2nd Canadian stranded in Kenya Members of Canada's Somali community say their relationship with the Canadian High Commission in Nairobi, Kenya, is strained following a second case of disputed identity. Abdihakim Mohammed, a 25-year-old Somali-Canadian, has been stuck in Kenya for three years, accused by Canadian diplomatic officials of being an imposter. Mohammed is autistic. His mother took him to Somalia five years ago because doctors believed being around extended family could help him. After leaving Mohammed in Somalia with his grandmother, his mother returned to Canada. However, when she tried to bring him back to Canada three years ago, she was told the person travelling with her was not her son because he didn't look like his passport photo. In an earlier case of disputed identity, Suaad Hagi Mohamud, 31, had been unable to leave Kenya since May, when local authorities said her lips did not look the way they did in her passport photo. Canadian consular officials voided her passport and urged Kenya to prosecute her. After a DNA test proved Mohamud was who she said she was, a Kenyan judge agreed to drop identity fraud charges. Mohamud recently returned to Toronto where she was reunited with her son, Mohamed Hussein, 12. The latest case remains unresolved despite offers by Mohammed's mother to undergo DNA testing. "I was upset with them, the Canadian Embassy, they didn't want to give me my passport, my Canadian passport — I don't know why," Abdihakim Mohammed told CBC News. Mohammed Dalmar, a family friend and a manager at Ottawa's Catholic Immigration Centre, said the federal government has a problem at the High Commission in Nairobi. "The relationship between the Somali community and the High Commission in Nairobi is damaged and we need to repair it," Dalmar said. No embassy Canada has no embassy in Somalia, so people from that country must travel to Nairobi for consular services. Dalmar said people travelling to Somalia through Kenya are targeted by corrupt Kenyan border agents. "If you go through the airport, they will target you," he said. "They will say you have to pay some money as a bribe. Otherwise, they make life difficult for you." When bribes aren't paid, the traveller can be accused of using a false passport. Now in at least two cases, it seems Canadian consular officials have sided with the Kenyans when this has happened. Not drawing conclusions Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon isn't willing to draw any conclusions yet, but he said senior officials are looking into what happened. "We're not looking for anything else than the truth," Cannon said. Xigasho

Diplomat's recall does not clear air The Canadian diplomat at the heart of the uproar over Ottawa's indefensible treatment of Suaad Hagi Mohamud is suddenly back home. But Liliane Khadour's recall from Kenya to Ottawa doesn't begin to clear the air. If her political masters hope to shield themselves by scapegoating her, Parliament shouldn't let them get away with it. Khadour is the official at Canada's high commission in Nairobi who sent a letter to Kenyan authorities saying that "conclusive investigations" had confirmed – wrongly, as it turned out – that Mohamud was an imposter. The letter said the high commission was "releasing" her passport to the Kenyans so she could be prosecuted. As Canadians have learned, Mohamud is who she claimed to be. She returned to Toronto on Saturday. Now Ottawa must explain the indefensible. It rejected Mohamud's proofs of Canadian identity, denied the Somali immigrant's Canadian citizenship, seized her passport, blocked her right to return home, and turned her over to a foreign government. Then it took months to sort out the mess with a DNA test. Is it credible that Khadour, a mere official, wreaked such havoc without her superiors eventually knowing? Hardly. Is it credible that "conclusive investigations" didn't include consultations with Ottawa officials? No. If higher officials didn't know, they should have. At Prime Minister Stephen Harper's demand, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon (who faulted the victim) and Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan are conducting probes. Canadian High Commission to Kenya Ross Hynes, too, should shed light on this fiasco. But it's not reassuring that Mohamud's lawyer Raoul Boulakia has had to launch proceedings in Federal Court to obtain Mohamud's disputed passport and case file. What does Ottawa have to hide? The Harper government has just a few weeks before Parliament resumes in mid-September to explain how a Canadian traveler could be treated so shabbily after seeking consular help. Absent a credible explanation, the Liberals and other opposition parties should use their majority in Parliament to force an inquiry. As well, they should press for legislation requiring Ottawa to go to bat for citizens who get into trouble abroad. At present, Ottawa isn't bound to help. Ministers and bureaucrats can pick and choose. That can leave new Canadians such as Mohamud feeling the sting of official indifference. Since 9/11, Muslims especially have suffered. The Federal Court in several cases has sharply criticized Ottawa for neglecting citizens. This is not the Canadian way. If the government won't assume its responsibility to stand up for every citizen, Parliament should take up the cause. Ibid

Her case is far from over. It is just a tip of what happens in Nayroobi office of Canadian embassy. Waa dad isla waa weyn, Soomaalida aadna u yaso dadka ka shaqeeyo safaaradaas Kanada. On today's paper. _____________ Government `mindset' blamed for abuse of our Muslims abroad You remember Liliane Khadour, don't you? She was among those at the Canadian high commission in Nairobi who caused Suaad Hagi Mohamud all that grief. Well, the diplomat's tour of duty has "concluded" – as in, terminated. But she clearly was not alone in creating the mess. What's being done about the other officials? And what's Ottawa doing about the chorus of complaints about the attitude of Canadian immigration officials in Nairobi toward Somalis, including visiting Somali Canadians? And what of Stephen Harper? After refusing for weeks to tend to the case, he has been cleverly distancing his government from this shameful episode. He shouldn't be allowed to get away with it. He began last Thursday with the innuendo that Mohamud's was "not an easy case," implying there was more to it than meets the eye. If so, let's hear it, Prime Minister. The next day, he urged Canadians to be cautious when abroad, implying that she hadn't been. Fact: she had done nothing wrong, except to visit her sick mother. He then made a particularly misleading statement: "We do our best to aid those in various forms of difficulty, but ultimately we're not the sovereign government once people leave our territory." Fact: it was not Kenyans, but Canadian officials who were the main culprits. This week, Harper said: "When we became aware last week ..." Is that the royal "we"? Or is he referring to his office? In either case, it's not reassuring that the Prime Minister and/or his entourage didn't know what most Canadians did. ON SATURDAY , about 50 Somali Canadians waited nearly two hours at Pearson airport for Mohamud to emerge from immigration upon her return from Kenya. They were eager to talk. Shukri Abdi lives in the same building as Mohamud and had gladly looked after the single mom's son, though she has seven children of her own. "I said, `sure,' since Suaad had to go see her mother." Abdi said stories of Somalis being harassed by Kenyans at Nairobi airport for bribes and being ill-treated at the Canadian embassy are common. Her brother, Abdi Dirshe nodded. The last time he was there, in the spring, "I couldn't get past the security, even though I showed my Canadian passport." Mohamed Dahir has a radio program on CHIN Radio and a TV show on OMNI. "There are lots and lots of complaints about our embassy there. They don't treat people properly. For them, there are two tiers of Canadian citizens. If you are Somali, tough luck." His colleague Ahmed Yusif: "Many Canadian embassies have an assumption of who's a Canadian. The colour of your skin still plays a role, even when you have a Canadian passport. I was happy when Brenda Martin was brought back from Mexico in a government jet. But we should help not just those who might look like the government's idea of a Canadian but, rather, all Canadians." Faduma Mohamed, president of the Somali Canadian Diaspora Alliance, said: "We do not have two-tier citizenship in Canada, but there is in the way Harper is acting." MOHAMUD'S LAWYER , Raoul Boulakia, has a pretty good idea of what went wrong in the Mohamud case. Detained at Nairobi airport May 21, Mohamud had the Kenyans call the Canadian embassy. A day later, Khadour and "a white male officer" arrived. "What might have pushed the (Canadian) immigration officer was that she, having lived in Canada for some years, talked to him in a way he's not used to from the Somalis there. She said she had some rights as a Canadian. But the Canadian officers there expect Somalis to suck up to them." When Mohamud was taken to the embassy May 25, she offered her fingerprints and urged the officials to phone her employer. "But they just wouldn't listen. Which is how they normally treat Somalis over there. People keep telling us stories that the embassy staff are dreadful. And every experience I've had with them has been dreadful." By May 28, Khadour had sent Mohamud's passport to Kenyan officials, "telling them, `You prosecute her.' Can you believe that?" Darryl Huard, second secretary, immigration, sent a detailed list of questions to Suaad's employer: Her date of employment? Hourly wage? Hours of work? Days absent from work? etc. "It's clear what the purpose of such questions is," Boulakia said. "Once they get the answers, they'd ask her and see if she gives the exact same answers. The slightest deviation, and `she's lying.' "The simplest thing would've been to put her and her employer here on Skype, and say, `Does this woman work for you? Show us her employee ID picture, her file.'" Meanwhile, the government was fighting Boulakia in court. "Can I have her file? No. Her passport? No. Why don't you do a DNA test? No. I said the government has done it in 8,000 cases. The court agreed. Once the DNA came, they were screwed." Boulakia's experience is that when "Canadian officials make mistakes, they never, ever admit to their mistake. They close ranks. That seems to be the same behaviour in just about every case I litigate. And what they really, really hate is a lawyer turning up to question them." As for the Harper government, he said, "it has an attitude toward Muslims abroad, a mindset, like they are dealing with second-class citizens. With Mohamud, their attitude was similarly dismissive: `This woman, what can she expect?'" The Star

Sources Allidamaale.com Xuubsireed is back.

This thread is closed. Ka kala yaaca meesha. Dad waa weyn la daba edit gareynaayo had iyo jeer. You can take your personal threats of one another anywhere but on SOL.

Nacam, Sheekh Nuunoow. Mahad alle, Eebboow. Another 'fatwa' manoo heysaa. Sanadkaan kuleel baas kusoo aadooyaa soonkaan. Waa iska caadi, more ajir lee waaye.

Originally posted by Abwaan: quote:Originally posted by Captain Warya: Ahlu Sunnah captured balad xawo without a fight but Alshabab retook it forcefully. It is clear who is stonger. lol...and what was Shabaab doing in the first time? Were they on a picnic or you mean it was a tactical withdrawal? I think they both carry guns so we will see kuwa meesha ku hara ugu dambayntii! Probably Xabashi la socotay kuwaas Ahlusunnada sheeganaayo. Kuwa Dhalinta isku magacaabayna Xabashi ma maqli karaan cabsi daraadood, orodka ee isdaayaan degmada ugu soo sokeeyso istaagaan iyagoo neeftuuraayo.

Originally posted by Abwaan: quote:Originally posted by Captain Warya: Ahlu Sunnah captured balad xawo without a fight but Alshabab retook it forcefully. It is clear who is stonger. lol...and what was Shabaab doing in the first time? Were they on a picnic or you mean it was a tactical withdrawal? I think they both carry guns so we will see kuwa meesha ku hara ugu dambayntii! Probably Xabashi la socotay kuwaas Ahlusunnada sheeganaayo. Kuwa Dhalinta isku magacaabayna Xabashi ma maqli karaan cabsi daraadood, orodka ee isdaayaan degmada ugu soo sokeeyso istaagaan iyagoo neeftuuraayo.

This is a start. Heads already rolling. Her name, though, sounds like a Carabi one. Iyadoo Carab ah ayee saas u dhaqmeysaa. A minority mistreating another minority. ________________ Diplomat's tour of duty in Nairobi 'is over' Liliane Khadour is back in Ottawa after passport bungle that stranded Toronto woman in Kenya The Canadian diplomat who officially disowned Suaad Hagi Mohamud as an "imposter" has been recalled from Kenya. Liliane Khadour has "concluded" her posting, a consular official at the Canadian High Commission said yesterday from the capital, Nairobi. "Her tour of duty is over," he said, explaining that Foreign Affairs employees rotate posts every two or three years, and Khadour had been in Nairobi for two. "I am not very sure where she went." Khadour is now in Ottawa. Although she owns a condominium apartment there with her partner, Jason Joyce, the two are staying at a downtown hotel. Both had been working at the commission in Nairobi as first secretaries. When reached by cellphone yesterday, Joyce hung up almost immediately. Neither answered the phone in their hotel room or returned messages. The Canada Border Services Agency has opened an internal investigation into the handling of Mohamud's case. The Somali-born Canadian citizen, an employee of an Etobicoke courier company, had been visiting her mother in Nairobi when she ran into trouble. On May 21, a Kenyan employee of KLM airlines challenged Mohamud's passport photo at the Nairobi departure gate as she was trying to board a flight home to Toronto and her 12-year-old son, she has said. Canadian consular officials interviewed her at the airport on May 22 and sided against her. On May 25, Mohamud appealed to the high commission to take her fingerprints. And on May 28, Khadour sent a letter to Kenyan authorities that sealed Mohamud's fate. "Please be advised that we have carried out conclusive investigations including an interview," Khadour wrote, signing herself vice-consul, first secretary (consular). "And (we) have confirmed that the person brought to the Canadian High Commission on suspicion of being an imposter is not the rightful holder of the aforementioned passport. "The Canadian High Commission is releasing the passport to your office for the purposes of prosecution," Khadour wrote to Michael Ojwang, director of Kenyan immigration services. The letter alleged Mohamud was carrying a passport not her own and was in Kenya illegally. These are serious charges that could have led to a Kenyan prison sentence or deportation to her native Somalia. Mohamud was arrested and held for eight days in a women's prison before friends were able to post her bail. But, it turns out, there was no conclusive Canadian investigation. Mohamud was no imposter. And although it took her three months and a DNA test to prove her identity to Canadian consular officials and two federal departments, Mohamud was in fact the rightful holder of the Canadian passport she was carrying. Last Friday, after conclusive DNA results, the Kenyans dropped all charges against the 31-year-old single mother and the next day she returned to her son, Mohamed Hussein, and a hero's welcome at Pearson International Airport. Since then, she has been undergoing tests for a persistent cough and weight loss, symptoms that have nagged her since her eight-day stay in Nairobi's Langata Women's Prison in June. Chest x-rays have ruled out any serious lung illness such as tuberculosis or pneumonia, her lawyer Raoul Boulakia has said. "She's extremely relieved to be in Canada and to be with her son," he said yesterday. Legal proceedings have begun in federal court to obtain Mohamud's disputed passport and case file, Boulakia said, adding the case is expected to be heard next month. Asked whether his client plans to sue, Boulakia said: "I'd like to see her get compensation. She deserves it ... but I'd rather see her not go to court." Toronto Star ______________ North, that soccer game was unmissable.

Originally posted by Canjeex: Indhoos, Garan maayo meeshaad ku aragtay, but from the look of the tight shirt he's wearing he is probably from Ldn ! If you ever come across him again though, dhakada iiga dharbaax for killing some of my favourate songs MMA, i'm not sure who sang the original, but it seems like it's one of those classic songs ee marax yaasha cusub aad uga zineestaan including this WAC-WAC marax! Gabaryahay nabsigu Sida geed harkii Ayu labada gani Midba gees jiraa Ha i gowraciinee Keenee, aha keenee Aha, keenee gardaran! Ps. Maybe Jb is right! Haa, heesta hobollada Durdur ayaa qaadeen, laakiin qofka shaqsi ahaan u qaaday ma'ogi. Taloow Baastoow amuu ahaa. That dude la baxay "King" Khaalid heestaan wuu soo cusbooneysiiye filaa asagana.

Where is Che, barfasoorka and PhD holder when it comes to this subject.

Originally posted by wacdaraha_aduunka: Layzie the women you're implying to have a Suuqa Xoolaha Shaahado is an Neurology Surgeon and with a second degree in Chemistry and been educated in France. She speaks fluently in 7 languages and I know parts of her family personally of which all of them are doctors maashalaah. Dont make assumptions pls and am not in anyway related to her but I admire her work she did with with Somali medical students in Russia and Ukraine. I wonder what made them change Oomar from the post as I see him more qualified then the one who he was replaced with. Soomaali ayaa daris ku ahayn reerkeeda, gurigeena iyo gurigooda isku wada dhagnaa. Inkastoo iyada iyo walaalaheeda kuwa waa weynaa u soo dhoofeen London anoo yaraa, qaarkood waa xasuustaa, sida Xuseen Afeey, Wardheere, Dhuub iyo Shooble. Reer wanaagsan ayee ahaayeen.

Ina C/rashiid Cali Sharmaarke see ka noqotay, if this news report is to be believed. Max'ed C/llaahi Awmaar qof waxgarad ayuu ahaa, shaqadiisana gudanaaye. I really admired him. Again, kuwaan hoggaanka Soomaaliyeed sheegto yaala taliyo taloow.

Onother reason of ever growing list of why I am glad I don't live in Mareykanka, where the goons are considered normal, where insanity is the norm.

Boos ku buuxis ayaa la yiraahdaa waxaan. Maxee qabtaan horta? Hoggaanka Soomaalida isma badalaan. Yaala taliyo dadkaan. Nus kamid ah magacyadaan dibadaha ayeeba wareegaan, ama deganyihiinba iyagoo baasabooro shisheeye wato. Wasaaradda Amniga: Cabdulaahi Maxamed Cali ( Sanbaloolshe ) Soomaali iyo naaneys isku daa.

Originally posted by Canjeex: This guy in Xaal laga qaada waaye for the songs he so badly tortured! Gabaryahee dartaa Guureynayaayee Keenee, aha, keenee Keenee gardaran Heestaan waayo waayo ahaan jirtay, yaraantey jeclaa. Qofka qaadi jiray ilaa hadda ii gooye, though.

Mr. Wanker Pervert hakaa saaro hee.

Facebook firing after 'friend' boss ripped In tech terms, it's called a cascading failure. A woman in Britain being called "Lindsay" made a big one this week, and it cost her her job. First, she came home after a hard day and, rather than complaining to the cat, decided to do it on the web. Lindsay opened up her Facebook account and posted a fairly vulgar description of her boss. "OMG, I HATE MY JOB!" Lindsay wrote. "My boss is a total pervvy wanker always making me do s--- stuff." Mistake No. 2. Mistake No. 3. was forgetting that her boss was one of her Facebook friends, and thus had access to all of her posted comments. Mistake No. 4 was firing this broadside two weeks before the end of a six-month trial period. Five hours after Lindsay posted her lament, her boss replied. "I guess you forgot about adding me on here?" his post began. Then he proceeded to rip her straight back. "That `s--- stuff' is called your `job', you know, what I pay you to do? But the fact that you seem able to f--- up the simplest of tasks might contribute to how you feel about it." Angry boss then points out that Lindsay is a couple of weeks shy of the end of her trial period and delivers the coup de grâce. "Don't bother coming in tomorrow. I'll pop your P45 (pink slip) in the post, and you can come in whenever you like to pick up any stuff you've left here. And, yes, I'm serious." The Schadenfreude moment appears to be genuine. A screen capture of the exchange – with names blacked out – has been circulating the web for several days. "It is pretty hysterical," said labour lawyer Mary Beth Currie. "Well, not for her." According to Currie, the sort of treatment Lindsay received at her boss's hands could also happen in Canada. "Yes, a termination would be possible," Currie said. "People have to realize that they can't disparage their employer after working hours like this." It is now normal practice in this country to include a paragraph addressing what can and can't be done on social networking sites into the section of employee agreements covering Internet policy. "This is not unusual," said Peter Biro, a partner at WeirFoulds LLP. "You're going to see kajillions of cases like this out there." This is the latest in a series of headline-grabbing stories of irked employees typing and living to regret it. From a Swiss insurance worker chopped for Facebooking while home ill, to a Brit public relations drone axed for complaining about being "bored" in her work, people are learning the hard way that bad moods are temporary, but the Internet is forever. Nor would it be the first time someone's been cut via a social networking site. B.C. aesthetician Crystal Bell made headlines in January after she was fired over Facebook, though not for anything she had written online. In Lindsay's case, the lesson is clear. Choose your (Facebook) friends wisely. Xigasho

I didn't know Riyaale saas looga cabsan karo. Waaw. Guulwadoow Riyaale Aabihii garashada...

Originally posted by nuune: ^^^ lol@an airforce, Redsea, haye u wana become the future Somaliland fighter jet pilots, it can be done Diyaaradaan ayuu duulin doonaa too:

Woman safe in Toronto after Kenya ordeal Suaad Hagi Mohamud walked through customs into a crush of television cameras and cheering friends and neighbours today at Pearson International Airport, and wrapped her arms around her 12-year-old boy she expected to see three months ago. Mohamud, who was visiting her mother in Kenya, was unable to leave the country after authorities said her lips did not match her four-year-old passport photo. Canadian consular officials called the 31-year-old an impostor, voided her passport and turned her case over to Kenya for prosecution. Other pieces of ID and fingerprints were handed over, but there was little movement until DNA tests – paid for by the Canadian government – validated her identity on Monday. A judge in a Nairobi court dropped charges against Mohamud on Friday, and she boarded a plane later in the day bound for Toronto. "I'm here for my own son," she said trying to be heard over the din. "It's really something I missed. I'm glad my whole nightmare is over." It was a sensational homecoming, with police trying to control the crowd and other arriving passengers confused by the spectacle. "We are not second-class citizens," yelled one man waving Somali and Canadian flags. "I'm glad I'm Canadian. I love this country," he said. The Star

LoL at Canjeex. She soon will be a millionaire as well too. Yee kaa fakan waa singal. Finally, yea, she is at home. I am very heartened to how Soomaalida Reer Koronto usoo dhaweeyeen, walaahi. Our community united. They were singing Soomaaliyeey Toosoo with the Soomaali flag, too, at the airport, during the live broadcast. I too would have been there had it not been the soccer game that I would miss.

That subcontinent and their abnormal fixation of divinity in humans.

Sawirgacmeedkiisa maqaarka lagu kor sawiray meesha suran ayaaba i dilay. Which maqaar is it from? From sagaaro ama deer, probably. Who designs xafiiskiisa, his receptions and likes horta? This guy seriously needs a professional decorator. A typical qurba Soomaali house looks more neater, less cluttered, simple than his reception or whatever it is.

"These declarations [of an Islamic emirate] are aimed towards incitement against the Gaza Strip and an attempt at recruiting an international alliance against the Gaza Strip. "And we warn those who are behind these Israeli Zionist declarations: the Gaza Strip only contains its people." Dhalinta should listen to this honourable man. Soomaaliya belongs to Soomaalis, too.