Johnny, every region in Somalia has its own comparative advantage. Future Somali government should recognize the need to take advantage of our regions' seperate and unique resources and thus set up a regulatory system that encourages and protects both investment and ownership rights.

Originally posted by Johnny B: Kudos to reer Bosaso, well done 'booweyal' A somali city to be proud of indeed. Indeed!

But sanaag population wise is bigger then nugaal. They recieved similar to nugaal which the population size of the state is about the same size as makhir Oh really! Is that PL's official position? Maakhir as a potential state forms the region of Sanaag, parts of Nugal and western Bari. Second , Sanag has more population than Sool as the latter was split from the Nugal in the late 80s. And most of Mudug falls under Galmudug. But the chief source of this issue is NOT the distribution/allocat ion of this small fund. It's the administration's probable view that the Sanag region(the second largest region of Somalia) deserves not more than what the Nugal gets and particularly its disregard for Haylaan region, which the new PL constitution recognizes its existance. Haylaan falls under the Sool Plateau--the most affected area in the North. With regard to demographics, PL's high population density is between Erigavo and Bosaaso zone, which are mainly inhabited by the Maakhiris. (See Fsau district pop density of 2004)

This playoff season is over. The team must now go back to the training camp, bring in new players, train hard and select a different coach for the forlorn fans and try hard next season. Ps. The word, "doqonimo" comes to mind everytime I think of that poor decision by the secessionists.

I was told entrance was $100 per person. Great consensus building effort by the leaders.

The Yemenia plane is the second Airbus to crash into the sea this month. An Air France Airbus A330-200 flying to France from Brazil crashed into the Atlantic ocean killing 228 people on board on 1 June. Airbus scares me for real.

^This one too reminds of a special time. That is the way love goes--Janet Jackson http://www.youtube.c om/watch?desktop_uri =%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dbxmt UFrji48&v=bxmtUFrji4 8

A great news for the people of Puntland. They are seen as people who stand for unity, peace and reconciliation in stark contrast with "Somaliland's" promotion of division, instability, and obstinate refusal to participate reconciliation efforts. The world had ignored all of these facts as it prolonged our social and political crisis. It's time to admonish the secessionist's interest in the rest of Somalia's destabalization policies.

Think about the generations And to say we want to make it a better world for our children and our children's children. So that they know it's a better world for them; and think if they can make it a better place. ..If you care enough for the living Make a little space, make a better place. Chorus: Heal the world Make it a better place For you and for me and the entire human race There are people dying If you care enough for the living Make a better place for You and for me.. Unbelievable song.

Marx, June 26th marks an important day for the Somali speaking people. The Somalis in the North knew July 1st was coming up and this important date was when colonial Britiain withdrew and ended its protectorate to pave the way for the political Union and Independence of Somalia. Happy Independence day.

According to LA times, he had borrowed heavily against his music catalog and real estate and he fell into arrears, over $400M, nearly Somalia's debt to the IMF. Lol. He had been in LA for two months for rehearsal of his upcoming sold out concerts in Europe. Most likely his creditors will seize his music catalogs and estate and liquidate them. My fav song is the World Children one. I heard he wrote that song himself.

Rest in peace. The King of all Music.

A conditional outcome of nearly 20 years of nomadic warfare, encroachment, misguided elites, anarchy, and international neglect! But it seems we oftentimes fail to envision the far-ahead consequences when planning for a new direction. In the mid to late 80s, tribal factions banded together to oust the last regime. Their Lack of realistic plan for reconstruction, preservation, and the promotion of uniform national identity was the main reason that things span out of control. Then came the al-shabaab/Wahabi/al -Itihaad phenemenon and their promotion for a new political direction. Their backers again never debated and considered the course of action to be had as an alternative to the TFG. How will we deal with threat of introducing suicide bombers into Somali culture. What form of Government is acceptable to both sides and how the one we envision and theirs be made to work in concert towards the reconstitution of the Somali Republic? The whole deliberation came too late to have an impact and the international community was hoodwinked to give in to the wrong group aka the clan courts as opposed to the Islamic courts.

Me, brother,a just law is a law made equal. The only wise question you should ask your heart and mind is do people recognize, trust, and support al-Shabaab as the legitimate authority to carry out Shariah. I thought you were a man who championns the consent of the people as opposed to coercion. Here is a post I made that is relevant to this thread and to which I received a positive feedback in my pm from one of our keen foreign observers. thank you for the time and effort taken to post the belowright on the money IMO cheers . The implementation of Sharia law is the way forward, but its application needs circumspection and careful deliberation and established national judges with great credentials of religious background and probity, who can understand time's prerequisites. Good Times and circumstances of the past have dramatically shifted towards a chaotic world and a world of dishonesty and perfidy, greed and poverty. It's hard to implement the application of the cutting of hands for a mere shoplifting given the circumstances we are in. Human beings are fallible, judgemental, biased, subjective and divided over the complete and fair interpretation of the laws of Allah according to the right circumstances. Case in point is the stonning of the 16 yearl girl--that we all wept and grieved for her great deal of suffering--under the shaddow of the power struggle between the opposing forces of the TFG. Look at how the scarcity of trustworthiness rooted in our culture today manifest itself from the past. When an English traveler under the contractual service of the Common Wealth Ministry visited Sanaag in 1843, he was marveled at the hospitality and extreme honesty of the inhabitants. He reported that "to call a man thief is a deadly insult to be washed by blood alone."That you could leave your personal property in an open marketplace with high concentration of particapants without having to worry about their loss was the norm.Compare that era to the present one, you are hardly equipped with such thoughts of complete integrity with todays'people.------ ------- -------------------- ------- If you don't live on the edge, you can't see the view

Originally posted by MoonLight1: My God, Ibbi was the most extream of all of them, quote (If you fly on Ethiopian Airlines your hajj is void)lol, and now he is asking for their assist. Hypocracy runs through their blood veins. Indeed.

I think Muslim women should have the freedom of choice and it shouldn't be banned. The issue, however, is bigger than religion since Islam does not specify the type of cloth or wardrobe women should wear. She is at best to don in a way that squaress off her physical temptations and it can be done in the Somali way, in other cultural way, and as far as her type of Hijab does not come into conflict with religious precepts. There are Muslims who argue that the Burqa was derived from ancient Byzantine and Sassanid practices. Therefore, it sort of sends an ambiguous message that women is secluded from the view of public life into an unknown private realm. For those who wear this out-of-mainstream hijab that is now permeating in our society at a faster rate do so out of social pressure. Since we are community oriented, there is a growing perception among the Muslim men that women who wear Niqab, it seems, gain unrestricted access into the self-respecting class of our society and thus she becomes marriagiable. It's not religious precepts that dictates on the kind of Hijaab a woman should wear but a palpable social pressure, which is causing its popularity.

He is the Obama of Apple. Interesting to know that his father was an emigre from Syria.

Duke, make it part of you book club. Check also Destiny Disrupted by Tamim Ansary, a new marvelous book about World History from the perspective of Islam but one which still captures the major divide between East and West and the modern revolutionary doctrine of Wahabism that, in a nutshell, strives for the return of all Mulims to the glory days of Islamic power or the forceful restoration of Muslims to their original form as a solution to our current societal ills. Interesting book saxib.

You wlc imtithat and bint hamid.

A disputed election in Iran makes President Obama come out strongly against the loss of a few lives at the hands of the revolutionary guards, while he remains mum about the death and injury of hundreds of Somalis in Mogadishu on a daily basis. It is as if Somalia is an alien nation whose people live in another galaxy that is way out of this small world we live in. .. Except for the recent Piracy off the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean, American and by extension the EU never had any coherent strategy for Somalia and obviously no economic interest. The best it could do is ensure that Ethiopia dominates the region under the post-cold war order of "Regional Administration," which means the west will have assigned Ethiopia just as Nigeria in the west of Africa to be the middle man. Since the Arab League does not care about Somalia, and its Arab members do not consider Somalis Arab enough, the Islamic world such as Turkey, Indonesia and Malaysia need to take an active role in helping their brothers in Islam thus fulfilling the famous words of the Prophet: Give your Muslim brother a hand whether he is oppressed or oppresses others. The Arab League is using Somalia as a proxy state in which to advance its war with Israel as that of prolonging the liberation struggles from multiple fronts. But It appears the author is appealing to the concern for equal human rights while at the same time walking on eggshells on Somalis' failure in sorting out their differences.

Bokero, well said but we need Genuine Help like Afghanistan. We need billions of dollars to help build schools, hospitals, roads etc. We can't do it alone nor can we afford our haples nation to be isolated and neglected.

So Gen. Ilka-jir is invited as well. We shall see.

Me, you avoided answering my question. But here is my prediction. Possible invasion of Somalia which would bring in both benefits and drawbacks. Probable strategy for the new invasion. * Kenya will be given an international mandate to invade Somalia, its troops coming from Liboi, the Bajuni Islands and Mandera. The aim is to reach the strategic port town of Kismayo and immediately place a puppet pro-tfg administration. * Ethiopian troops will also enter from Beletwein and Gedo regions and crush immediately the Shabab forces. The goal is to reach Mogadisho and embark on a clean-up measures in conjunction with the TFG part II. The local clans of the President will be involved in the urban warfare that ensues and lend their complete support. * D-jibouti might send troops US Intelligence, air strikes, and logistics support. *Somaliland and Puntland will have specific roles assigned, that is to commit joint troops in support of Sheikh Sharrif's administration in exchange for legal and greater autonomy and assisstance in the fight against Piracy--which is chief reason the west has its interest on the restoration of the Somali Republic.. The Benefits: Once the Shabab forces disintegrate, the powers that be in Mogadishu will try to put down the theological fervor that feeds Shabaab's insurgency by winning over the patriotic Youth through Rehabilitation and Incentives, thus the return law and order that will smooth the way for permenant government. The Preservation of Somali Cultural Identity. For instance, revolutionary Arabic programs that now instruct, finance and organize extremism will be met with the revival of literacy campaigns and cultural programs that remind the young of their heritage: individualism, altruism, religious tolerance, traditional poetry, Somalinimo, family and egalitarian values. Drawbacks: * Prolonged occupation of Somalia * The Partition of Somalia into a mutually hostile, clan-based states. * The exploitation of Somalia's marine and land resources. The return of illegal fishing * The federal government will renounce any territorial claim to Somali-galbeed and NFD.

Lol@Paragon. WiilCusub, what about Dugaaga Qardhaanu deris nahey. A humorous poet he was. He was too harsh to reer Bari, not reer Sanaag. He also said, "buuraha Buraan iyo Harar wey is bidhaanshaane"

Arabs are neither tall nor grant fair treatment to their women, but that pre-Islam Arabic culture is creeping into our society at a fast rate and it's due to our vulnerable position spawned by the dual forces of Ethiopia's historic enmity toward Somalis and tribalism. On the Origin of the Somali Race C. P. Rigby 1867 The Somali are generally tall and well made, with a very darksmooth skin ; their features express great intelligence and animation,and are of a Grecian type, with thin lips and aquiline noses ;their hair is long, and very thick. They have none of the characteristic features of the Negro race, which they affect to despise.. The women are generally tall and well formed; when young,they are very good looking. They are not secluded, and are under no restraint, being treated as the equals of the men. They are always merry and good-humoured. The unmarried girls weartheir hair in sniall ringlets hanging loosely all over the head;after marriage it is drawn tightly over the back of the head...