^ Very good news! Wayaanahu ha jabo.

Nur Cade is not a free man, he is a captive and therefore every lecture he gives is a one that has been given to him by the occupation forces.

An ****** Hero: A Tribute To Sheikh Ibrahim Abdalla ****** Online Editorial June 23, 2008 Heroes are borne from circumstances. They are a product of their environment. They come to embody a situation and a period of time. Sheikh Ibrahim Abdalla was a true ****** hero. To the people of ******, he was synonymous with the struggle. He was deliberate in speech and steady in thought. He was constantly working whether it was joining others to found the ****** National Liberation Front (ONLF), or writing a book for the generations that come after him. To this ****** hero, there was seemingly an unlimited variety of ways to support the struggle. While he is best remembered for leading the ONLF through the decision to pursue armed struggle, he was also a man who left no stone unturned to seek to obtain the rights of the Somali people of ****** to self-determination through peaceful means. His courage was well known to all our freedom fighters, and he was loved by all of us. History gives us very few heroes as such, when they pass it is cause for pause and reflection. If nothing else, the greatest tribute to Sheikh Ibrahim Abdalla and the hero's before him and those who will come after him is to ensure that this generation will be the last generation of our people under occupation. For all those who bled in the sands of ******; for all those who walked countless miles under the hot sun to find the enemy; for all those who tended to a wounded freedom fighter; for all those who stood up to the occupation; and for all the heroes of our struggle, your sacrifice will not be in vain. As assured is the sun's rise in the morning and its setting in the evening, your sacrifice will not be in vain. The march of the people of ****** towards freedom is unstoppable. Every village burned, every father killed, and every community harassed by the occupation forces produces another Sheikh Ibrahim, another Makhtal Dahir, and another hero. We cannot be stopped in our march forward as we are at a point of no return. Our people will go all the way this time for we have nothing left to lose. This is the generation that will free ******. This is the generation that will conclude our centuries old struggle for freedom. This is the generation that will pay back all the heroes who have given everything so that we can someday have something to be proud of. Our time is now and our moment is here. Africa will witness the birth of a new nation borne of over 100 plus years of struggle and personal sacrifice. We will not be denied what our fathers and their fathers have bled for and died for. We will not be denied what our brethren have suffered for. Surely we will not be denied what is rightfully ours. Freedom is not and has never been free but we are willing, ready, and able to pay the price. ****** belongs to us and we will take it back by any means necessary. While we mourn the passing of our great hero Sheikh Ibrahim Abdalla, we celebrate his heroic acts to rid ****** of the Tigrian tyranny. editorial@******.com ****** Online Editorial

A hero he was!

^LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL. Some of 'em are!

Originally posted by Ibtisam: ^^Really the one before that, was you showing him your good side! lol anyway I was talking about the other thread with the zack and few others I've seen around. lol Ibtisaam lol Mid yar baa afka ila soo galoo iga xanaajiyay. I don't usually get upset easily.

^Well said Skipper! So if bantus were from Tanzania ethnically, living or being born in Somali doesn't change the fact they are still Tanzanians, right?

^^^Yaanyuur Dille or whatever your name is, it is none of your ****** business if i have a bad attitude or "good" one. Iigoo dadka aan aqoon lama sheekeystee!

^Lol

Che, I haven't received mine yet either, let's wait till Jully and see what happens. I have seen some folks who received about $1,200 while single. How much are you expecting? I heard it can be as low as $300.

^ Talk about some girl doing fantastic things in Puntland, you will see him smiling lol.

looooooooooooooooooooooooool. ^He wasn't the biological father of this lil girl. He thought he is the dad but obviously the gardener was her actual dad. Islaanta buu u daba mari jiray dee magaratay wiil buuranow.

The Background of Sheikh Ibrahim Sh. Ibrahim Abdalla was born in Qalaafo (Kelafo) ****** in 1941. He finished his primary education in the ****** and went for further studies to Saudi Arabia in 1958 where he did his secondary education and University. He graduated From Imam Mohamed Bin-Sacud University in Mecca in 1970. In 1973 he came to Somalia and became a teacher in the Secondary Schools in Hargheisa-Northern Somalia. He joined WSLF in 1976 and became WSLF representative in Abu Dhabi in 1981. He was also elected to the Central Committee of WSLF. In 1984 Sh. Ibrahim Abdalla became one of the Founding members of ONLF. He came to the ****** and attended the First ONLF Congress in the ****** in 1991 and was elected its chairman. He was the Chairman of ONLF until 1998. He retained his Central Committee seat and was an active member of ONLF until he deceased. 1n 1999 he formed the institute of Strategic Studies of the Horn of Africa. Sh. Ibrahim abdallah was a writer and wrote the following books and many articles in different newspapers in the Middle East. Sh. Ibrahim Abdalla strongly believed in the Right to self-determination and freedom of the Somali people under Ethiopian rule. Sh. Ibrahim spirit will always be beside the Somali Fighters in the ******. Sh. Ibrahim Abdalla left behind four boys and four girls and their off springs who reside in Kenya, UK, USA and Ireland. Some of the Books Sh. Ibrahim wrote are 1. The Third Defeat of the Abyssinians -1982 in Arabic 2. Explaining the History (of the Struggle). Somali & Arabic 1992 3. Explaining the History (of the Struggle). Somali & Arabic 1992 4. ******ia Stops the Ethiopians- Somali 1996 5. The Sum of Books (History of the Struggle) 2001.

^He will be missed indeed but his legacy will stay like you said. Allaha u naxariisto!

Sunday, June 22, 2008 Sheikh Ibrahim Abdalla Mah, the 1991-98 chairman and spiritual leader of the ****** National Liberation Front (ONLF), died this morning in Abu Dhabi. The 67-year-old was among the founding members of the Ethiopian Somali rebel group, now posing a serious threat to the Ethiopian army. Mr Ibrahim Abdalla Mohamed "Mah" belonged to the Somali minority in Ethiopia, which is mainly living in the ****** region. The scholar, who had studied in a Mecca university, became engaged in Somali nationalist politics in the 1970s, shortly after his return to ******. In 1984, the ONLF was founded to fight against the Derg, the military dictatorship of Mengistu Haile Mariam, and Mr Ibrahim was one of six founding members. The ONLF was one of the major forces behind the 1991 defeat of the Derg, together with current Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's Tigrayan Peoples' Liberation Front (TPLF). The fall of the Derg coincided with the election of Mr Ibrahim as chairman of the ONLF, a position he held until 1998. He presided over the decision to take part in the Ethiopian elections and opted for peace in 1991. But he also presided over the decision to wage an armed struggle after an Ethiopian government attack on ONLF headquarters. The ONLF and the people of the ****** town of Wardheer saved Sheikh Ibrahim from an assassination attempt by the Ethiopian Army in February 1994. More than 80 civilians from Wardheer died in saving him. The attack hardened the ****** Somali people's insistence on independence from Ethiopia and greatly served to make the ONLF a force recognised by most ****** Somalis as representing them as a nation. An ONLF spokesman today told afrol News that Mr Ibrahim is considered one of the greatest leader figures of the ******, both as an ONLF leader and as a spiritual leader. "Sheikh Ibrahim was a father, a leader and a very spiritual person who believed in tolerance and the right of all people to live together peacefully," the spokesman said. Mr Ibrahim was open to a solution of Ethiopian rule over an autonomous ****** - a region that is relatively homogenously inhabited by Somalis - instead of an attachment to a Greater Somalia. "He believed that free people who form voluntary associations is the best solution to the problems in the Horn of Africa," the ONLF spokesman told afrol News. After retiring from the ONLF leadership in 1998, Mr Ibrahim moved to the Arab Emirates, where he continued doing representation work for the nationalist movement and was engaged in writing books and articles. Since 2007, the conflict in ****** has intensified strongly, with the ONLF launching several major and successful attacks on the Ethiopian Army. ONLF is currently led by Chairman Mohamed Osman, who is a stronger advocate for total independence from Ethiopia and is known for a more militant view than Mr Ibrihim. Source: afro News, June 22, 2008

Afromantic GirL, Somali qofkaan aheyn ma wax xun baa? Seen ugu gafay? I never said they are not beautiful. Money, Are they Somali Bantus? OK, then they sure are Somalis and I am not doubting that. Lakin hal Ogow. The Somali Bantu (also called Beesha ****** weyne by ethnic Somalis) are a minority ethnic group in Somalia, a country largely inhabited by ethnic Somalis. Bantus primarily reside in southern Somalia, near the Jubba and Shebelle rivers. They are the descendants of people from various Bantu ethnic groups originating from what are modern-day Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique who were brought to Somalia as slaves in the 19th century. Bantus are ethnically, physically, and culturally distinct from Somalis, and have remained marginalized ever since their arrival in Somalia.[1] Those Bantu are not to be confused with the members of Swahili society in coastal towns – like the Bravanese or the Bajuni of Kismaayo – who speak the Bantu language Swahili. Estimates of the number of the Somali Bantu vary widely, in general between tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands. Money, If you are ethnically somali but was born and raised in the USA, even though you are an American, you are still Somali. Same here, if this family was born and raised in Somalia, they are still Tanzanians or wherever they are orignally from. KK, lol Somalida waa wax waji dhuuban and yeah ilko dhaadheer, the above pictured family is more beatufil than an average Somali family.

Originally posted by Abtigiis & Tolka: "Gaadhigan maadigaa leh?...walaahi? run sheeg?...Kii cishadii horanna?...war naga daa!" Loool@kii cishadii horanna!!!! Oo maxaa ka galay mey iska fuusho gaadhiga. Lol this s*&^ is funny wallee.

I don't think this is Somali family. They look like Kenyans or Tanzanians. They sure dress like Somalis though.

Originally posted by Rahima: ^27 degrees and summer is in full swing? Rahima, You must be in the US. I think Cadaan is referring to 27 degrees Celsius and not Fahrenheit.

Loooooooooooooool@Yet, inside he was shouting “ Waaban ka xiiri, why all this hustle!”. Ka xiir dheh!

lol@waryaa, you overused the word sir, are you mad because you have been called diaspora? Well, according to the meaning of the word you are one. Unless you live in Somalia or wherever you are from.

Lol. Darn I hate those Egyptians Israel u naageeyaan markasta.

A&T, Well, Does that mean he is not Somali any more? Can he say that?

I will be in Toronto also on that week. Count me in. Shaax badan sii kariya.

JB, can you tell me why would you read news from Ethiopian website, a country we are at war with? Thats just so unsomali!