We shall see. InshaAllah. There are good cabinet posts that can be distributed fairly like the Defense, Interior, Finance, Deputy PM, and Ports and Fishery. If the Foreign goes to the people of Sanaag, Haylaan and western Bari, it's welcoming sign of hope and reconciliation for the TFG. Merit matters and QOORSHEEL deserves it.

Informative and good read. " Encore, or again: the West aims and desires to influence and teach the oriental people, while at the same time not adopting anything from the East. The emergency of the orientalists, (those who subscribe to Orientalism), has played a contributing role in the global events of the past two centuries. For, “the Orientalists believe that the orient is static, unanimous, separate, eccentric, backward, silently different, sensual and passive, and has tendency towards despotism and away from progress.”3 The depiction of the Arab, for example, as irrational, menacing, untrustworthy, anti-western and perhaps most importantly prototypical are ideas into which orientalist scholarship has developed; and these notions are trusted as foundations for both ideologies and policies developed by the West, or the Occident. This is what is held to be an unquestionable truth and the West disgracefully and absolutely backs it. It is clear that the implication here is that Muslims and Arabs cannot be objective, unlike the artificially know ledged orientalists. The dogma of Orientalism not only demotes its subject matter, but also blinds its practitioners, according to the Arab Christian scholar Edward Said. Such evaluation is not merely valid for the Arabs, but also for the non-whites. Much in the same manner, the West has characterized the African as not only lazy, but savage, a beast that kills, beats, steals; he/she is sex crazed and ultimately deprived of intelligence. The purpose of the scholarship and transference of the so-called orientalists to the orient was to colonize. The West was successful in this mission; however, by the time the First and Second World Wars have happened, this false architecture of orientalism has collapsed. In the Cold War, the Orient lost due to the megalomania of its political hack or intriguer leaders, who silenced and ignored their citizens by introducing the system of the cult of personalities (demigods). Today, the substitutes of orientalists are the omnipresent missionaries, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), warlords, and foreign intelligence agencies. This is the new method to which the West is looking to globalize and dominate the World and they will, if they find willing collaborators. Thus far, the West has found such collaborators through the bombing and destruction of individual sovereign nations of the Orient, Africa, and Latin America. Leaders of the West look to attain their imperialist goals through the denigration of weak, backward, silently different and the savage sensual beast since they deem them to be inferior, other, and thus, conquerable. Non-westerner folk are also depicted as dishonest and corrupt, as if the West is the placard child for honesty. However, as the savage and weak colored people are inferior, they are unable to understand the West’s machinations! This is what is waiting for the peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America; this is what the leaders of such peoples must face and confront. http://www.garoweonline.com/artman2/publish/Opinio n_20/Somalia_Institutions_good_governance_integrit y_and_nepotism_Serial_6.shtml

Well said, Captain, but things might not be bright. It all depends on who the PM appoints for the Cabinet posts. Nepotism and Favoritism have been obstacles to peace. I hope both leaders would override this temptation and appoint people based on their good records and qualifications.

Sheikh Shareef is also said to implement Shariah law and set a date for a phased withdrawal of AU troops. He is credited to have made possible the withdrawal of Ethiopian forces. U.S. officials view the new government with cautious optimism. Talks are underway to remove some insurgents and opposition leaders, including Aweys, from Washington's list of suspected terrorists if they pledge to work with the new government, according to one U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly. Good News Report

Originally posted by Emperor: Man oh man, that's one huge man Lol, so he is as skinny as Ibti pictured.

Waranle, the southern places you listed are controlled by Al-shabaab, not clan. Who will you appoint? Select one person and explain why do you think that he would have been a better choice than someone from Puntland. My perspective is that It's better to initiate the desire for negotiated settlement with Al-Shabaab groups and try to meet the conditions they set against the President such that Shariah law and the removal of EU troops?

Paragon, I share that with the UN Special Representative. Che and Duke, why not tackle ur points of contention rather than personalities? It's not good and it bothers us.

This clan-centric site, Dayniile is the archetype of the 1994 Rwandan Radio station, inciting disunion, inoculating mistrust, and inducing animosity. Terrible site saxib.

^Ending Piracy is a good good policy of the new PL administration and the International community will be appreciative of that great effort. The problem has to be dealt with onshore, not offshore.

Thanks Juje. Congrats to the PM.

Feb 11, 2009 (CNN) -- A controversial comment by the top U.N. envoy to Somalia "motivates" those who have carried out recent fatal attacks against journalists in the war-torn country, the head of the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) said Wednesday. Earlier this month, the U.N. special representative for Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, compared the role of Somalia's media with the infamous Rwandan radio station that was used to incite participation in the 1994 genocide in that country. A day after his remarks, suspected Islamist gunmen shot and killed Said Tahlil Ahmed, the director of independent HornAfrik Radio in Mogadishu, in broad daylight in the Somali capital. Ould-Abdallah's statement "motivates the criminals and warlords who have been committing unpunished crimes against journalists to keep on their merciless war against media," according to Omar Faruk Osman, head of the NUSOJ. It also "raises serious questions regarding the willingness of (Ould-Abdallah) to help protect Somalia's endangered media professionals," Faruk Osman said. He called on the U.N. official to "immediately withdraw allegations against Somali media and make (a) public apology." "If the U.N. ambassador does not meet our demand, it only confirms a hidden and dangerous agenda by the U.N. official," he said. Last week, Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Ould-Abdallah to "immediately retract" his statement. In a February 3 Voice of America interview, Ould-Abdallah reacted angrily to allegations that African Union troops the day before had indiscriminately fired on Somali civilians after their convoy was struck by a roadside bomb. HRW has also called for an independent investigation into that incident, which killed at least 13 -- most of them civilians. "What happened is to divert attention from what is going on here and, as usual, to use the media to repeat Radio Mille Collines, to repeat the genocide in Rwanda," Ould-Abdallah said in the VOA broadcast. Faruk Osman said that while not all Somali journalists are perfect, "they are working in an extraordinarily difficult environment by the fault of politicians, and toothless diplomats." "The comparison with Radio Mille Collines is insulting, ignorant and dangerous, as that radio had become a legitimate military target in Rwanda," the NUSOJ secretary-general added. On Saturday, another Somali journalist, Hassan Bulhan Ali, was stabbed five times in the stomach and heart during a tribal reconciliation meeting in the central town of Abudwaq, according to NUSOJ. Bulhan, 38 and director of Radio Abudwaq -- was critically wounded. "Somali journalists have paid an enormous price to continue reporting on the crisis in Somalia," said Georgette Gagnon, HRW's Africa director. "The U.N. should be making every effort to support independent Somali media and civil society at this critical time, not comparing journalists to war criminals." Somali radio stations in Mogadishu recently agreed to take steps to avoid broadcasting any messages of incitement, according to Shabelle Media. The stations agreed not to air live sermons by Muslim clerics or live news conferences or interviews by insurgent groups in an effort to avoid promoting their political agendas, according to the Shabelle report. The statements will instead be recorded and "checked and edited," before they are broadcast, it said. CNN regularly works with Somali journalists who are employed by Shabelle Media. The Committee to Protect Journalists lists Somalia as the seventh most deadly nation in the world for journalists, with 11 Somali journalists killed since 2007, including Said Tahlil Ahmed and another this year. Members of the news media work under duress there amid a war between a weak transitional government and insurgents, the committee said. Source: CNN

Sana,a, Feb. 09 Yemen and Puntland State of Somalia discussed here on Monday cooperation on fishery aspects and possible procedures to reduce hazards of piracy against fishermen's boats. Minister of Wealth Fisheries Mohammed Shamlan held talks with Puntland State Security Minister Abdullahi Said Samatar and Interior Minister Abdullahi Ahmed on activating the understanding memorandum between Yemen and the state in fishery field signed in 2007. During the meeting, two technical committees were formed from the two sides to draft a cooperation protocol to contribute in protecting fishermen's boats in the Yemeni and Somali territorial waters from piracy acts. Shamlan assured the depth of bilateral ties between Yemen and Somalia, confirming the significance of activating the fishery cooperation areas between the two countries. AllSanaag

Flogging and stonning are both necessary if an administration is to function smoothly and with equity. After all, people would obey the laws of Allah if they know for sure that justice will be administered for their public crimes in the form of severe punishment after deliberations and careful cross- examination of the evidences gathered before the established courts. The framework for the civil and criminal procedure of cases are based on equity. For the President to oppose the Shariah law, it only confirms the perception of him being a different man or a turncoat.

Che, Shariif will select a P.M from either Sool or Sanaag, according to some people close to him. I am sure this cunning move will crack open the tribal code of PL. Selecting Jengeli or Ali Abdirahman Hirsi would be better choice for him on top of the 4.5 rule, besides the latter has a great reputation in Mogadishu and the North

Ibti, Pls don't tell me you speak Somali the same way you write.lol

Somalid, have you read this old book entitled THE PEOPLE OF AFRICA, by Jean Hiernaux. P. 144-145. He concludes how "strongly arabized" are some clans.He also concludes in his anthropomerdic samplings and observations that majority of Somalis North and South do not have Arab components. Is his work biased?

Remember this song 'waa habeenkii dhalashadaadee habeen wanaagsan Habeen wanaagsan That was the basis of my good wishes to ur birth night. Dhalasho wanaagsan saxib mar labaad

Happy birth night JB

War meesha intaan maqnaa waa laysu habar wacdey ileen. Anaa ka dhulwayn iyo anaa maamula dhulkeyga bay tagtey. Lol

^ the destruction that the warlords perpetrate are downplayed and outright ignored. What gives more weight some of the fallibility of the Al-shabaab than the brutal actions of the despised warlords? Have you seen the western media condemning the despised criminal outfits in control of pockets in Somalia, the toxic dumping on our shores by shadowy private enterprises or showing compassion for the poor and the displaced? The so called International Community led by U.S have always bankrolled Ethiopia to perpetuate and aggravate our clannish differences in an attempt to prevent a viable Somali state from emerging. I understand the implied message of the article that America has given more weight to Afghanistan than Somalia, but it's time to expose their ill-conceived policies designed to keep Somalia in anarchic status quo. The Shabaabs' actions manifest a rather desperate measures; it's also equally important to highlight the brutal and indiscrimate shelling of civilians by UPDF in retialitory attacks and the approval of such activities through the politics of non-intervention by the U.N.

Originally posted by Abtigiis &Tolka: But Marx I thought you are black American when I saw your videos. I think this classification suits some of us, not the black somali's manily in puntland and the south. I don't get ur point. What is black somalis' manily in Puntland and the south mean? As to the poster, thanks brother.

Hooyooy waxaad tahey Howlaha aduunyada Mida hamida badisooy Hadaladda kalgacalada Hibo Eebe siiyee

Meeshu ma wax dad gaar ah leeyihiin baa horta. We need a new face, intellectual and populist one. This old politics, warlordism-type-of-coalition has to be reduced to the trash bin. This government has already made enough enemies besides its top-down approach. Or shall we continue fighting over the spoils of the state and enriching one for the aid money that are destined for the poor?

^your contempt on brother Horn is immeasurable. Take it easy, dear lad. As for the post, and contrary to Oodwayne and Suldaan' position that what the VP said equals to a spirit of perfect amity, the VP has been one of the reactionary politicians in Hargeisa when it comes to going over the unacceptability of forcible secession, so he among few others like Waraable have kept this grudging allegiance. I sense however a big leap of faith from him in anticipation of higher ideals and for the common good, that's reconstituting the Somali Republic and to be mindful of finding ways to honestly see the pursuit of this Project as passing the equivelance test of spilled milk. Whether it amounts to a political gaffe from his side or the reality on the ground, the claim for seperation is pointless and past. The classic example being a company seeking state guarantee for a bank loan to continue a project in which $100s of millions have been spent with no prospect of satisfactory return on that. Therefore, to insist on returning what is irrecoverable smacks one of wisdom and of our people who own a common stock of thoughts for one religion, culture and language. Exactly.

^your contempt on brother Horn is immeasurable. Take it easy, dear lad. As for the post, and contrary to Oodwayne and Suldaan' position that what the VP said equals to a spirit of perfect amity, the VP has been one of the reactionary politicians in Hargeisa when it comes to going over the unacceptability of forcible secession, so he among few others like Waraable have kept this grudging allegiance. I sense however a big leap of faith from him in anticipation of higher ideals and for the common good, that's reconstituting the Somali Republic and to be mindful of finding ways to honestly see the pursuit of this Project as passing the equivelance test of spilled milk. Whether it amounts to a political gaffe from his side or the reality on the ground, the claim for seperation is pointless and past. The classic example being a company seeking state guarantee for a bank loan to continue a project in which $100s of millions have been spent with no prospect of satisfactory return on that. Therefore, to insist on returning what is irrecoverable smacks one of wisdom and of our people who own a common stock of thoughts for one religion, culture and language. Exactly.