Somaliland kama mid ah Somalia, sidoo kale kama mid aha Jibuti, Kenya & Ethiopia. So, what is the problem?.

Kacpher, thanks for the reply, laakin thread-kan kuma qaabsana wallee maaha?. Thread politics section-ka noogu abuur, adoo mahadsan!.

I know, it is part of Ethiopia now!.

Abtigiis, 'aakah' markaad u qortaad fun-kii ka qaadday!,

Nort, racism is here as it in every place in the world. Meeshii awoowgaa ka soo jeedo wax kuu dhaama maleh!. Samatar baa hadda fahmay, waana 2+2=4. Juxa, good parenting and availability (still negotiable) helps as good, muslim environment helps too, but we should not forget hanuunka Allaa iska leh, Noahs son and wife, Lut's wife, Ibrahim's dad and Mohammed (saw all of them) is an example.

Miyir;959778 wrote: Read again! nothing to with religion im pointing out the culture in M/E. Miyirka ma joogaa maanta?. Jimco waaye, Quraan akhriso!.

I did. You still dont want him to take his to the ME, no?.

^ You don't agree taking kids any where makes any difference and still you want him to take them to Africa?. contradiction?.

Sawirkaan hadduu Xamar noqdo Koorreey Murjaanaa ii bannaan. Apo, xaggee ka keentay kan?.

^^ Shabaab don't give a damn if his wife is Jew, Palestinian or even Somali, mase 'Showqi' & 'Shabaab' baad isku qaladday?. Xaaji Xunjuf;959662 wrote: ^^ Somaliland diplomatic ties with Britain will always go through the British Embassy in addis ababa.Until further notice and recognition is achieved. But he is from Congo, maybe oodweyne was right sheekadi eastern congo ba Somalia ka socotta. Since you are dealing with the Briitish, why would it matter whether the embassy is located in Mogadishu or Addis?

^^ Lool @ broke his nose!. Muxuu kaa halleeyey?. warxumaale, What did the building the EDL burn do?. Being there at the wrong time?. Ku biir EDL aan ku dhihi lahaa lakin madow ma ogola!.

^ Caqligii aaway maanta jacfar, 'warsamaale'na ma shaatigaagii kalaa?. Shariif, Tarzan & Xasan isku qabiil sow maaheyn horta?, mase meel kalaa koronto kaaga dhegtay?. Dhowr su'aal (su'aalihii hore ku darso): 1) Yaa yiri Tarzan baa Cali ibn ABii Talib ah?. 2) Tarzan, Sharif & Xasan sow isku qabiil maaha?. 3)Sheekada Cali & Yahuudka haddaadan garan, ma maqashay xadiiskan: 'al bayyinatu calal muddaci' & billowgiisa soo ogow si aad wax badan uga fahanto!. 4)Yahuudda waxay caan ku yihiin: 'taxriiful kalimah can mawaadicih'. Maxaa kuu galay iyaga waaba yaabaye!. Lastly, ولا يجرمنكم شنآن قوم على ألا تعدلوا

^^ The incident happened at 03:00 in the morning, you know!. It is not about a group of Somalis walking around with their beards or Hijabs in unsocial hours.

^^ And no body in Mogadishu - I mean no body- can vouch for your abtiyaal, no neighbors no nothing and as usual they don't have their documents because they lost it while they were on the run!, sax?.Ma maqashay sheekadii Cali Ibn Abi Daalib & Yahuudka, oo Cali qamiiskiisa uu ku arkay yahuudka ee uu maxkamad la fuulay ee qamiiska yahuudka lo xukmiyey!.

^ You are wrong, Godane is an Islamist and an extremist expansionist to the bones!. So far, what he did is right, he may lack diplomacy in some cases like Kismayo. Edit: There's no 5 qodob there, only one is qaxootiga dib ha loo celiyo!.

^ Mid aadan lahayn inaad raadineysaa ii darane, Giving houses back to their right owners is what Tarzan is doing!. Did not you listen to his marvelous sermon few weeks back?.

This is one of Xasan Qoslaaye's success!. Xasan is trying hard to convince the western donors to operate in Somalia and Kenya's blackmail or revenge is to send back all Refugee's to Somalia. Bring them on!.

Mad_Mullah;959083 wrote: New HAG settlements for the people in the diaspora. They're not fooling anyone. You don't have a problem settle down in ME (you even love it), but you can't go back to your capital because qabiilkaaga ma degana?. Qabiilkaaga caasimad ma lahoo?, Jijiga waaye lee ha i dhihin!.

" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen> Sooma jeeste!.

Lol. War yaa Alle yaqaan!, Waranle, goormeed sidan noqotay?.

Alpha Blondy;959326 wrote: i posted it my cantarbaqash thread at 8pm. so you needn't be astonished, ma garatay? http://www.somaliaonline.com/community/showthread.php/67859-Alpha-s-Troll-and-Cantarbaqash-Corner-LOL?p=959308#post959308 Alpha's Troll and Cantarbaqash Corner LOL - first for breaking news and other related nonsense. :D Your Cantarabaqash thread has my support!. You didn't mention the Masjid as a Somali one, I take it you missed that one?. Haatu, The problem with this so called Salafi Publications is that they brainwash kids like you until you blame Muslims on acts like this, as a member told you here the EDL's hatred on Muslims and Asians is a well-known fact!, worse is you memorise the Ayah that confirms that fact. سلم من لسانكم الكفار ولم يسلم منه اخوانكم المسلمين

I am astonished no body bothered to post it here!.

The last thing I had expected on my first visit to Mogadishu was to step back into one of the most infamous chapters from the early years of the civil war. In 1993, an American attempt to capture a notorious Somali warlord, Mohamed Farah Aideed, went disastrously wrong when US helicopters were shot down by Somali militia, and images of US corpses being dragged through the streets were beamed across the world. Hundreds of Somalis were killed in the subsequent battle, and Mogadishu’s shot-up landmarks were at the centre of the 2001 Ridley Scott film of the event, Black Hawk Down. The US was forced to withdraw from Somalia; its interventions since have nearly always been at arm’s length, pumping money into its proxy, Ethiopia, and flying drones overhead. Two decades on, I find myself having a drink in the international airport base with a contractor – one of hundreds tasked with rebuilding the country. He is more familiar with Somalia’s destruction than most, telling me that he spent 1993 in Mogadishu. “Yeah, I was here,” he says. “It was an interesting time.” The contractor turns out to be a former US special forces operative. Back then, he tells me, his job was to track down information that might lead to the arrest of General Aideed. Twelve days before the US helicopters were gunned down, the US had captured Osman Ali Atto, a gun runner and financier, and Aideed’s number two. (Atto later became one of the warlords fighting for control of Mogadishu.) He was taken to an island off Somalia’s south coast, held in isolation for four months, and the man I am sitting next to tells me it was his job to interrogate him. On his return to Mogadishu last year, the contractor was eager to look up his old foe, and intermediaries put them in touch. Atto rang to arrange lunch and the most surreal of reunions took place. The contractor says they greeted each other as friends and posed for photos. “Well, for Atto, that was five wars ago,” says his one-time interrogator with a laugh. When he shows me his before and after pictures the American is clearly recognisable from the earlier ones: the facial hair and eyes are the same, only the lines have grown in. He says they avoided talking about the interrogation but still reminisced – about captured warlords, narrow escapes, and what chance al-Shabaab has of retaking control of Mogadishu. I also watch several videos that the contractor made on his mobile phone. I can hardly believe these exist, but they show the unlikely duo touring Bakara market, visiting the helicopter crash site and Atto’s garage. In one video, Atto explains how he had evaded previous attempts at US capture and both men chuckle at the subterfuge. “There is a shared bond of respect when you share that kind of experience; fight that hard, take that much risk. It never goes away,” the American says. This unlikely friendship illustrates some aspects of a deeply held honour code, which may determine Somalia’s future as much as its past. Shared battle*ground experiences and shifting alliances of convenience and kin are writ large throughout the country. Despite the efforts of academics to map complicated clan ties, loyalties constantly shift as they suit. “Somalis are not clan-based, in the sense they are the most individualistic people I know,” says Nuruddin Farah. “Somalis do every possible lawless activity that will get them an extra penny … you cheat institutions but you keep your trust with persons, with individuals,” he says. That’s one reason why personal bonds shape politics. waa kaas Cambuulo

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Visiting Mogadishu brings risks. Beyond the high-security international base at the airport, photographer Petterik Wiggers and I travel in armoured convoys, in bulletproof cars, and, for three of the six days, behind the dark windows of a vehicle escorted by private security. Eight men in camouflage and with Kalashnikovs lead the way in a pick-up truck, fanning out around us whenever we stop and get out. Elements of al-Shabaab remain in Mogadishu – some have infiltrated the security apparatus that is meant to hunt them down. Armed police carry out night patrols in armoured personnel carriers, stopping to make random checks. Before entering a hotel or restaurant, all visitors are patted down and searched with metal detectors. Although it is getting harder to make and plant bombs and smuggle in semi-automatic weapons without detection, hand-grenade and pistol attacks are easier to deploy at short notice, and word of possible targets travels fast. That meant our visits were necessarily brief. Yet there was no disguising the recovery under way.©Petterik Wiggers Next Thumbnails One brightly painted brick at a time, the shelled-out city is coming back to life. Along Mogadishu’s tree-lined drags, shopfronts form a tableau of hope. Outsized poster-paint impressions of burgers, fizzy drink bottles and doughnuts daub walls where bullets once made their mark. Renderings of hairdryers, laptops and pressure pumps advertise the high-tech wares inside. Walls and gates are painted the same bright powder-blue base which matches the sea, the sky and the national flag. But the revival goes beyond shopkeeping. Scaffolding shapes the skyline, livestock and fish markets are back in action and women plunge into the sea from stunning white sands. Surrounded by the crescent of ruins that cradles the old fishing port, I speak to a young fisherman as he smears the hazel sludge of sea lion liver oil over upturned boats. He says he hopes Somalia’s latest government, formed in 2012 in the most legitimate process in years, will last. The turnround is so impressive that the new government predicts the economy will soon be growing at 10 per cent, up from 2 per cent last year. Statistics are hardly the strong point of a country that hasn’t had a functioning government for 22 years, but the World Bank estimates that a robust informal economy – led by exports of livestock – contributes to a GDP of close to $3bn. Expatriate remittances, at about $1.6bn a year, have long kept the country going, fuelling a dynamic private sector that has run successful telecoms, energy and construction companies in the absence of state regulation. In the past 18 months, remittances have risen by almost 20 per cent, says Abdirashid Duale, chief executive of Dahabshiil, a Somali money transfer service. “As the security situation improves, more and more people are returning,” he adds. Trade unions talk about a revival in agriculture, hotels and port activity. Their members have battled al-Shabaab threats and imprisonment to turn out regular market data reports, logging the fluctuating prices of camel milk, jerry cans of diesel, goats and imported red rice in Mogadishu’s Bakara market. Today Somalia has more than 52,000 trade union members. One fish processing company, the Somali National Fishing Company, exports to Dubai and Turkey, flying several tonnes at a time. “We plan to export to European, Arab countries,” says Abdirashid Mohamed, standing beside a catch of swordfish lined up on top of deep freezes. “We’ve been speaking with Holland about starting there.” The latter is thanks to the upsurge in commercial flights. In little over a year, the number of aircraft landing a day has risen from three to 12, says Ahmed Ibrahim Iman, a 29-year-old airport manager. Dubai and Turkey both run commercial airlines into the beachside city, and import fish, fruit and meat from Somalia. But it is a costly tale of recovery. Ahmed’s father, Ibrahim Iman Halane, was airport manager before him and was assassinated last year. “He was killed in town – he went to pray and when he left, two al-Shabaab attacked with pistols,” says Ahmed, explaining that his father’s job made him a target. The revival of the airport is, like the functioning courthouse, among the most telling symbols of Mogadishu’s recovery. “Al-Shabaab say it’s about religion but it’s not – it’s politics.” Now Ahmed drives to work with only blacked-out windows for protection. “Maybe Shabaab will attack me,” he says. “I can’t accept to sit at home so I’m working – I’m ready to die like my father.” . . .