Originally posted by Maaddeey: Shacabka waxa dhibka ku haya waa la yaqaannaa, waa kuwa aad Dawladda u taqaanaan, oo dhac, dil & xumaan oo dhan u geysta!, kolley 2diinna Xamar waa la idiin degganyahaye, Shacabka wareysta, markey Wiilasha yar-yar eed Khawaarij u taqaannaan u yimaadaan ayaa neefta ku soo noqotaa! Wallahi hadaad wareysan laheyd shacabka waxa dhibka ku haya weji kale ayad la imaan laheyd Maaddeey. Hadaad modey mobil laga xoogo ama isbaaro lo dhigto in uu yahey waxaa shacabka dhib uu ah, midka ka daran oo aysan weliba ka sheegan kariin kuna dulhabsadey aydan war u heyn - marka laga xoreyo, Insha Allah, ayan is warsan doona sxb.

Originally posted by General Duke: ^^^Juje, adeer stop waffling, War hedhe maxad iga rabta duf ku baxe? Ma igu walacdey ?

Originally posted by Maaddeey: Juje ma ilmo-adeer ayaad tihiin? Maya, ilmo-habreed..

Qarax miino oo maanta lagula eegtay Wadada Sey-Biyaano Gaari uu leeyahay Taliyaha Ciidamada Milateriga Inta la og yahay hal askari ayaa ku geeriyooday afar kalena waa ay ku dhaawacmeen kadib qarax miino oo barqanimadii maanta lala eegtay Gaari uu leeyahay Taliyaha Ciidamada Milateriga Jen, Maxamed Geelle Kaahiya. Wararka ayaa sheegaya in Gaariga xilliga qaraxa lala eeganayay uu saarnaa Taliyaha, halka warar kalena ay tibaaxayaan in aanu Taliyuhu saarneyn xilligaas qaraxa lala beegsaday. Askarta dhimashada iyo dhaawac soo gaaray ayaa la sheegay in ay ahaayeen Ilaalada Taliyaha, iyagoo gaari ku marayay wadada Sey-Biyaano. Afhayeenka Booliska C/llaahi Xasan Bariise ayaa warbaahinta u sheegay in qaraxaas ay ka dambeeyeen Kooxaha nabad diidka ee Dowladda ka soo horjeeda, wuxuuna carabka ku adkeeyay in Ciidamada ay wadaan howl galo sida uu hadalka u dhigay. Qaraxyada ka dhaca Magaalada Muqdisho ayaa ah kuwo Kooxaha Mucaaradka si xeeladeysan ugu qaarijiyaan Saraakiisha Ciidamada, iyagoo wadada dhinaceeda ugu aaso, mararka ay Gaariga wataan waxaana ay ka maamulaan Meelaha fog fog oo ay gaadiidka ku qarxiyaan Miinada. Hoyga wararka Somaliyed www.Jowhar.com

Originally posted by Qudhac: well not yet anyway, it might be still down to the big bad argagixiso man, from evil muqdisho Or those troublesome from Galmudug

Well at least they are not blaming anyone else this time.

It was a good program . The participants had a heated debate but it was all in civil manner. The moderator Abdisalan Hareri run the show professionally and this was his second scoop in a week. He earlier had an hour long interview with former President Yusuf covering all issues. Back to the debate tonight - the participants had a common goal but they all believed they had individually a better path than the other. Once again a very good and healthy debate.

Originally posted by Ducaysane_87: i heard she want's to be the next head of Golaha Guurtiida seems - Salebaan gaal got some challenge.

Good development indeed.

Originally posted by General Duke: It's getting bad for the Somali's insha Allah we shall provail. Warya ma dhiman rabta?

Wretched, jobless, invisible: are Britain’s Somalis the enemy within? Martin Fletcher Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Tears filled Abdul Kadir Ali’s eyes as he sat in a rundown community centre in Acton, West London, and told of his sister’s life and untimely death. Qamar Aden Ali fled Somalia with her two young children in 1986, he said. She settled in Wembley, learnt English, took British citizenship, studied law at Thames Valley University and joined a law firm helping asylum-seekers. Then, in 2005, she returned to war-ravaged Somalia to become the transitional government’s health minister. “She said, ‘I need to help my country’,” recalled Mr Ali, a coach company manager. “I told her many times that it’s dangerous, you have no bodyguards, every day they are killing ministers and MPs. She said, ‘The day of my death is already written’.” On December 3 she attended a graduation ceremony for 40 young doctors at a hotel in a supposedly safe part of Mogadishu. A suicide bomber dressed as a woman blew himself up, killing 22 people. They included the minister, 52, and her cousin, Sadia Said Samatar, 31, also a British citizen. “When al-Jazeera showed pictures of the scene I could see them lying there on the floor,” Mr Ali said. His shock was compounded when the bomber was identified as a young Dane of Somali descent. It could so easily have been a British Somali, he said. In Northolt, two miles away, another Somali immigrant family is struggling to recover after their 21-year-old son quit Oxford Brookes University, went to Somalia and blew himself up at a checkpoint in the town of Baidoa in October 2007, killing 20 soldiers. It is easy to think of the war in Somalia as being, to quote Neville Chamberlain, a “quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing”. That is a dangerous illusion. This is a conflict that has driven tens of thousands of Somali refugees to Britain. They are probably the poorest and most disadvantaged ethnic community in the country, a people whose disaffected young are all too easily recruited by gangs or, worse, Islamic extremists. Government officials say that dozens have already returned to Somalia to join al-Shabaab, the brutal militia with links to al-Qaeda that is fighting the Western-backed Government. They fear that these battle-hardened jihadists will bring their newly acquired skills back to the UK. One senior official told The Times that Somalia had risen sharply up the list of threats to Britain’s security and was probably now second after Pakistan. “It’s something we worry about a lot,” he said. Lord Malloch-Brown, the former Foreign Office Minister, warned before leaving office in July that “the main terrorist threat comes from Pakistan and Somalia, not Afghanistan”. Radicalised Somali immigrants have already launched botched terrorist attacks in Britain and Australia. The Government has no reliable statistics on how many Somalis now live in Britain. One official reckoned that there were 150,000 legal immigrants and three times as many illegal ones. The usual estimate is about 250,000, mostly in London but with sizeable numbers in Liverpool, Sheffield, Bristol, Cardiff and other cities. It is almost certainly the biggest Somali community in the worldwide diaspora and suffers from shockingly high levels of unemployment, low levels of education and wretched living conditions. A 2008 report by the Institute for Public Policy Research suggested that 46 per cent had arrived in Britain since 2000, 48 per cent had no qualifications and barely a quarter of the working age population was employed — mostly in menial jobs. In 1997 Haringey Council found that 50.6 per cent of its Somali adults were illiterate in any language. Sue Lukes, the co-author of an imminent report on housing, says that Somalis are “possibly the worst-housed ethnic community in Britain, certainly in London”. Many do not speak English, received no education because of the war, or have known nothing but violence. The community is fractured, has largely failed to integrate and has lost its traditional social structures. Britain has only one Somali mayor, in Tower Hamlets, East London, and one former councillor, in Liverpool. The Metropolitan Police employs not a single Somali policeman, although it is now training four. “It has been called the invisible community,” Mohamed Aden Hassan, co-founder of the Somali London Youth Forum, said. Not surprisingly, some marginalised young Somalis join gangs: the Tottenham Somalis, the Woolwich Boys, Thug Fam. Anecdotal evidence suggests that Somalis are too often the perpetrators, or victims, of violent crime. Two Somali brothers, Mustaf and Yusuf Jama, murdered PC Sharon Beshenivsky during a robbery in Bradford in 2005. In 2006 another young Somali, Mahir Osman, was stabbed to death at a Camden bus stop by a gang of 40 youths, several of them Somali. Rageh Omaar, the Somali-born television journalist, has talked of the “crisis of our young men” and a “sense of denial” within the community. Other young Somalis, angered by the US and British-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, have followed the siren call of Islamic fundamentalism. Two of the four men who tried to bomb the London Underground on July 21, 2005, were Somali asylum-seekers. Others have gone home to fight for al-Shabaab, which, until Ethiopian troops withdrew from Somalia in February, portrayed itself as a nationalist group fighting foreign occupiers and enjoyed considerable support among British Somalis. British officials are uncertain whether the converts are recruited on the street, in mosques, or through the internet, but al-Shabaab certainly exploits the latter. In one online video two young suicide bombers talk of the “sweetness of jihad”. “How dare you sit at home and see Muslims getting killed . . . Those who are in Europe and America, get out of those countries,” they say. Officials do not know exactly how many have gone because they cannot distinguish between Somalis travelling home for legitimate and illegitimate reasons. “It’s not hundreds, but it’s more than single figures,” said one senior Whitehall source, who added that non-Somali British had also gone to global jihad’s latest battleground. A counter-terrorist source said: “They are not just fighting and learning new skills, but forging contacts from around the world.” Leaders of Britain’s Somali community are appalled at the image that it has acquired and argue that most Somalis in this country are peaceful and law-abiding. They say that the community increasingly sees al-Shabaab as the terrorist organisation that it is. Belatedly, they and the authorities are taking steps to protect their vulnerable youth and Mr Ali is now joining them. He is setting up a foundation in his sister’s memory to combat the radicalisation of young British Somalis. He intends to campaign in schools, mosques and workshops against extremists who brainwash susceptible young Muslims like his sister’s Danish killer. The stakes are high, he says. When the recruits have finished fighting in Somalia “they will send them back to Europe and America. It will be very, very dangerous.” Home in Britain 70,000 estimated number of Somalis living in London 8,305 Somali nationals granted British citizenship in 2005 11,100 Somalis became asylum seekers in the first half of 2009 9,100 of these were in the EU The Sources of this estimation came from: UNHCR, 2001 census, BBC, Home Officee. Source: Click

Al-Shabab Militants Divided over Tactics, Foreign Control A rising dispute between militants in Somalia may have split the country's al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab group into two factions. Reports say the suicide bombing at a Mogadishu hotel earlier this month deepened divisions between an al-Shabab leader closely aligned with foreigners and another opposed to foreigners dictating the group's agenda. 22 December 2009 Alisha Ryu | Nairobi Reports say a dispute has been simmering for months between the Mogadishu-based ultra-hardline al-Shabab leader Ahmed Abdi Godane, also known as Abu Zubayr, and Muktar Robow Abu Mansour, a leader based in the Bay region, southwest of Mogadishu. Godane, who came to power after the death of al-Shabab founder Aden Hashi Ayro in a U.S. missile strike in May 2008, is firmly committed to the idea of using al-Qaida-trained foreign fighters to help al-Shabab violently overthrow Somalia's U.N.-backed transitional government and establish an Islamic caliphate in Somalia. Robow is reported to be in favor of engaging in talks with al-Shabab rivals and maintaining a popular backing for the militant group. International Crisis Group, Horn of Africa analyst Rashid Abdi says al-Shabab has a decentralized leadership structure that has been vulnerable to dissent. "It has serious trouble in the sense that those who are wedded to the idea of a permanent global jihad with Somalia as a staging post are now in the driver's seat," he said. "Foreign jihadis are the ones who are calling the shots. They are the ones who are behind the waves of suicide bombings, which have caused horrific civilian casualties. And increasingly, they are alienating those people who have a local agenda." The exact number of foreigners in Somalia is not known. But in June, the president of Somalia's transitional federal government, Sharif Sheik Ahmed, said hundreds had arrived in the country to support al-Shabab. According to VOA sources in Somalia, many foreigners are based at al-Shabab training camps in the towns of Marka, Barawe, and Kismayo, teaching thousands of recruits bomb-making skills and guerrilla fighting tactics. Officials in Somalia say one of these recruits, a Somali man who had grown up in Denmark, carried out the December 3 suicide bombing at a graduation ceremony for medical students attended by several government ministers. The blast killed four ministers, but also killed and wounded at least 60 bystanders. Amid a public outcry, al-Shabab's Mogadishu-based spokesman Ali Mohamed Rage denied his group had carried out the bombing. The denial prompted some observers to speculate that foreign al-Shabab commanders may have planned the mission without consulting some of their key Somali counterparts or receiving their endorsement. Rashid Abdi says the bombing has convinced many ordinary Somalis that al-Shabab is increasingly being controlled by foreign fighters, who have no regard for Somali lives. Abdi says that public perception could now give Somalia's beleaguered president an opportunity to erase the humiliation his government suffered six months ago, when it was forced to beg for troops from neighboring countries to keep the government from being toppled. "We have to be cautious. Anger against al-Shabab does not necessarily translate into support for Sharif. But Sharif has to get out there and try to regain the political territory lost to al-Shabab," he added. On Monday, President Sharif attended the opening session of the Somali transitional parliament in Mogadishu, dressed in a military uniform. He said the time had come to re-take the country from al-Shabab and urged parliament members and Somali citizens to assist the government in efforts to defeat the militants. Source : VOA

Originally posted by Maaddeey: Asaga & Shariif Xasan ma kala hari doonaan tolow?

Originally posted by AYOUB: Happy New Year to volunteer Speaker MMA of the section and all the SOL team. And to you sxb

UUR KU TAALLO AAN LA ILAAWI KARRIN QARAXII HOTEL SHAMOW By Weriye Ayaanle X. Cabdi Waxay ahayd Arroor Khamiis ah bisha December ay 3 tahay, waxaan kamid ahaa wariyayaal lagu marti qaaday inay goobjoog ka ahaadaan xaflad si heer sarre ah loo soo agaasimay oo qorshuhu ahaa in ay ka dhacdo Hotel Shamow, anigu waxaan daganaa xaafad ka durugsan halka xafladu ka dhaceysay, aniga oo maanka kuhaya xaflada ayaa hadana waxaa daqiiqado kadiba ila soo xirrirayay Mohamed oo kamid ahaa ardayda Jamicadda Banaadir oo aan telephonka un isaka baranay balse aanan wali is arag, mohamed waxaa uu igu lahaa Ayaanle saxiib addiga ayaa lagu sugayaa xafladina wey bilaaban rabtaa, runti ma xusuusto saacadu inta ay ahayd, waxaan ka soobaxay xaafaddi aan daganaa, waxaa iwehliyay wiil aan saxiib nahay oo Mohamed joqombe la yiraahdo dhexda ayaa waxaa inaga soo raacay wiil kalle oo yarka saxiibkey ah ay is garanayeen oo C/qadar un aan magaciisa ka xusuusto. Subaxaas waxaan ku tallo galayay in Barnaamijkan Qalin jabinta Jamicadda aan xooga saaro, si aan shaqsiyan qeyb uga qaato dhiirigalinta howlaha noocan ah ee bulshadda mustaqbalka u ah.waxaan gaari dhiganay guri aan ka fogeyn Hotel shamow , waxaanan ka soo lugeynay aniga iyo asxaabti ila socotayba halkaas, talada in gaariga aan halkaas dhigano waxaa lahaa Mohamed joqombe oo ku taliyay in irridda Hotelku ay mashquul noqon karto, sidaa darteed aan gaariga halkan iska dhigano. Waxaa inagu soo biiray oo isna halkaa igu sugayay Mohamed Olad oo ah wariye ushaqeya AP, iyo BBC da waxaa telephonka ii soo galay Mohamed oo aan usheegay in aan irrida usoo dhawahay waxaa uu inooga horyimid banaanka Hotelka isaga oo gacanta ku hayay waraaqihii casumaada, Mohamed waxaa uu ku labisnaa shaar cad iyo surwaal aan umaleynayo inuu madoobaa, waxaa u xirneyd dhexda qiyaastii wuxuu ahaa 27 jir, jir ahaan dhisan aadba u quruxbadan. Geerida waqtigeeda waa arrin eebe ugaar ahe, Mohamed waxaa uu aniga iyo asxaabti ila socotayba ina geeyay kuraasta hore ee xafladda, dad badan oo madax iyo marti leh ayaan halkaa isku salaanay. Aniga waxaan fadhiistay Safka Labaad, gacantaadda midig marka aad hoolka xaflada gasho kana soo jeesato dhanka masraxa, waxaa iga horeyay hal saf oo ay wada fadhiyeen xusuusteyda Prof Caddow, Dr. Dufle, qof kalle oo aan hayn iyo gabar xog hayn u ahayd wasiirad Qamar Alaha uraxmadee. xiligi aan imid waxaa socday Flim ka sheekeynayay heerarka ay soo martay jaamicada Banaadir iyo horumarka ay sameysay, waxaan daawanay Flimkaasi oo marka qeyb waliba hormuudkeeda soo gallo ay ardayda sacab iyo qeylo farxaded isku darayeen asxaabti ila socotayna hal saf ayay iga sii dambeeyeen oo halkaa ayaa fadhi looga hellay, waxaan Recorder aan watay aan saartay miiska masraxa si aan qudbadaha uduubto, anigu shaqsiyan maqabin war war ama cabsi ah armey wax dhacaan, xaqiiqdi aad ayaan ugu faraxsanaa xafladda oo ma ahayn wax la qiyaasi karray. Waxaa goobta joogay Gabdho iyo Wiilal si quruxbadan u labisan oo aad dareemeyso in laga soo shaqeeyay xafladda oo waqti iyo maskaxba la galiyay. Waxaa bilowday qudbado gaar ahaa oo la siiyay martida qaar iyo ardayda jaamicadda waxaa xilgay riwaayad gaabnayd oo ay ardayda jaamicadu matalayeen oo kahadleysay dhiirigellinta waxbarashadda. Marki riwaayada oo aad uxiiso badneyd aan daawanay ayaa waxaa inaloo keenay sharaab iyo macmaacan waxaan cabnay sharaabkii waxaan xusuustaa runtii in Prof Caddow isaga oo aan hadlin uu gacanta isaga diiday sharaabkii, qof aanan xusuusan ayaa yiirri wuu soomanyahay wasiirku ilaah amarki aniga waxaan is irri waqti dheer ayay xafladu socondoontaa ee maad wareysatid gudoomiyaha jaamicada, oo isagu in yar kahor kamid ahaa masuuliyiinti halkaa ka hadashay, waxaan mohamed joqombe oo saxiibkey ahaa ka codsaday inuu Recorder-ka iiga soo qaado miiska masraxa maadama ay Camerado badan ku jeeden halkaasi. Mohamed waxaa isaga oo aan ku faraxsaneyn oo jecel in qudbadaha aan duubto uu isoo qabtay Recorderka waxaana uu ii raaciyay hada ayay qudbaduhu kulul yihiin ee maad duubatid, ilaah amarki ayay wax waliba ku socdaan aniga waan ka baxay Hoolka oo waxaan dibada ugu tagay Gudoomiyaha Jaamicadda waan isku sheegay kadibna wuu iga aqbalay in aan wareysto,waxaa uu iqabtay gacanta iina kaxeeyay qol yar oo kudhawaa hoolka xafladu ka dhaceysay wareysigii ayaan bilaabay qiyaastii 4 daqiiqo meelaha marki aan ka soo maqanahay hoolka ayuu qaraxu dhacay,waxaan miyir helay aniga oo meel dame oo dhulka ah jiifa, markiba waan istagay waxaanan arakay dhiig garabka iiga yaalla, waan is taabtay dhaawac ayaan iska waayay, waxaa ii muqday dhalinrado qaraxa kadib qolka orad ku soo galay oo aan is leeyahay malaxa way gabanaayan anigu xiligaa waxaan hubaa in ay wax dhaceen lakin waxa ay yihiin iima cadda, waxaan bilaabay in aan su,aalo dadki ila joogay qof ila hadlana waan waayay , xitaa gudoomiyihii jaamicada Dr.Mohamed Macalin Muse wuu taaganyahay hadalna malahayn oo ilama uusan hadlin waxaana uu eegayay dhalinyaro daadsaneyn gudaha iyo dibada qolka aan ku jirnay. wali dadku hadal malaha waxaan xusuustaa cod aan hubin qofkuu ahaa oo marka aan isku dayay in aan qolka kabaxo oo aan aado bananka iyo hoolka qaraxu ka dhacay igu yirri, Ha aadin qarax kalle ayaa dhici kara,,,waan ka joogay waxaana xigay qeyladda dadka oo ogaaday in ay wax dhaceen, iyo dhaawaca oo qeylo ah ina caawiya kuwi karay ay bilaabeen waxaa iimuuqday dad badan oo aan garanayo oo dhaawac iyo meydba leh, kuwaasi oo daadsan gudaha hoolka iyo dibada waxaan bilaabay in aan raadiyo asxaabti ila socotay balse nasiib wanaag iyagu inti aan wareysiga ku jiray ayay xaflada ka baxeen oo banaanka ayayba jireen waxaan arkay yar aan aad isugu dheereyn oo sawor qaade ahaa Cumar faaruuq oo dhaawac ah oo dhuunta ay birro uga jiraan, waxaan qabtay garabka gaari ayaan saaray waxaa isaga oo cacaraya madaxuna aad ubararay dhiigna iiga muuqan, oo aan hadli karayn aan gartay Yaasir oo kamid ahaa asxaabta aan si wanaagsan u aqiinay bas meesha yiilay ayan isna wax ka saaray. Dib ayaan ugu soo laabtay hoolka waxaana nin oday ahaa ku qey linayay dhawaca qaadda oo meydka ha inoo dambeeyo, waxaa iigu xanuun badneyn markan arkay hooyo ku dul barooraneysa wiilkeeda oo aan xaalkedu caadi ahayn, hadii aan eegaba waa yarki Mohamed ahaa ee xaflada igu soo dhaweeyay oo meyd ah, walaahi waxaan cellin waayay ilinta, waxaana isku dayay in aan sabarsiiyo hooyo. Bal maxaa hooyadaas uga xanuun badan dhibatada gaartay Ilaahay mid kawanaagsan ha ugu badalo kuwa uharayna ha u hagaajiyo meesha musiibadu ka dhacday waa halkii aan fadhiyay iyo kuraas ii dhaweyd waxaan ogaaday in waxa dhacay aysan dusha ka iman oo laba ay mid yihiin 1. wax dhulka lagu sii aasay kahor xaflada ama walxaha qarxa oo qof uu meesha uga tagay . waxaan qaadan waayay oo aan filli waayay in qof ibnu aadam ah uu ku fakiri karo in meel sidan ah uu qarxiyo, waxaa aan dareemay aniga in aanan caadi ahayn oo hawo qaadashada ayaa igu yareyd waxaan aaday dhanka halkii gaarigu iiyiilay, waxaan galay guri udhawaa halkaa oo dad aan garanayo ay daganaayeen dharki ayaan iska siibay dhiiga lahaa, waxaa igu sii kordhay xanuun jirka ah oo aan dareemayay iyo naqaska oo igu sii yaraanaya,waxaan lahadlay yar pharmacy ku lahaa Zope waxaana uu ikeenay dawooyin iyo masaajo jirka lamariyo,ilaah mahadi xanuunki wuu iga yaraaday si wanagsan oo aan kuhawo qaadan karana waan useexday,wixi dhacay ma ahayn wax uu qof damiir lihi oo arkaa uu kasheekeyn karay waxaa uun la shekeyn karay qof ka fogaa,dhacdadaasi waxay aniga si gaar ah iigu reebtay murugo aan kala go,la hayn waxaan igu yaraaday hurdadii xiliga habeenki, oo waxaan xusuusanayaa wixi dhacay iyo arxan daradii maalintaa lagu beegay. maalin kadib markii musiibadaasi dhacday ayaa waxaa dalka Canada igala soo hadlay oday ka xumaa wixi dhacay oo iskugu key sheegay inuu reer B/weyne yahay, waxaa uu iishegay in madaxda mesha lagu laayay uu garanayo kuligood waxaa uu iisheegay in 4 ta wasiir 3 da dhimatay iyo kan dhaawaca ahba ay reer B/weyne ahaayeen Walaahi xiliga aan qoraalkani sameynayo, maqiyaasi karo sida aan ahay, waan kaa raali galinayaa hadaad ku aragto qalad xaga qoraalka ah, ilaah waxan uga baryayaa inti dhimatay raxmadiisa waa saca ah, inta ku dhawacantahay falkaas iyo falalka lamid ka ahaaba caafimaad sareec ah, eheladoodi iyo umada soomaaliyeedna samir iyo imaan. Ayaanle Xuseen Cabdi Mogadishu,Somalia email.ayanle.abdi@hotmail.com

Originally posted by Caddow Junior Charles: you are rigth juje, i will just shat up and wiat for the apology Yeah ! Mind you the postal service is on strike you might have to wait lil bit longer. Make sure you don't go astray while you are waiting otherwise the 'apology' might rapidly be preceded by the utter opposite.

Originally posted by Caddow Junior Charles: admins public lecture&warning of me... i personally think it was uncalled for and totally unprofessional. Aren't you doing exactly the same by moaning in public - if you have an issue with the Baby Face dude sxb PM him. You are stretching this thing bit to far.

Originally posted by Sherban Shabeel: ^Thankfully Shabaab isn't in charge of SOL If you only knew the baby-faced Admin you would have refrained from saying that ....

Al Shabaab will not linger that long in Puntland they will forcefully and considerably be dealt with.

Tusbax stop egging the young boy to jump the cliff

Insurgents fire mortars on Somali police, 13 dead Sunday, December 20, 2009 By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN MOGADISHU, Somalia — Islamic militants fired mortars into Mogadishu's police compound as the force was celebrating its 66th anniversary Sunday, sparking a battle that killed at least 12 civilians and a police officer, officials said. One police officer was killed and three others were wounded in the fighting, which began after the mortar landed near the compound during the ceremony, police official Aden Ahmed said. He said that government soldiers and the African Union forces returned fire, shelling Mogadishu's rebel-controlled district. Most of the shelling hit near the Bakara market, a busy shopping area, Ahmed said. Ali Musa, the head of the Mogadishu ambulance service, said at least 12 civilians were killed and 15 others were wounded in the retaliation. Somalia's capital sees near-daily bloodshed as a powerful insurgent group with links to al-Qaida tries to overthrow the fragile government and push out 5,000 African Union peacekeepers. Somalia has been ravaged by violence since warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991, then turned on each other. A moderate Islamist was elected president in January amid hopes he could unite the country's feuding factions, but the violence has continued. Suicide bombings, unheard of in Somalia before 2007, have also become increasingly frequent and the lawlessness has raised concerns that al-Qaida is trying to gain a foothold in the Horn of Africa. Earlier this month a suicide bomber attacked a university graduation ceremony in Mogadishu, killing 24 people, including three government ministers, medical students and doctors. The government blamed al-Shabab, which has denied responsibility. The group is part of an Islamic insurgency trying to topple the government. Source: AP, December 20, 2009