^Gabdhuhu waxay u qaateen doodaada rag difaac inay ku saleysan tahay. Wax fahan, as Ngonge says. This ain't only xiin's sentiment. Dadkoo dhan baa yiri magacayaga ha naloo daayo. Ciyaalkan fadarada ah maxkamad iyo sharci baa la marin, not magacayaga. Eeg maqaalkan hoose. On the topic: ABC 20/20 goor aan fogeyn ka daawaday nin sidan oo kale 20 sano noloshiisa ku dhameystay xabsi dambi uusan galin. His case, waxaaba ka sii naxdin badnaa, no crime took place at all. All was alleged rape, molestation on his own children. Wuxuu ahaa former askari oo x-wifekiisa u qayishay. Maskiinka 20 years iyo his kids wey dhaafsiisay for just nothing. Dambiga uu galay you ask? Dumar la tumasho while he remained married to her. Does that warrant rape accusation of his own little children and twenty years behind bars? No dna or confession. His children whom were alleged were his victims, rescued him in the end and the truth set him free. About 80 people, including Somali community leaders and local politicians, met at the Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis to discuss recent allegations of gang activity and sex trafficking in the community. “This is not who we are. We are decent people,’’ said Abdil Ahmed, co-owner of the restaurant. Somalis gather to decry crimes Hours after five defendants appeared in court Friday in a case of alleged human trafficking, local Somali leaders met to denounce criminal behavior while showing support for the families of the accused and the alleged victims. The need for unity in the Somali community was a key message of speakers at a meeting Friday night that drew more than 80 people to a midtown Minneapolis restaurant. Even so, disagreement was evident about the nature and extent of Somali gang activity. "We are standing together and want our kids to get a fair trial," said Hodan Hassan, a meeting organizer who said she was not related to any of the accused or the alleged victims. Several speakers urged the public to withhold judgment of the accused while the legal process unfolds. The defendants may not be guilty, and the media have wrongly portrayed them as representatives of the whole Somali community, some argued. "This is not who we are. We are decent people,'' said Abdul Ahmed, co-owner of the Safari Restaurant, where the meeting was held. Friday's meeting came four days after federal agents and local police rounded up more than a dozen suspects in the alleged ring. In an indictment made public Monday, the government alleges that members of three local Somali gangs -- the Somali Outlaws, the Somali Mafia and the Lady Outlaws -- carried out a 10-year conspiracy that includes the sex trafficking of minors, burglary, credit card fraud, intimidation and perjury. Twenty-nine people have been indicted by a federal grand jury, most of them accused of selling four underage girls -- one as young as 12 -- as prostitutes. Some at Friday's meeting, including Hassan, said they don't believe the accused are gang members. Asked whether she believes Somali gangs are active in Minneapolis, she said, "I have never seen any at all." Others disagreed. "The problem is there, no question about it,'' said Mahamed Cali, executive director of the Somali American Community. Too many Somali teens have already died in shootings, he said. "As a community, we have to take responsibility to educate the parents, to educate the youth." Speakers in the restaurant's banquet room, who addressed the audience mostly in Somali, ranged from religious leaders and an attorney to newly elected Minneapolis school board member Hussein Samatar. A local imam and others said they have reached out to families of both the suspects and the alleged victims, offering spiritual guidance and connecting them with lawyers. Disputing charges All but one of 13 defendants to appear in court in Minneapolis will be transferred to jails in Nashville while awaiting arraignment in federal court. Those hearings are expected to occur in the next week or two. During the court hearings in Minneapolis this week, a couple of points were made clear: At least some of the suspects say they did not know their victims were underage. Others dispute the government's charges that they are gang members. "This girl told me she was 19," Yassin Yusuf, 20, said to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after he was arrested. "I believed she was 19. She's ruined my life." According to the federal indictment, Yusuf in May 2007 drove a victim who was 12 or 13 at the time to Rochester "for the purpose of charging persons money to engage in sex" with her. In April 2009, Yusuf is alleged to have taken the victim to another location where she was told to perform a sex act on a man in exchange for marijuana, and on another man for marijuana and liquor. Later, he and others allegedly drove her to Nashville. They were later stopped by Nashville police and Yusuf was arrested for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The victim was in the car. Federal defender Andrea George argued in court Friday for Yusuf's release pending trial, saying "he has an absolute defense"-- that he did not know the victim was underage. But Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Kovats told U.S. Magistrate Judge Franklin Noel: "The merits of this case will be decided later in Tennessee, not here today." With that, Noel ordered Yusuf remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service. The only suspect allowed to report to Nashville on her own is Bibi Said, who is pregnant. Her first hearing is Nov. 30. On Friday, one of the three suspects still being sought in the case was arrested and booked into the Ramsey County jail, said St. Paul Police Cmdr. Tina McNamara. Ahmed Aweys Sheik, whose last name she said also has been spelled Sheikh, was arrested at 6:17 p.m. by the Gerald Vick Human Trafficking Task Force. James Walsh • 612-673-7428 Sarah Lemagie • 952-882-9016 Staff writer Anthony Lonetree contributed to this report.

Three pirates shot dead attacking Kenyan navy MOMBASA, Kenya — The Kenyan navy shot dead three suspected Somali pirates who had attacked a naval patrol off the coastal town of Kilifi, the Kenyan defence ministry spokesman said Saturday. The exact circumstances of the incident, in which a fourth suspected pirate drowned trying to flee, were not immediately clear but spokesman Bogita Ongeri said the gang attacked a Kenyan navy ship at around 11:30 pm (2030 GMT) Friday. Ongeri said the attack took place well inside Kenyan waters, off the town of Kilifi, which is located some 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of the country's main port of Mombasa. "The government will not relent in its fight against piracy", Ongeri said, adding that he would make more details available after hearing the Kenyan captain's report. Somali pirates have over the past two years expanded their area of operations south and east in the Indian Ocean to avoid the heavily-patrolled waters of the Gulf of Aden, initially their preferred hunting zone. Kenya and the Seychelles are the only coastal countries to have agreed to try suspects handed over by foreign navies. Kenya has since routinely complained the deal was straining an already stretched court system. Last week 26 suspects accused of piracy were freed either for lack of evidence or because the court said it did not have jurisdiction. The rulings have raised questions over the future of Kenya's judicial agreement with foreign navies.

^Boowe waxaa lagu moodaa qof iska war hayya. Gabbal: PL iyo Faroole inaga daayee adeer Hiiraale muxuu helay? Meeshaasey wax inooga dhow yihiinee.

^Oo boowe adigu ma yaanyuurahaad halkan ka matashaa? Waree Zaky ragga hoos ha ugu dhigin dee.

A friend of mine was shopping last night at a mall when he run to these twins. He said wuu ku naxay markuu maqlay labadan gabdhood oo mid walba gooni u hadleysa. Youtube

Canadian troops were forced to pull out of Camp Mirage last week in retaliation for the federal government’s refusal to allow UAE carriers Emirates and Etihad Airways to land more often at Canadian airports. The Canadian government had been using the base for free for nine years. But leaving is complicated – there are huge logistical issues including moving equipment and now having to factor in fuel costs for the longer routes between Afghanistan and the alternative bases in Germany and Cyprus. Canada had military base in UAE? And they were using it for FREE yet they couldn't accommodate landing slots for only two UAE airlines? Just to protect Air Canada? I guess Air Canada can now come up with the $300m the military has to pay now. UAE is showing some xiniinyo lately.

Che: That was one of the saddest moment of the documentary I think. He asked for an attorney and was threatened with a death penalty. He should have shut down completely and not utter another word. Then again, that's too easy for us to say when you're in the situation is totally different. The only good think that come out I think waa in the corrupt detective helay wuxu hormarsaday. It reminded me of tv show aan waa hore arkay xayeysiintiisa, . Originally posted by chocolate & honey: The Somaliness of the criminals is relevant because they're selling their own people; they know the language, the community, the neighborhoods and they have so much leverage. Less innocent youngesters would've fallen if the recruiter wasnt a somali person speaking their language, dressed in the same clothing, calling them abaayo. How do you not see the relevance? How so? Please elaborate more on the relevance of the ethnicity of the accused in the eyes of the law? I don't know why their 'Somaliness' would matters in the court. In the court of law, one's origin, culture, ethnicity, sex and race shouldn't matter. That's how the law is written and upheld. Is male pimp less or more guilty than a female pimp? Is Mexican, Asian, Jamaican or black/white gang/drug dealer less guilty than Somali one? As much I abhor the alleged crime, we shouldn't try to convict or execute them before we get the whole story. Let them have their day in court. No matter what you or a report dragging the Somali name in the mud thinks, I'm sure the larger Somali community welcome these thugs behind bars, that's after giving them their day in court.

Laa xowla walaa quwata ilaa bilaah! I couldn't believe what my ears where hearing this afternoon on the radio. I phoned a friend and he said he heard it on the radio too. He added magaalada waan iska joognaa, waxa ka socda maba ogin. Ciyaalka Soomaalida between drugs, gangs shooting and prostitution. Maxaa haray? Midda xaamilada 8 biloodka ah aaba iigu daran. Indictment: Somali gangs ran sex ring in 3 states St. Paul, Minn. — Twin Cities girls, including some who were 13 and younger, were shuffled across state lines to work as prostitutes in a wide-reaching sex-trafficking operation controlled by Somali gangs, according to an indictment unsealed Monday in federal court. At a news conference in Nashville Monday morning, U.S. Attorney Jerry Martin announced the 24- count indictment against three women and 26 men. The alleged victims, all minors, were listed as Jane Doe 1 through 4. "The indictment alleges that this conspiracy involved other children and victims in addition to Jane Does 1 through 4 over a significant period of time," said Martin. "The indictment sets forth in detail a wide-ranging conspiracy, both in duration and scope, to bring young girls -- some of whom were no more than children -- into this district for the purpose of engaging in sex acts for monetary gains by the defendants." The defendants are listed by name, and nickname: Shorty, Forehead, Hollywood, Barnie. The indictment describes how the girls were transported between Minnesota, Tennessee and Ohio, how cell phones were used to recruit customers, and how money, alcohol and drugs were exchanged for sex. Three Minneapolis gangs allegedly operated the ring, including an all-female gang known as The Lady Outlaws. Working with the Somali Mafia and the Somali Outlaws, the group recruited pre-teen and teenage girls to have sex in exchange for cash, marijuana and other items, the indictment said. The female victims were forced to engage in sex acts in places ranging from a Minneapolis apartment complex to a men's bathroom in a Blaine shopping mall. In all, 29 people were indicted on charges of sex trafficking of juveniles and other crimes. The sex ring operated in the Twin Cities, Nashville, and Columbus, Ohio. Authorities noted the unusual scope of the organized sex-trafficking operation in a press conference Monday in Nashville. "The number of defendants, the number of states, the movement, that there were repeated victims, repeated commercial sex acts that were alleged in the indictment, gives you some sense of the size of the case," said John Morton, Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "I would call this one of the more significant cases we've investigated in recent memory." Authorities say the trafficking took place over the course of a decade, beginning in 2000. The gangs also transported the Somali- and African-American girls from the Twin Cities to other cities to work as prostitutes. Everyone who was involved in the case immigrated to the U.S. legally. In addition, the gangs allegedly conspired to block the investigation and committed perjury while testifying before a federal grand jury. The investigation began in 2008, and was led by St. Paul Police and members of the Task Force on Human Trafficking, which includes federal, state and local law enforcement. The case first came to light in September, after investigators asked a Ramsey County judge for permission to search the cell phone records of a 15-year-old girl. Authorities believe the girl was lured into a large prostitution ring controlled by Somali gangs. Officials say the Jane Does in the case are being taken care of and not in danger anymore. They warned law enforcement is watching the Jane Does, and anyone interfering with them or their families would be obstructing justice. Twelve of the defendants made their first court appearance at the federal courthouse in Minneapolis Monday. The defendants are expected to be taken to Nashville to face charges there, as well. While most of the defendants and victims are from Minnesota, a spokeswoman from the U.S. Attorney's office in Minneapolis said the decision was made to prosecute out of Nashville with assistance from Minneapolis. If convicted of the sex-trafficking offenses, the defendants could face 15 years to life in prison. Many Somali-Americans in Minnesota say they hope the developments today will help dismantle the shadowy underworld of human trafficking of their girls. "In the Somali community, this is a very shameful act," said Dahir Jibreel, executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center. "It's not something that people talk about in the open. We need to root out the problem." Jibreel said he learned of several arrests this morning in Bloomington, Minneapolis and St. Paul. Some say in general, trafficking victims are vulnerable to recruitment after running away from their homes. Some of the girls are lured by promises of a better life, and move into houses shared with other girls and their victimizers, who tended to be women, said community activist Abdirizak Bihi, who has counseled victims through his work with the group Civil Society. "And many men come to the home providing small things such as paying for their cell phones, or stuff they want to buy, and taking advantage sexually of those young girls," Bihi told MPR News earlier this fall. (Reporter Blake Farmer of WPLN, Nashville, contributed to this report.) Source

These clips bring back good childhood memories. Video 1 Masha'allaah

^War ninku muxuu yiri, apps re-launch after they're already running and in use? work in progress? Windows waan ka xumahay ain't upto the competition. Jabka Nina waan ka xumahay runtii and tuugaas si xunnaa u habaartay. I too had a change of heart under a similar circumstance. My windows device decided to die on me recently and I was lucky a friend was about to upgrade to iPhone 4 so kii horaan dhaxal ku helay. Let's just say I didn't regret my phone dying. Actually, I'm glad it died the right time I am not a big fan of Apple but I've to admit the apps won me over. Now if I can only get Java to run on it. Android can wait for awhile.

"Anyone working for NBC News who takes part in civic or other outside activities may find that these activities jeopardize his or her standing as an impartial journalist because they may create the appearance of a conflict of interest,” the NBC News policy reads. “Such activities may include participation in or contributions to political campaigns or groups that espouse controversial positions. You should report any such potential conflicts in advance to, and obtain prior approval of, the president of NBC News or his designee." A big lost for the progessive voice especially after they successfully forced ABC News to drop that Andrew Beenlaawebart from their election coverage. What would Rachel and Ed [most progressive commentators of MSNBC] do taloow? Stand up to expose their employer's double standard in dealing with Keith and risk getting sacked? Scarborough donated more but still on TV. I can't wait Steward taking on this. MSNBC is risking losing its base viewers. What's with these left leaning media lately. NPR asking its employees to not go to the Sanity Rally? MSNBC firing employee for donating to the dem and not republicans.

^Mada but it sure sounds like Yogurt Badhaadhe laga cuno. What about kiss-maanyo?

^What you said? Waraa Kulbiyoowna maxaa ku baray?

^Masaajidkana fadhi-ku-dirirka qabiilka ma geysay? JB: How many Somalis died his week in SL that may be deserving of your duco and attention? Wallee gumeystihii haduusan xoog kugu heysan wili maskaxduu kaa heystaa.

Thanks for link Cara. Wow what a huge turn out. Only in America could this happen. Great comedy.

Too many costly negative attack ads played in the airwaves this particular midterm election. I think this is one of the most powerful ads yet run ah that exposes the republicans more than anything.

Midkaan wax akhrinaaya is the biggest saqajaan. Reminds of the stories of ciyaal faaycali. Indhihiisa shaqadey hayaan aan ka yaabay. Marna wuxuu ka hadlaa diin iyo gaalnimo, marna dooro iyo balaayo iskudaaya marna pork iyo salary iyo wax aanba loo joogin. Waxaaba iiga daran how strong they hold the hands of the couple and keep a straight face the whole time. The couple mar dambe resort ma laga maqlaayo aan u maleynaa.

A Swiss couple who thought they were renewing their vows in a tropical ceremony were actually the subject of vicious verbal attacks by the officiator, reports the AP. In a video taken of the ceremony, the officiator chants in the local language, Dhivehi, in what would appear to be prayer. In reality, the resort employee is calling the couple "swine" and infidels, reports the Guardian. The paper quotes the man as saying: The children that you bear from this marriage will all be ******* swine. Your marriage is not a valid one. You are not the kind of people who can have a valid marriage. One of you is an infidel. The other, too, is an infidel and, we have reason to believe, an atheist, who does not even believe in an infidel religion. The BBC also reports that the tirade made frequent references to homosexuality and bestiality, and that after the ceremony, "various comments are made about the bride's breasts." Video below. The video was uploaded to YouTube, and has since gone viral, complete with subtitles. The marriage mayhem not only ruined the couple's Maldivian memories; two employees of the resort have been arrested, says the BBC, and President Mohammed Nasheed condemned the hoax in his weekly radio address, saying: Bad behaviour, such as that depicted in the YouTube video, can cause enormous damage to the country's tourism industry. Foreign Minister Ahmed Shaheed has also issued an apology and asked to meet with the couple, according to the AP. The archipelago is a common wedding destination.

^The title ain't no exaggeration if you look at the woman's posting of the matter. Besides the community, Keith is in a democratic district with historically democratic seat in congress. I doubt if he sees her as a serious challenger.

60 Minutes interviews the 99ers, people whose unemployment benefits is about to run out after 99 weeks and no jobs insight. This is happening in Silicon Valley, the high tech capital, of all the places in the country. I found the program hard to watch. A executive fiber optics engineer applying a clerical/sales position at Target and can't get an interview. Hard to believe Middle Class America is gone. Video

Anigu ma garan wuxuu meesha isugu sii xiijiyo hadey mudadiisa saas u yar tahay isbadel dhowna uusan keeni karin.

Tea Party Nation: Vote Out Rep. Keith Ellison Because He’s Muslim And ‘Supports’ Terrorists The fringe tea party group Tea Party Nation sent out an email to its supporters over the weekend urging them to support Republican House candidate Lynne Torgerson against Rep. Keith Ellison (D) in Minnesota’s 5th District. The Maddow show blog points out that one of the arguments that Tea Party Nation makes against Ellison is that he’s a Muslim: There are a lot of liberals who need to be retired this year, but there are few I can think of more deserving than Keith Ellison. Ellison is one of the most radical members of congress. He has a ZERO rating from the American Conservative Union. He is the only Muslim member of congress. He supports the Counsel for American Islamic Relations, HAMAS and has helped congress send millions of tax to terrorists in Gaza. Aside from the fact that the email provides no evidence that Ellison supports terrorists, Ellison isn’t the only Muslim member of Congress. Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) is also Muslim. Salon noted that, according to an NAACP report on tea parties, the Tea Party Nation is the third largest tea party network. Many Tea Party activists widely criticized the group’s founder, Tennessee lawyer Judson Phillips, earlier this year for trying to profit off a Tea Party convention. Source

Ninkan hadda magacaabidiisu doodaan weyn dhalisay muxuu soo kordhin karaa given the ways Somali politics work.

^Markii loo baahdo bey shaqeysaa dee. So how many justices does it have and who appoints them? Walee kuwan ciddey u maqan yihiin Ilaah bey qabaan.