^ Amen to that. And worst of all, the skillfully exposed and utterly discredited General Duke has the audacity to talk to us about Somalinimo? What a charlatan you ended up being, Duke. Just like most of us suspected.

^ That's more like it. Stick with the picture galleries and the "marxab, marxab", ya flip-floppin cheerleader.

MMA, that's enough. You've completely destroyed what little integrity this man had left. He's absolutely beyond repair now. LOL. And this is what Castro (the "clannist") said back then in February 2006: ^ With all of my reservations about the "wadaado", I support them against the warlords. If nothing else, these men are guided by faith and not greed. Who's the clannist and opportunistic flip-flopper now, Duke?

^ LOL. Papua New Guinea?

LOOOOOOOOOOOL. MMA, he shouldn't have messed with you. Hurry up, throw him a rag, you got the Duke naked.

^ Come on brother, don't say that. General Duke does not represent those people anymore than Yeey represents you and me.

^ I didn't even think of it that way but now that you've mentioned it, he does seem like a subservient weasel. Next episode I'll bring you what happened the night Caydiid Jr. brought Yeey some Viagra and the old man almost had a heart attack.

Somalia Awash In Anger at Ethiopia, U.S., Interim Leaders 2007-01-11 01:02:20 A messy, low-level battle for control of the battered streets of Mogadishu continued Wednesday, as a fighter shot a rocket-propelled grenade at a convoy of Ethiopian trucks passing through the combustible Somali capital. The situation is so confused and the city so fractured and armed that the attacks, recounted by witnesses, could have come from any number of groups frustrated with the presence of Ethiopian troops, who last month swept a popular Islamic movement from power on behalf of the weak, U.S.-backed transitional government that is now struggling to assert control. Former fighters loyal to the ousted Islamic Courts movement are hiding in the city's byzantine tin-patch neighborhoods. Sub-clans and sub-sub-clans are angry with Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi, who they say is favoring his own people as he doles out power and who has announced intentions to forcibly disarm an insecure city fortified with guns. Many Somalis are enraged over the U.S. airstrike in the southern tip of the country early Monday, which was aimed at suspects in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania who are thought to be among the ousted Islamic leaders on the run along the marshy coast near the Kenyan border. "We are afraid of a long war," said businessman Abdulahi Mohamed Mohamud, 31, speaking by telephone from Mogadishu. "And people are angry at the Ethiopian troops." The current spate of violence began Saturday, as hundreds of Somalis flooded the streets, shouting at Ethiopian troops to leave the city, smashing cars, burning tires and throwing stones in protests that were sparked in part by rumors that the Ethiopians were about to go door-to-door confiscating weapons. After skirmishes between militias and Ethiopian troops Sunday and Monday, a full-fledged gun battle raged for several hours Tuesday amid battered buildings and shops in a busy part of the city called Kilometer Four. A body, reportedly a man who launched a rocket-propelled grenade at Ethiopian troops Tuesday, lay in the road all night and into Wednesday morning, when a Somali police officer dragged it off. Three Somali police officers were reported killed in Tuesday's fighting, and a dozen people were injured, though accounts of casualties differ. Wednesday afternoon, another grenade was launched at a convoy of Ethiopian trucks, wounding one civilian and, according to a local news agency, killing at least one government soldier. It was unclear whether Ethiopians were hit. Since the Islamic fighters were pushed out, the city has been slowly returning to the hands of militias and thieves. Most attacks since Sunday have occurred in areas considered strongholds of the Ayr, a powerful and well-armed sub-sub-clan and a former backer of the Islamic Courts. The transitional government, with the help and handicap of the Ethiopians, is racing to establish its authority on the streets. On Wednesday, Somali police dismantled two roadblocks by force and arrested 11 militiamen, government officials said. And Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf, who only recently returned to Mogadishu after a 40-year exile, met with a key leader of the Ayr, Abdi Qasim, a move that some analysts said could pacify a portion of the city. The meeting "will help if they understood each other," said Mohamed Haji, 38, a columnist for a local newspaper, speaking by phone from Mogadishu. "Qasim was an opponent of the Ethiopian intervention, and his clan was supporting the [islamic Courts movement]. So it's very important to negotiate with him." Haji and others remained concerned, however, that new U.S. airstrikes would further agitate the city. The Pentagon and Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi denied Wednesday that U.S. warplanes had conducted additional attacks after the one Monday. But a Somali government official said airstrikes - whether American or Ethiopian - were "ongoing." An air attack is "going on today, and probably it may go on tomorrow," Abdirizak Hassan, chief of staff to the Somali premier, said Wednesday. Two witnesses in Kismaayo, a port city about 60 miles from the area hit Monday, said they saw two military aircraft overhead about 1:45 p.m. Wednesday. On Tuesday, Hassan told the Washington Post that U.S. military officials had reported to him that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, considered the chief organizer of the embassy bombings, was killed in the airstrike Monday. U.S. officials have cautioned against reports that Fazul was among the targets or was killed and said the main target was another al-Qaeda figure, Abu Talha al-Sudani. In New York on Wednesday, the U.N. Security Council began debating the conflict. In a closed session, Ibrahim Gambari, the United Nations' undersecretary for political affairs, urged the interim government to begin talks with clan leaders, clerics and moderate elements of the Islamic Courts movement, saying the deployment of a peacekeeping force would be "problematic" without a political settlement in place, according to a copy of his statement. He noted a pledge by Uganda to provide 1,000 troops for an East African peacekeeping mission and said Malawi, Nigeria and South Africaare considering participation. Several envoys expressed concern that U.S. airstrikes could undercut international efforts to calm Somalia, but diplomats from China,Qatar and other countries suggested the United States may have a legal basis for intervention: a request for help from Somalia's interim leadership. Away from the United Nations, diplomats from France, Italy, Egypt, the Arab League and African Union have criticized the U.S. air operation, saying it will destabilize Somalia further. Free Internet Press

Come on Jimcaale. Did you really think Zenawi meant two (2) weeks when he uttered those words? Aren't the Ethiopians who called for help from the US Airforce on Sunday night? Are they not getting their butts plastered in the South (and soon in Muqdisho)? Ethiopia is here for at least through 2007. If they're dumber than I thought and they leave before then, Yeey should start shopping for a nice Armani suit to be buried in.

Originally posted by Caamir: I don't think he is insinuating or wishing harm to the president, for that will render all the works and future plans of the TFG futile Aamiin.

The President must apologize ..... The Minister of Interior, Mr. Hussein Mohamed Farah Aideed, should, like wise, apologize ........ The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ismail Hurre Bubba, has to apologize ........ The PM, Mr. Ali Mohamed Geddi, should apologize ......... Please, no fake apologies. Just get the fcuk out. Leave riding on the backs of the tanks you came on. Go back to your hometowns, Addis Ababa, or wherever the hell you came from. But just leave. About the only thing that is worse than being under a foreign occupation is having dimwit mules like these claim to be your government. May Allah speed up their demise and rid us of the affliction they've brought upon us.

^ I guess you didn't make it into OAC Physics. 1000's kulaha. LOL. Libaax, are you suggesting the puppet president be assassinated?

Mystic, I recommend these four books for you to read before 2007 ends. They're all written by the same man: Noam Chomsky. You will never see media, politics or the world the same way again. If you can, read them in the order I listed them: 1. Media Control, Second Edition: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda 2. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media 3. Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky 4. Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project) These in my opinion are Chomsky's greatest works.

^ It's the clannist in me dear.

Any puppet worth his title would have added a face-saving disclaimer by saying something like this: "while we understand the desire of the US to find those it deems terrorists, we must stress to them the sanctity of human life and the precariousness of the situation". On the other hand, our puppet-in-chief said this, Yeey: Did you say the US is carpet bombing the South? [spits out his takhsiin] Geedi: Yes, boss. Yeey: Shit! Why haven't I been told? Geedi: I dunno, boss. Yeey: Well it doesn't matter. Good riddance! I never liked those big-nosed bast*ards anyway. Waryaa Geedi, send Condy and George some flowers ASAP to thank them for this generous act. Geedi: Yes, boss. Yeey: What did I tell you? You can't count on these stinking Amxaaro. Geedi: Yes, boss. Yeey: All their talk of defeating the Courts ended up with a 911 call to Washington, DC. Or was it Djibouti? LOL. Geedi: Yes, boss. Yeey: Though I have to give to it up to these Courts boys. The did what they said they would. They vacated the cities and fought in the jungle only to kick some raw meat-eating Xabash as$. LOOOOL. Geedi: Yes, boss. Yeey: Boy, imagine if we had to fight them. Geedi: Yes, boss. Yeey: They would have stuck their bare feet up our fat as*es. Ouch! Can you fight like that Geedi? Geedi: Yes, boss. Yeey: Not even your daddy can, you worthless, good for nothing goat doctor. Geedi: Yes, boss. Yeey: Pass the fcuking phone, I need to call Caydiid Jr. to see if he's got some weed and some young lady companions to pass this dreary night. Geedi: Yes, boss.

Gaildon is the MAN.

^ I prefer the 'Somali Transitional Republic'. This "nation" has many years to go before it's all said and done.

^ Who needs the Arab League when you've got Uncle Sam on your side. Just mentioning "Uncle" makes the Arabs run for cover. Too bad so sad, indeed.

^ Not even bums like to be called bums by other bums. Crusade? No atheer. Just trying to counter this tide of irrational exuberance.

Originally posted by General Duke: Landmark moment in recent Somali history in which President Yusuf met with two former national leaders within the same day. Violation of Geneva Conventions in Somalia World Concerned At US Strikes In Somalia Ethiopia occupation forces under fire in Somalia Somalia welcomes US attacks I don't know which is the bigger landmark: a puppet president meeting to has-been warlords or an invasion/occupation by the US? Tunnel vision or no vision? Landmark-ey xaal qaado.

^ Who said he does? LOL. Waryaa Che, do your thing boy. Give 'em some of their own medicine.

Insurgents Battle Somali Forces In Mogadishu Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, exploded in violence this morning after insurgents attacked a government barracks overnight and soldiers responded by sealing off large swaths of the city and searching house to house for weapons. The raids immediately sparked resistance. Squads of Ethiopian soldiers and troops loyal to the transitional government poured into the streets, where they battled outraged residents and a handful of masked insurgents. From dawn through early afternoon, the pop of gunfire and the boom of explosives echoed across Mogadishu, Somalia’s reliably chaotic capital. It is difficult to tell how many people in Mogadishu actually support the growing insurgency against Somalia’s transitional government and the Ethiopian troops backing it up. Wednesday, when a group of masked men stood on the steps of a Mogadishu mosque and announced that they were Somalia’s new freedom fighters, they were met with jeers. “Why can’t you hit anything then?” shouted one woman, referring to a botched grenade attack earlier in the day that completely missed an Ethiopian patrol and destroyed a house instead. “Were you scared? Were your fingers trembling?” Regardless of the insurgents’ popularity or lack of it, violence is clearly on the increase here. The transitional government, which two weeks ago entered the capital for the first time since it was formed in 2004, now faces a critical test: How quickly can it pacify a notoriously dangerous city that bristles with guns and is split by deep clan divisions? Most of the violence today was concentrated in strongholds of the Ayr sub-clan, a powerful lineage group closely connected to Somalia’s Islamist movement, which controlled much of the country before Ethiopia sent in its army last month to intervene. On the other hand, neighborhoods dominated by the ***** clan, the clan of Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, the transitional president, were quiet. Many ***** members said they were quite happy about the weapons raids, especially the ones in Ayr neighborhoods. Clan rivalries have been the curse of Somalia ever since there was a Somalia, causing its civil wars, its famines and its state of suspended decay. It seems that this new chapter is no different. The identity of the insurgents is still somewhat mysterious, but many people here suspect that they are die-hard members of the Islamist movement. After being routed by Ethiopian-led forces in a conventional military campaign, the Islamists vowed to fight on as an underground army. As each night passes, more government troops are coming under attack here. On Tuesday night, insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades from two pickup trucks at an army barracks in downtown Mogadishu. Initial reports indicated that several soldiers were killed and the attackers got away. Doctors at Medina hospital said this afternoon that 15 people had been admitted for gunshot wounds in the last 24 hours, including three government soldiers. The violence from the past week has filled the 65-bed hospital to overflowing, they said, leaving bleeding men and women curled up on the floor and under acacia trees in the courtyard. “This is not something that is going to stop,” said Dahir Mohammed, head of the medical department. “Until the Ethiopians leave, people will be determined to kill them.” The Islamist leaders, meanwhile, have fled to a jungle region in southwestern Somalia, along the Kenyan border, where they are being hunted down by Ethiopian troops with the help of American forces. Somali officials said Wednesday that Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a suspected terrorist accused of planning the 1998 bomb attacks on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, had been killed in recent American air strikes in southern Somalia. American officials gave little or no credence to that claim Wednesday, saying that they had seen no evidence that Mohammed had been killed and were not even sure he was among those hiding in the jungle with the Islamists. American intelligence and counterterrorism officials said remained possible that one of Mohammed’s top aides, Abu Taha al-Sudani, had been killed in the attacks of recent days. There was also a chance, they said, that Aden Hashi Ayro, a top Al Ittihad al-Islami official allied with the Islamists who recently fled Mogadishu, was killed. When an American AC-130 gunship pounded the area Sunday night, it was the first time since 1994 that American forces have been publicly deployed in Somalia. American officials have complained since June, when the Islamists gained sway over the capital, that the Islamists were sheltering terrorists connected to the embassy bombings, which killed more than 200 people in all. Residents in southern Somalia said American warplanes returned today, though those reports could not be independently verified. The Ethiopian air force has also been pummeling the area for much of the past week. Pentagon officials have refused to discuss whether American special operations ground troops have been used in the recent operations, but some counter terrorism experts said that it is standard procedure for such troops to sift through the rubble of a bombing site to gather information about the victims. “One would assume that a U.S. ground presence would be required at the least to do the DNA confirmation. It’s not something you would leave to the Ethiopians, and certainly not the Somalis,” said Roger W. Cressey a former National Security Council official specializing in international terrorism. Thousands of Ethiopian troops are essentially occupying Somalia, and many Somalis are beginning to resent it. Barwaqho Mohammed Osman, a mother of two, stood in a downtown Mogadishu street this morning with plastic bags of groceries in her hands and no way to get home. Ethiopian soldiers told her that her neighborhood had been sealed off because of the raids. When Ms. Osman tried to plead with them, said witnesses, the soldiers clicked the safeties off their guns and told her to go. “Why did our president bring in these people?” she fumed. “They are occupiers, and if they keep this up, they will fail at every step.” Free Internet Press

By Jeffrey Gettleman International Herald Tribune Wednesday, January 10, 2007 MOGADISHU, Somalia Mogadishu exploded in violence Wednesday morning after insurgents attacked a government barracks during the night and soldiers responded by sealing off large swaths of the city and searching house to house for weapons. The raids immediately sparked resistance, and squads of Ethiopian soldiers and troops loyal to the transitional government poured into the streets, where they battled outraged residents and a handful of masked insurgents. From dawn through early afternoon, the pop of gunfire and the boom of explosives echoed across Mogadishu, Somalia's chaotic capital. But it is difficult to tell how many people here actually support the growing insurgency against Somalia's transitional government and the Ethiopian troops backing it up. On Wednesday, a group of masked men stood on the steps of a Mogadishu mosque and announced that they were Somalia's new freedom fighters. They were met by jeers. "Why can't you hit anything then?" shouted a woman, referring to a botched grenade attack earlier in the day that completely missed an Ethiopian patrol and destroyed a house instead. "Were you scared? Were your fingers trembling?" Regardless of the insurgents' popularity or lack of it, violence is increasing. And the transitional government, which entered the capital two weeks ago for the first time since it was formed in 2004, now faces a critical test: how quickly, if at all, can it pacify a notoriously dangerous city, bristling with guns and split by deep clan divisions? Most of the violence on Wednesday was concentrated in strongholds of the Ayr sub clan, a powerful lineage group closely connected to Somalia's Islamist movement that had controlled much of the country until Ethiopia got heavily involved last month. On the other hand, neighborhoods of the ***** clan of Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, the transitional president, were quiet. Many ***** members said they were happy about the weapons raids, especially the ones in Ayr neighborhoods. Clan rivalries have long been the curse of Somalia, the cause of its civil wars, its famines and its state of suspended decay. It seems that this new chapter is no different. The insurgents are still a mysterious bunch, but many people suspect they are members of the Islamist movement. After getting routed by Ethiopian-led forces in a conventional military matchup, the Islamists vowed to fight on as an underground army. As each night passes, more and more government troops are getting hit. On Tuesday night, insurgents launched one of their boldest attacks yet, firing rocket-propelled grenades from two pickup trucks at an army barracks in central Mogadishu. Initial reports indicated that several soldiers were killed and that the insurgents escaped. Doctors at Medina hospital said Wednesday afternoon that 15 people were admitted for gunshot wounds in 24 hours, including 3 government soldiers. The violence from the past week has filled the hospital's 65 beds, leaving bleeding men and women curled up on the floor and under acacia trees in the courtyard. "This is not something that is going to stop," said Dahir Mohammed, head of medical department. "Until the Ethiopians leave, people will be determined to kill them." The Islamist leaders, meanwhile, have fled to a jungle in southern Somalia along the Kenyan border where they are being hunted down by Ethiopian troops, with the help of American forces. Somali officials on Wednesday said that Abdallah Mohammed Fazul, a suspected terrorist accused of planning the bombings against American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, had been killed in recent American airstrikes in southern Somalia. But U.S. officials quickly distanced themselves from that claim, saying on Wednesday that they had no such evidence and were not even sure Fazul was among the terrorist suspects hiding in the jungle with the Islamists. An American AC-130 gunship pounded the area Sunday, the first time U.S. forces have been publicly deployed in Somalia since 1994. Since June, when the Islamist movement rose to power, U.S. officials have complained that Islamist leaders were sheltering terrorists connected to the embassy bombings, which killed more than 200 people. On Wednesday, residents in southern Somalia said the warplanes returned, though those reports could not be independently verified. The Ethiopian Air Force has also been pummeling the area for much of the past week. Thousands of Ethiopian troops are essentially occupying Somalia and many Somalis are increasingly beginning to resent it. Barwaqho Mohammed Osman, a mother of two, stood in a central Mogadishu street Wednesday with plastic bags of groceries in her hands and no way to get home. Ethiopian soldiers told her that her neighborhood had been sealed off because of the raids. When Osman tried to plead with them, witnesses said, the soldiers clicked the safeties off their guns and told her to go. "Why did our president bring in these people?" she asked. "They are occupiers, and if they keep this up, they will fail at every step." Mohammed Ibrahim and Yuusuf Maxamuud contributed reporting from Mogadishu.

^ When the worthless look at you and call you worthless, and they're right, you've hit rock bottom yaa LePoint. And that's the point.

Several days ago, AFGOOYE: Maamulkii Degmada Afgooye oo dhawaan lagu wareejiyay dadka u dhashay Deegaanka today: Degmada afgooyi oo bandow lagu soo rogay Forward progress?