26 settembre 2006 Le Corti Islamiche conquistano laseconda città del Paese Somalia, cade Chisimaio. = The Islamic courts conquer the second city of Somalia, Kismayo falls L'appello del premier: aiutateci contro Al Qaeda = The appeal of the Premier: Help us against Al Qaeda L'Etiopia si schiera a difesa di Baidoa = Ethiopia lines up for the defense of Baidoa Si allarga a macchia d’olio il controllo della Corti islamiche in Somalia. The Islamic control spreads like a wildfire in Somalia. Domenica sera gli integralisti hanno catturato la seconda città del Paese, Kisimayo. Sunday night the integralists have captured the second city of the country. Le milizie integraliste erano guidate dallo sceicco Hassan Turki, di cui non si sapeva niente da un paio d’anni e che è una vecchia conoscenza degli americani: ricercato per terrorismo è considerato il rappresentate di Al Qaeda nella Somalia meridionale. The militia of the integralists (Islamists) is led by Sheikh Hassan Turki, of whom two years ago nothing was known about him but is an old acquaintance of the Americans: wanted(searched) for terrorism and is considered representative of Al-Qaeda in southern Somalia. Ali Mohamed Ghedi, primo ministro del Governo Federale di Transizione, l’amministrazione che controlla solo una fettina di territorio nella Somalia centrale, ha lanciato un appello alla comunità internazionale: “Intervenite prima che si troppo tardi e che il terrorismo e la sua espressione organizzata, Al Qaeda, si impadronisca della Somalia. Ali Mohamed Ghedi, prime minister of the Transitional Federal Government, the administration that controls only a small slice (fetta =slice; fettina =smaller slice) of territory in central Somalia has launched an appeal to the international community: “intervene before it’s too late and before terrorism and its organized expression gets hold of Somalia.†I could continue doing this line by line , sentence by sentence translation...you get my drift...no where in that article it mentions about the lies some are spreading here about italians attacking a ship carrying foreign jihadists to Somalia.....

Just a translation of the long paragraph you put there is below: So where is the italian navy bombarding ships carrying foreign terrorists? you need me to provide the link bro LST Il governo di transizione è invece appoggiato oltre che dagli etiopi anche dagli americani e dagli ugandesi. Un colonnello di Kampala è rimasto ferito nell’attentato contro il presidente Abdullahi Yussuf, rimasto illeso, la settimana scorsa. L’inviato speciale del governo italiano, Mario Raffaelli, si sta adoperando per creare un ponte tra governo e islamici e cercare di arrivare a un accordo prima di uno scontro frontale Corti/Etiopia che può avere delle conseguenza nefaste non solo per la Somalia, ma per tutto il Corno d’Africa. La comunità internazionale sembra comunque impotente davanti al dilagare degli islamici. Il Somaliland, l’ex colonia britannica che si è autoproclamata indipendente nel 1991 e che cinicamente nessun Paese ha ancora riconosciuto nonostante sia stata pacificata e in qualche modo governata da un regime democratico, nei giorni scorsi ha lanciato un appello: “Se non ci aiutate in fretta e non ci riconoscete, rischiamo anche noi di finire nelle mani degli integralistiâ€. Massimo A. Alberizzi 26 settembre 2006 The transitional government is supported by the Americans and Ugandans other than The Ethiopians. A Colonel from Kampala was hurt in the attack against the President Abdullahi Yusuf who( this pronoun refers to yeey not the colonel) was unharmed last week. The special envoy of the Italian government, Mario Raffaelli, is striving in order to create a bridge between government and Islamists and is trying to reach an agreement before a face-to-face clash between Ethiopia and the courts which could have a ominous consequences not only for Somalia but the whole Horn of Africa. However, the International community seems impotent in terms of the expanding Islamists. Somaliland the ex-British colony which has self-proclaimed its independence in 1991 and which cynically no country yet has to recognize even though it has been pacified and in some way governed by a democratic regime, days ago has launched an appeal: “If you don’t help us immediately and don’t recognize us, we are at risk to end at the hands of the integrationistâ€.

it is about clan when it comes to the cheerleaders of Yeey ..oops Caasho Yeey ...I have been doing some kind of study and found some die-hard supporters of Yeey are consumed by "Ciil" and "Qoomamo" while the supporters of Indhacadde are non-chalant about it and go about their daily business...I thought about it ..looked back in the days of Boondheere and Xamar and the picture gets clearer day after day. The courts are based on idealogy and principle unlike what you implying. Some people seem caught in darker days of clan rivalry and because of this, they may never ever wake up from this infection

I could translate the whole article ...why would I do that? the link talks no italians destroying any ship at all ..so I wonder where the clannish site of Punt are getting this absurd infos? is it all about desperation? Real men fight like men...and don't engage in invented fables.. this is getting pathetic

Some people keep lamenting day after day -- coming to realize they have been marginalized and are taken out of the equation. Man these guys Indhacadde and the like are way ahead of your "yaaweeylanaa" cries.

And he choose to ran away..like a chicken! well some think he did us all a favor of sparring us of senseless bloodshed..but at the sametime ...hornafrik ...they say af waa kanaa meey lagu aamee? some pple are great abdi bilayaal while the others are the ones who change things with their might, money and minds...for me the ICU is the best thing that could happen to Somalia. Kismaayo was a great city and to let it be at the hands of IGAD is unthinkabe..sometime what one needs is to reason and to not be bit emotionally subjective..we know we all look things at clannish lenses. I would support any clan that is for change and for islam...islamism is a term we use here in the west and it fits of those estreme elements who want to force pple to 7th century way of life.

it is two years after Yeey and the whole IGAD farce came to "power"? what have they done? except to wander around? ask for handouts? bicker among themselves? two long years of doing nothing? they have never build one school? one clinic? all they did was ask the UNDP for some pennies and travel around the world asking for peace keeping forces to protect them from the same people they are planning to rule..pathetic..they should be disbanded and brought to justice...

under the Islamist occupation? you prefer under the warlord occupation? who were in cahoots with the tigre lackeys? which would have made kismaayo the launching pad for Kikuyu, tigre and ugandan troops? sometimes you got to think beyond the somali clan rivalry..16 years of warlordism is enough..it doesn't matter who dominates the islamists or not...what matters is there is a change happening and better changes are about to come ..all the octogenerian clannish warlords, the ramnents of the ex-regime, the colonels all have to go...soon the beardos and islamist will go but they paving the way for something new, something revolutionary...hate to see dumb warlords, military men and odayaal xun xun ineey soomaaliya u taliyaan..inshallah this revolution will spread on all corners on the country.

qofkii qabiil ku fogaado waa qof jiran. all of sudden hornafrik joined the ranks or the clannish minded folks like Duke. how pathetic! I can't wait the da the courts attack and capture all these x-land fiefdoms and liberate all somalis against the worlord subjugation.

the riots in kismaayo by these women qat sellers is not really a riot. people became addicted after chewing those leaves and now want it. the women were drug sellers. they should get other skills and occupoations.

Allah Soomaalidaaneey - qabiilku ku fogaaday ila arka ....mar hadii warlord Hiiraale la saaray, Kismaayo la xoreeyay oo xabasho iyo kikuuyo ineey ka soo degto laga hor degay ....maa dad alloow qaadataan waxii sax ah kana fogaataan caadifadda qabiil iyo weliba wax xun tashiilka ..ma is tiraahdaan "copy & edit" kaad ka dhigataan ineey wax idiin soo celinaayaan? ama kooxdiina ama qabiilkiina wax u taraayaa? ma is tiraahdeen internet -cyber worlordism ineeysan cidna wax u dhimeeyn waxna idiin tareeyn ileeyn ragga ragga ah ee uu hor kacaayo halyeeyga weyn ee hor ilaah u hanqaaday waa shiikhunaa al-xasan al-turki oo eey dhinacyadda kaga jiraan dhalinyaro soomaaliyeed oo hor ilaah u kacay maalgelin abuukar cadaani, geesinimo shiikha weyn ee wax kasta ka hortaga qaacidddadana ekaanshaheeda marba dhinaca sax ah u dira, waa shiikhunaa Al-Yusuf Indhacadde.... Mahad waxaa leh eebe waa soon waa bil barakeeysan .. waa banaanbax fantasiyo iyo qaddiyad islaam wax kaliya ee meesha ka socon kara ...

80 of these ragtag AIDS-carrying AU troops will die on my hand if they ever come to Somalia. but would they? first the incompeteten african dictators have to go to Brussels to seek hand-outs and funding..and what the europeans will say? learn from history and past mistakes ... $ they need $340 Million Euros for one year - I smell african embezzlement and scam at its best. What will Ghedi get ? aother villas? how about melez? will he join his predecessor Mingistu in Harare? That money will be better spent on treating AIDS patients in Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda.

isn't Jaylaani the name itself a "wanlewyen" what an irony! I have never seen or met some "Qaldaan" with such name or nick...you should have called yourself Baaruud, Qowdhan or one of those unpronounceable- saliva-spitting-straight-into-your eyes, hissing-sound-making- mouth twisting-with sexual-connotation-charged nicknames like Ina-laangashdheh , or ina-lax-ku-gudhe. The Somalilanders and their colonial-slave mentality is quite shameful. They even claim the Queen-Elizabiatch to be their heavenly granny or mommy to seek sympathy for their seccessionist wishes. No one is opposed whether Somaliland wants to seperate or not. There is nothing there, no resources,no agriculture,no manpower, just a barren hot desert where drug-crazed people work only for 4 hour and where after 12:00 noon everybody gets ready for "barjeeyn" and Geerasheyn" For Yusuf Garaad, he is more than qualified to run the BBC service and the changes he made were overdue. let the voices of the real Somalis heard!

Yusuf Garaad this...Yusuf Garaad that! Damn! this depressing old game of backbiting from the no-hopers, ill-wishers and pessimists never comes to an end. I just don’t know what to make of the miserable mentality of the cheerleaders other than recalling that Zahra Ahmed song: “Raganimooy ninkaagii nacasnimo maxaa baday.â€

And here we have die-hard cheerleaders of her-excellency Caasho Yuusuf whose only "ragnimo" is to complain and to whine! All the cheerleaders could do now is just being envious and resentful of the peace and the positive developments of the people in Mogadishu. what a loss! I have never seen any Somali from Mogadishu and surrounding being so vocally and passionately against the prospect of peace and stability in other parts of Somalia as Boosaaso or Berbera. They actually congratulate and celebrate such postivity. But that is not the case for the cheerleaders of Yeey as evidenced in this forum. We sense a deep seated hatred here. It is heartbreaking to still come across such decadent and diseased souls in the forum but such hatred will only consume that haters. All this negative propaganda and quotations of half-truths from clannish unreliable Somali sites and the constant hypocritical bashing of the competent courts will haunt you at the end of the day. The courts already won our hearts and we, the progressives and the conscious who are tired of the senseless failure and fratricidal violence will never go so low to wish failure and misfortune for our brothers and sisters regardless where they reside or what clan they hail from. People will keep on attending to their daily business and making real changes on the ground while at the same time ignoring all these ill-humored howling.

And here we have die-hard cheerleaders of her-excellency Caasho Yuusuf whose only "ragnimo" is to complain and to whine! All the cheerleaders could do now is just being envious and resentful of the peace and the positive developments of the people in Mogadishu. what a loss! I have never seen any Somali from Mogadishu and surrounding being so vocally and passionately against the prospect of peace and stability in other parts of Somalia as Boosaaso or Berbera. They actually congratulate and celebrate such postivity. But that is not the case for the cheerleaders of Yeey as evidenced in this forum. We sense a deep seated hatred here. It is heartbreaking to still come across such decadent and diseased souls in the forum but such hatred will only consume that haters. All this negative propaganda and quotations of half-truths from clannish unreliable Somali sites and the constant hypocritical bashing of the competent courts will haunt you at the end of the day. The courts already won our hearts and we, the progressives and the conscious who are tired of the senseless failure and fratricidal violence will never go so low to wish failure and misfortune for our brothers and sisters regardless where they reside or what clan they hail from. People will keep on attending to their daily business and making real changes on the ground while at the same time ignoring all these ill-humored howling.

Ali Mahdi is a sore loser and whiner to say the least. We are better off without such fools. I won't shed any tears for fools like Ali Nafto.

It brought tears to my eyes by seeing the great Master - Aweys Orfeo - in this picture. It is people like him who still working and building sports societies that deserve our admiration. Not warlords like Caasho Yusuf who are sick-minded and want to still continue the destruction. Waxaa Dugsiga hoose dhexe ee Xaawo Taako ee magaalada Muqdisho lagu qabtay xaflad qalin jebin iyo Horyaalka Karate-Teakwondo-ga , xafladan oo ay soo agaasintay xiriirka Soomaaliyeed ee Karate-Teakwondo-ga ayaa waxaa lagu soo bandhigay tartamo ciyaareedka Teakwondo iyo Karate waxaa goob joog ka ahaa xafladan Mas`uuliyiin ka tirsan Guddiga Olambikada Soomaaliyeed iyo Mas`uuliyiin ka socotay Maxkadaha Islaamiga gaar ahaan Madaxda labada degmo ee Xamarweyne iyo Xamar Jajab . Xafladan ayaa waxaa hadalo ku aadan dadaalkii loo soo galay tababarka iyo soo barbaarinta jiil isboorti oo dhinaca Teakwondo iyo Karate-ga ka soo jeediyay khabiirka isboortiga ee ciyaarahan Aweys Maxamed Abati (Orafeeyo) isagoo tibaaxay in isboortigu yahay waxa keliya ee ummadda isku keeni kara wuxuu tibaaxay in ay soo saareen 22 dhallinyaro oo ay tababar ku siiyeen muddo 6 bil ah sidii ay u noqon lahaayeen kuwo matala dalkooda wuxuuna tibaaxay in dhallinyarada hadda tababarka yahiin kuwo suuman kala duwan haysta looguna talagalay in ay noqdaan kuwo ku ciyaara ciyaarta KARATE-TEAKWONDO . Sidoo kale waxaa halkaasi ka hadlay Guddoomiyaha labada degmo Xamarweyne iyo Xamar Jajab ee Maxkadaha Islaamiga Sheekh Xuseen Cumar Xuseen wuxuu Sheekha ku in aysan diidanayn isboortiga isagoo sheegay in loo baahan yahay in loo baahan yahay in shareecada Islaamka waxa ay diideyso in laga dheeraado wuxuuna tusaale u soo qaatay Salaanta ciyaaraha Karate-ga iyo Teakwondo-ga ee dhabarka la jebinaayo in meesha laga saaro wuxuuna X.S.K.T ku waaniyey in aysan is dhexgelin gabdhaha iyo wiilasha wuxuu sheegay in loo baahan yahay in gabdhaha ay tababaraan gabdho wiilashana wiilal wuxuuna intaasi raaciyay inay wanaagsan tahay in la barto difaaca nafsiga . Kusimaha Guddoomiyaha C/qaadir Ibraahim Gacal (Abkoow) ayaa isagana sheegay in ay ka qaateen talada uu soo jeediyey Sheekh Xuseen wuxuuna xiriirka Karate-Teakwondo-ga ku amray in ay joojiyaan Salaanta hoos madaxa loo raaricinaayo , Sidoo kale wuxuu u Mahadceliyay Guddoomiyaha Maxkadda Xamarweyne iyo Xamar Jajab Sheekh xuseen isagoo ku tilmaamay ninkii ugu horeeyay ee ka socda dhinaca maxkamadaha Islaamiga ee kala qeybqaatay bahda isboortiga xaflad isboorti wuxuuna Abkoow tibaaxay in aysan Bahda isboortiga raali ka ahan waxa aysan diinta Islaamka qabin . Ma`aha markii ugu horeeyay oo ay qabtaan xiriirka xaflad ama horyaal Karate-Teakwondo-ga waxaa xafladan ka soo qeybgalay G/xigeenka G.O.S Arimaha Xiriirada Xaaji Cabdi Cilmi Warsame, Xoghayaha G.O.S C/llaahi Axmed Tarabi,Nageeye oo dhinaca CRD ka socda ,Ganacsade Maxamed Faarax Siyaad iyo Guddoomiyaha Guddiga O.Degmada Xamar Jajab Xabiib Maxamed Saciid waxayna xafladda ku soo idlaatay si heer sare ah iyadoo ciyaaryahanada lagu guddoonsiiyay suuman kala ceyn ah .

How can anyone love this "old fox" He is our Malcolm X, our Mandela . a real hero whose strategic plans liberated more than 2 million Somalis from the slavery of the ruthless warlords. Thank you Sh. Hassan. Somali history will remember you like Sayid Mohammed Abdalla Hassan whom they called "Mad Mullah" and the great Imam Ahmed Gran whom the Habashas called 'The ******* son'

That is an impressive list - it is a "dream" based not only on realism and pragmatism but on merit and qualifications. None of the people in that list are sell-outs, opportunists...i would add the list few intellectuals from the north (Somaliland - like the Samatar Brothers, Qalib, et al.) plus few from the diaspora and few from women's organizations ....let us get rid of Caasho Yusuf , Geediyo Ali and the stooles and their ils in Baydhabo for good.. they are already weak toast just buying time ...

LST, there are some of us who are either still caught in the clan and tribal animosities of the past or are Yeey supporters in the closet but hide behind politically-correct rhetoric which is becoming fashionable these days for the fear of ridicule. To answer your questions in simple terms and concepts, I will try to underline few known facts: - The TFG is basically an illigitimate foreign(Tigre & Meles Zenawi) backed entity( of warlords, by warlords, for the warlords). - The ICU is a legitimate force supported by majority of Somalis and is based on Islamic and Somali principles. Who could unite Somalis? - A warlord government that follows the despised divisive formula of 4.5 where clannism is more important than merit, qualification, competence? - Or Islamic principles where all are equal and united under the DEEN of ALLAH? We all know that the ICU came to power thanks to ALLAH and the popular support it gained in Mogadishu (2 Million Somalis).ICU controls a large territory from Hobyo to Buur Hakaba(that is close to 7.5 million Somalis). What is left is Jubba & Shabelle regions ( which are practically allied with the ICU) and the two fiefdoms Puntland and Somaliland. I think we could all support a real peace conference where these groups coupled with civil society, disapora communities and intellectuals ( just like Arta) could come to the table ( in Somali soil with no foregin meddling, there is no need for warlords anymore ) and where a Somali solution to Somali problem will be discussed. The outcome will be based on our religion and the positive aspects of our customs and traditions. Such solution will form an inclusive government led by competent and qualified Somali intellectuals, professionals, technocrats, not by warlords, not by clan opportunists, not by a religious nut-head. So far the ICU leadership have done miracles. They ousted the ruthless warlords, Mogadishu is pacified, thousands of Somalis are coming back to the city and claiming their properties, airports and ports are being rehabilitated and foreign business is competing for re-construction projects. Somalis in Diasporas are formulating ways to take advantage of these business opportunities. We need wells dug, irrigation projects built, schools and clinics built, roads and infrastructure re-built. You think the warlord TFG led by uncle Yeey is capable of embarking such huge task? you think the inept PM, Ghedi, Meles cry-baby could even formulate such a vision. So far all Ghedi did was create an inflated cabinet with 102 clan opportunists. He and Jurile were able to milk the few handouts from the international community for personal enrichment ( bought villas in nairobi). I believe the era of warlord invincibilty is gone. I think Somalis are realizing that Ethiopia itself is in trouble and can't do nothing to Somalis who are determined to take back their country from warlords. I hope we all come to realize that Qabiil cant be the basis for QARAN.For those who follow Qabyaalad,they need to reform, re-think and re-evaluate their whole thinking. We are getting our dignity back thanks to ICU and the West already took a note.

The Strange Death of the Woman Who Filed a Rape Lawsuit Against Bush a long read but good info The Strange Death of the Woman Who Filed a Rape Lawsuit Against Bush By Jackson Thoreau opednews.com Early one Saturday afternoon in July 2003, I made a simple phone call to Margie Schoedinger, a Texas woman who filed a rape lawsuit against George W. Bush in December 2002. I expected to leave a message on a machine, so I was caught a little offguard when Schoedinger answered. She, too, sounded somewhat surprised I had called, saying she hadn't heard from many other reporters. But she talked to me for a few minutes about the legal action. "I am still trying to prosecute [the lawsuit]," said Schoedinger, a 38-year-old African-American woman who lived in the Houston suburb of Missouri City. "I want to get this matter settled and go on with my life." Well, Schoedinger hasn't gone on with her life. In fact, three months after I spoke to her, she died in an apparent suicide. And this matter remains unsettled. When I asked her in July 2003 about the lack of media coverage, Schoedinger said she wasn't seeking publicity. She said she did not even know about a December 2002 article in the Fort Bend Star, the only U.S. mainstream media outlet that covered this story, to my knowledge. The Fort Bend reporter, LeaAnne Klentzman, said she even went to Schoedinger's home and talked to a man there, who said she could not come to door. While I reached and spoke to Schoedinger on my first attempt, maybe she wasn't ready to talk back in December. Anyways, Schoedinger said she was surprised the case wasn't covered more because "it is true......People have to be accountable for what they do, and that's why I'm pursuing it." To be sure, Schoedinger's accusations - which include being drugged and sexually assaulted numerous times by Bush and other men purporting to be FBI agents - are bizarre and hard for most people to believe. But her story fits in with those told by a growing number of people who say they were used as guinea pigs or whatever by members of the CIA or another U.S. agency who wanted to test out the latest mind-controlling drug or just have a strange form of release. And her death - let's just say government agents have made murders look like suicides before. In her court petition, Schoedinger said police in Sugar Land, another Houston suburb where she said some assailants linked to Bush attempted to unsuccessfully abduct her from her car shortly before the 2000 election, refused to take a report or do anything about that incident. She filed a lawsuit against the Sugar Land department and said that in preparing its defense, Sugar Land police found out that she dated Bush as a minor. I didn't get a chance to ask Schoedinger about that tie and didn't meet her in person, but her driver's license listed her as being 5-foot-8 and weighing 125 pounds, for what that's worth. The Fort Bend Star story quoted a Sugar Land police captain saying his department had no record of any complaints by Schoedinger. All he had to do was what I did - go to the Fort Bend County Internet site and do a simple search on Schoedinger's name in the area of civil court records. I found the lawsuit Schoedinger filed in December 2000 against Sugar Land police, and it even had numerous responses by the department's attorneys in that case. Just wait. This story gets stranger. When I started asking Schoedinger about certain details of the case, such as alleged surveillance at her home and if she was still legally representing herself, she politely ended our conversation. "I need to see what has been written," Schoedinger said. "I feel like it's best for me to end our conversation." Obviously, she had learned to be careful about what she said and to whom she said it. I could understand her being leery about talking about her situation with a stranger over the phone. But I remember being puzzled by Schoedinger's attitude after hanging up the phone. I wondered that if she had made up such a wild story, why she didn't come up with something a little less outlandish, in which people couldn't necessarily dismiss her as a kook. I wondered why she didn't seek publicity to at least provide some form of protection. I've long learned that being as public as possible is one of your best defenses against rogue intelligence agents. But she didn't even seem to want any media to cover her story. I told several writers I knew, some of whom tried to contact Schoedinger. None succeeded, as far as I know. I remember thinking, "I hope she doesn't wind up on the wrong side of a gun." And sure enough, in late September, Schoedinger did. The Houston Chronicle wrote a bare-bones obituary that stated only that Schoedinger "expired" on Sept. 22, 2003, and her burial was at Houston Memorial Gardens. I called the Harris County Medical Examiner's office, and a clerk told me the cause of death: a "suicide" by a "gunshot wound to the head." I hung up amid bombs going off in my mind. For one, using a gun to commit suicide is predominantly executed by males, according to psychiatrists and other sources like pharmaceutical firm Merck & Co. Women are more likely to overdose on drugs, although the number of gunshot suicides among women has increased in recent years. Besides Pravda and Internet ezines - one of whom referred to Schoedinger as "deranged" - I haven't seen stories on this strange death of a woman who filed a rape lawsuit against the U.S. president and wound up dead nine months later. I can't say I'm surprised. Or even angry. I don't know what the hell to think. All I know is I was one of the last - if not the last - reporters to speak to Schoedinger, and she didn't sound "deranged" to me in July 2003. She sounded like someone who had gone through something weird and was trying to sort it out. She sounded like someone who wanted the truth to come out. And now she's dead. If this had happened to Clinton when he was in the White House, do you think the story would have been covered non-stop on FOX, CNN and the right-wing talk shows? Do you think we'd have reporters asking Clinton and his people about this death in press conferences? Is FOX unfair and imbalanced to the point of being "deranged?" There are some more odd twists to this case. I also found a 2002 criminal case related to Schoedinger in which Christopher Schoedinger, her husband, allegedly struck her. He pleaded no contest and was sentenced to a year in jail. Christopher Schoedinger had also filed for divorce. Then since 1997, Margie Schoedinger had filed for at least five assumed business names for various ventures - including a communications firm, health and beauty business, travel agency and publishing company. Could a "deranged" person start all those businesses or even know how to file a lawsuit? Schoedinger's lawsuit can still be viewed on the Fort Bend County site at http://ccweb.co.fort-bend.tx.us/localization/menu.asp - then go down to the bottom and click on civil court. Then type "schoedinger" in the plaintiff box and click search. You should find another lawsuit she filed against Sugar Land police, as well. I can really understand media members being intimidated, even frightened, of the Bush administration. As I've detailed before, these are not Boy Scouts running the show. The Schoedinger death is just the latest in a string of strange ones surrounding the Bush family - Bush biographer J.H. Hatfield, Sen. Paul Wellstone, Sen. Mel Carnahan, and others that are detailed on various sites, including at http://members.boardhost.com/gwbush/msg/362.html . For the record, I contacted Bush's media office about Schoedinger and have yet to hear back. Now that I live in the Washington, D.C., area, I can go down to the White House in person and try to get someone to speak to me about this case. As expected, I haven't had much luck with the Fort Bend County and other Texas authorities. So maybe I'll stand outside the White House, holding a sign saying, "Who killed Margie Schoedinger?" and passing out copies of my column on the case. It would make about as much sense as anything else in this matter. For all I know, maybe Schoedinger did kill herself. Maybe she dreamed up a lot of this stuff. But I don't know, am I "deranged" to think it's weird that in this mass-media, detailed-information age, so few people are even asking any questions about how a woman who filed a rape lawsuit against the president could be dead less than a year later? Jackson Thoreau is an American writer and co-author of We Will Not Get Over It: Restoring a Legitimate White House. The updated, 120,000-word electronic book can be downloaded on his Internet site at http://www.geocities.com/jacksonthor/ebook.html. Citizens for Legitimate Government has the earlier version at http://www.legitgov.org/we_will_not_get_over_it.html. He can be contacted at jacksonthor@yahoo.com or jacksonthor@justice.com .

Let us see the people who claim Lower Shabelle are really from Galgaduud to begin with...? I know many minority clans whose origins are from the central regions... wish the forum would let me name the names of these clans who the D&M are trying to claim..3 out of the the 13 Somali Banadir clan confederations are Yemeni Immigrants and Bravenase (mixed Portugese Baajuunis), the rest 10 are from Sheikh Aweys's lost cousins...proven and known for centuries..so let them re-unite and work this out..Again for Lower Shabelle or any other region, the most fertile region in Somalia should belong to the most powerful and most productive clan in Somalia...I mean those who could work on the land...good at production and commerce...and for the original immigrants to the region and the new latterdayscomers, they should work togather again for viable land and powersharing...it doesn't make sense at all to claim a region... but it is our inherent ignorance to do so ...no one owns no region...it is all about migration, overpopulation , overgrazing ....droughts and famine ...every clan migrates southward to the greener pastures...for survival and for necessity... All Somali clan migrate every 50 years..it is cycle and evolutionary process ...Darwanian concept of the survival of the fittest...just look relationships between Gedo and Awdal... Burco belonged to Ali Ghedi.s clan...The major Somali clan (Aweys &Ghedi's) progenitor is burried in the Oromo coffee valleys...whereas the progenitors of Reer-Wein are from the Tana rivers themselves.Look at NFD... Sudan ... or Chad. If Sheikh Aweys and his reseourceful powerful clan can claim the whole Somalia ..Kudos to them...if the jealous, envious weaker clans specially, the ones that belong to Caasho Yusuf's immediate clan can forge and come up a way out of the barren lands of Bari... rather than retreating in it, let them bring the Tigre's to capture and liberate Lower Jubba...from JVA Alliance...It is viable project but leads to doom and unrealistic mission... for Galgaduud..it is already marked geological territory for bigger powers...forget Meles ...he is small fish...whose demise is imminient within his ranks.

well these are buildings of stone and cement and can br rebuilt... think about the half million people that perished? the millions that became displaced, the millions that fled? and still we haven't learned anything from this? still they predicting the worst will come thanks to the hardheadedness of our illiterate clannish leaders.

you all may have seen this already, but this may help put things in perspective ... This really puts the whole cosmic and astronomical verses about The KOON & ARSHI into prespective. I remember this great Muslim scholar talking about the glaxies and heavens above... Ever thought about how insignificant we really are...and Sady there are those who say there is no God...and everything exists by mere chance? and then there are those of us who are so pre-occupied with worldly nonesense..such as what clan you belong to ? The way we humans (whites, Europeans, Jews, Christians) treat the earth and the way we (blacks, Somalis, Muslims) killing each other ..we are basically destroying the earth. We humans and the earth will be extinct soon .. . Please watch that Al Gore Movie about global warming...soon there will be over 10 bilion people on little planet earth..you think white folks would be happy to see the earth taken over by 2 billion Hindus and 3 Billion Chinese? You think they will sit idle and let that to happen? Every western country has a nuclear bomb thousand times bigger and destructive than the one they hit on Hiroshima and Negasaki... Why do u think white folks(western Countries) are spending billions exploring space so much (check NASA's Budget?)they are competing to "discover" some other planet or galaxy to steal & take over (provided the alients are not as prmitive as africans and native indians ), like they try to do everything else here on planet earth.