I dont think u understand the concept of private security! xamar is city in a war zone! its not like Beverly hills or Disneyland...! what makes u think that you can do private security in place where 60 thousands highly armed couldnt secure!! stay in oc and do your thing there baan ku daheey hajika...! u know that there are no taco bells in xamar?? :confused:

By Jennifer Cooke, Co director, Africa Program June 4, 2007 Hopes for a peaceful political resolution to the crisis in Somalia are dimming, as a power struggle between the Ethiopian-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and clan-based and Islamist militias continues to wrack Mogadishu. A brutal crackdown by Ethiopian and Somali government troops in early May has done little to end an incipient insurgency, and disaffected clan militias and remnants of the vanquished Islamic Courts Union (ICU) have resorted to increasingly guerrilla-like tactics, including suicide bombings and a series of remote-controlled car bombs detonated in the last several weeks. An African Union peacekeeping force—initially envisaged as a multinational 8,000-strong deployment, but currently comprising only 1,400 Ugandan troops—has been largely ineffective, predictably so, since it deployed into a chaotic, anarchic situation, with no clear mandate and no real peace to keep. Four Ugandan soldiers have been killed to date, and other African countries, which initially expressed some interest in contributing troops, appear increasingly reluctant to send their personnel into a sharply deteriorating security environment. The TFG, which is internally divided and deeply unpopular in Mogadishu, has failed to take the necessary measures to broaden its support base and expand the governing coalition. A national reconciliation conference has been postponed twice and is now slated for June 15. Rather than seizing the opportunity early on in its tenure to reach out in a genuine way to disaffected groups and moderate remnants of the Islamic Courts Union, the TFG has instead chosen to rely on Ethiopian military force and the support of the international community to consolidate its position in Mogadishu. This is not a sustainable tack: Ethiopia will not remain in Mogadishu indefinitely: it is taking hits in Somalia, it has been accused by human rights groups of perpetrating war crimes, and it cannot long sustain a costly occupation given other domestic and regional security preoccupations. Further, having achieved its immediate objective of dispersing an increasing radicalized ICU leadership, it has much less compelling interest in the long hard slog of building Somali governing institutions or pushing the TFG to expand its base. This task will likely fall to the broader international community. There is a risk that international attention will move on from Somalia; the world has lived with a chaotic vacuum in that country for 14 years. But for humanitarian reasons, for the stability of the region, and for the long-term fight to curb international terror, this would be a mistake. The conditions that led to the rise of the ICU’s more radical leadership remain intact, and the possibility that those elements regroup, bolstered by external funding, is real. The United States has a particular responsibility in Somalia: a narrow U.S. focus on counter-terror imperatives has contributed to the current impasse. The United States secretly funded an alliance of unpopular warlords in 2005-2006 to root out al-Qaeda affiliates allegedly sheltered by the Islamic courts, a move that may ultimately have helped unify and empower the more radical elements of the ICU. The ICU’s defeat of these warlords in spring of 2006 added to the union’s popularity and legitimacy, as they established a modicum of security and basic services in Mogadishu for the first time in over a decade. Further, U.S. air strikes against fleeing ICU leaders and al Qaeda suspects in southern Somalia, with cooperation from Ethiopia, have led to the widespread perception (both in Somalia and Ethiopia) that the United States fully endorsed and supported the Ethiopian invasion and subsequent occupation. In January, the United States knowingly allowed Ethiopia to secretly purchase arms from North Korea in violation of UN sanctions that the U.S. had been instrumental in passing. Human rights groups have accused the United States of cooperating with Ethiopia, Kenya, and the TFG in a secret detention program for individuals fleeing Somalia, with U.S. intelligence agents interrogating detainees in Kenya, who were denied access to legal counsel and consular representatives. All these factors will make it difficult for the United States to disentangle itself, in perception and fact, from Ethiopian policy, which is a source of deep resentment among many Somalis. The appointment on May 17 of retired ambassador John Yates as Special Envoy to Somalia is a positive step. But it comes late in the game, as U.S. leverage in the situation declines. Congress should revisit legislation on U.S. engagement in Somalia to ensure that the administration remains adequately seized with the current crisis and the need for a longer-term comprehensive approach. The U.S. strategy now should be to put forward in no uncertain terms a set of expectations and benchmarks for the TFG, in terms of reconciliation, inclusivity, power-sharing, and humanitarian access, backed by a credible package of incentives and pressures. Unqualified support for the TFG will only reinforce their current approach, and U.S. assistance should be more stringently conditioned on demonstrable progress. The reconciliation conference slated for June 15 will be one benchmark, but the process will need to be more enduring and pervasive than a one-off public conference, which at this point appears unlikely to succeed. The U.S. also needs to prepare for the possibility that the reconciliation process is not credible and that the situation in Mogadishu deteriorates further. In that case, it will need to look beyond the TFG to identify Somali partners within civil society with whom it can engage in revitalizing basic governing structures and strengthening basic services like education and health. The U.S. should also distance itself from the perceived strategic alliance with Ethiopia (which is damaging to U.S. credibility both in Somalia and more broadly in Africa), and should push Ethiopia to use its considerable leverage to move the TFG toward genuine powersharing. The U.S. should work with the international community and regional states on building a comprehensive approach toward Somalia that goes beyond narrow counter-terrorism concerns. The outcome of the struggle in Somalia will hinge on a political solution, and at present, the onus is on the TFG to create a credible process. It will also require that those excluded groups engage in that process (if indeed it is credible), that hard-core spoilers are sidelined, and that damage by those groups who have learned to profit from continuing chaos is minimized. The United State should use its dwindling leverage toward these ends. The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a private, tax-exempt institution focusing on international public policy issues. Its research is nonpartisan and nonproprietary. CSIS does not take specific policy positions; accordingly, all views, positions, and conclusions expressed in these publications should be understood to be solely those of the authors.

did yall see king james! DT was really shamed..! Calves have a good chance to win, i say.

yo duke, arinta baa maa the lord mareeysa! oh, i forget that we are christians now since we are ethiopian subjects!! lool may be some one should notify the pope to get ready for many trips to come, since the amxaarow boyz will be blown up soon.

4th time!! we gotta update murphy's law...! lol

yo homie, are you like running around with big kubeerto to cover our statements. who said anything about sland in this thread!! u have any idea whats coming outta of mouth?? lol! now finally, u owing up that tfg is not really a somali thing but bunch of planders tugs who bent of aargoos and clan clansing!! how true.

its the luck of the draw... if u is chased by sb (suicude bomber), one day he will catch up with u. so far, he was lucky twice...! i guess murphys law is working here. and u know this law, 3rd time is the charm. lol.

well finally, the americans have admitted that their hand is in the cookie jar. all the air bombing that took place and all the innocents ones they killed. as Jundaya said, why would 6 million "muslims" enjoy a 1700 miles coast while 60 million ethiopian christians got none!! u get the picture. somali holacaust is taking place.

wow! and they keep saying their system of democracy is shinning path to world peace and harmony.. g8 the legal mafia of this world. another greed invested system.

that comes with job specifications when u fill out the suicide application...! the last line says...! 10- always smile u dont wanna go to heaven with angry face.

u see when one becomes blinded by clan blood, they lose site of the real pic and become short sighted like lil kids around a table waiting for cake hand out. one of the main reason that western ppl are so pissed off with their leaders is that they realized what the bush and his christian right has lead into them...a religious wars. one by one these leaders are falling like the snow flakes, tony the poodle the last one to hit the road. we are the end of this cycle now, so whats gonna happen 2 these troubled places... where no solutions blue prints have never been created. the peoples will which has been surpressed will rise to power.

must be the pain killers that are numbing him! cuz i heard that he jumped out of his skin and all u could see where 2 big ole teeth sticking out.

yo those were ufos!!lool.. i see the lil boyz are carrying wolf. whatchya gonna when bush goes in less than a yr....! who u gonna call then!! the ghost busters!!

i say give the homie a cigar!! its time 4 all somalis, to rise up and kick the tugs & tfg poodles till they become beggers in the streets of addis.

hey dont be suprised if this was done under the orders of eeye-yeey! just cuz hes was pissed with some sub-clan overthere!! same old stuff!! hes was just schooling some poor chaps who didnt listen to his orders. yo! check this link out its everything about somalia!! viva yahoo. http://news.yahoo.com/fc/World/Somalia;_ylt=AvCyRcm3kt3w1JEF76h2JcgV6w8F

alqeeda in pland!! loool. this gotta be a freaking joke. what.. so yeey comes to xamar, and icu goes to pland...lool u see thats what i dont like about american policy...they freaking dont know didly squat!! some low life tells them american lies, and what they do, they bomb innocent folks!! go damn fuleeys.!!

abaayo, always avoid the chearleader faarax cuz he aint no man! he just clan bling bling! the day he gets some crumbs from adeeroo, u toast! u need to find a faarax who is independent who loves his country ppl no matter what clan there are!! basically, u need a faarax man..! they all around, u just need to open your eyes and reach for the real ones. not what the clan prescribes.

honestly!! u need to check this part out and feel it.. {President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa sums up the situation aptly thus: "Today Somalia ceases to exist as a viable state. This has led to the eventuality that, as the year 2007 began; Somalia put itself firmly at the top of the African agenda. Whereas in 1974 independent Africa counted on Somali support to achieve the goals of the African revolution, in 2007 Somalia needs the support of the rest of the African Continent, to achieve the goals of the African revolution." )

miss clueless!! looool. shes just worthless since she just cant think str8. how to test this gal!! u come to her and say to her "koow abaayo", if she says laabow, yup! thats her. run like hell..! :eek:

yo, i teach af somali!! of course, the ppl i teach never been to somali so maxaa ka rabtaa noo!! ii sheeg noo...yo badaa don surf ok...! how come kids born outside of somali can tell the difference between isga and iyada.. they say everything with the wrong pronoun. e.g, iyado waa mah maah baa tri!! baabor hadii la fuulo iyado weeye laga soo dagaa . peace.

Very good article to read!! Somalia has caught the attention of the international community as more than 70 innocent nomadic herdsmen were killed when a US gunship hunting Al-Qaeda suspects 'mistakenly' attacked a village in Southern Somalia. The US found, no "wanted" Al-Qaeda terrorists, dead or alive in the village though the attack was in line with the speculation that after Afghanistan and Iraq, it would be Somalia's turn to face the US fury. For the last few years, Washington's Somalia policy has hinged on the hunt for Al-Qaeda terrorists, and particularly the men wanted for killing 225 people in the 1998 attacks on US embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam and the 2002 attack on Israelis in Mombasa. The US January 2007 air strikes on Somalia were specifically aimed at three men - Fazul Abdallah Mohamed, Abu Taha al-Sudani, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan.5 Before we proceed o examine the latest crisis situation in Somalia it would be better to understand the historical background of the developments that had led to the American and Ethiopian military attack on Somalia and its occupation by Ethiopians recently. A Republic in the Horn of Africa, Somali Democratic Republic was formed by the British Somaliland on July I, 1960. It is essentially a pastoral country, with 80% of the people dependent on livestock. Half of its population is nomadic. In 1963, Somalia severed diplomatic relations with Britain, when it failed to induce Britain to grant separate independence to the largely Somali populated Northern Frontier district of Kenya. In 1964 hostilities broke out with Ethiopia over migration of nomadic Somali's into that country, but a ceasefire was arranged. As a 100 percent Muslim population in the East African Continent, Somalia under President Aden Abdullah Osman was chosen as a venue for the Sixth World Muslim Conference. In 1967, Dr. Abdi Rashid Ali Simarke was elected the President. Nine years of democracy in Somalia came to an end when President Rashid was assassinated by one of his bodyguards on October 15, 1969. Six days later (October 21, 1969) Major General Mohamed Siad Barre took over power. He immediately suspended the constitution and declared Somalia as Somalia Democratic Republic. The country witnessed a bloody counter coup in 1991. The year 1992 saw one of the worst famines in Somalia's history. Ravaged by civil war, the country was in a state of anarchy. Starvation threatened the majority of the population. More than 800,000 people moved into Kenya and other neighbouring countries. Relief efforts by the international organizations were hampered by battles between rival clan factions. Neighbouring Djibouti tried to end the uncertainty but failed. A new coalition government under the General Muhammed Farah Aidid, however, agreed to UN military presence to back up relief efforts to help famine victims. On December 2, 1992, the US launched "Operation Restore Hope" landing thousands of US marines on the Mogadishu beaches. In May 1993, the operation was taken over by the United Nations and renamed the Mission as UNOSOM. In May 1993, Americans wanted to arrest General Farah Aidid but failed to do so. In the military operation a Black Hawk helicopter was shot down and 18 American soldiers were killed. It signalled the withdrawal of American forces from Somalia. After that for fifteen years Somalia had to remain without a central government. The warlords fought among themselves. A sense of despair and hopelessness led to the emergence of the Islamic Courts with some help from local businessmen. These courts managed to establish some sense of law and order. Ten years after the collapse of the military government, a Transitional National government was formed in August 2000. Neither the US nor the EU tried to strengthen its position. At the end of its three year term, a new Transitional Federal Government was established in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi in October 2004 with full support from everyone including the US. Somalia's current phase of chaos is not simply the latest episode in a civil conflict that had dragged on since 1991. It is also the direct result of a rogue CIA operation that went wrong. After September 11, 2001 (9/11), Washington did a policy u-turn by recruiting as bounty-hunters the very warlords its forces had fought during the 1993 "Black Hawk Down" battle. In return for suitcases of cash, the warlords handed over a number of religious radical suspects, who were ferried on rendition flights to the new US base at Camp Lemonier in Djibouti. A Christian led country with a substantial Muslim population, Ethiopia has a deep fear of Islamic radicalism in the Horn of Africa. Just before Christmas 2006 Washington gave Ethiopia green signal to invade Somalia. The offensive led to the fall of the 'Islamic Court' government. The American neocons gloated over what they saw as a victory for the good guys in the war on terror. Ethiopia's invasion and the US strikes have made heroes of the Somali radicals across the world and had thus further internationalized the conflict in the Horn. The Los Angeles Times wrote, "US intervention in Somalia could have been prompted in part by the determination to protect the interests of US firms". A special report in Oil and Gas Journal (2nd April, 1993) said, "Geologists have been speculating about the possibility of oil in Somalia since the last century, but it took the US military "Operation Restore Hope" to bring the possibility to popular attention. The widespread notion is that US troops were sent to Somalia to protect the interests of US Oil Companies, and their supposed huge oil finds". The recent American decision to create a new pentagon command covering Africa, known as Africom has a military logic. Like Roman emperor's of old, Washington's Caesars arbitrarily divide much of the world into Middle Eastern, European and Pacific domains. Now it is Africa's turn with Gulf of Guinea countries including Nigeria and Angola projected to provide a quarter of US oil imports within a decade; with Islamic radicalist worries in Somalia and Horn of Africa, and with China prowling for resources and markets, the US plainly feels a second wind of change is blowing, calling for increased leverage in Africa. Africom's advent follows a pattern of extraordinary military expansion under President George W. Bush including the Horn of Africa. President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa sums up the situation aptly thus: "Today Somalia ceases to exist as a viable state. This has led to the eventuality that, as the year 2007 began; Somalia put itself firmly at the top of the African agenda. Whereas in 1974 independent Africa counted on Somali support to achieve the goals of the African revolution, in 2007 Somalia needs the support of the rest of the African Continent, to achieve the goals of the African revolution." Undeniably, Somalia needs a government not made for them but by them. If the international community is sincere about helping Somalians, it should let them take initiatives to regain their statehood and national sovereignty. In short decide their own destiny freely, fearlessly and independently. Prof Jagdish P. Sharma, Syndicate Features

this dont apply to faaraxs...i guess u ladies u aint digging faaraxs these days! bump...

honestly, there are 2 things ppl assume about me! they either think that i am from puntland or from ethiopia!! i would take though if pland offers citizen ship and pays couple of gees.

hayaaye waar sootan hafadee waalatee!! i guess, we got the invasion of under cover agents in sol. lool. what did the famous xalimo said! my lips are sealed. i leave it there.

yeey, clan cheerleaders cry. watch, u gonna hear one crying soon! lool.