^^^ "xoogaga-xaq-u-dirirka" aka. muqaawamada aka. dowladdiidka ayeey u dhamaatey.

Most certainly it's the "xoogaga xaq-u-dirirka" that once again are trying to copy the Iraq style insurgency of bombing bridges. The futile somali insurgents activity was however uncovered by ordinary people living in the area. This also confirms the before mentioned fact about the so called insurgency in Somalia stated by Mr. AliHashi: An insurgency with no mass internal support and a formidable external backer is not much of an insurgency but rather a hopeless struggle. Pearl of wisdom 2: Ever wonder why the nationalist fervor is limited to a few neighborhoods in Mogadishu but not throughout the rest of the country? How interesting! Baladweyne, Jimco, April 27, 2007 Simba Radio Maamulka gobalka Hiiraan ayaa sheegay inay gacanta ay ku dhigeen rag Miinooyin ku aasayay sida ay sheegeen Buundada Baladweyne. Gudoomiyaha gobalka Hiiraan Xuseen Muxumed ayaa sheegay in ragaasi ay maamulka kusoo wargaliyeen dadka deegaanka isla markaana lasoo qabtay. Xuseen waxuu sheegay in ragaan la qabtay ay hada su'aalo ku weydiinayaan saldhiga Baladweyne, isla markaana la ogaan doono waxa ku kalifay inay miinooyin sida uu sheegay ay ku aasaan buundada. Xuseen waxuu balan qaaday inay Saxaafada usoo bandhigi doonaan warbixinta kasoo baxda su'aalaha ay haatan weydiinayaan. Arintaan ayaa waxaa aad u cambaareeyay dadweynaha ku dhaqan Baladweyne oo intooda badan adeegsan jireen Buundada Baladweyne. http://www.simbanews.com/news/News%2027%20Apr%206.htm

Abwaanow maalmahaan calaacal ayaad ka bixi la'dahayee aaway jihaadkii iyo awr-kacsigii dagaalka aad waday?? Mise waxaad is leedahay markaan waa idin dhamaatee iska qayli oo "humanitarian spokesman" iska dhig?

Seriously, althought I'm pro-TFG to the core this Azhari guys needs to be evicted from his position himself lol. He really IS a joke.

Soon, some ppl will come in this thread and say the food is poisoned.

^^ I think you, for lack of a better word, "dissed" him officially since he seems so dumbstruck by the excellency in your post that his unable to create a rebuttal

^^ So it was a prosperous and internationally respected nation before the ethio forces entered? Wake up will ya pal?

Why oppose the TFG where there is no alternative? Because we want anarchy in Somalia...and 2 or 3 "courts" that can judge anyone that opposes our agenda to death.

^^ Does this article hurt so much? Does it dirt down the all rosy picture of the "xoogaga xaq u dirirka" that is being promoted here on SOL?

^^ Intaad wax kalay ka jawaabi wayday maad intaas u guratay? "it's on the map" kulaha lol. I know that very well sir but the Somali nation, the Somali Republic, has lost its nobility and honour long time ago.

^^ Actually the Somali Republic has been ruined for about a decade now and it has almost no diplomatic missions around the world so it's off the map too. What cave where you guys hiding under all this time?

Good news, thanks for reporting Sakhar. Never mind these critics, waalidii jihaadka qabiilka ayaa wili hayya.

^^ Certainly sir: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/24/business/somalia.php

^^ I'm almost certain that the US is conducting some reconnassaince activities on ground in Mog but most likely this is being done via stringers i.e locally hired personel. However, this minor showdown of US soldiers landing at the airport, has never occured as it is the fabrication of a creative khat-fuelled editor-in-chief who obviously is competing with Waagacusub.com in producing the most insane bullshit ever.

The International Herald Tribune has made an unerring description of the "xoogaga xaqdoonka ah" and the reasons behind their tenacious existence. Lately there has been an abundance of articles focused on civilian deaths and mass exodus (with all due respect, these topics should be adressed as well) but very few if any articles like this; giving a reminder of what may be in store for Somalia in the event of the demise of the TFG: good ol' anarchy with renewed looting and clan fighting such as the one after Siyad Barre. --------------------------------- GALKAYO, Somalia: Beyond clan rivalry and Islamic fervor, the chaos in Somalia is being helped along by an entirely different motive: profit. A whole class of opportunists from squatter landlords to teenage gunmen for hire to vendors of out-of-date baby formula has been feeding off the anarchy in Somalia for so long that they refuse to let it go. They do not pay taxes; their businesses are totally unregulated, and they have skills that are not necessarily geared toward a peaceful society. In the past few weeks, these profiteers have been teaming up with clan fighters and radical Islamists to bring down Somalia's transitional government, the country's 14th attempt at ending the free-for-all of the last 16 years. They are attacking government troops, smuggling in arms and using their business savvy to raise money for the insurgency. And they are surprisingly open about it. Omar Hussein Ahmed, an olive oil exporter in Mogadishu, the capital, said he and a group of fellow traders recently bought some missiles to shoot at government soldiers. Taxes are annoying, he explained. Maxamuud Nuur Muradeeste, a squatter landlord who makes a few hundred dollars each year renting out rooms in the former Ministry of Minerals and Water, said he recently invited insurgents to stash weapons on his property. He will do whatever it takes, he said, to thwart the government's plan to reclaim thousands of pieces of public property. "If this government survives, how will I?" Muradeeste said. Layer this problem on top of Somalia's sticky clan issues, its poverty and its nomadic culture, and it is no wonder that the transitional government seems to be overwhelmed by the same raw anti-government defiance that has torpedoed all the earlier attempts. Granted, many of the transitional leaders themselves acknowledge that they have made mistakes and not played the clan politics as deftly as they could have. But they say they believe that there are simply some Somalis actually many who will never go along with any program. "Even if we turned Mogadishu into Houston, there would still be people resisting us," said Abdirizak Adam Hassan, chief of staff for Somalia's transitional president, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed. "I'm talking about the guys bringing in expired medicine, selling arms, harboring terrorists." "They don't have a clan name," he said. "They're a congregation of people whose best interests are served by no government." In the last month, the resistance has increased, and more than 1,000 people have been killed or wounded as the country has sunk into its deepest crisis yet since the famine days of the early 1990s. Most of the victims are civilians, like Amina Abdullahi, who recently fled Mogadishu with two small children holding her hands and a baby tied to her back. "I don't understand why this is such a problem," Abdullahi said. "If people don't like this government, can't they wait until there is an election and vote them out?" U.S. diplomats have mostly shied away from Somalia since the infamous "Black Hawk Down" episode in 1993, when Somali militiamen shot down two U.S. helicopters and killed 18 U.S. soldiers. Now the Americans are involved again, driven by a counterterrorism agenda and armed with a pledge of $100 million to stabilize the country. But it is exactly this kind of hefty support that is fueling the resistance's urgency, because the opportunists sense this transitional government, more than any other, poses the biggest threat yet to the gravy days of anarchy. Somalis are legendary individualists, and when the central government imploded in 1991, people quickly devised ways to fend for themselves. Businessmen opened their own hospitals, schools, and telephone companies, and even privatized mail service. Men who were able to muster private armies (often former military officers) seized the biggest prizes: abandoned government property, like ports and airfields, which could generate up to $40,000 a day. They became the warlords. Many trafficked in guns and drugs and taxed their fellow Somalis at roadside checkpoints. Beneath the warlords were clan-based networks of thousands of people adolescent enforcers, stevedores, clerks, truck drivers and their families all tied into the chaos economy. Ditto for the freelance landlords and duty-free importers. Over the years, prominent members of the ****** clan, Mogadishu's biggest, have tried to cobble together a government and end this system. But they have failed each time. Somalia is notoriously fragmented between dozens of rival clans and subclans. It has been that way for centuries. But clans alone did not seem to be the problem. "It was the opportunists who didn't see a role for themselves in the future," said Mohammed Abdi Balle, an elder in Galkayo, a city about 700 kilometers, or 450 miles, north of Mogadishu. Not all opportunists had the same agenda. Many in the business community eventually got fed up with paying protection fees to the warlords and their countless middlemen, who became increasingly disorganized and rapacious. Business leaders then backed a grassroots Islamist movement that drove the warlords out of Mogadishu last summer and brought peace to the city for the first time in 15 years. The Islamists seemed to be the perfect solution for the traders: They delivered stability, which was good for most business, but they did not confiscate property or levy heavy taxes. They called themselves an administration, not a government. "Our best days were under them," said Abdi Ali Jama, who owns an electrical supply shop in Mogadishu. But then a radical wing took over, and the Islamists declared war on Ethiopia, which commands one of the mightiest armies in Africa. The Ethiopians, with covert U.S. help, crushed the Islamist army in December and installed Somalia's transitional government, which until then had been very weak, in the capital. Many residents initially welcomed the transitional government. But then it made some questionable calls that cut across clan and business lines. It abruptly closed down ports and took over airfields belonging to ****** businessmen, denying them revenue they had been accustomed to for years. Many Somalis began to worry that the transitional government, which includes elders from all of Somalia's clans, was being pushed around by the *****, the clan of the transitional president and a historical rival to the ******. At first, just a few ****** subclans, mainly those connected to the Islamists, took up arms. But as the government has moved to curtail the profiteering, business leaders say that more and more clans are embracing the rebel cause. For many Abgal, an influential sub-clan of the ******, the last straw came in mid-March when the government increased port taxes by 300 percent. Ahmed, the olive oil exporter and an Abgal, said that after that, there was a mass Abgal defection to the insurgency. "The government is trying to destroy business as we know it," he said. Despite various attempts at a cease fire between insurgents and government forces, the violence has raged virtually unabated in Mogadishu and residents have continued to flee in the tens of thousands. Again, the opportunists have stepped in. In some areas, displaced people are forced to pay a "shade tax" to local residents for resting under their trees.

^^ your right, I'll change name to TheSomalirecipientofsocialBenefit instead.

No quite frankly I can't say I'm touched by the kid but I was just doing a bit research on the intentions behind your lobbying ambitions.

It always hits me how most Slander politicians seem utterly disgusted by souther somalia and it's inhabitants and their very keen to show this too.

P, you will include these pictures (preferrably with the same title) in the PR campaign, right?

I'd like to see admin doing a sticky of this thread just to see if you guys have succeeded with your 'PR campaign' or not. My gut feeling tells me that this ambitious but abortive endeavor will end in big time fiasco.

^^ Dude, the "media outlet" that you are getting your news from is the same one that reported that a general shot himself 5 times in a suicide attempt and that's just one of the many absurd and tragicomic things theyve reported. And the sad part of this is that you seriously view them as a credible news source.

It's really sad to see how some ppl in desperation utter the most crazy things.

peacenow, I don't quite understand your reasoning here. This is not really the time to be "politically correct" as they say here in the west. Your talking about a national healing process and democratic laws being applied but you do know that such things haven't even been heard of in Somalia for the last 17 years do you? Hence the depreciation of the somali mans voice & value. Selective justice which seems to be what your pointing out, was something that has been thriving in Somalia for the last decade in a place where AK-47 ruled.

^^ I agree that their history exposes their shady personalities but they are most likely temporary marionettes being used for the greater cause. It's a strategy that is functional and logic but also very short-term. Most certainly, the adminstration will look different when things gett off ground and the transitional period is over in -09.

^^ Those small baakados you see can mutilate and kill alot of ppl.