As part of my plans to go to North America and hence visit friends there (mainly in Minnessotta) sometime this year, I have been trying to link up with Xinn for sometime. But apparently after learning that I will be coming, the old man has all of a sudden shut his doors and it is impossible to send a PM. I haven't received one as well. I just want to remind him, he is one of the people who I look forward to meeting and that I have found a relative who is willing to give me a small room during my visit. I also don't eat much. So, I will like to ask my friend only for the company and to get some of his wisdom. I didn't know inuu martida neceb yahay when I first broke the news to him. I will like to make a contact with him via this open letter and I hope Xinn will contact me soon. I apologise beforehand if I have made any exposures that weren't suppossed to come here, but I really had no alternative. looking for Xinn's speedy reply on the matter,

I didn't lsiten to it, but know most somali politicians are good orators. So, he must be saying good things. Even Dahir Riyaale says so sometimes.

A surprise would have been if General Duke is not impressed with any Puntland leader.

Viva the blue flag! Viva Faroole! Down with the narrow-minded!

Just got a breaking news this girl is actually a NOMAD here in SOL. Ceebeey tacaal! Guess who?

And those from the "dictators" clan were spared in Moqdisho my little brother?? Your history is flawed with errors. Actually the Somalilanders passed, mostly, safely to their areas after the fall of Mugdisho. Those who were dumped into the rivers and those who were mutilated (but belonged to the 'ruling clan' are not humans, soo ma aha?

Thanks to the maturity in admitting this is indeed a one clan project, for it will take us to the next level of discussion. I agree with your assertion that even if it were to be the will of this clan, it won't change anything but a mere re-demarcation of the colonial borders. Fine. But there is something it will change. It will undermine the legal, historical and political foundations of the claim for a separate country uttered by the pro-secession elites in the North. It will unravel a pandora's box in which it will not be only Makhir, Awadal and the proud people of Sool who would have to have a say, but the massive Gabooye andother communities who live in the North. In which case, it will be an entirely different situation, one which you know (even if you were not to admit here) that it will complicate matters for you. What it will also do is to further damage the viability of the said state in economic and geopolitical sense. Which should worry me though. In fact, one can also argue that the issue of secession must be dealt with once there is a countervailing force that also presents the other side for those minorties in the North who are not only from other clans, but who also happen to hail from the aggrieved clan. Short of that, it will be tantamount to stealing one's house without the victim's presence and later claiming that you got hold of the loot fairly as it was abandoned by the owner.

Ducaysane, cidiyaha waa la gashadaa ku weedi ma aha!

Looooooooool@at the MR. Hadaan fahmay waa riwaayad!

Brainwashed children think so!

Alaabtii suun baa lagu giijiyey!! Bibito dhan sharaabkii buuxin lahaa baa laabta lagu sitaa ka waran! Cagta la qaloociyaa i dishay!

This is a call for you to rise to the level of Somalinimo, nothing sinister. Anti-that and anti-this is the language of the Cadre.

Who are the "Somalilanders" who got deragotary remarks? Let us talk undiplomatically. Rer-Hebel? See that is what I object about this charade. Let the truth be said which is Rer-Hebel wants a separate entity for themselves!! The other clans in British Somaliland are not saying they were insulted, they are not saying they are not being treated fairly.

It is a good day Cara is around. Cara, how are you dear?

All of the Somali race is suffering young imposter. Pray and contribute to all of them. Indeed, to all humanity. And I am sure you will not get offended if I tell you that when liberation fighters conquer cities and march towards the inner, it is those who join them from the suburbs that make the most noise and smash most doors; shouting "we bled for this!". It would be wise if the genuine somalilanders boast so much. Not the forged ones.

Indeed Abwaan. I may have to elaborate on who the fervent supporters of the secession agenda are: - The first group is self-serving politicians (some believe in the idea, some others pretend). Riyaale is one such pretender. And he is making a rational choice judging by the mansions he is buying abroad. -The second group is core SNM fighters. These are people like Muuse Bixi, who would like to milk what they fought for. No doubt they are also ideologically motivated as they beleive that a return to the former union will return them to oppression once more. The majority of this group are not well-educated and it is hard to blame them for their current thinking. They suffered. Some among them, those from a deep rural background, think the victory against the Somali army was a victory against other clans and are just happy to live with that delicious comfort of the mind. - The third group are intellectuals and other notable people who are seeing the twilight of their career and are not that patient or hopeful that their services will soon be required by a United Somalia republic. Former BBC presenter, Mohamed Rashid who accepted the ignominy of being a deputy to a mad man (Faysala C.Waraabe) is one good example. The diaspora guys, most of whom are ravaged by the cold mornings and hard work, are in this group. - The fourth group is young and aspriring professionals who are not very confident of their skills and whowould like to narrow down the market so that competition doesn't get tough. The contingent of SOL Somalilanders belong here. For them, it is a way of making sure they are still in the game. -The fifth group is the uninitiated and the young (all from a particluar clan and most importantly from [Juventus] (old lad)prefixes. There may be other groups I missed but these are the main ones. It has always been the choice of the mediocre, the non-competitive, not-confident intellectuals to see to it that the borders are tightned and to ensure their comparative advantage is not stifled from outside. In this case from the more resourceful South Somalia.

If you have the misfortune of watching Somaliland TVs, you will get sick with the amount of lies and misinformation served to the innocent people by a crop of fake Tolka historians. One of them was on HCTV last night and it wasn’t any different. The lie starts from June 26, 1960. According to the new ‘historians’ the struggle against British occupation was to establish a Somaliland state or that is the feeling you will get when you listen to this pretentious history tellers. “Most of the people wanted to take time and discuss what kind of relationship we will have with Southern Somalia, but few zealous but good-hearted leaders made the decision to join Somalia”, he said. This is in sharp contrast to the fact that is known to many that the Somali’s in the North were part, if not the leaders, of the aspiration to achieve a free Somaliweyn. Indeed, when Timacadde was chanting with delight “sareeyoow ma nusqaamow, kana siib kana saar”, he wasn’t having second thoughts about joining the South. The next lie is that the Somalilanders soon found out that it was a mistake to join the union as early as early 1960s when some army officers mutined and were arrested. While individuals who did not personally get what they wanted from the new independence were the one’s who led the dissent, evidence are abound the people of the North fought unreservedly in the 1977 war with Ethiopia and were happy to be with Somalia. Trouble started later, as far as the feeling of the clan that has faced ethnic cleansing is concerned. This is another misconstruction of what the situation was. And then the third and biggest lie comes in the claim that the SNM fought to reclaim the ‘lost independence of Somaliland’. Mohamed Mooge would have disputed this. He sung about oppression and struggle never about secession.

ka bood! kor u noqo for the right link!

Naxariistii janno Alla ha ka waraabiyo the abused genius. Abihii oo Mafia ah ayaa ciil ku dilay. It is sad in caruurtiina lagu wareejiyey. He is going to sell them one by one. Pity. http://www.badongo.c om/audio/15769170

Very true and brilliant. Bal qosolkii dadwaynaha ila dhagayso Waa dab-jeex, waxaana kuu tumaya Ciyaal Xashiish! Here: http://www.badongo.c om/audio/15769177

Dear Oodweyne, It takes a lot of pain to suppress the urge in me to utter unkind words whenever I am presented with your usual obfuscatory arguments. As such, I will not be tempted to follow John Sleeye and declare that "Oodweyne, our resident peasant philosopher, is an example of articulate ignorance". Voltaire was faced with the kind of annoying creature I face here, where upon he could do little more than resign to his fate and leave this legacy of a remark: "What is madness?" he asked and answered " it is to have errenous perceptions and to reason correctly from them". Not that Oodweyne's arguments are all correcly correlated with the realm of reason, but that he has errenous perceptions and he tirelessly obfuscates his reasons. But let us go to the main issue here. If we have to do away with the witter and waffles here, your argument comes down to: - If the rest of the Somali's were to give in to our demands for a separate political entity, then, there would have been a possibility of us offering something (it is vague what it is) back to Somalia as a gesture of good will. And perhaps, I think, you mean clutural and other ties to the rest of the nation by something, as if that is something the elites in Somaliland can take away as they wish. - You are saying that you suffered under the previous arrangemnet and therefore, by the law of the opposities, the only thing that can offer respite to your 'people' (who I think are now more firmly defined unwittingly)is to go it alone. For those who reportedly have been massacred in the NorthWestern Province do not include the tall people of Sool and most of Makhiir as well as Awdal. Indeed once we mention you mention that you cannot wait for another atrocitiy (as if it is a given under any form of government in Somalia, you tend to show who you are referring to with the 'we'. We have gone through this phase of argument before and I think we will only bore the forum if we go on with another cycle. The fact is that one out of five or so clans in the North (and more accurately the elites and rent-seekers of that particular clan) want to keep a tiny enclave for themselves, blinded by vengence and accured hatred. The lobbying cry is no more union with the 'faq.ash.', and thanks to Faysal Cali Waraabe, we know those said F-people do not include the 'anarchist clans' who are believed to be the root cause of the problem in Southern Somalia. So, the very basis of this utopian state to be formed is hatred against particluar clans and search for proverbial hegemony that has never been witnessed but yet thoroughly aspired to. On the side issue and the softer side of life, perhaps it is lost to you that as Ninon De Lenclos believes, that "in the art of love-making, feigning lovers succeed much better than the really devoted".

He is speaking metaphorically. So many poets and singers before him had talked about Akhiro including one who said "Akhiro nimaan geel laheyn lama amaaneyn". So there is nothing new here. In the context he speaks, he wants to convey the message that you don't enter Janna by using the Shabab way. And I think he is right. Ninka la amaan galiyo.

Puntland is not 1/3 of Somalia and the population size is not 3 million. But that is a side issue. Especially now that Las Anod is part of Somaliland. Instead of ululating for the miasmic visit of a representative of a non-entity to the land of the white, you should perhaps have done something to bring the size of your beloved people to what you dream of it to be. By at least doing something about the part that is taken by force. You will chant I am spreading Fitna but I was only providing a technical solution to acheive your megalomanic aspirations and size.

No, I am bothered by your preoccupation with the meanigless. At a time all Somali's are fighting hard the dangerous divisive tendencies of SNM in the north, you tend to wander with mareketing of another tribal entity. And that defeats the bigger purpose.

The more appropriate title would have been "RER-HEBEL oo Somalia ka sii fogaanaya". We all know who is tickled by Lander suffix.