^^^Adiga maa naarta haaya.

What does this accomplish anyway. Mara xun dab laqaadsiiye in response to what some dimwit said.

By Sue Pleming Wednesday, January 17, 2007 WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The United States criticized Somalia's government on Wednesday for supporting the ouster of the country's dissident speaker of parliament and said the act was at odds with the spirit of reconciliation. Assistant secretary of state for African affairs, Jendayi Frazer, urged Somalia's transitional government to be more "inclusive" and not to dwell on the past. Earlier on Wednesday, Somalia's parliament ousted Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan, who for two years opposed the president and prime minister and angered them late last year with peace overtures to Islamist rivals. "The point about the speaker is that what happened in the past should be very different from what happens going forward. And the going forward requires one thing, it requires reconciliation," Frazer said at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. "The speaker is a member of the transitional federal institutions ... the symbol of the president and the prime minister backing a move to push him out is counter to that spirit of reconciliation." Adan's ouster is seen by many as a move by President Abdullahi Yusuf and Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi to consolidate power and exact revenge against him. "We are advising the government, as supporters of the government, to demonstrate something different going forward," Frazer said. Idd Beddel Mohamed, the charge d'affaires at the U.N. permanent mission of Somalia, said at the same event that he supported Adan's dismissal and asked Frazer to do the same. "What goes around comes around," he said of the speaker. "I hope the international community will respect this decision and the sovereignty of Somalia." Frazer said her government respected the sovereignty of Somalia, but that the speaker's ouster would have a negative impact. However, she said recent statements by the speaker were "not helpful." "The speaker himself has to do more to reach out," she said. The weak transitional government was pushed out in June from the capital Mogadishu but was restored to the capital after Ethiopian troops helped with the ouster of the Islamists before the New Year. Frazer said the Islamists should not be allowed to be "reconstituted" as a political entity, but she urged the transitional government to reach out to moderate Islamists as well as business and clan leaders and women's groups. "This dialogue must move forward very quickly," she said. Source: Reuters, Jan 17, 2007

NN....Saaxib, you could perhaps questioned the ill-fainted attempt by courts to oust the TFG, it was a big blunder on their part, but the initial war to oust the warlords from Xamar enjoyed tremendous public support likes of which was never seen in Somalia. No one was forced to fight against warlords.

This is from a man Amxaaro u ala laasaaye....aduun

NN...If you believe the courts was making of particular sub-sub clan, why do think it was so succesful in chasing the warlords away?. And why would the people Mogadisho fight for them? As for beliefs, It doesn't have to be particular ideology. As long as we Somalis don't follow clan leaders into political oblivion, it is fine by me. It was an oppurtunity for Somalis to mature politically, not just be tied down by the blind loyalty to the clan.

The courts gave Somalia an oppurtunity to move beyond the clan system. It was far from perfect, but it had the making and the potential to take Somalia into new era where people's loyalties stem from their beliefs rather than their lineage.

LoooooooooooL@Moderate Sky....N what are you..ultra liberal Yonis...who is we?

Winter has finally arrived. US still gripped by extreme cold Ice storms have knocked out electricity supplies Harsh winter weather is still gripping large parts of the US, leaving at least 50 people dead and hundreds of thousands without power. A powerful storm which began on Friday has brought ice, snow, floods and high winds to a huge swathe of the country from south-west to north-east. The north-western states of Oregon and Washington have also been hit by sub-zero temperatures and heavy snow. The cold continues, but major eastern cities were spared the worst effects. The storm had weakened by Wednesday in many places, but more freezing rain was forecast for Texas later in the day. Meanwhile a state of emergency has been announced in 10 counties of California, after citrus growers said the cold weather had probably destroyed about 70% of the state's crop. Emergency Ice storms - in which rain falls in temperatures so low it freezes - had knocked out electricity supplies to half a million people by Tuesday. Your pictures: US storms More than 300,000 were still without power by the end of the day. The worst-hit areas were Missouri, where freezing rain left behind a 7.6cm (three inch) coating of ice, and Oklahoma. US President George W Bush has declared states of emergency in both states. Most of those who have died were killed in weather-related accidents. One person died from carbon monoxide poisoning - a common cause of death when people without electricity use fuel-burning stoves in their homes. In Washington state and Oregon, five inches (13 cm) of snow fell, snarling traffic on major highways and forcing motorists to abandon their cars. First snow As the storms moved north-eastwards they sent temperatures there plummeting and brought wave after wave of sleet and snow. The storms passed over Maine, the most northerly state on the US east coast, but dumped some 10 inches (25cm) of snow as they did. North of the border, eastern Canada was finally hit by the first snow storm of the winter after an unusually mild start to the season. The weather forced 50 flight cancellations and 80 delays at Montreal and Toronto airports.

Love Naaji...Reer Bilaajo Carab aan isla ahaan jirney Xalimopatra....I have seen a video of Zeinab Cige performing live....Just horrible. Love her CDs though

A Harem of Testosterone.....looooool You know you kind already have that at SOL Sport section.

Originally posted by cynical lady: :rolleyes: It is odd for a unrelenting cynic to be at book club. This leads to conformity.

^^^^You & Book Clubs....looooooool

LooooooooL@strong men, The entire city of Xamar is awashed with guns. A couple of thugs giving up guns will change a little in terms of security.

I guess that's all it takes to discredit a man. I wonder who is gonna be his replacement, obviously someone from da Bay/Bakool area.

Ladies, Suxul Baroor was a desired trait back home in the old country. It is only us westernised Maryooley that have problems with it. UK Rose....da big forehead is encoded in genes. There is no escaping it.

Five kusbans....looool Now that's orgy lazy

^^^LooooooL Zu....Duq Kaastaro is gonna beat to that. N I don't think Gabadhaha inee dan u gaysay. What does Imam doing da Nikaax says about it. Redse....Xaan iri duqa

I used to watch him during my days in Pakistan, superb bastmen. From I what understand, Saeed Anwar introduced Islam to him, and the two actualy resemble each when sporting that big gar.

Shaikh Sharif captured today Source Pls

By Hassan Yare BAIDOA, Somalia, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Somalia's parliament on Wednesday ousted powerful speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan, who split with the president and prime minister late last year over his peace overtures to rival Islamists. "The speaker is out," Somali legislator Ali Basha told Reuters by phone from the parliament in a converted grain warehouse in the provincial town of Baidoa. He said 183 voted against Adan, while eight voted in his favour and one abstained. The ouster of Adan was widely seen as an attempt by the interim government to consolidate power after its troops, backed by Ethiopia's military, ran the Islamists out of strongholds in Mogadishu and most of southern Somalia at the New Year. "They want to send a clear signal to those who supported the Islamic courts that they don't have a place in the present political dispensation. But that may be a mis-calculation," Somali expert Matt Bryden said. President Abdullahi Yusuf's administration is being urged by many to reach out to opponents to ensure peace and stability in the chaotic Horn of Africa nation. Member of parliament Mohamed Isak Fanah, who opposed the motion, said it would foster conflict. "What happened in the parliament today is a new problem for Somalia. Somalia needs a reconciliation process," he said. The speaker, who had close ties to the Mogadishu businessmen who financed the Somalia Islamic Courts Council (SICC), made several attempts to strike peace deals between the government and the Islamist movement when it controlled most of the south. But his manoeuvres incurred the wrath of Yusuf and Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi, who said the power-sharing deal he cut did not have any government authority. Adan's overtures preceded the late December offensive against the Islamists. The speaker, who has not been in parliament for months and was in Brussels on Tuesday to meet EU aid chief Louis Michel, could not be reached for comment. Local media reports said he was in Djibouti, but that could not immediately be confirmed. Ibrahim Adan Hassan, one of 31 members of parliament (MPs) who proposed the no-confidence vote, blamed Adan for rifts in the administration. "The speaker was at the head of the conflict in parliament for the last two years," Hassan said. PEACEKEEPERS WANTED Officials said a new speaker would be appointed in 15 days. Somali sources close to the government said Yusuf's office had also ordered a reshuffle on Wednesday to trim the cabinet. But government spokesman Abdirahman Dinari, speaking by telephone from the capital Mogadishu, dismissed that. "The government is busy disarming Somalia, and MPs are in parliament impeaching the speaker, so those reports are absolutely not true," he told Reuters. Yusuf and Gedi are trying to bring the volatile nation of 10 million to heel after the routing of the Islamists, who have fled to the south near Kenya. Police in Kenya are checking rumours some top Islamists want to surrender at the border. The Somali government wants an African Union (AU) peacekeeping force -- approved by the U.N. Security Council before the war -- in Somalia by the end of the month. Though some momentum seems to be gathering for such a mission, that timetable looks highly optimistic, given that most analysts believe it will take far longer to organise. Ethiopia wants to pull out its soldiers in weeks. In South Africa, Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad said the continent would be unable to move in quickly to replace Ethiopian troops. "We are overstretched," Pahad said of South Africa, which Gedi has mentioned as a probable contributor. Pahad also criticised a U.S. air raid on suspected al Qaeda targets last week in south Somalia, saying it added "oil to the fires that are burning in Africa and the Middle East". Even if an African force does move into Somalia, it faces a mammoth task to tame a nation which has been in anarchy since the 1991 ouster of a dictator and which defied the best efforts of U.S. and U.N. peacekeepers in the early 1990s. As well as the threat of a guerrilla war from Islamist remnants who are hiding in the south, other security threats include the return of warlords, the prevalence of weapons across the country and long-running clan feuds. (Additional reporting by Bryson Hull, Andrew Cawthorne in Nairobi, Sahal Abdulle in Mogadishu, Tsegaye Tadesse in Addis Ababa, Sarah McGregor in Pretoria) Source: Reuters, Jan 17, 2007

Wednesday, January 17, 2007 MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - A top Somali lawmaker closely associated with the recently ousted Islamic movement was voted out as speaker Wednesday by parliament, a move that could undermine reconciliation efforts in the restive country. Deputy Speaker Osman Ilmi Boqore announced that parliament voted to strip Sharif Hassan Sheik Aden of the speaker's position. Lawmakers cited his public criticism of a proposed African peacekeeping mission that parliament had endorsed and his meetings with Islamic movement leaders without authority from parliament. newsinisideBoqore, in proceedings broadcast live on HornAfrik Radio from the parliament's seat in Baidoa, said that only nine of the lawmakers present voted against the motion. Voting in favor were 183 lawmakers — 44 more than required — in the 275-member parliament Aden's actions have been in "total violation of our transitional charter," lawmaker Mohamoud Begos told The Associated Press by phone from Baidoa. It was not clear if Aden was in Somalia. Aden had made several freelance peace initiatives with Somalia's Islamic movement before government forces — with key help from Ethiopian troops — ousted them in December from the capital, Mogadishu, and much of southern Somalia. In Belgium Wednesday, European Union spokesman Amadeu Altafaj Tadio expressed disappointment at the Somali parliament's move against Aden, who held meetings with EU officials in Belgium earlier this week. "We saw him as a someone who could make a bridge with the moderate elements," Altafaj said. "We had encouraged him to go back to Mogadishu to carry out his job and bring together as many political players as possible." Michael E. Ranneberger, the U.S. ambassador to Kenya, told reporters in the Kenyan capital Wednesday before the vote that Aden was "the kind of person who could pull people together." The U.S. encourages dialogue in Somalia, including with a key Islamic leader like Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, who is seen as a moderate, Ranneberger said. "If he (Ahmed) wanted to play a positive role that should be a possibility. He is a recognized moderate," said Ranneberger, whose portfolio includes Somalia. In the past year, Aden has differed with Yusuf and Gedi over the location of the government and whether peacekeepers were needed. According to Somalia's transitional charter, parliament has to vote on all major government decisions before they can be implemented. Neighboring Yemen at one point stepped in to mediate between the president and prime minister and the speaker. On Wednesday, Gedi told parliament that he ruled out peace talks with the Islamic movement and hoped to see the first African peacekeepers in Somalia by month's end. So far only Uganda has committed to contributing troops and few others have shown enthusiasm for a proposed 8,000-strong African mission to bolster the government's attempt to create law and order. A peacekeeping mission could face some violence, something that may deter many countries from committing soldiers. There has been sporadic fighting since the government took over Mogadishu on Dec. 28. Leaders of the Islamic movement have pledged to carry on a guerrilla war as long as Ethiopian troops remain in Somalia. A U.N. peacekeeping operation in Somalia in the 1990s saw clashes between foreign troops and Somali warlords' fighters, including the notorious downings of two U.S. military Black Hawk helicopters in 1993. The U.S. withdrew from Somalia in 1994, and that was followed a year later by the departure of U.N. peacekeepers. Somalia has not had an effective central government since 1991 when warlords overthrew longtime dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and then turned on each other, reducing this Horn of Africa nation to anarchy and clan-based violence. The Yusuf-Gedi government emerged from regional, U.N.-backed talks in 2004 and has since struggled to assert authority. Source: AP, Jan 17, 2007

All cute ones have become Devil's hand holders. She might be able to lease you one though even that could be expensive.

Meesha Buffet Miyaa...Cajiib

Hmmmm..a swimming outfit how about a little qeed (make dat da top), and super Alfalaax.