lol they need to step their game up. These guys suck at being pirates.

These "new" foreign troops are just rumors to discredit the peace negotiations. If you haven't noticed guys, nobody wants anything to do with Somalia. You actually think those poor guys from Burundi and Uganda WANT to be in Mogadishu? I'm sure they'd much rather go home.

good luck

I'm Romanian but I live in Canada now

Originally posted by Sir-Qalbi-Adeyg: ^ What's sexy about some damn woman and her baby? I think some people here are changing the definition of the word sexy, let's be real here. Sexy: Arousing or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest. There's nothing sexier than a mother and her baby, man! The concept of maternity is intimately related to sexuality, to procreation, to our purpose on Earth. LOL a lot of my boys disagree, but there's no woman that touches me as much as one who is caring for her child. As for veiled women not attracting attention, that's simply not true. Every man who respects himself will notice beautiful eyes, no matter how much the rest is covered. As long as you can see the eyes, you might as well be in a thong because the eyes are everything. The rest is just bonuses.

LOL this thread blew up overnight! If I may add my advice here, I think you need to harvest the power of your mind. Be warned, this might sound a tad crazy, but it's my truth - and it can be your truth too. God gave you your mind for a reason, so use it. It's the most powerful thing you have and if you call on it, God will give you the help you need. He'll give you anything you ask for, but you have to do more than just beg and try to please Him. You have to TAKE INITIATIVE! Mentally. What I'm saying is imagine yourself with a wonderful husband. Visualize him inside your head, convince your mind that he's real. Don't think about your despair, about the future, about the past. Just imagine your husband as you want him, holding your hand or whatever is chaste enough for you. Just the simplest physical contact will do. Let the warmth of that contact, of that presence, penetrate the deepest corners of your subconscious. And do this everyday, until that warmth lingers even when you don't think about him. When that temporary warmth turns into permanent happiness. Keep imagining your husband, in the morning and at night, as long as you need to reassure yourself, and this happiness will start radiating from you. You will stop giving off the "desperate" vibe and become more attractive to all the men that are scattered about the universe. Your subconscious won't know the difference between reality and imagination, and it will unwittingly bring you closer and closer to your goal every day. A beautiful expression I read somwhere said "a thousand invisible hands will reach out to help you". Good things will start happening to you, and sooner than you think a beautiful husband will present himself to you. Take him! The moral of this is, you will get a husband by mentally transforming yourself into a wife.

there won't be any more foreign troops, chill guys

hope to see hotels like that in Somalia one day

financial condition, medical condition?

That's a very dangerous sermon indeed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7954670.stm One of Somalia's hardline Islamist leaders and the information minister have both told Osama Bin Laden not to interfere in Somalia's affairs. The al-Qaeda leader on Thursday called for Somalia's president to be toppled. Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, who denies US charges he has links to al-Qaeda, has been reported as saying only Somalis should decide on their future. Information Minister Farahan Ali Mohamoud said Bin Laden should concentrate on his own survival. "We know that bin Laden has his own problems in the mountainous area of Tora Bora where he is hiding, so he has no place making such statements at a time when Somalia is keen to emerge from 21 years violence," the AFP news agency quotes the information minister as saying. Bin Laden's call was published by known militant websites on Thursday, although there has been no independent confirmation of its authenticity. President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, a moderate Islamist, was inaugurated in January after UN-brokered reconciliation talks. He has promised to introduce Sharia law to the strongly Muslim country. But hardliners in the al-Shabab movement say his version of Sharia will not be strict enough and have continued to fight against his government. They, and other Islamist groups, now control much of southern and central Somalia. 'Infidel' The 12-minute audio recording of Bin Laden - entitled "Fight on, champions of Somalia" - carried an often-seen image of the al-Qaeda leader with a map of Somalia in the background. It accused Mr Ahmed of having "changed and turned back on his heels... to partner up with the infidel" in a national unity government. "This Sheikh Sharif... must be fought and toppled," the tape said, before comparing the Somali leader to "the [Arab] presidents who are in the pay of our enemies". It was Bin Laden's third broadcast this year. Mr Ahmed was a leader of the Union of Islamic Courts which controlled Mogadishu in 2006 before being ousted by Ethiopian forces, backing the previous Somali president. Mr Aweys was also in the UIC but the two have since split. "Somalia knows [its] future and who can involve, but it is not something for Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda either," he reportedly told Arabic TV. Somalia, a nation of about eight million people, has not had a functioning national government since warlords overthrew President Siad Barre in 1991 and then turned on each other. As part of a UN-brokered deal to reconcile moderate Islamists and dissident lawmakers in a unity government, Ethiopian troops withdrew in January. President Ahmed has the support of several Islamist groups but al-Shabab has continued to fight the Somali government and the African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu.

Personally I think it's fake Who are the only persons benefiting from instability, war and famine in Somalia? Aid agencies, not bin laden.

i use Martin Orwen - Colloquial Somali, seems like a very good book but then again I'm not somali lol

LOL

I don't know a single man who hasn't cheated at least once.

So they've been around for centuries. Where were they when Ethiopia invaded? Why is it that only now when the war is over they start thumping on their chests? I agree that there's certain people in shebab that are a negative influence on the group, but Somalia would be an Ethiopian province right now if it weren't for Al-Shabaab. Al-Shabaab for life!!!

Since the dawn of time, man has herded sheep, goats, camels and cattle. It's one of the most ancient occupations of the human race and existed long before agriculture. The farmer is tied to his land, while the nomad is free. All that being said, I don't think the economy should be based entirely on pastoralism. Nor agriculture. But on a combination of things: pastoralism, agriculture and ESPECIALLY TOURISM AND FISHING. GUYS! Somalia has the longest coastline in Africa! It is also one of the most beautiful, with amazing coral reefs and heavenly beaches. I think that for now, until there is some industrial development (which will probably be based on oil and camels), Somalis should take advantage of their greatest treasure: the sea!

Ahlu Sunna = fake "islamic" group created by Ethiopia

lmfao niiiiiiiiiiiice

thanks!

I find it's a beautiful poem. The way I see it, the subject is brought down by those around him, and made to believe that his features are ugly. But then God - as haraam as this is of course - says that his features are beautiful even though they're different. I think the poem illustrates beautifully the struggle of the Black American with his own identity, the struggle to regain self-esteem after centuries of being looked down on an treated like an animal.

TURN OFF THE LIGHTS I GLOW

at least the pirates don't actually kill people, unlike some warlords who have been presidents in the past

Romanian joke - please be advised that this may not be suitable to all tastes lol Three men, one French, one Somali and one Romanian, die and go before God. God tells them they must describe their last good deed in order to access paradise. The French man goes first: "I saved a child from drowning" "How did you do it?" "I jumped in the Seine, I swam to the child, put him on my back and let the current push us to shore" "Very good. Come in" Then the Somali man: "I saved a baby camel from a leopard" "How did you do it?" "I recited a beautiful poem to the leopard, the leopard started crying and let the baby camel go" "Very good. Come in" Finally, the Romanian man: "I saved a woman from rape" "How did you do it?" "I convinced her"

I am a Christian born in Romania and I always felt Eastern Christianity is closer to Islam than to Catholicism. I admire Muslims and hope that one day we will all realize how much we share. I can't really speak on Somali Christians, because I'm not Somali, but generally I believe someone's faith is a personal business. One's soul is a matter that's between that person and God, nobody else. Only the Prophets, Peace be upon Them, had the moral right to guide people and lead them on the right path. That's why I've never liked missionaries and other people who try to convert whoever they come across. It's okay to show them and inform them, but it's not okay to persuade them. You can't force faith, it comes from within. lol my bad for digressing. Back to the topic..