countries In contrast, the vast majority of the Somali public is strongly opposed to Ethiopian troops deployment in Somalia under any pretext. The public is mindful of the long Somali-Ethiopian conflict and suspects that the President’s hidden and insidious agenda for insisting on Ethiopian intervention. The public’s unequivocal stance has so far failed to have any perceptible impact on the President’s wish. Despite these disagreements, it is essential to have neutral foreign troops in the country until such a time that a professional and representative Somali force can command public order. Somali leaders on both sides of the political divide should agree on this and hence jointly request the African Union to expedite the dispatch of the already promised 1,700 Ugandan and Sudanese troops to Somalia, and offers from other countries should also be welcomed. In the final analysis, we should realize that it is for us to put our house in order. We need not forget that the mission and statue of the foreign troops should be limited and carefully circumscribed. The temporary nature of the peacekeeping mission is designed to complement our own efforts and Somalis and their leaders must face the challenge. Deployment of Puntland militias It appears that President Abdullahi Yusuf intends to deploy armed militias form Puntland to confront his opponents in Mogadishu. It is reported that a convoy of well-equipped militias are enroute to Jowhar. This has further heightened tensions and could rekindle a more sinister phase of civil war. Most people in the Mogadishu and other Somalis consider the deployment of Puntland militias in and around the capital to be tantamount to a clan-based invasion. The faction leaders and others in Mogadishu intend to fiercely respond to what they deem to be an illegitimate attack. Both Abdullahi Yusuf and the faction leaders in Mogadishu need to recollect that the late Somali dictator thought that he could subjugate the nation by tribalizing state institutions and particularly the armed forces. The factionalist opposition imagined that it could topple the tyrannical order and remake the nation by employing the same tactics. Unfortunately that strategy has turned a crisis into a calamity. The people in the northeast must not be fooled into a destructive and futile adventure. Weapons Smuggling It is criminal for anyone, let alone those entrusted with national salvation, to smuggle in and amass weapons destined for sectarian use. I call upon all those directly or indirectly involved in this dirty work to forthwith and unconditionally put an end to such a senseless mania of gun-running, and instead solve their differences through peaceful and negotiated means. I call upon the international community to take necessary action against those who smuggle weapons into Somalia, and to warn all parties to the conflict not to resort to violent confrontations as way of solving internal political problems. The Somali people deserve to be free from violence and the world has a humanitarian obligation not to let merchants of violence destroy millions of lives and the future of entire people without being held accountable. A Warning for the Ages The Somali public must embrace a peace agenda as the current speaker of parliament recently articulated. The TFG institutions are vehicles for reconciliation and as such must seek peaceful solutions to our political problems. The Mogadishu faction leaders and Abdullahi Yusuf must recognize that if reconciliation is to be sustained it will require a win-win outcome. By its nature a compromise is a peaceful agreement and the use of violence is an anathema in such an accord. The faction leaders can not hold Mogadishu, and by implication the country, hostage as they have done over the last decade, and Abdullahi Yusuf can not violently impose himself on the country as he has done in the northeast. He can not claim to be president for all of Somalia and at same time organize clan based militias as a national force. Such behavior is exactly what destroyed Somalia’s government and is unlikely to set an inclusive foundation for a lasting peace and national reconstruction. Accordingly, the faction leaders in the capital must withdraw their militias from the city and put them under the control of a neutral third party (the Africa force, excluding Ethiopia). Second, the international community must urgently support the African force to be deployed without delay. Further, the international community should provide food for work to the encamped militias and to give this first phase of reconciliation a chance to succeed. Third, Abdullahi Yusuf and the TFG should relocate in Mogadishu once the African force secures the capital without bringing clan based militias from outside. Finally, the rule of law and the art of compromise must govern further development. Any attempt to use force for particularistic political ends will ruin whatever promise this last conference has engendered. I urge all Somalis who care about our destiny, and particularly those in Banadir and the northeast to say no to political violence and clan politics. Hussen100@yahoo.com

Good job to the pirates! This shipment would have gone to Yeey's militia and not to Tsumani victims!