Make yourself clear son!

^Ood ugu horeysid ina-adeer. You're not implying Morgan remnants rhetoric. You knew I was one of his worst critic though ther's been good reports about him. I don't wish to bring back old arguments and open up healed wounds but just reminding the oppressed ones in Kismaayo should be thankful to the librating forces. As a good Muslim, one is supposed to appreciate and show gratitude to the helping hand. A thank you note on SOL would suffice buddy. I'm sure SF would deliver just in time and feel appreciated. I hope the quick victory won't cause deep division in the TFG, not that they're united now. I don't wish to witness you and our good Jenerale struggling on how to run the city. If the TFG business is genuine, they'll overcome the wild dogs Melez let out of the box.

Praise Melez. Show your gratitude for Amxaar. Adeer was very grateful in that interview the other day. Leave credit where it belongs. That's what Muslims do. It was Indho-cade yesterday and today it is the filthy Amxaar. You know what that means. A chance of going AWOL once again if orders aren't followed as instructed. Ilaahaa laga magan galaa in Jaahiliya dib loogu laabo.

Caamiroow, I agree with you those protestors opposed the ICU invasion to the but that's not to say they favored TFG and its support and love affairs with Ethiopia. That's completely a different ballgame. Kismaayo residents could not have imagined Amxaaro bombing the nation's airports and Hiiraale considering Isreal an option to get rid of his fellow countrymen. These were inconceivable few months ago. What I despise is that forcing people to follow the hearts of the TFG and not hold their actions under scrutiny. That's basically what you're asking us. They have good heart and intentions and be patient with them. Fircoon had a good heart at least for women. TFG is legitimate in the eyes of Ethiopia and the Internationl community but are they really worth anything in Somalia? Be honest? Would you invite them to your living room and trust them with your family and children? You or I are not in a position to make that judgement call on behalf of Somali people but signs show the most hated men in their mix. I don't think Somalia could have any worst representation than these evil men.

^Are you saying thieves know how to compromise? There's no trust among thieves sxb. A picture has a thousand words!

It's called Jeffersonian Democracy.

Sxb, you think you can spin it. Here’s your initial claim that most Somalis support TFG hosting Amxaaro. As a matter of fact, most of Somalis do support their government's defensive action and the assistance lended by our neighbour, Ethiopia. And here’s your proof. have you forgotten the public protest in Kismayo, Merka, Barawe, and all these areas that used to be under the control of the ICU. Do you realy think people are that dumb. Kismaayo protesters has nothing to do with Amxaaro invitation or TFG love for Amxaaro. It was about ICU invasion to Kismaayo and Hiiraale’s ousting. And party with banning the qaat. Do you have any other proof other than snapshots of Somali news sites?

OMG! What a shock 100% so far. The bad news is that you can't convince them.

Caamiroow: when the Adhi-cade conflict is gonna start? You know Bush went to Iraq before mission was completed in Afghanistan. You also know Meles is a carbon copy. The game must continue. I'm waiting for the showdown of PL & SL.

Dictators don't usually get rid of the servent so long they're pleasing the master but you never know.

SF: You're obsessed with Somalia & Arabs. Have you heard: Soomaaliya Soomaali baa leh? No stalkers please.

There's some truth to that! Perhaps, politically Kilka lixaad. I don't know about the Visas but what I do know is that Ethiopia achieved many of its long term goals. Some of these include shuttering the dream of stable functioning government in Somalia. TFG doesn’t have a plan in place after the defeat of the ICU. Their plan so far is Muqdisho greeting the liberating Amxaaro army with flowers. Therefore, it must follow what Ethiopia has in store for them. Amxaar is smarter than you think. It’s not their interest to lose Tigre boys in the streets of Muqdisho or stay in the country too long. Heck no! Stupidh nomad boys are ready to do the work for pennies on the dollar and accomplish the rest of the mission. TFG has no monopoly over the South and there’s no warlord scarce in the South. No options for TFG but follow whatever Melez dictates otherwise Amxaar threatens the return of isbaaro. The division of TFG is just warming up. ICU is gone but the fighters are here to stay, not as mujahid but as ‘reer hebel’ fighter. Our own SOL will have its share of division between the TFG cheerleaders after the fall of Muqdisho. Soon after the dust settles PL will deploy its army to Adhi-cadde. SL is told forget the South, PL is a clear and present danger to you. It is a lose-lose situation for all, the TFG, ICU and the rest. The damage is already done. No point of return. Back to square one. Rag hunguri buu isku raacaa is going to back back pretty soon.

Door knob & Placeholder Idinka Horn aad heart attack ku rideysaan.

I didn't catch that part but the man is capable of such foolishness. Such interview undermines the legitimacy of the TFG. We await for another change of heart when Amxaaro leave and hell break loose.

Somalia's envoy to Addis Ababa said Ethiopian troops were within 40 miles (70 km) of Mogadishu and could capture it in 24 to 48 hours. Who is running the show? The ex-warlord turned government or the Ethiopian government? The reports don't add up.

UN council fails to agree on plea to end Somali war UNITED NATIONS, Dec 26 (Reuters) - A U.N. envoy urged the Security Council on Tuesday to call for an immediate halt in the fighting in Somalia or risk a broader conflict and greater instability in the chaotic Horn of Africa nation. Failure to reach a political settlement through a resumption of talks between Somali Islamists and interim government forces "would be disastrous for the long-suffering people of Somalia and could also have serious consequences for the entire region," said Francois Lonseny Fall of Guinea, Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special envoy for Somalia. But the 15-nation council was unable to reach agreement on such an appeal after Qatar, its sole Arab member, insisted the statement also call for the immediate withdrawal of Ethiopian forces -- as well as all other foreign forces -- from Somalia. The other council members backed a statement calling instead only for "unauthorized" forces to pull out, a phrase they argued would not apply to Ethiopian troops which were there at the invitation of the interim government. After more than three hours of negotiations, diplomats said the council was split 14 to one on the matter and suspended their efforts until Wednesday afternoon. In the meantime, the Arab League, the African Union and the regional Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, which brokered the installation of Somalia's shaky transitional government in 2004, were due to meet in Addis Ababa on Wednesday to discuss the situation, Fall said. A British diplomat involved in the talks, speaking on condition he not be identified by name, said the Qatari approach was flawed as it "put the cart before the horse." The approach favored by the other 14 council members would first call for a cease-fire, followed by a resumption of peace talks between the Islamists and the government, in hopes of ultimately reaching a deal creating the necessary conditions for a withdrawal of all foreign forces, this diplomat said. GOVERNMENT SAYS ETHIOPIA 'ACTING LEGALLY' The Qatari approach also risked backfiring as the Ethiopians were likely to ignore a plea to withdraw for now, this diplomat said. Somalia's deputy U.N. ambassador, Idd Beddel Mohamed, defended the Ethiopian intervention, saying Addis Ababa had sent troops "at the invitation of the transitional federal government, and is acting legally under international law." Mohamed said he had privately assured council members that his government was committed to a resumption of talks with the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) in hopes of national reconciliation. The council split as Ethiopia said it was halfway to crushing the Islamists with its forces advancing on Mogadishu, the Somali capital and ICU stronghold, after a week of war. Somalia's envoy to Addis Ababa said Ethiopian troops were within 40 miles (70 km) of Mogadishu and could capture it in 24 to 48 hours. Fall said there were reports of government forces marching toward Mogadishu from two directions. "However, they are still facing stiff resistance from the Union of Islamic Courts militias and their allies in several areas," he said. He said the fighting was spreading rapidly across areas previously held by the ICU, with forces loyal to the interim government taking control of, or advancing on, many towns outside their stronghold of Baidoa. Some 35,000 Somali refugees had already already fled to neighboring Kenya to avoid the fighting, and young men fleeing Mogadishu had told aid groups that children were being forcibly recruited as soldiers, Fall said. The fighting had also undermined efforts to aid 2 million people in south-central Somalia affected either by war or by earlier heavy flooding in the area, he said. All international aid workers had been evacuated from the area, Fall said. U.N. agencies and relief groups would try to resume aid deliveries using local personnel but could do so only to the extent they could gain access to the affected areas and carry out their work in safety, he said. Source

Ethiopian forces march to oust Islamist leadership in Somalia MOGADISHU, Somalia — Government troops backed by ground and air forces from neighboring Ethiopia swept toward the Somali capital of Mogadishu Tuesday as lightly armed Islamic fighters beat what their leadership called a tactical retreat and announced preparations for a long war. Christian-led Ethiopia claimed that its forces were halfway toward defeating the militias of the Council of Islamic Courts, a loose clan-based alliance of Muslim leaders that holds Mogadishu and had controlled most of southern Somalia. But the Courts' threat of waging a lengthy conflict raised the prospect that its fighters could bog Ethiopian forces down in a bloody insurgency bolstered by foreign jihadists. That could further destabilize the strategic Horn of Africa. The United States, which accuses the Courts of being in league with al-Qaida, sent its strongest signal since Africa's newest war erupted a week ago that it supported Ethiopia's military intervention. "Ethiopia has genuine security concerns with regard to developments within Somalia and has provided support at the request of the legitimate government authority," State Department spokesman Kurtis Cooper said in Washington. "We have urged and continue to urge the Ethiopian government to exercise maximum restraint in intervening or responding to developments in Somalia and to assure the protection of civilians." Ismail Hurre, the foreign minister of Somalia's U.N.-recognized Transitional Federal Government, said in a telephone interview from Nairobi, Kenya, that he was "sure" that U.S. surveillance aircraft were providing intelligence to Ethiopia. Pentagon officials couldn't be reached immediately for comment. In an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council, Francois Lonseny Fall, special envoy for Somalia, warned that a prolonged conflict "would be disastrous for the long-suffering people of Somalia and could also have serious consequences for the entire region." U.N. officials expressed deep concern, warning that some 800 injured civilians have sought medical help and that thousands of others were fleeing the fighting, which is disrupting aid supplies to 2 million people in south-central Somalia. Fall told the Security Council that fighting was taking place along a 250 mile-wide front and that government forces, backed by Ethiopia, were advancing on Mogadishu from two directions. "However, they are still facing stiff resistance from the Islamic Courts militias and their allies in several areas," he continued. As Ethiopian jets flew raids deep in Islamist-held territory, Ethiopian troops, tanks and heavy artillery and transitional government forces made dramatic new advances, capturing five key towns in central and southwestern Somalia without a fight. The advances vastly expanded the territory seized from the Islamists. Until the last few days, the Courts' militias had penned up the deeply unpopular transitional government in the town of Baidoa after overrunning Mogadishu and most of southern Somalia beginning in June. The advances brought Ethiopian forces and government troops closer to Mogadishu and Kismayo, a major port south of the capital captured by the Islamic Courts in September. In the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told a news conference that up to 1,000 Islamic fighters had been killed, a claim that couldn't be confirmed. Meles described the goal of what he said were 3,000 to 4,000 Ethiopian troops as crushing the Islamist militias and other "terrorists." "We have already completed half our mission, and as soon as we finish the second half, our troops will leave Somalia," he said. Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, a senior Islamist leader, said in Mogadishu that Courts militias were pulling back as part of a tactical retreat. "We are in a new phase," he said. "Since we don't have heavy artillery, we have decided to change our tactics, keeping in mind a long-term war to defeat Ethiopia." He indicated that the Courts could revert to guerrilla tactics against the Ethiopians, whose Christian-led country has fought two wars in the past 45 years with Somalia and is widely disliked by the overwhelmingly Muslim Somalis. U.N. officials have said that the Courts are backed by some 2,000 troops from Ethiopia's other regional foe, Eritrea. Hurre, the TFG foreign minister, predicted that it would be "very easy to run them (the Islamists) out of Mogadishu." But Samuel Assefa, the Ethiopian ambassador to the United States, said in a telephone interview that Ethiopian forces didn't plan to capture Mogadishu, but are seeking to force the Islamists to resume negotiations on power-sharing with the transitional government. "The idea is not to get rid of the party that will dialogue ... but to create an environment in which the other side feels the pressure to be properly motivated to enter the dialogue," he said. Many experts have questioned whether Ethiopian forces could subdue and stabilize Mogadishu when U.S. and U.N. peacekeepers failed to do so in the mid-1990s. McClatchy correspondent Roy Gutman contributed to this report. Elmi reported from Mogadishu; Landay reported from Washington. Source

Some would say I'm insulting door knobs here. LOOOL. Adiga ma door knob baad u bixisey. Rag horaa u bixiyey place holder.

keyboard Jihaad jano maa lagu galaa sxb Indhacadaad Mujaahid ku sheegtay Muslim kaloo badana waad tuhuntay?

Igu dar saaxiib, waxna kama qabo. I am sure you are hailing from the clan whose Suldaan of Burco had supported the Islamic movement of Somalia. What happend AU? Weren't you for Jihad and Jannah with drug lord Indhocade? Miyaad baqday?

So Ethiopia's conventional army is defeating the Islamic Court Union's militia in the field. What a surprise. Not. Months ago when it first became clear that a confrontation between Ethiopia and the ICU was brewing I noted that the ICU couldn't stand up to a conventional army. What I also noted is that it didn't matter - neither Ethiopia nor the internationally impossed interim Somali government have any popular support in Somalia. So what will happen is a guerilla war. And it will be exceptionally savage because the Ethiopians will fight it savagely as well as the ICU - they will depopulate entire villages, engage in retaliation killings and so on. Ironically the very thing that Ethiopia wanted to avoid - its own Somalis getting uppity, is now more likely to happen than ever. And the very thing the US wanted to avoid - al-Qa'eda having a power base in Somalia will happen for sure because other than Eritrea the ICU has no other possible allies. There's going to be more good news for Ethiopia for some time. But since they don't have an occupation military large enough to occupy and pacify all of Somalia I have a hard time seeing that this is going to turn out well for them in the long run. And what it will do, guaranteed, is further radicalize the ICU. Ethiopia isn't going to "win" this war in any useful sense unless they're smart enough to end it relatively soon and force some sort of treaty. If they go the distance they will bleed and bleed and bleed. Source

I think TFG is gone forever. Carta meeshey martay ayey TFG aaday. I guess that's one of the success of the ICU after the war. Each warlords in Baydhabo will soon secure a city of his own to plant isbaaro. As always and sadly, Xamar will see the worst bloodshed.

Good interview I guess if your name is TFG. Eithopia ayaa dhistay, aasaastay, daadihisay, korisay, TFG. The defense minister, Barre controls the Eithopian invation amry. I, Barre had a change of heart and now will welcome whatever necessary including Yahuud. Eithopian Amry are part of the TFG, wey joogayaan, nala shaqeynayaan so long we need them. Melez is right for killing 1,000 of my enemies. Only 1 POW Somali sent to Baydhabo hospital. Melez is a friend close at heart.

I thought the man was smarter than this. Not good interview I tell you.

The war in Somalia has increased in intensity, with Ethiopian planes bombing the airport in the capital, Mogadishu. The city is the stronghold of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), which are now confronting the Ethiopians in locations across 400km (250 miles) of Somalia. The Ethiopian incursion, in support of the weak but internationally-recognised Somali transitional government, is using tanks and heavy artillery, as well as aircraft and is reported to be making significant gains against the lightly-armed Islamic forces. Addis-Ababa has made it plain that it is determined to end what it sees as the threat from Somalia's Islamists once and for all. In a televised address, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said: "Our patience was considered as weakness and we were forced to go to war and the alternative left to us is to speedily bring the war to a successful and victorious end in the shortest time possible." Hostile territory Ethiopia has one of Africa's largest, best-equipped and most experienced armed forces, with more than 100,000 trained personnel. But the war they are now facing in Somalia will test their abilities to the full. The eastern region of Ethiopia, through which its forces must travel, are remote and have few resources. Its supply lines and communications were stretched even before they crossed the Somali border. It is also an area inhabited by Somali speakers, some of whom are sympathetic to the UIC now controlling Mogadishu. Somali and Oromo rebels operate in the area, and there have been reports of skirmishes in recent weeks. Inside Somalia the Ethiopians are likely to find few allies in the area they are now entering. Many Somalis, who are united by nothing else, will be determined to resist Ethiopian forces, with whom they have fought two wars in the past 50 years. Defections But the greatest challenge for Ethiopia is that its army is now facing hostile forces on two fronts. Somalia's Islamic militiamen have declared jihad against Ethiopia Eritrea, with whom it fought a bitter border war, that ended just six years ago, is fully mobilised and heavily armed. Ethiopia has to maintain a strong presence along its northern border, while fighting a hot war with Somali Islamists in the east. This comes at a time when there has been some discontent within the Ethiopian army. Several senior Ethiopian army officers have defected to the rebels based in Eritrea in the last few months. None of this implies that Ethiopia is incapable of meeting the challenges posed by the war in Somalia. But there are risks for Prime Minister Meles that he will have contemplated before committing his forces to the conflict that is now under way. BBC