^No wonder you call yourself cynical lady. JB, They must have made the change today. It has been showing Ethiopia all day yesterday.

^There I had a different impression adna waxaad ku gaabsatay my cheeseburger? Baashoow, blame it on poor leadership on PL admin. Cadde failed PL, much worst than the dark days of Ina Yusuf. The man could not run a treadmill let alone a system of governance. Ma is tiri booweyaasha aa laga xiniinyo roon yahay?

Kenya has been more than a second home country for millions of Somalis. Civil war is the last thing in East Africa. Allow ilaali.

^A separatist like you will bring about peace and stability?

"An American listening to a group of Somalis talking amongst themselves may interpret the discussion as a heated argument, when they are simply having a friendly conversation," the Diversity Tip Sheet says. Somalis do not often express appreciation verbally, it adds. Hiiraan I was reading this article in Hiiraan and I come to think, we do talk loud, louder than normal volume, especially on long distance phone calls. Is it loud noisy gene we inherited or just noisy culture?

Just few minutes ago, it said she was injured. Inaa Lilaah wa inaan ileyhi raajicuun...

Here's another educational video, no other than MIT linguist, Noam Chomsky on War on Terror.

I have come across some of the MIT & Berkeley free classes awhile back in YouTube. Check he has lots of very helpful videos. Also see this Link he put together for more classes.

Ilaahey ha u gargaaro, caafimaad sariicna ha siiyo. Aamiin.

Ban this Ediot yaakhey. He floods the forum with this single post.

^Wey ku sugtay khamri cabkaas.

^Adiga qolmaad gashaa Nin Brown?

^That sucked too. iPhone would have been much better choice. I think the poster edited some names out and added new ones. I would say remove 4 & 7. They're least likely to be described as the "Monkeys and Buffoons" on the list. Why not add Indhacade, Cabdi Qaasim, & Qeydiid to make a little inclusive.

Maxakiimta oo sheegtay Kismayo Sheekh Cabdiraxiin Cali Muudey oo ahaa mas'uulkii Maxkamadihii islaamiga u qaabilsanaa dhinaca warbaahinta ayaa sheegay in gacanta ay ugu jirto magaalada Kismaayo Golahii Maxaakiimta Islaamiga oo ay joogaan meel kasta oo dalka ka tirsan. Sheekh C/raxiim Cali Muudey oo u waramayey mid ka mid ah Idaacaddaha maxaliga ah ee ka jira Muqdisho ayaa sheegay in inta badan xubnihii Maxkamaddaha ay ku sugan yihiin gudaha magaalada Muqdisho, islamarkaana xusey in hadafkoodu yahay sidii dalka looga xoreyn lahaa wax uu ku sheegay gumeysiga ku soo duulay dalka. "Waan dagaalami doonaa inta caro ka mid ah dalka ay joogaan ciidamada Itoobiya" ayuu yiri Sheekh Cabdiraxiim Cali Muudey oo sheegay in ay dalka ka xoreyn doonaan wax uu ku tilmaamay Gumeysi ga iyo Gumeysi kalkaal midibka Soomaali leh. "Dalka weerar kuma nihin, waxaana nahay dad muwaadin ah, Golihii Maxaakiimtana meel walba ayey joogaan oo dalka ah, xataa Kismaayo, hadafkeenuna waa sidii dalka cadowga looga saari lahaa" ayuu mar kale yiri Sheekh C/raxiim oo sheegay in uu weli yahay Madaxa xafiiska Warfaafinta ee Golihii Maxaakiimta. Xubnihii Maxkamaddaha Islamiga ku mideysnaa ayaa lagu waramayaa in ay labo garab u kala qeybsameen kuwaasi oo qeyb ka mid ah ku biiray Ururka Al-Shabaab ee uu Hoggaamiyo Aadan Xaashi Ceyrow iyo koox kale oo ka mid noqotay Isbaheysiga dib u xoreynta dalka ee lagu soo dhisay dalka Erateriya iyadoo sidoo kale ay jiraan koox dhex dhexaad ah oo dooneysa in wada hadal lala galo dowladda. Madaxweynaha DFKMG ah ayaa asbuucii la soo dhaafey shegey in Kismayo gacanta ugu jirto beelaha Somaliyed mid ka mid ah hadalkaas oo ay diideen xubno ku sugan junadda Hoose Garowe Online,Muqdisho

Kismaayo: Taliye ku xigeenkii Nabadsugida Kismaayo oo toogasho lagu dilay Kismaayo(AllPuntland)- Kooxo ku hubeysan Bastoolado ayaa saakay toogasho ku dilay Taliye ku xigeenkii ciidamada nabadsugida Allaha u naxariistee Col. Muqtaar Cabdi Axmed oo ku magac dheeraa Muqtaar Dheere xili uu ku sugnaa goob ay ku kala wareegaan gaadiidka BL-ka oo ku taal magaalada Kismaayo. Dilka Mas'uulkan ayaa waxaa geystay sida la sheegay nin wajiga soo duubtay, wuxuuna ku furay dhowr xabadood oo madaxa iyo caloosha kaga dhuftay, halkaasoo uu ku ruux baxay Col. Muqtaar Dheere. Ninkii falkan dilka ah geystay ayaa baxsaday iyadoo ciidamada amaanka magaalada Kismaayo ay bilaabeen in ay baadi goobaan ninkaasi oo la sheegay in wejiga uu soo qarsaday, lama oga sababta ka danbeysa dilka Sarkaalkan hase ahaatee dadka magaalada ayaa falkan ku tilmaamay inuu la xariiro ugaarsiga lagu haayo xubnaha Dowladda ka tirsan ee ku sugan Kismaayo. Taliyaha ciidamada Saldhiga Kismaayo Ibraahim Khaliif "Shanfool" ayaa sheegay in aysan u suuragelin in ay gacanta ku soo dhigaan kooxihii ka danbeeyay dilka sarkaalkan balse ciidamadu ay wadaan howlgalo baaritaan ah oo lagu ogaanayo cidii ka danbeysay dilkan. Horay ayaa sidaan oo kale magaalada Kismaayo dil toogasho ah ay ugu geysteen Col. Maqdal oo ka tirsanaa saraakiisha sare ee ciidamada Booliska Kismaayo, iyadoo aan gacanta lagu soo dhigin kooxihii ka danbeeyay dilkaasi, waxaana maalmahan magaalada Kismaayo ku soo badanayey falalka amni daro ee ay geysanayaan maliishiyooyinka hubeysan. Cali Muxiyaddiin Cali AllPuntland, Muqdisho

Wey ku amaantay qoftaas.

Jim

Thanks all for replying. I got this letter on my desk and I don't know what to do with it. They schedule it so far ahead that you can't tell if you're going to be available or not.

Niece of Somali leader convicted in HMO billing scam Jurors found that Omar, 44, of Eden Prairie, participated in a scheme that bilked more than $1.5 million in medical assistance payments between 2001 and 2004, ostensibly for interpreting services that were never provided. By DAN BROWNING, Star Tribune Last update: December 14, 2007 - 5:57 AM Indadeeq Omar, the niece of a former Somali president and a prominent member of the Twin Cities Somali community, was convicted Thursday of a wide-ranging health care fraud and money laundering conspiracy after a six-day federal court trial in Minneapolis. Jurors found that Omar, 44, of Eden Prairie, participated in a scheme that bilked more than $1.5 million in medical assistance payments between 2001 and 2004, ostensibly for interpreting services that were never provided. The indictment says that Omar, her husband, Mohamed Essa, and a former Medica employee named Tou Chaiker Vang conspired to submit phony bills for the services. Vang, 39, of Maplewood, pleaded guilty in the case and testified against Omar. Essa, 51, has fled and remains a fugitive. That left just Omar to stand trial. With her three young daughters looking on, Omar testified Tuesday that she knew nothing about the alleged crimes and merely did what her late brother, Ahmed Omar, had told her to do when she submitted claims for the phantom interpreting services. But assistant U.S. attorneys John Marti and William Otteson put on overwhelming evidence demonstrating that she was president and secretary of Global Interpreters Services Inc., and had overseen the filing of "tens of thousands" of bogus claims to Medica, which processed the Medicaid payments for the government. Marti told jurors in his closing arguments that Omar and her husband had spent the money they got from the scheme lavishly. They spent $18,000 to whiten Omar's teeth. They paid $205,985 in cash for a down-payment on their $600,000 house. They paid $43,000 for a custom Chrysler 300 C sedan. And they paid about $45,000 a year in tuition for their three daughters, ages 9, 15 and 17, to attend the International School, he said. Omar, who in 2002 received an award for her work with Somali refugees, now faces decades in prison. "These guilty verdicts today send a message about the seriousness of this type of financial fraud," the IRS said in a statement after the verdict. "Health Care Fraud is an emphasis area for our agency and our role in multi-agency task force investigations includes documenting the flow of the money to show how the perpetrators of these schemes financially benefit from their fraudulent activities." Omar is from a prominent family in Somalia. She testified that her father had been the nation's education minister, and her uncle, Ali Scermarke Abdirascid, served as prime minister of Somalia when it gained its independence in 1960. Her maternal uncle was elected to parliament in 1964 and became president in 1967 but was assassinated just over two years later. "The case is bigger than the defendant. It's as if the Somali community is on trial," said Omar Jamal, executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center. Jamal, who attended the trial in U.S. District Court, explained that Omar and Essa touched much of the Somali community with their social work and their interpreting business. Recent clan meetings have focused on the repercussions the case might have, he said. Essa and Omar started a social services organization in Minneapolis called the Somali Community of Minnesota in 1995. Essa was its executive director, while Omar initially kept her full time job at Lutheran Social Services. The couple helped thousands of Somali refugees and were recognized in 2002 with a Virginia McKnight Binger award for human service. Omar testified that she and Essa, who was born in Yemen, were betrothed when she was 8 or 9 years old. Omar moved to the United States in 1982 for schooling and married Essa. Each later became U.S. citizens. When Global Interpreters started in June 1993, Ahmed Omar was listed as the contact person. State records show that the business incorporated in 1996, with Essa as its CEO and Omar as the secretary. They had a 50:50 share. The investigation into their billings began in September 2003, when John Callinan, a former U.S. postal inspector working for Medica, noticed that a lot of Global Interpreter's claims for services failed to match dates for clients' medical clinic visits. Callinan testified that Essa had told him he should see Omar, who was president of the company. Omar failed to turn over records in a timely fashion, he said, so Medica cancelled the Global's contract. Callinan said his investigation found that more than $1.1 million in claims for interpreting services lacked matching clinic visits. He turned the case over to investigators with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Internal Revenue Service. Tou Vang, the Medica employee who served as Global's liaison, testified that he had noticed the same pattern in the late 1990s. Rather than report it, Vang said, he met with Omar and Essa and proposed "doing a scam" on Medica. He said they quickly agreed. Vang said he provided Omar with names of Medica patients and dates that they visited health clinics so that Global could submit bogus bills. He said his cut of the payments was to be 60 percent, and he wanted it in cash. "I was crazy for cars," Vang said. But Omar and Essa paid him with checks made out in the names of fictitious interpreters. He said he deposited the checks into his accounts, collecting more than $200,000. Vang grew concerned about getting caught in 2002, when he sent a fax to Omar complaining that Global was continuing to submit a large number of bills that lacked matching clinic visits. "I found that she had a lot of appointments -- much, much more than what I provided her -- that she just put in herself, just random dates," he said. Vang sent Omar a fax begging her to stop. "This is a life and death situation for me," he wrote. Margot Kraker, Omar and Essa's accountant, testified that she had trouble getting the couple to provide Social Security numbers for the interpreters they hired so that she could send them income tax forms. She explained that such forms were required for any contractors who receive $600 or more in a given year. The government produced evidence showing that the vast majority of payments Global made to its interpreters were in amounts just under $600. And each of the interpreters was paid only once in a given year. Prosecutors said the names were mostly fictitious. Omar, who admitted making out the checks, would often deposit them into her own bank accounts. She denied endorsing them, and said the money was owed to her family members because they had paid the interpreters earlier in cash out of their own funds. Several genuine interpreters, whose names appeared on some of checks that Omar cashed, testified that someone had forged their signatures on the checks, and they denied giving Omar permission to cash any checks. Omar testified that she simply had followed her late brother's instructions when she made out the checks and deposited them. But evidence showed that her brother had suffered several debilitating strokes. Omar also testified that her family had assets in Somalia that gave her the money to spend on the house, car, dental work and school tuition, despite the fact that her brother was receiving Social Security disability payments and her mother was receiving medical assistance. "We had the money," Omar testified earlier this week when questioned about the expenditures. "Money from Medica." Marti said. "From my family heritage," Omar replied. In a blistering closing argument, Marti called Omar's explanations "laughable." Marti also reminded jurors that a former Global employee had testified that Omar tried to get her falsify her testimony. That allegation resulted in a separate charge of witness tampering. Marti recounted the testimony of an IRS agent who said the scheme was based on a "convoluted, extensive, dizzying array of financial transactions." There were nearly 30,000 bad claims filed over four years, amounting to $1.8 million, he said. "At least 85 percent of the claims submitted to Medica were fraudulent." Marti told jurors they should wade through the boxes of evidence and follow the money to see where it ended up. "You look at who gets the money," he said. "$18,000 for shiny white teeth. That's where it ended up," Marti said. "That's greed." Jurors found Omar guilty of all 46 counts. They also determined that the purchase of two of her three homes, as well as her custom car, were obtained with tainted funds, making them subject to forfeiture. Omar remained passive as U.S. District Judge Joan Ericksen read the verdict. Her three children wept. "We're very disappointed. But she will accept whatever fate comes her way," one of her attorneys, Timothy Anderson, said. "But now the focus is on the children and figuring out what to do with them." Ericksen placed Omar under house arrest, giving her a week to resolve such questions. Dan Browning • 612-673-4493 Source

^I don't think that's Lazyie's line of argument. lol@Umu Zak & North. Lazy: Habarta shidh bey ku siisay? Ciyaal mey kaa dishay or are you just after some jaajuus prize? Seriously, can you proof what you're alleging in a court of law? Islaamaha waayeelka are more ceydh receipient than anyone else. Perhaps, you want to snitching 'em too? Khalqiga adi ma abuuranee banaanka ka mar hadaadan kheyr u heyn.

Ever called to serve on jury duty for trial?

A mu'min is supposed to turn any situation to his advantage and never gives up hope on his creator. Speaking of hope in Somalia and its people, the analogy of the hadith of the double deck boat sailing in high waters comes to mind. If the upper deck were to provide water for their counterparts in the basement and they refuse to do so. The lower deck crew would go ahead and poke a hole in the floor, thus flooding the boat and sinking them all in the end. All good things said about Somalis; they fall short on Amr bil-macruuf Wa-nah canil Munkar. Regardless the circumstance or place, qabiil takes precedence over the common good & welfare of the society and deen. Allah doesn't change people until they do.

Thanks North. I just read it on Arab News.

VOA

^My thoughts exactly. Does he live in a different planet? Amxaaro u dhaaray, Ugandeskana u caga juglee, war ninku xoog badnaa.