I am following this story because I was there, in this same Nayroobi airport some months ago. It could've happened to me or anyone, for that matter. I also remember that night I was flying on the line up of boarding the plane, we were three Soomaalis, another Soomaali-Canadian, a Soomaali-American sister with a child and I. The official lady checking that line-up automatically took our passports, our citizenship cards and other IDs -- one by one, of course -- handed them to her boss, who scanned it electronically and asked some questions. The sister with American passport ku dhageen, I guess they mistaken her shy demureness and soft talk inay qof bug ku socdo tahay oo Ingiriis garaneynin camal. We were obviously singled out because of being Soomaalis, who lined up in the "Western" citizens line. Anaa u dambeeye oo si joke ahaan u weydiiye the lady, "Will I get ready my citizenship card and other assorted IDs out as well," while smiling. I also added you guys are doing this only because we are Soomaalis with Western passports. I do, though, understand where they are coming from maadaama Soomaali badan bug iyo been ku socoto. And perhaps some of them might be a somewhat covetous since Soomaali badan ku socdo so many passports from Western countries, whom they worship and would wish to live in those Western countries. Perhaps.

Woman's lips trapped her in Kenya Her nightmare began when airport officer thought mouth didn't match passport photo Suaad Hagi Mohamud was done in by her lips. A Kenyan official detained the Toronto woman in Nairobi because her lips didn't match the ones in her passport photograph, according to documents released by her lawyer yesterday. "I find it really troubling that was the basis of stopping her," said Raoul Boulakia, Mohamud's Toronto lawyer. Documents submitted in a Nairobi court curtly explain why she was detained: "After a comparison was done, it emerged that although the passenger and the passport holder had the same facial features, that passenger's lips were different from that of the passport holder." Mohamud has been marooned in Nairobi since May 17. The 31-year-old mother was on her way back to Toronto when she says a Kenyan officer stopped her at the Nairobi airport for not looking like her four-year-old passport photo. She spent eight days in jail and was released on bail with no travel papers. Kenyan officials sent her passport to Canadian consular officials, who said she was an "imposter," voided the passport and sent it back to the Kenyans for prosecution. She asked to be fingerprinted but the Canada Border Services Agency later admitted it didn't have earlier prints to make a match. But the Somali-born woman scored a small victory yesterday when the Canadian government agreed to DNA testing. The government will also ask Kenya to postpone criminal proceedings against her till DNA testing is completed. Mohamud is due in a Nairobi court tomorrow. She could be sent back to jail or even deported to her lawless native land. "The government is asking them to delay (proceedings) for 10 to 12 weeks," said Boulakia. "But I don't know if the Kenyans will do that." DNA testing will be done on Mohamud, her son and husband, both of whom are in Toronto. Boulakia said her DNA sample will be taken within three days and shipped to Canada immediately. The entire process will cost $810 – to be paid by the government – and will be completed within 10 days. "We will know Suaad is really Suaad in less than two weeks," Boulakia said. He agrees it is a step forward but he is cautious. "I think that we are making some progress and once we have scientific proof of identity, I can't imagine what would be left for the government to say." Yesterday, a spokesperson for Canada Border Services Agency declined comment. "... as this case is currently before the courts, it would be inappropriate for me to comment," Patrizia Giolti wrote in an email to the Star. In Nairobi, Mohamud said she was "very happy and relieved" with the news of DNA testing. "It's a very good thing. I feel closer to home and I can't wait to hug my son." The Star

Waa ku mahadsantahay, Eebba ha noogu waafajiyo kuligeena.

Nice. Falis wali wey dhalaaleysaa, I see.

Nin cariish degan ayaa ku accuse gareynaayo mundul ayaa degantahay qof kale. War the least developed country in Afrika, iskaba dhaaf qaaradaha kale, ayaa kasoo jeedaa, markaas intaa shib iska dhihi lahayd isku hadleysaa. Some Soomaalis and their unfounded faan.

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Now this is ridiculous. Ayeeyooyinkii in la aflagaadeeyo miyaa keenteen. Ceeb.

Originally posted by Che -Guevara: This is cheesy. This one is rather a real cheesy. by Kevin Lyttle.

The paper ran another editorial too today. _____________ Ottawa's rabbit hole The clock is ticking for Toronto traveller Suaad Hagi Mohamud, and not in a good way. Stranded in Kenya because Canadian authorities have declared her an imposter and voided her passport, she must face charges in a Kenyan court on Friday. Like Alice in Wonderland, Mohamud has disappeared down a rabbit hole of shifting reality since being arrested by Kenyan police at the Nairobi airport two months ago because an official claimed she didn't resemble her passport photo. The Somali-born woman was returning to Toronto from a visit with her ailing mother. Canadian consular officials were quick to insist, on undisclosed evidence, that she was a fake. After weeks of stalling, Canadian officials in Nairobi agreed to take Mohamud's fingerprints for definitive identification, but only after her case surfaced in the media. That was almost two weeks ago. Since then the government has not revealed the results or the reason for the delay, although there are hints that the earlier prints Mohamud had taken as a refugee may now have been deleted from Ottawa's files. Mohamud, a Toronto resident with a 12-year-old son, now faces charges of identity fraud, in a country Amnesty International says is in need of "fundamental judicial, police and security sector reform." A fingerprint match could be the crucial evidence needed to acquit her. Without Ottawa's help, Mohamud will likely be convicted and sentenced to time in one of Kenya's brutal jails for a crime of which she may be entirely innocent. Or she may be deported to Somalia, a failed state that is in the midst of a bloody civil war. Meanwhile, a Toronto lawyer has filed a motion in court to demand that Ottawa hand over any evidence it has on Mohamud's identity. To date, both Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan and Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon have remained silent on this matter, which has only served to increase speculation that they are trying to cover up for an embarrassing mistake. To clear the air, they should end their silence forthwith. Koronto Star

Sheekadaan wey kasii dareysaa. Maskiinta dhab ayaaba loogu dhigooyaa inay meeshaas ku raagto. Wey ku ciyaaroyaan maskiinta. ______________ Ottawa urged to rescue Nairobi detainee Mother, 31, stranded in Kenya since May 17 after being told she didn't look like passport photo A Toronto lawyer is going to court tomorrow to prove Suaad Hagi Mohamud is Suaad Hagi Mohamud. Raoul Boulakia filed an application in federal court yesterday seeking immediate government help to get his client home from Nairobi. "We're asking she be repatriated and the government provide her with travel documents and pay for her travel," said Boulakia. He also filed six signed statements from Mohamud's family members and friends vouching for her identity. One of the key issues has been fingerprints. When Mohamud was detained, she insisted her fingerprints be taken so they could be matched with those taken when she applied for Canadian citizenship. But yesterday, a spokesperson for the Canadian Border Services Agency said they don't even have her earlier fingerprints. The spokesperson, who cited privacy laws in declining to comment on Mohamud's case, said fingerprints are only requested on citizenship applications if there is some question of criminality. "Fingerprints are then destroyed once a citizenship application is closed," Patrizia Giolti said in an email to the Star. "Then why is the high commission (in Nairobi) pretending they are waiting for fingerprints?" said Boulakia last night. "Why are they wasting our time?" Mohamud left Toronto on April 29 to visit her mother. She says she was trying to return here May 17 when a Kenyan officer stopped her at the Nairobi airport and said she didn't look like her four-year-old passport photo. Her other pieces of Canadian photo ID were also rejected. She spent eight days in jail and was released on bail with no travel papers. Kenyan officials sent her passport to Canadian consular officials, who said she was an "imposter," voided the passport and sent it back to the Kenyans for prosecution. The Somali-born Mohamud will be in a Nairobi court on Friday where she could face a jail sentence or even deportation to her lawless native land. "I have only a few days left – they (her family and lawyer) have to come up with something or I'm doomed," the 31-year-old mother said by phone from Nairobi. At that time, she didn't know the Canadian Border Services Agency had revealed that her earlier fingerprints were no longer available. If there were no earlier prints to compare with, then why did authorities bother to take new ones? The Canadian Border Services Agency did not answer that question yesterday. But one possible reason might be to try to match them with another set in the database, as a check for a criminal record. Boulakia is hoping to get some answers in federal court tomorrow. "This can't go forever," said the Toronto lawyer. "Imagine being overseas and having no way to prove your Canadian citizenship. It's a nightmare." He wants to know why government agencies haven't checked Mohamud's identity claims with her 12-year-old son, other family members and friends. Meanwhile, Liberal MP Dan McTeague came down heavily on the Conservative government saying Mohamud's case "devalues" Canadian citizenship. "She's done her due diligence. I'd like to know what the holdup is," said the MP. "I know the machinery of government can move a lot quicker if it has to," said McTeague (Pickering-Scarborou gh East). "It requires intervention at the top end. Where is the foreign minister?" Instead, federal officials are leaving Mohamud in diplomatic limbo, unwilling to get to the bottom of the potential confusion around her identity, he charged yesterday. Yesterday, there was confusion in the government ranks over what department was handling the issue. Staff for Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon referred questions to Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan. A spokeswoman for Cannon said she had "nothing to add" even though the department had said little previously. By the end of the day, Van Loan's staff was referring queries back to Cannon's office. Toronto Star

There are no defenders, nor advocates, either. As a judge, I have to default the case.

Qofkuu daba galo waa u dhameeyaa ninkaan. No wonder yaraantey ayaan wargeysyada daraadiisa u gadan jiray, back in '91-'92 in Xamar. Shabeelle Press lagu soo daabici jiray sawirgacmeedkiisa siyaasadeed. C/raxmaan Jaamac Barre ayuu eber ka dhigay jiray, asagoo ugu yeeraayo "Buluqbuluq."

To watch a whole movie online and on a monitor. That is a bit madax wareer, I think, xataa on a laptop.

I used to watch his extensive documentaries about Afrika and Nubia's history on PBS in late '90s.

Kamoon ninyahoow. You didn't have to be that nuanced and write an essay. Yes, it was a yes-or-no question. You think if Riyaale threatened tomorrow that he wouldn't ask Xabashi help. Don't you think he is in their hands already? Doesn't he perform what they ask of him, without any questions uu weydiiyo. He hands out Reer Soomaali Galbeed; he secretly allows them to use Berbera. He doesn't raise a word when they cross the so-called 'border.' Shariifka is trying to secure and get Koonfurta that elusive 'security' and 'safe' Waqooyiga has and Koonfurta hadn't had for almost 19 years. Godane and his likes are not giving him that opportunity. Again, for Godane, it is not about security or such. To Godane and his likes do not differentiate between Waqooyi or Koonfur. They are in Koonfur now because it offers more fursad, oo meel lagu gambado, meel qaracan, meel ee safe ku yihiin and can operate. So, say, if he and his cohorts 'tamed' Koonfurta, he will have your full support markuu his isqarxis and other imported ideologies he sets forth to Waqooyiga? Your full welcoming of that will be imminent, no?

Magaalada Afgooye laga mamnuucay in lagu qabto ciyaaraha hiddaha iyo dhaqanka ee Istunka iyo Dabshidka ee sanad kasta la qaban jiray Maamulka Degmada Afgooye Gobolka Sh. Hoose ee ururka Xisbul Islaam ayaa soo saaray amar lagu mamnuucayay caado dhaqameed sanad kasta halkaasi lagu qaban jiray kaasoo ahaa ciyaaraha oo yaqaan Istunka iyo Dabshidka waxaana looga digay dhamaan shacabka ku dhaqan degmadaasi iyo meelaha ku xeeran inay falkaasi sameeyaan. Madaxa arrimaha diinta ee ururka Xisbul Islaam Sheekh Cali Cumar Xaaji Cabdi oo saxaafada u akhrinayay dekreetada ka soo baxday maamulkooda ayaa sheegay inay mamnuuc tahay in caado dhaqameedka Istunka iyo Dabshidka degmadaasi lagu qabto madaama ay diinta Islaamku waafaqsaneyn ayna tahay caado jaahili ah. "Waxaan uga digeynaa cid kasta oo lagu arko ama lagu maqlo iyadoo caado dhamameedkaasi wada in laga qaadi doono talaabada ay muteysato hadii Alle idmo" ayuu yiri mas'uukaasi Ciyaarahaani Istunka ama Dabshidka ayaa mudo ka soo jiray degmadaasi waxayna ku soo beegeysaa mamnuucidaani xili sidaan oo kale ururka Xarakatu Shabaabul Mujaahidiin uu isna dhawaan ka mamnuucay gobolka Shabeelaha Dhexe in lagu dhigo isu imaadka Sanaha loo yaqaan ee beelaha gobolkaasi sanad kasta sameystaan kaasoo wax yar ka harsan yihiin islamarkaana dadkii isu diyaarinayay ay ka war heleen waqti dhow inaan Shabaabku ogoleyn sameynta xuskaasi oo xoolo badan ay ku qashaan beelaha kala duwan ee Gobolkaasi kuwaasoo xiliyo isku dhow oo kala duwan ay beel kasta dhigato. Xigasho

Pimp wax la yiraahdo Soomaaliya kama jiri jirinee beenta naga yareeya. Ereygaana Afsoomaali kuma jiro, too. Dhilonimo, yes. Buurkaroole oo Waaberi ku taalay ayee ahayd xaruntooda. Dumar kaskooda iyo maagooda u shaqeysanaayo ahaayeen, pimp iyo waxaas ku dhex jirin.

Baddacas, su'aal ayaan ku weydiinaa, haa ama maya ugu jawaab. Su'aal wax ku qarsana ma'aha, waa su'aal caadi ah. Su'aasha oo ah: Ninkaan Godane la yiraahdo hadduu beri Hargeysa tago, kagana dhawaaqo 'jihaad,' uguna waco kuwa meesha ka taliyo 'murtad' iyo wixii lamid ah, maku raaci lahayd aragtidaas? Haa mise maya ku filan jawaabta.

Xaq buu u leeyahay in uu dalkiisa ku noqdo, Soomaaliya ayuu ku noqday ee Soomaaliya kama imaan.

Originally posted by Indhoos: is it called family motel? .

What a load of crap he is writing, hadduu qoray waxaan. Koley wax la micneeye u egtahay. Suu u twist gareynaayo Eebbe's words igu sii daranba, though, misinterpreting them to suit his sick political views. Yahuud this, Yahuud that. What do Yahuud people have to do waxa ka socdo Soomaaliya maanta? Ma iygaa isku qarxiyo maati, ma iyagaa masaakiin qoorta ka gooyo, ma iyagaa dadka hub soo siiyo isku diro. And does he ever ask meesha uu ka keensado hubka uu ku dagaalamo? Madaxweynaha Eritareeya Muslim wanaagsan waaye miyaa. Then he has the audacity to claim dadka la shaqeynaayo AMISOM waa 'munaafuq.'

Wadkooda, wad Eebba ayaa haayee, ayaa soo galay haddee gacanta kuwaas u galeen. Knowing dowladda Reer Faransiiska, though, balaayo ayee isku tijaabin doonaan inay kusoo dhacsadaan.

Originally posted by rudy-Diiriye: I use to be a big supporter of TFG, but u know how they lost me and many others!! by kissing the Amxaar azz. Now for the shabaab, they are the lesser of 2 evils. For some reason, me wadaads dont get along that said, i amna be the bigger brotha these days and count them as brothers. So far, i see them pple fighting for their country and freedom. I havent seen any clue so far that their are foreign fighters with them! All i hear is cia said this and that! Show me the proof! i mean this pple are fighting every day and u cant show us a proof of what u claim to be foreign fighters among them. Also, mm u been told that this plane was fired on? Can you verify that with pictures?? Plz dont believe everything that tfg propaganda media says. They just cry wolf to much to get lil more dollars. You're at least making sense these days. I can, for once, understand waxaa qortid, albeit and in spite of your support of so-called Dhalinta and their misguided ways. And I guess you didn't read the article, did you? This quote answers your last paragraph's question: "We fired on the airport to target the so-called democratic congressman sent by (U.S. President Barack) Obama," Sheikh Hussein Ali, a spokesman for al Shabaab, told Reuters. They targeted him, regardless whether he was inside the plane or in the airport. The admission was from their own mouth.

Well, it means, in a nutshell, striving purely for worldly gains, in the end, will be for naught -- kabahaaga iyo waxa kale aad ka tagtay ayaa kaa qiimo badnaan doono. One needs aakhiro wax uu kasbado ugu horeeyaan.