A dog died today.

wyre;700260 wrote: Maandeeq dhashaye mexey dhashay? dhicis Sheekada wexey ku socotaa in ey soo laabatay coloniztion kii 1963 eynu ka farxalannay Ethiopia baan gumeysi u nahay Barre hirale: dhulki qabsannaye, dib u laabta itoobiyee Ethiopia: ma laabaneyno ee dalka dhan baan qabsaneynaa, waanan idin gumeysaneynaa Adigana xabsiga gal Horta wyre sidhaas ala gaarta inaad sijui tahay 1960 iyo 1963 ee independence kenya baad kala saari kari weydhey matako wewe!!

MUSTAFA HAJI ABDINUR MOGADISHU, SOMALIA Tuesday, March 08, 2011 Somalia's pro-government forces on Tuesday closed in on bastions of the insurgent al-Shabaab group, mounting their largest coordinated effort in years to wrest back the country from al-Qaeda-inspired rebels. The offensive started last week with a major battle in Mogadishu that saw government troops reclaim large swathes of the capital, where the government had long been confined to a few blocks by the sea. But government troops and their allies have in recent days opened new fronts in the south along the border with Kenya, and in the west, near the border with Ethiopia, two countries reported to actively support the military push. The Western-backed Somali government's troops are backed by the 8 000-strong African Union mission in Somalia (Amisom), as well as by the Sufi militia Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa and tribal militias. Their offensive aims to stretch an al-Shabaab group that has controlled most of southern and central Somalia for three years with a limited number of men but is supported on the ground by jihadi fighters from around the world. According to witnesses and officials, Ethiopia was trucking in troops to El Bur district, a key al-Shabaab stronghold in central Somalia. "I saw dozens of trucks belonging to the Ethiopian military heading towards El Bur. It looks like they are joining Ahlu Sunna's war against al-Shabaab," said one local resident, Ise Maalim. 'The war to eliminate the al-Shabaab threat has begun' A government official in Dolow district, further south, said the all-out offensive that had been promised by three successive prime ministers was finally under way. "The war to eliminate the al-Shabaab threat from the country has begun. We will not stop until we succeed in our goal to cleanse this country of al-Qaeda and its Somali followers," Abdifatah Ibrahim Gesey said. The towns of Bulo Hawo and Luq, near the Kenyan border, were recently recaptured from al-Shabaab, who witnesses said were abandoning some of their positions in the south to regroup for the battle over Mogadishu. Bulo Hawo was conquered after a bloody battle that some security sources in the region said left at least 80 people dead, including women, but Luq was taken over without any fighting. According to officials and witnesses, pro-government forces have also deployed around Beledweyne, a strategic town near the Ethiopian border that is crucial to the flow of military supplies and trade. Al-Shabaab fighters were also believed to be bracing for a battle in the city of Baidoa, which is where the transitional federal Parliament was based before the insurgents captured the town and made it one of their strongholds. "This is the most coordinated offensive I have seen ... It could change the political map of Somalia for some time," said a foreign security expert based in the region. Sweeping raid The anti-al-Shabaab drive started with an operation conducted mainly by Amisom's Ugandan contingent in Mogadishu to smash a network of trenches and tunnels the insurgents had been using to control most of the city. A few days later, the African force's Burundian contingent launched a sweeping raid to recapture key thoroughfares and landmarks that had been in al-Shabaab hands for months and sometimes years. Neither side admitted to major losses, but security sources in Amisom and elsewhere reported that no fewer than 43 Burundians and many more al-Shabaab fighters were killed in what was one of Mogadishu's bloodiest battles in years. Tens of thousands of people have died and hundreds of thousands have been displaced over the past few years in Somalia, which is chronically described as the world's most dangerous country and its worst humanitarian crisis. The transitional government, whose mandate is set to expire within months, was in battle order and President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed on Monday sacked all the country's top security officials in a bid to improve top-brass coordination. Meanwhile, al-Shabaab were reported to have launched a massive recruitment drive to contain the government's advance. Source: AFP

Lool Xaaji dee ma fayoobid baan filaaya! Maaddeey, sorry but this might come as a shock but not every islamist is a crossdressing hijabi, some prefer to wear a suit manufactured in turkey, and cogently present their views and the glories of an islamic agenda to the people in democratic elections and referenda. And others prefer the soft touch of nylon polyester blend on their skin.

Al Shabaab oo ka baxay degmooyin ka tirsan Bakool GALMUDUG.INFO) Maleeshiyada Al Shabaab ee gobollada Baay iyo Bakool ayaa lagu soo warramayaa in ay maanta isaga baxeen degmooyinka Rabdhuure, Waajid iyo Berdaale Cali Cabdiraxamaan oo ka mid ah dadka ku nool degmada Waajid ayaa sheegay in uu arkay maleeshiyada Al Shabaab oo ka baxaya degmooyinka Rabdhuure, Waajid iyo Berdaale, kuwaasoo uu sheegay inay u dhaqaaqeen dhinaca magaalada Baydhabo ee xarunta gobolka Baay. Ka bixista degmooyinka ee maleeshiyada ayaa ka dambaysay, kaddib markii ciidamada dowladda KMG ee Soomaaliya ay maanta la wareegeen degmooyin ka tirsan gobolka Gedo, waxayna haatan ciidamadaasi ku sugan yihiin sida la sheegay Yurkut oo u dhow gobolka Baay.

"If you are an islamist you can't just become a secular leader that's absurd" Tayip Erdgoyan Turkey. "To be honest Sh Sharif lost all credibility" To whom you a secessionist whose views matters less than nothing on this issue?

Brothers and Sisters as a real "Konfurian" with relatives on your side of the mountain range, information yaar oo haboon baan idhiin haya: The extent of our cooperation will be limited to and encompass only the provision of information to families and friends in Hargeisa and Burco, on the circumstances of their misguided youths deaths in as members of al-shabaab in countless tuulos the length and breadth of southern somalia. The form letter is still to be written but the first sentence is widely agreed upon it goes like this: Dear Mudane/Marwo A dog died today....

Also dee xaaji niyow how dimwitted do you think every one else on SOL is? we know that the extent of your fake and patronizing concern for "konfuur" is exactly equal to what ever is less than a milimeter, your wish, your hope, your expectation is for continuous and prolonged fighting in the south, that will in some fantastical way conceivable only to the mind of a qabilist such as your self and the rest of your ilk will bring you closer to recognition [although this formula has not worked the past 20 years even when there was not one single entity to oppose your claims], today you rage against the government and talk to us about nimaan anaad waxbaa ka aqoonin like you were next door neighbors, "sheikh aweys likes chocolate milk, maya maya anaa oogee sheikhu likes vanilla milk", simply because the government with the support of the overwhelming support of Somalis is slowly strangulating AS on the rope their own savagery has provided. The other reason you support AS is because Godane by fluke has become a titular leader of a pack of crooks in Mogadishu, where he was stealing your food rations a few years ago in Hargeisa, so since Godanes ilk have only provided nothing but one female minister [one initially famous for who married her] and an inordinate amount of jail guards [cidanka asluubta] a low I.Q job in africa, you support the A.S since those they maim and hurt are no where near the pornography studios in downtown hargeisa. So koleyba you will always have some one on SOL to entertain and argue with you vis a vis A.S lakiin dee maar maar bahasha inaga yaraa biyeey deeeeeee.

Horta what is so special about this pronouncement by aweys? isn't this the lock stock and barrel answer he has being giving since 2007-2008?

This is the sort of discussions we would have had 2 years ago, when the world was young and innocent, now after 2 years of al-shabaab there is no more room for theories and rumination, now that the shabaab are spending themselves as an organized military force, and have spent themselves as an ideology [but not as terror organization in the purest sense] they are left trying to rewind the clock, and jumping opportunistically from religion, to nationalism [when where ever they are, the blue flag and all it entails is considered lower than toilet paper] to qabiil calculus [which is all the reshuffle in al-shabaabs higher ups was, dedicating regions to commandants from that regions predominant clan]. So please respectfully zack iyo oba, the only thing that needs to be debated with a shabaabi is where the bullet will go....in his/her head or in the heart.

Somali president accepts credentials of Indian ambassador “I am very blessed with the acceptance of His Excellency, President Ahmed and we shall soon start of our mission in our embassy in Mogadishu” the ambassador said." Somalia’s embattled president, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, on Sunday accepted the credentials of Ambassador Shri Sibabrata Tripathi, the Indian ambassador to the republic of Somalia. clearpxl Ahmed congratulated the new ambassador and wished him much success with his mission inside Somalia. Later, Mohammed Abdullahi Omar, the foreign minister of Somali's transitional federal government and the Indian ambassador held a joint press conference in Mogadishu’s Villa Baidao where the president has a temporary office as the nation is in a state of war against the militant group al Shabaab. Mr. Omar said the Indian government has officially re-opened its embassy in Somalia after more than 20 years. He said that he will do his best to foster greater improved relations between the east African nation of Somalia and India. India is the second government in less than two months to re-establish its embassy in Somalia. Ambassador Shri Sibabrata Tripathi, India's ambassador to the republic of Somalia has history of working in several African nations, such as Kenya, Egypt, Uganda and Madagascar .

"Unless and until those others drop out, rebel or deny that fact SL shall remain a country"....isn't that what is happening?

^^^ Did you mean tea partier, cause tea bagging is a whole different thing ol chap.

The above are the questions posed for the major actors in the conjuncture of political interest and power among the fragments of post‐independence Somalia. Before one can even begin to consider whether “Somalia” might be reclaimed, it is necessary that the stasis that forces each actor to dance in place be broken. At present, some actors have the will to move but not the means, and others possibly have the means but not the will. As long as this condition persists, 2011 will be a continuation of 2010, in which dividing lines become more sharply etched and tendencies toward polarization increase without the underlying stasis‐fragmentation having been altered. At present, the only actor that could plausibly change the game is the Washington‐led Western‐U.N. donor‐power coalition, which is the one that has power and is not using it, and that lacks the will to do so, based on its judgment (self‐conscious or not) that it is too inconvenient (and perhaps counter‐productive) to commit, and too dangerous (H.S.M.) to withdraw. The deepest structure of the politics of post‐independence Somalia is post/neo‐colonialism versus transnational Islamist anti‐(Western) colonialist resistance. Somali political actors are constrained to work within that power configuration/struggle. A popular Somali national movement united against neo‐colonialism and transnationalist jihad, or a similar movement of Somali political elites – whichever one might come first and generate the other – is what would put Humpty‐Dumpty together again. 2010 provides no basis for projecting the appearance of an operative Somali political identity in 2011. ‐Michael A. Weinstein

The conjuncture of Somalia’s politics includes, as its most significant actors, the provisionally autonomous regional state of Puntland; the self‐declared independent state of Somaliland ; the internationally‐recognized Transitional Federal Government (T.F.G.); the armed Islamist revolutionary opposition to the T.F.G. (Harakat al‐Shabaab Mujahideen – H.S.M.); the African Union (A.U.), which originates the peacekeeping mission (AMISOM) that protects the T.F.G. in an enclave of “Somalia’s” capital Mogadishu; the Western donor powers and I.G.O.s that fund the T.F.G. and AMISOM. Puntland occupies the northeastern section of post‐independence Somalia, Somaliland its northwestern section; the T.F.G. part of post‐independence Somalia’s capital al, with de jure sovereignty over all of post‐independence Somalia, according to international powers; the H.S.M. most of the southern and central section of “Somalia” and ambition to control all of it. The conjuncture contains other significant actors, some of which have been and/or might become major actors. There are Somalia’s neighboring states, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti; Arab states looking for political and economic influence; the Islamist donors to and revolutionary movements affiliated with H.S.M.; the Oganden National Liberation Front (O.N.L.F.) that wages an armed war of liberation in Ethiopia’s Somali Regional State; regional authorities in southern and central Somalia, some of them established (Galmudug, Himan and Heeb, Ahlu Sunna wal‐Jamaa), others contesting H.S.M.’s control and loosely linked to the T.F.G.; and the S.S.C. liberation movement that calls for independence of territories disputed between Somaliland and Puntland. Each of the actors in the conjuncture is further divided into factions in varying degrees of conflict and interest divergence. The foregoing gives a hint of the conjuncture composing Humpty‐Dumpty and “all the king’s horses and all the king’s men” who could not put Humpty together again. The basic political situation of post‐independence Somalia at the end of 2010 is one of persistence of fragmentation, stasis and conflict among the major players in the conjuncture. There is neither momentum towards the imposition of a solution by a dominating actor nor a negotiated solution. Each actor is checked by the others due to lack of sufficient power or the determination to use available power. It is a frenzied dancing in place, an aggressive stalemate. Nonetheless, the actors have changed during 2010, not in the sense of any of them having gained or lost decisively in the balance of power, but by shifting their strategies within the extant power configuration. The big changes of 2010: 1. Puntland becomes more independent of the T.F.G. and donor policy. 2. Somaliland effects a successful transfer of political power. 3. The T.F.G. gets a new administration. 4. H.S.M. incorporates the Islamist armed‐opposition group Hizbul Islam (H.I.), consolidating armed opposition to the T.F.G. backed by AMISOM and Western donor powers (most importantly Washington). 5. The African supporters of the T.F.G. centered on AMISOM and its troop‐contributing countries Burundi and especially Uganda split with Western donors after H.S.M. bombs venues in Kampala broadcasting the World Cup and the Africans urge aggressive military action against H.S.M. and the donors refuse. 6. The Western donors led by Washington adopt a “dual‐track” policy dropping exclusive support for the T.F.G. and moving tentatively towards dealing directly with Puntland, Somaliland and sub‐administrations without recognizing them. Puntland As the stasis has persisted, Puntland’s administration led by President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole appears to have decided to pursue a policy that positions it as more independent of the T.F.G. than it had been previously. Whether this move leads in the direction of declaring independence will depend on Puntland’s success in moving the T.F.G. and its international supporters towards a “federalist” formula for post‐independence Somalia that gives Puntland a generous autonomy in regulating its internal affairs and development. At present the situation cuts two ways. Whereas past T.F.G. administrations had included a president or prime minister from Puntland’s dominant northern ***** clan family, the new T.F.G. administration’s prime minister is a southern *****, Mohamed Farmajo. The change in the T.F.G. has led to a perceived loss of influence in the T.F.G. by Puntland. Washington’s dual‐track policy, on the other hand, could convince Puntland to stick with the T.F.G. if the donors demanded that it be executed with Puntland’s affiliation with the T.F.G. Puntland has been disaffected with both the T.F.G. and the donors, although it desires aid and diplomatic support from the latter. The administration claims that it has not been consulted on the future of Somalia when the T.F.G.’s mandate is either extended beyond August 2011, or the T.F.G. is replaced by a permanent government. Puntland has also been rebuffed by the donors on its appeals for aid to build anti‐piracy bases on the region’s coast. On the first issue, Puntland has proposed that it hold a broad reconciliation conference for post‐independence Somalia and, on the second, it has signed an agreement with a private security firm, Saracen International, funded by an unnamed “Muslim country” (a trusted closed sources says it is the United Arab Emirates), to train an anti‐piracy force. By edging towards a more independent position towards the T.F.G. and donors, if not independence, Puntland has put itself into play, complicating the conjuncture for other actors. Puntland always had the independence card up its sleeve; now it is edging into the open. Score one for fission, unless there is a “federalist” outcome for Puntland that satisfies its interests in security and resource autonomy. Puntland seems to have judged that it has waited long enough for the T.F.G. and the donors to satisfy its interests, and that it intends either to push them or go it alone to a greater degree and augment its “partners.” Somaliland

SOMALIA 2011: FRENZIED DANCING IN PLACE By Michael A. Weinstein What does 2011 hold in store for Somalia’s politics? That is the question that I will address here within the context provided by Somali intellectuals who witness their country's fragmentation and, like some, have compared Somalia to the English nursery‐rhyme character Humpty‐Dumpty...... Is Somalia salvageable? they ask. Somalia does not exist presently as a political subject, a political actor in the world that pursues interests by deploying power, has an organization that creates an internal order and is a player at the international table. Post‐independence Somalia was a political subject; it lost that status in 1991, after the fall of Siad Barre’s dictatorship, when its factions were unable to agree on a power‐sharing formula that would keep them within a unit, when Humpty‐Dumpty took the plunge. Since then political Somalia has become an imaginary, an idea of reclaiming what once was and rectifying the mistakes that destroyed it. Is Somalia salvageable? An analyst cannot even begin to answer that question. “Ifs” are all that an analyst can offer. If one actor becomes sufficiently coherent and powerful to impose itself on the others, then Somalia might become a political subject again. Alternatively, if enough factions reconciled with one another, Somalia might be salvaged. If external actors/powers/players let Somalia coalesce either by force or consensus, Somalia might exist in the perceptual political word. What an analyst can attempt to do is to assess what analyst‐theorist Ahmed Egal calls the fundamental and basic dynamics of “fission” and “fusion” in politics – are factions/units tending to divide or unite? Are their interests convergent or divergent? What is the balance of power among the actors? Solidarity and division; strength and weakness. The Past Year In order to make a projection for 2011, it is necessary to know the positions of the domestic and external actors composing the conjuncture of organized interests in Somalia’s politics as they have developed/changed during 2010. Modern‐classical‐realist political‐science‐based analysis, such as guides the present writing, always takes its starting point from the concrete present situation. What political forces are active? What ideal entities also are organized political subjects, even if some or all of them are divided by factionalism within? Who gets to play, who has the power to play? All projections come from the present; indeed, for an analyst they are simply extrapolations of the present. Look for creativity elsewhere; the analyst is (methodologically) conservative; the future is projected on the basis of the present configuration of power. The territories of post‐independence Somalia will serve as what will be called “Somalia” in order to bring together the conjuncture of its shattered pieces. Although Somalia as a political subject does not exist on the ground, post‐independence Somalia did once exist and has sufficient strength as an idea projected forward to organize the conjuncture for the analyst. “Somalia,” then, in its death as a reality, lives on as the signifier that organizes the discourse of its “parts.” (Saying “part,” of course, begs the question and grants the discursive power to “Somalia.”)

Alafu this is a very famous song lazima kila mtuu anaye fahamu!

Alafu this is a very famous song lazima kila mtuu anaye fahamu!

This song reminds me of my one and only love a gorgeous somali girl in Arusha!

Not at all surprised by arsenals performance by the way. In my pre match thoughts I felt the pattern would repeat itself, United would drop points and we , yet again, would fail to capitalize. It`s like listening to a cracked record. Now the excuses. One injured centre back and a red card with a four goal advantage. It`s never easy on Tyneside and we never learn. Unbelievable.

Bob this time they simply could not cheat themselves in to a win there little hard on for an unbeaten season has been ended by Mick Mcarthy at moulineux. Just love it....... point only 4

Wolverhampton 2 - 1 Manchester United

Lool Wyre sometimes I just enjoy teaching you posted the funniest video ever "Huyu dame mapepe, ame pitiwa na upepo" I cried laughing when this was explained to me, horta ma reer kenya aad aheyd walaal?

lol I wish I was there....

Oo waaxani ma waar cusub baa?