Carafaat, if I am mistaking you for someone else, I think you were open to the idea of LA being the venue of the conference. If you held that opinion, then LA would had been chosen, don't you think that would have generated the same protests from segments of SSC as the ones you have posted? Also, you have alluded that there wont be any fruitful outcome from the conference since it will held in Taleex, should we take that as irrelevant opinion of yours then?

Carafaat;748163 wrote: Xaaji, you do understand that Taleex in under the control and sphere of influence of Puntland. And that the Garaad who picked the location is working for Puntland? So, I really dont expect much from the outcome anymore. This conference will be comparable with the Boocame Conference. Carafat, would you have supported if LA had been decided to be the host city?

His message or the empty thread, how ever you see it, is toward his I clan. The 5000 is a reference to Burco's clan wars in the 90s. The dude must have been high on Tahliishii Sheekh Rabiic.

Have they really learned anything though? It's really an interesting program... Jendayi Frazer on Somalia: "And then the fourth and last and most unfortunate, from my perspective, was of course the Horn of Africa. I went in as assistant secretary determined not to do Somalia. I absolutely had no desire to deal with Somalia at all. I didn’t see that there was any solution there. I did not think it was right for any type of, you know, conflict-resolution approach, nation-building, state-building – whatever you want to call it, I didn’t think Somalia was right for it. Because of another agency that will go unnamed and their activities, we ended up being right in the middle of Somalia, and the decision was made that we needed to internationalize our engagement in Somalia. Essentially that other agency was narrowly focused on counterterrorism and got in the middle of the unwieldy dynamics of clan, ascendancy, and warlordism, et cetera. And so we wanted to internationalize. So we established a Somali contact group. I think the idea there was to internationalize it and then pull out, right? And leave it to others, the Nordics and others, the Italians and now the British and others. But we were – they were smart enough to not allow us to get out – (laughter) – and so we stayed stuck. And unfortunately, you know, not to say anything disparaging about the, you know, the importance of the lives of the Somali people, because we had a very robust humanitarian response to Somalia, but from a conflict resolution perspective, then as is, you know, now, we really had to work hard to try to bring some type of, you know, peace process to the fore and obviously it’s not a success, even to this day. And so those were, I think the four: institution building, Sudan, Somalia, Great Lakes and West Africa." CONSTANCE NEWMAN: "I wanted to get in on the discussion of Somalia, though. One thing that has happened is that there’s a large diaspora of Somalis in the U.S., and they are very strong and they go to the elected officials and insist on certain recognition and policies affecting Somalia. And I think that we may not be recognizing how strong the people in Somalia are because they have had no government. And I know we all think it’s great to have a democracy – and it is – but what has happened in Somalia is that the people in the nongovernmental organizations have been running the education system and their hospitals, and they are some of the strongest, most effective organizations that I have seen on the – on the continent. And so when we – when we talk about Somalia and have certain regrets about what our policies have been, I think we are missing another point, which is that in parts of Somalia the people are running themselves in very effective ways. And what happens is the diaspora is trained here and the U.K. and Italy, and they go back and they are running large parts of the organizations that make lives much easier for people than I think we understand. Yeah." On Western Aid to Africa: ..I have a different point of view of foreign aid. Look at all the budgets out there. Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda – between 25 and 50 percent of their budgets is foreign aid, whether it’s World Bank, IMF, European Union, you name it. That’s a lot. And it shows in my view that foreign aid is becoming a crutch. It has become a crutch. And they’re relying on it to meet their needs. And I think I’m on the side of Debisa Moyo (ph). I think it should be phased out. We should announce a phasing out of bilateral development aid. Of course, we keep up humanitarian for disasters and that sort of thing. And the only way to go in my view is to build up the indigenous African private sector. There is $800 billion to a trillion of African money sitting outside of Africa today. The World Bank tells me that. It’s not my – I haven’t made that up. That money has to come back and it only can come back if the African governments create the environment to make it safe. And that’s where we should be putting our attention – making it safe for the private sector. Net, it will take off. But as long as we keep feeding into African budgets with foreign aid, that’s not going to happen. It’s not going to happen. So I have a radical view of things and I think it should be out there for debate." http://www.acus.org/event/united-states-policy-towards-africa-lessons-learned" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen> Video http://www.acus.org/event/united-states-policy-towards-africa-lessons-learned/transcript Transcript

^lol@ NG Leave him alone

Naag qaawan xattaa ma lasoo dhajiyay for SL cause? War dee SOL rules ayaad jabisay!

Ms MoOns;747968 wrote: So the king grants women the right to vote in elections, yet they still don't have the right to drive. Does he expect them to ride a camel to the poll? Their Pakistani chauffeurs will take them there and anywhere else as they do it now. This is great leap forward for their social struggle and we should least congratulate them and the their king.

^lol. He's indeed showing the symptoms. If this going to help his urges, by all means let him post!

Midkan Google Earth-ka ku cusub miyaa?

I thought all of the Somali students were supposed to leave from Mogadisho. Naga daa adeer. Visa-ha Turkishka waxaa laga qaadanaayay Xamar cadey.

They have waited this long just to come up with "we were sitting there" lines? There was a rumor that they have already apologized. If it was a typo or misinformation by the media, then they ought to be making some noises.

65 young Somali lives saved from self destruction. Ameen to that!

The damaged has already been done. But I am hearing that the TFG has privately apologized to the Iranians for their diplomatic gaffe at the UN. God know at what capacity. But hope it was at the Pres office or the PM office level.

Is this even true? The video doesn't show Somalis walking out of the hall, and sfgate and huffpost aren't reliable source. Bring us something tangible to believe. There is no reason why Somali diplomats should walk out of the speech of Iranian president(friendly nation). Warkaan ha lagu noqdo.

Che -Guevara;747664 wrote: Stoic......Xaaji just answered that question. Gheelle.T is public figure and subject to ridicule apart from other things not Cowke was even ridiculing him. Che, since when did I become a public figure? Waryaa magaca iiga hadh lol@universaltv firing Cawke. If like it was million dollar job.

D/P

This is a moment of truth indeed! Great speech.

We will see who votes and vetoes his bit. Apparently I cant find the interview, post the link.

Obama "America's first Jewish President" Obama is the "the first Jewish President". That's the title of New York magazine's lead article, written by John Heilemann and quoting a major Obama fundraiser. Listening to Obama speak at the United Nations on Wednesday many would nod in agreement, not less in Palestine and the Arab world. The US president has embraced the rejectionist Israeli position on the question of international recognition of an independent Palestinian state. But that's not a Jewish position. It's a radical Zionist position. Many Jews, including US and Israeli Jews, do not embrace such extremist views. But the fact that Obama surpassed his predecessor George W Bush, the most radical supporter of Israel among all US Presidents, has left everyone in Israel dumbstruck. The latest Zionist US president sounded like Israel's own founding fathers. Never have they heard a US president read straight from the papers of the Israeli government. Read it more: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/09/201192216365733499.html

Ada Islii aa ka hadlee, maraykan ay makhaayado Soomaali oo 60% score ka kicin aa haynaa. Coffee joints hortooda warkooda isba daa..

It's very sad story.

I have watched the video and the press briefing afterward, and overall he did excellent. He laid his plan on the table, and we shall see what the SC recommendation gonna be like.

That line could be interpreted in completely different thing.. bal hook up kaa meesha ka saar

This is perhaps the kind of OLDIEs JB is talking about.. They used to be hit in Mog back in 80s. Even SomTv used featured them!! What was that Music show called, any one? The host used have a good taste for African Congolese and Swahili music.

Saalax Qaasim iyo Hiba Nuura "mar baan is iraa kuf oo kac" yaa haya. Iyo Sayid Khalifa's Dumarka/hablaha. Val, Baxsan and Xassan's kala harimayno is one helluva classic song. What a lyrics.. Waxay tiri: Hilbaheebaa isku yaalloo nafteenu waa hal qura'a oo kala harimayno illeenne hog haddii aad ku dhacaysooo ani uun baa kaaga horaynee...