Miracles of Islam

when your family were part of the Regime that humiliated the Landers and Killed and Raped Innocent Lives, :confused: :confused: you are almost wlc,as long as you never bring the memory back to the ppls mind, and claim to be as you mentioned here , memeber of the Former Regime(brutality) :confused: :confused: I don't understand? Xalimo sis I am not sure you're talking to me, but (just as you assumed about me [inaccurately I might add]) I presumed from your writings that you act as if the Somalis from Waqooyi are the only Somalis to have suffered! Not only you, but a lot of the "landers" I have met seem a bit selfish and self-centered in my opinion, only talking about their injustices and their woes. Since they were at one time singularly attacked, "they" like to assume as if they're more "special" or more noteworthy of attention than other sufferers, as if their is such a reasoning in that kind of situation. Reer Bari were attacked half a decade earlier than Reer Waqooyi, and they have forgiven and forgottan. Since we got indignant and started insulting other folk's families, let me just say, if I were in your position, I (meaning Xalimo7) would consider HornAfrique (whose family hails from Mudug and had nothing to do with Siad Barre) and who is not from my clan and had nothing to do with the genocide more a friend , then Riyaale who is from my clan (i'm assuming), from the same region as I, who claims to be my "leader", and was one of the driving forces behind the mentioned genocide. ***WARNING: Assumptions not 100% guaranteed. :eek:

Og Girl, Yalaxow is one of the more older, most ruthless warlords there is. He's in league with Abdulahi Yusuf, Hiraale, and Morgan. Baashi I still have hope bro.

Ibtilo regradless of our political differences, we are Somalis first and foremost, let's not forget that.

Very interesting. Thanx for posting Ayoub.

Have nothing constructive to add, but just asking. Ali both you and the 'doctor with no tools' are welcome to work and live in Somaliland. Good to know but Somalia will always be my place on earth; from Hargeisa to Muqdisho. What I am not so sure about is what sorts of rights you (a non Somalilander I think) will have. I found that statement very ironic.

loooooooooooooool walahi i laughed so long for this: This "explorer" was reported to have shown some somali pastrolists the picture of a car; his aim was to reveal to them that there were other "intelligent" people; on viewing the pictures most of them retorted "Waxaad na tuseeysid ma tumaalo bir tumay".

Feature: Act now to avert HIV/AIDS epidemic in Somalia, says doctor Dr Abdinasir Mohamoud Abubakar (right) with a medical technician testing blood from blood donors at Bossaso Hospital. Click Here

You flatter me dear Oodweyne , I live in Seattle, Washingtion, U.S.A, although I believe we've striked a good enough (as the english would say) bloody relationship, haven't we? Fair enough I will wait untill the middle of November to see if Caano iyo Malab has fallen from the sky for "Somaliland" and you Although I am curious to ask, will I be invited to your exclusive " recognition Independence Day bash? Just wanted to add that I loved your metaphor here; your desire for the "Retention" of greater somalia state ideology is so encompassingly overwhelming, that you're seriously in danger of loosing the trees for the woods!! in a broad day light under the searing sun

Could that wonderful author possibly be you Safi?

SOMALIA: Hargeisa airport averts closure NAIROBI, 26 Sep 2003 (IRIN) - The imminent threat of closure to Hargeisa airport in the self-declared republic of Somaliland has been averted for now after urgently-needed funds were found for vital rehabilitation work, the UN said on Friday. According to a statement by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the airport will remain operational for another six months, after UNDP and the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) provided US $150,000 to proceed with emergency patchwork. “This is not a long term solution,” ICAO Chief Technical Adviser Joe Brunswig said. “The emergency patchwork will deal with the immediate safety concerns and avert the closure of the airport for now, but the fact of the matter is that the landing strip needs to be completely re-carpeted.” Hargeisa airport is crucial to the humanitarian, developmental and commercial work that goes on in the region serving approximately 4,000 passengers per month from Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya and the Middle East. The airport was built in 1973 to cater for the much smaller sized aircraft of the time. It was closed during the civil war in the early '90s and reopened in 1997. "Over time, erosion and heavier aircraft than it was built for have broken up the surface of the landing strip," the UNDP statement said. “UNDP is particularly concerned about the Hargeisa airport,” Country Director El-Balla Hagona added. “This is not just about humanitarian flights, the airport is also a business stimulant. The more facilities that Somalis themselves have, the higher the chances of their own developmental initiatives bearing fruit.” [ENDS]

UNICEF: Somalia Has Unique Chance to Halt AIDS Wed September 24, 2003 12:35 PM ET By James Macharia NAIROBI (Reuters) - War-torn Somalia has one of the lowest AIDS infection rates in sub-Saharan Africa and has a unique chance to prevent the disease from spreading, unlike its hard-hit neighbors, a UNICEF official said on Wednesday. Jesper Morc, who represents the U.N. children's agency in Somalia, said Senegal, which has a prevalence rate of less than 2 percent, and Somalia are the only sub-Saharan countries with a low AIDS rate. Somalia's rate is estimated at 0.9-2.0 percent. "It would be criminal to let this opportunity pass by," he told Reuters, adding that UNICEF hoped to carry out a prevalence study in the Horn of Africa country within four months and would like to see an AIDS prevention program launched there. "It is...crucial and urgent to put in place a coordinated and strategic early-response program to stop the epidemic from spreading," he said. The United Nations AIDS agency says 29.4 million of the 42 million people infected with HIV worldwide are in Africa. Morc said an AIDS infection rate below three percent was considered manageable, 3-5 percent was serious and above five percent was deemed rampant. He said most African countries had AIDS prevalence rates of above five percent. He said a full-blown AIDS epidemic would be catastrophic to Somalia and seriously hamper any efforts toward nation-building and a return of peace. Somalia's several warring factions are holding shaky peace talks in Nairobi. Somalia disintegrated into anarchy after former dictator Mohammed Siad Barre was toppled in 1991, as clans launched battles for territory amid famine and political turmoil. In a paper he presented at the 13th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA), Morc said Senegal -- predominantly Muslim like Somalia -- offered a good example of how religious leaders helped spread awareness of how to curb the disease. "There is no question the religious leaders had a role in helping to keep AIDS at bay," he said. He said a crucial factor in the success of an anti-AIDS program in Somalia was preventing its spread among young people, voluntary testing and counseling and provision of cheap antiretroviral (ARV) drugs for AIDS victims. "We could lobby for free ARVs because Somalia is one of the poorest countries in the world, and also because the numbers of those infected are still very low," Morc said, adding sustained funding by donors would be crucial to the effort. But Morc said the ongoing conflict there and high cross border and internal population movements would pose challenges to efforts to prevent the spread of AIDS.

What do you want me to say Og? Evrything I would've said has been said about that Munaafaq.

Sorry to say dear Oodweyne no recognition is coming now that that the U.S has made it's position clearer. Press Statement Adam Ereli, Deputy Spokesman Washington, DC September 22, 2003 Somalia Peace Process 2003/948 The United States commends the ongoing work of Somali leaders and civil society representatives to achieve reconciliation through the Somalia Reconciliation Conference hosted by the Kenyan government. Events over the past week have demonstrated that Somali leaders have the ability to work through their differences and achieve workable compromises. Much more remains to be done to develop a lasting peace and sustainable government, but reconciliation at this time will ensure the development of a representative parliament as a critical step in the process. The United States urges all parties to continue advancing the reconciliation process in a real and meaningful way. The United States further urges all participants to ensure those critical activities in the process, especially the selection of members of parliament, be carried out in a transparent manner. [End]

24 September 2003 AMSTERDAM — Somali-born MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali has launched a blistering attack on a commission investigating the effectiveness of policies to integrate newcomers into Dutch society. The outspoken Liberal VVD parliamentarian told a radio programme that she was not convinced that the commission's report would be impartial, because the Hilda Verwey-Jonker institute was involved in the study through its former director Jan Duyvendak. Much of the Dutch integration policies are based on the institute's concepts, and Hirsi Ali's comments echo those of Socialist Party MP Ali Lazrak who has resigned from the commission. Hirsi Ali was not appointed to the committee and reacted furiously earlier this year when the VVD did not appoint her to be its parliamentary spokesperson on immigration. She came to public prominence last year when she resigned from the Labour PvdA party where she worked as a political scientist. She lambasted left-of-centre government for not pursuing tougher policies when in power from 1994 to May 2002 to force Muslim immigrants to integrate. Labour ruled during those years in coalition with the VVD and the small Democrat D66 party. She received death threats and had to go into hiding in the US for several weeks after describing Islam as "backward" for treating women as inferior to men. Following her latest comments, VVD parliamentary party leader Jozias van Aartsen said she had a point when she criticised the integration committee that began work last Monday. Van Aartsen also questioned the involvement of the Hilda Verwey-Jonker institute. But integration commission chairman Stef Blok and Parliament chairman Frans Weisglas, both VVD members, accused her of speaking out too early. "She has ignored the Parliament's rules of play…she is responding to rumours. A well grounded judgement is possible once the investigation is finished," said Blok. [Copyright Expatica News 2003]

Edna’s Foreign Ministry: Any changes or business as usual? On the morning of augus t15, the premise of the ministry of foreign affairs of Somaliland was a busy place indeed. A dozen or so ‘senior diplomats, ministers and parliamentarians’ met in the Ministry, to ostensibly analyze the ‘foreign policy’ of the republic. Analyzing the foreign policy of a country assumes, however, the existence of such a policy in the first place, which, in turn, begs the question what is the ‘foreign policy’ of Somaliland at its present condition of non-recognition from the international community? It is obvious that Somaliland’s’ foreign policy currently focuses on securing international recognition. It is equally obvious that this does not require the bringing together of a dozen or so ex-diplomats of the defunct regime of Siad Barre, to point the way ahead. The confusion following the exercise was epitomized by Edna’s angry rebuke of one of the reporters of Jamhuuriya newspaper, when the reporter asked Edna how her ministry could reconcile the foreign policies of the Somali state, which the diplomats who met in the ministry long espoused, and the current ‘foreign policy’ of Somaliland. Edna retorted to the reporter ‘do not ask me that. If you [the reporter] are looking for an information, I gave you all that I had, otherwise go and write whatever you want to write in your paper’. This latest exploit by miss Edna is anything but another of Edna’s emotional travails, which characterized her style of politics, since her nomination for the key post of the foreign ministry. After her nomination for the foreign portfolio, many people argued, including me, that Edna was misplaced and that, as a British trained nurse, Edna could have done as well with the ministry of health and labor. However, this was not to question Edna’s talents, her strict work ethic, her mastery of several foreign languages and her humanitarian activities. Since her appointment, Edna rehabilitated and painted the former NSS building of the ministry (She painted it with a white a color; a color Edna has it painted also on her private Maternity Hospital in Hargiesa). The ministry also received some personal computers form donors. However, no attempt was made to evaluate the 36 or so employees, including those in the liaison offices abroad. And as there is no much to do in the offices, many of the employees in the ministry come to office only at the end of the month, to collect the meager salary. Nor are the employees in the liaison offices abroad appointed in any way on the basis of merit, experience or education. Rather they are appointed on the basis of their tribal affiliations to the president or to the ministries. Recently, for instance, Dahir Riyale appointed, to the amusement of many, a Gadabursi relative as an agricultural attaché to the Somaliland Liaison office in Ethiopia!! As foreign minister, Edna clearly lacks even a rudimentary understanding of international politics and diplomacy in this twenty first century. In an IRIN interview on July this year, Edna undiplomatically declared that Somaliland is going to be recognized before the year is out. By speaking in this bold manner, Edna unforgivably put her credit on the line. The high level delegation to Ethiopia led by Riyale in August, which also included Edna, was a diplomatic disaster in terms. While the delegation was still in the Ethiopian capital, the Ethiopian minister of information, in an interview with IRIN, said that ‘Ethiopia’s interests lie in unifying the war ravaged state’. In diplomatic terms, this was a clear humiliation for the delegation and a complete U-turn of Ethiopian foreign policy towards Somaliland, that is, if there was such a separate policy in the first place. Recently, there were speculations to the effect that South Africa is going to recognize Somaliland. As a student of international relations, I highly doubt that South Africa can even afford to contemplate such a controversial step in African diplomacy. If anything, there is the female sympathy that the South African Foreign Minister (or is it the vice- minister?) has for her female counterpart in Somaliland, and no more. Needless to say female sympathies never led to recognition of states in history. Any changes? Not much to speak of, I am afraid. It is almost business as usual in the ministry. Mowliid Abdillahi

loooooooooooool HornAfrique: A dreamer, “wouldn't it be better if I were to help people in hospital their boy designed in one united Somali nation, then for an empty hospital to be "Somaliland" and I, a tool-less, doctor in Somalia?” African dear sis I will always be a dreamer when it comes to my Somalia. I love my Somali people and want the best for them. I'm glad someone noticed Grinov's strange and complicated love/hate moods when it comes to me :rolleyes: I thought it was only me

I truly did not get the point of this article.

SmithnWestern I would like, as I know you would like, as I know the whole Somali nation would like all the various parties of the Somali nation to participate in this conference, but it seems like that wish is not possible. Save from just abstaining from it, the political leaders of the north are undermining it! Now do you think Oodweyne, that Riyaale or Edna Aden gives a rat's *** about you? Do you think that they favor you from your Somali brother in the "South" simply because you're special? Does it really matter to the former NSS commander if it was Smith or me in your position, so long as that person was forwarding a unrealistic dream? that wretched land of theirs that is sadly known across the world as the "Failed State Of Somalia I truly read laughed when I read this. Last time Somalia was in the greater media was as recent as the when Charles Taylor stepped down. I remember watching CNN and they were talking about failed states and guess what? It was primarily about Somalia! Not once did I hear the word "Somaliland". Not once! If it soothes you and helps you sleep at night, okay people don't think you're part of Somalia? This summer I met a die-hard "Somalilander". As we got into a debate, the main source of his "patriotism" was the fact that "Somaliland" was a different colony, the 80's genocide, and the fact that "Somaliland' has a flag and a currency. To make a long story short as our debate dwinddled down the boy said the whole thing was ****** and that we shouldn't seperate because different Christians colonized us. The next day he took me to his parents and the same debate ensued. I showed them my hand and put it next to their hands and asked them why seperation? They knew I was studying to be a neurological surgeon and their boy was studying to an architect, so I asked them wouldn't it be better if I were to help people in hospital their boy designed in one united Somali nation, then for an empty hospital to be "Somaliland" and I, a tool-less, doctor in Somalia? After that they both said they were always for a one Somali nation, but that they were raised to believe that they were a different country then Somalia, and that only their Is==q clan was doing this to get power. I'm not accusing any clan, but Somalia is the answer, dear Oodweyne.

Dr Arabow- Leader of Jareerwyn party I am wondering, since when has Jareer been excepted by the Somali bantu?

DEAR MEMBERS OF THE PRESS Asha Ahmed Abdallau - presidential candidate I Hon. Asha Ahmed Abdalla, a delegate of the Somali TNG and presidential candidate have the following maters of concern to bring to the notice of International Community. My profound concern is the plight of the people of SANAG and SOOL REGIONS of Somalia where there has been severe and prolonged drought for a duration of 3 years. These people who are Nomadic Pastoralist are dependent on livestock and their productions. Naturally when the rains failed and most of the water sources e.g. boreholes, wells dried the result is an enormous human and livestock catastrophe. In the absence of a Central Government in Somalia there is always a big problem facing the population of the country. Matters get worse when there occurs natural disasters like this current drought. It is quite painful to see people and their livestock perishing when these warlords claiming to be in charge do not raise the alarm to seek assistance to the needy people. Surely my people of SANAG region have been marginalized for long and I have the responsibility of alerting all UN Agencies and other Humanitarian NGO?s to let them be aware of this crisis. I kindly request all Agencies in Somalia to visit SANAG to evaluate the situation on the ground. According to information I received from reliable sources already a large number of camels and cattle have perished in this drought. People have no access to any source of livelihood after loosing their livestock. Now the end result in people and mostly women and children are in desperate condition due to lack of food and water. Deaths caused by starvation and malnutrition to children is known to have increased considerably. Those Somali leaders who area in attendance of the Somali talks in Mbagathi are only discussing politics when there is a crisis in need of attention. As a mother and a politician. Once again I feel duty bound to let the International Community know drought situation in this region, if not tackled now could cause thousand of people to loose their lives. The world attention according to the international media is now focused on Liberia and Southern African countries but here in Somalia Sanag Region, I believe the situation is equally bad, even worse. The districts mostly affected by the drought condition are; i. LAS KOREN ii. DAHAR iii. BARAAW iv. PARTS OF NORTH EAST SOOL Finally I hope Humanitarian organisations will take heed of my call and answer by taking all necessary actions to save humans and their livestock. It is generally said where there is water there is life. Thank you. ASHA AHMED ABDALLA. Presidential Candidate

loooooooooooooool I'll be back...when the debate is over." -Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I trully thought the government shut it down. :rolleyes:

loooooooooool i tried to lick my elbow before I was done too!

I's good to see you agin, too Grinov.