MMA; correction; I am Ceeri boy rather than LA! It is like me call you Baydhabaawi while you are from xudur!!!!!.

MMA should not be allowed to spew such a filth Call me an olf boy, but where is the humour in the above post? Quruxleey thanks for sharing.

"Adeer, truthfully speaking you are a very intellectual individual (thou I don't agree with you a lot of times---and that could be because I don't read everything that you write--and I think thats why you higlight words).I just want to know how you find time to write thought provoking "essays" on all most every post you replay to? " If you don't read him who then did you come to such a conclusion dare I say my dear fellow?

Failed assassination attempt on the Prime Minister of Somalia and an attempt to hijack a luxury American cruise ship off the coast has reinforced fears that the country is spiralling out of control as a centre of al-Qa'ida terrorism. The unsuccessful attack by pirates on Saturday was the first on a luxury cruise liner in the area. Three people were killed in the attack on the Prime Minister, Ali Mohamed Gedi, as he visited the chaotic capital Mogadishu. He was unharmed in the explosion set off near his convoy, witnesses said. Mr Gedi was visiting from Jowhar, where a transitional government is based. Political collapse in this failed state has created a power vacuum that is posing a danger to Somalis and the outside world. Since 2003, Somalia has witnessed the rise of a new, ruthless, independent jihadi network with links to al-Qai'da. The former Italian colony has been without a functioning national government for 14 years and a transitional parliament, sworn in last year, has failed to end the anarchy. In the rubble-strewn streets of the ruined capital of Mogadishu, al-Qa'ida operatives, jihadi extremists, Ethiopian security services and Western-backed counter-terrorism agents are engaged in a shadowy and complex contest of intimidation, abduction and assassination. On Saturday Somali pirates armed with rocket-propelled grenades launched an unsuccessful attack on Seaborn Spirit as it rounded the Horn of Africa with 22 British tourists aboard. The ship came under attack at 5.30am as the pirates approached in at least two speedboats shooting at the ship with grenade launchers and machine guns. They were repelled by the ships crew who set off electronic countermeasures, described as "a loud bang" by one of the passengers. One crew member was lightly injured in the early-morning incident in waters about 100 miles (160km) off the Somali coast. "My daughter saw the pirates out our window," passenger Edith Laird from Seattle in the US told the BBC News by e-mail from the ship. "There were at least three RPGs that hit the ship, one in a stateroom four doors down from our cabin," she said. Seabourn Spirit was carrying 302 passengers and crew, most of them Americans as well as some Britons and Australians. Yesterday there were calls for a naval task force to try to stop attacks in Somali waters - among the most dangerous in the world. But it is unlikely that a naval task force would be able to quell the lawlessness which has wracked the country for decades. Beginning in 1993, a two-year US commanded UN humanitarian effort (primarily in the south) was able to alleviate famine conditions, but when the US withdrew in humiliation in Operation United Shield by 3 March, 1995, having suffered significant casualties, order had still not been restored. During the 1990s, extremism in Somalia was centered on the al-Ittihaad al-Islaami, a band of Wahhabi militants bent on establishing an Islamic emirate in the country. Al-Qa'ida also became established and attacked US and UN peacekeepers using the country as a transit zone for terrorism in neighbouring Kenya. Leading members of al-Qa'ida's East African network still hide in Somalia according to the International Crisis Group. In Mogadishu yesterday Mr Gedi was making his second visit to Mogadishu since his appointment at the helm of the transitional government. Officials said he was travelling from the airport into the centre of the city when his convoy was attacked by gunmen, who hurled grenades and detonated a landmine. The blast is reported to have hit one of the vehicles in the convoy, and the prime minister's vehicle was also damaged. At least one of Mr Gedi's bodyguards was reported to be among the dead.

Thanks for sharing this history. Those days were indeed a vital in the making of contemporary history—one that is seldom written hence what you have written are sourced from the Oral history which of course you will know a lot (no need to mentioned ht reasons). You must be well aware of Dabka party which was headed by premiere AbdiRisak Haji Hussien; main players Alahunaxariisto Mohamed Ahmed Abdule (Sakhraan) et all. These guys were radical lot and were not happy with the Wadaad’s leadership (C/rashiid was known as Wadaad those days); they thought he was weak and will be manipulated by then “insincere†incumbent premiere that who was “known†to be very westernised by those standards-- the Oggaden and NFD was an important political issues for them and they thought. This camp was accused of having a Qabiil leaning-incidently the two main players of course hailing from what is now known as Puntland; Galkacayo and Ceerigaabo respectively. According to several prominent politicians (I lived among two of them for more than a year) the tribalism had become the norm from the get go. From that backdrop one correction is needed. “The discontent wasn't the result of qabiil, but regional discontent, experienced by the whole region that joined the union, including reer Sanaag and Sool, which the latter was part of Togdheer province at that time.†Before Britain left and the Union Jack was the flag of the region; there was two prominent political parties in the North; USP (Awdal, Sool and Sanaag) and SNL (Togdheer and Waqooyi Galbeed). These were organized around the tribal lineages. Thusly, when the Somali become an state; USP was dissolved and it’s leaders become prominent leaders within the SYL government thusly becoming part and parcel of the state. Ali Garad who was a heavyweight Cabinet minister and had a huge following in Sool, Sanaag and Awdal was instrumental for the nomination of Rashid to be head of the partly. Consequently, the discontent you speak of was indeed confined to Burco and Hargeisa; hence a Qabill orientated disgruntlement. Anyhow, better get back to work.

War waa RAMADAANEEY RABI KACABSADA GO'AAN AHEYNE

War waa RAMADAANEEY RABI KACABSADA GO'AAN AHEYNE

War waa RAMADAANEEY RABI KACABSADA GO'AAN AHEYNE

This is all hot air. Windtaker and Soomal have got the wrong end of the stick. One correction; SSC never joined Puntland state of Somalia in 1998. Puntland was founded by Sool, Sanaag, Bari, Nugaal, Mudug and Ceyn. Soomaal: Aayaha SSC beri hore ayey katashadeen siyaasad ahaan. Haatan waxa loo baahan yahay waxa weeye; horumarinta goboladaas dhinaca dhaqaale, mujtamac iyo waxbarashaba.

You mean I? This is a copy from Wardheernews.com so if you have an issue with the article you should present your case either on this place coherently or perhaps write an email to these chaps.

The BBC - Once an Icon of Somali Broadcasting May Become an Irrelevant Entity WardheerNews Editorial October 23, 2005 It is called "Bush House." Gothic in architecture and Celtic in design, the mere walk in the corridors of Bush House that lead to its recording studios is arresting. Located on the historic corridor of Kingsway in Central London, Bush House has a colonial flavor both in architecture and in its reach to all the corners of the world. Started in 1938, the World Service broadcasts in all major languages, and the Somali language was added to its broadcasts in 1957. Bush House, housing the offices and studios of the BBC World Service Walking into the tiny, vintage recording studio of the Somali program is an imposing "she camel" poster that claims the entire façade of a prime wall. Beneath it is the simple inscription of " hoyga Af-Soomaaliga," or “home of the Somali language.†Implicit, yet bold message, these simple words express a commitment to excellence in Somali journalism and culture whose consumers are the "Somali speaking people." That is why any Somali speaking person who heard, either on prime time or on preserved antique tapes ( Cajalad ), the immortal and ageless essay that Sulaymaan Dahir Afqarshe has aired on the occasion of the Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth in the 1970s, can immensely appreciate the Service's role in Somali journalism and culture. In Af-Qarshe's essay, the Somali is simple, beautiful, and descriptively rich enough to bolster and unleash the listener's imagination into the setting and gravity of the function described. That was then, radio days, whence the BBC Somali program could boast to have in its employment ranks luminary journalists like the late Mustafa Xaaji Nuur , Abdullhai Xaaji (now a part timer,) Cusman Sugule, Cusman Xasan, Sulaymaan Daahir Af-qarshe , Idris Xasan Diiriye , Kaltuum Iimaan and others. The rhythmic voices of Xaaji and Xaaji on the news hour, the rhetorical clichés of Sugule, the rhyming tones of Cusman Xasan and the soothing touch of Kaltuum Iimaan, these qualities are what made the BBC an immortal institution of journalism and cultural repository for the Somali speaking people who occupy a significant portion of the Horn of Africa region. The newsroom of the BBC World Service is manned 24 hours a day seven days a week, with reporters gathering stories for use by all language services. Moreover, the programs [aired on the BBC then] were well programmed, diversified and spoke to the better-educated staff that organized them. "This week and Africa," or in Somali, " Todobaadkan iyo Afrika ," represented, among other things, the finest of Somali journalism, just as did ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley" for America. And to a population that is largely pastoral and oral-based, yet with unmatched appetite for world politics, it was a venue for education and International Relations 101. Today's BBC programs are poorly organized and have become something akin to the 1980s Somali plays at Mogadishu Theater, when national art and culture were reduced to a field that appealed only to the less exposed. Due to inferior programming and biased news coverage, the Service often avoids certain issues and over indulges in others, thus a declined quality of broadcasting. For example, the Service, either by omission or because of its limited professional capability, missed an opportunity to broadly cover the recent elections in the Somali National State in Ethiopia, where the second largest Somali speaking population (second only to southern Somalia ) lives. Despite top-down manipulation of the results by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, the August 2005 elections were the only thing close to a semblance of "liberalization" of Abyssinian rule that this region has seen since emperor Menilik II conquered it. The Service could have given a better coverage to let its listeners learn more about the magnitude of the election fraud, and the fact that hundreds of Somalis discharged their duties by casting their votes against many odds, including casting their votes under the shadow of armed soldiers inside military barracks. But it settled for the cursory and expatriate-like review of events of Mr. Caddow, whose earlier coverage of the region has been utterly disappointing. Worse, the Service does not have a single reporter in the Somali region. Adan Cusman, a part time reporter who has retired from the Ethiopian News Agency (ENA), is charged to monitor the region out of Addis Ababa.The Service's reporting of this region, hence, is through second hand informants who deliver nothing more than government official line or what Somalis aptly refer to as "kutidhi kuteen," or news of the rumor mill. The lowest point of the Service is marked by its uneven-handed coverage of the visits of the President of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and the Speaker of the Transitional Federal Parliament, Sharif Hassan. The President was the only [official] invitee to the General Assembly, and that was the prime news-making event. Speaker Hassan was invited by a non-governmental body, Association of World Parliaments, and was practically on his own. The Service should have given a prime coverage to the president. It once again, deliberately erred by totally ignoring to cover the President's [official] and historic visit, while it spent many news hours on covering minute details of the Speaker's multi-track trip. Worse, the BBC continues to insist on addressing Mr. Abdillahi Mohamud Jama “ Sifir †as the deputy prime minister, despite the removal of “ Sifir †from that post earlier this year by the prime minister. This represents present-day rather activist, albeit unwarranted face of the Service! Or, consider the time - this past summer to be exact - when Mr. Abdullahi Yusuf visited London and the decision maker of the Service, probably Mr. Yusuf Garad , who is currently the program Editor rendered it non-newsworthy! They only interviewed the president only after he paid a visit to Bush House to be heard. Strangely enough the BBC often provides a platform for the junior players who are either in Mogadishu or are affiliated with the Mogadishu-based sectarian wing of the TFG through interviews and coverage of their minor events .. In which ever way you slice it, notwithstanding one's clannish or even ideological opposition to Mr. Ahmed or his government, the president's trip to London , home of thousands of Somali refugees and the seat of one of Somalia 's colonial powers as well as the BBC itself, was a serious newsworthy event. It should have been given an adequate coverage. Whatever satisfaction Mr. Garad had driven from this creepy incident, it did not constitute a humiliation of the president. On the contrary, it painted Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed as someone who has taken the higher moral grounds who can ignore little men's idiotic feelings and focus on the big picture - in this case getting his message out. The Service's decision on this matter must be viewed to represent its lowest point and should not pass without denting the credibility and integrity of what truly once was " hoyga Af-Soomaliga ." Editor - BBC Somali Service The failure of the Service to field a reporter to Jawhar one year after most of TFG members and 2/3 rd of the parliament moved to that city as their transitional administrative seat is baffling. Once again, the Service's coverage of TFG news out of Mugadishu is politically biased and is not based on sound journalistic decision. An Aha moment! The BBC is no longer what it used to be, or in Somali, "War miyaanan garan in aanay goblanto BBCdu tii hore ahayn !" The BBC has failed also to cover adequately the dispute between Puntland and Somaliland. A case in point is Adhi Cadeeye, the only active theater in the entire Somali speaking world where two heavily armed belligerent militia forces (Somaliland against Puntland) are facing each other, only separated by an unmonitored mere 10 kilometers of barren land. The potential conflict that could flare up once more, especially if Somaliland thinks that submission of the people of Sool , Sanaag and Buuhoodle regions to secession, be it by brute force or persuasion, is a prerequisite for its hard-after-sought recognition, is newsworthy to many Somalis. The Service also declined, by design or by benign neglect, to make any reporting on the temporary relocation of the office of Puntland's speaker of the parliament to Lascaanood during the entire period when the rather well covered Somaliland local elections were taking place. The entire Puntland's effort was mounted and placed in Laascaanood to avoid any meaningful election to take place in these regions. This too was newsworthy, as Somaliland and Puntland had almost had a repeat of showdown on where to limit Somaliland 's elections. The BBC Somali Service is, in the eyes of many critics, either corrupted, which is not an unlikely phenomenon under Somali management, or lacks the collective professional integrity. Perhaps both. Many of our readers have contacted us to comment on the declining quality of the Service's coverage of Somali-speaking regions and wanted to hear our recommendations. Some of you have even tallied to us the details of who is employed when and from where in order to emphasize the imbalance that is reflected in the staffing of the program. In other words, you maintain the charge that Garad has skewed the employment of the Service to one side and has compromised on the Service's quality of journalism. As things stand today, the BBC Somali Service is not the icon of journalism and culture it once committed itself to be. Like all other Somali institutions that have been gutted and dumped into the gutters, the Service's deterioration by showing affinity for narrow/sectarian objectives plus poor programming warrants a new search for an alternative approach to " hoyga Af-Soomaliga " in post civil war Somalia. After careful monitoring of the Service's daily and weekly programs, we came to the following unavoidable conclusions: The quality of the Service's Somali program had indeed declined, coupled with pervasive biased approach to both news-making events and news-makers, be they politicians or [somali] bandits. Wide spread disappointment of million of Somali listeners of the BBC Somali Service has surpassed that of the time when Peter Gilcks , a British journalist married to an Ethiopian women, headed the entire African program and promoted an anti-Somali environment in the midst of the Ethio -Somali war in 1977-1978. If these issues are left unattended, the loosers are both the Service and Somali listeners. To ameliorate the situation, we recommend two simple but painful steps that the World Service has so far resisted: 1. That the management of the Service look into the allegations of bias and poor programming, which have plagued this valuable program and correct the problems expeditiously. 2. A re-assessment of the programming and staffing of the Service so that it can meet the need of a growing demand of more news-savvy and better educated Somalis, who are exposed to western style news making. That is the only way, we think, the Service can remain relevant and still aspire to its original commitment of excellency in journalism and cultural promotion.

Government to repatriate 10,000 Oromo herdsmen By Musembi Nzengu THE government is set to repatriate more than 10,000 Oromo herdsmen who have been living in parts of North Eastern Province back to Somalia. The Eastern Provincial Commissioner, Mr John Nandasaba, yesterday said a three-week joint military operation would be mounted to eject them from the country at an undisclosed date. “They have ignored several government orders to leave the country, including the last one by President Kibaki two months ago,†said the PC, adding that no more ultimatums would be issued. Nandasaba said the foreigners sneaked into the country disguised as Kenyan Somalis in search of pasture for their cattle but are believed to be responsible for the illegal poaching in national game reserves and parks. According to the PC, the foreigners were scattered in parts of Kitui, Mwingi and Isiolo districts. Intelligence reports were putting their number to more than 10,000, with a heavy presence of the armed immigrants hiding in the Kora Game Reserve in Mwingi District and Kitui South Game Reserve. Speaking at Nguni Health Centre in Mwingi during the Kenya Revenue Authority’s 10th anniversary celebrations, the PC conceded that only a military operation backed by at least three helicopters, would succeed in driving out the huge number of the population. “They pose a serious security risk to the livelihood of the local communities that border the national parks and game reserves because many of them are armed,†Nandasaba said. Other News

Government to repatriate 10,000 Oromo herdsmen By Musembi Nzengu THE government is set to repatriate more than 10,000 Oromo herdsmen who have been living in parts of North Eastern Province back to Somalia. The Eastern Provincial Commissioner, Mr John Nandasaba, yesterday said a three-week joint military operation would be mounted to eject them from the country at an undisclosed date. “They have ignored several government orders to leave the country, including the last one by President Kibaki two months ago,†said the PC, adding that no more ultimatums would be issued. Nandasaba said the foreigners sneaked into the country disguised as Kenyan Somalis in search of pasture for their cattle but are believed to be responsible for the illegal poaching in national game reserves and parks. According to the PC, the foreigners were scattered in parts of Kitui, Mwingi and Isiolo districts. Intelligence reports were putting their number to more than 10,000, with a heavy presence of the armed immigrants hiding in the Kora Game Reserve in Mwingi District and Kitui South Game Reserve. Speaking at Nguni Health Centre in Mwingi during the Kenya Revenue Authority’s 10th anniversary celebrations, the PC conceded that only a military operation backed by at least three helicopters, would succeed in driving out the huge number of the population. “They pose a serious security risk to the livelihood of the local communities that border the national parks and game reserves because many of them are armed,†Nandasaba said. Other News

Africa’s population crisis is fictitious Misspent billions: Africa aid By: Dr Jama ELMI The hunger and poverty that still plague many parts of the Africa have nothing to do with the simplistic claim that land shortages cause food shortages. Despite all the destruction by international agencies of fisheries and rich agricultural lands, more food is being produced than ever before, in rich and poor countries alike. India and China are self-sufficient in rice. The Western world's granaries are overflowing, leading to grain wars among Canada, the United States and Europe. Even Saudi Arabia is exporting wheat! Most of the world's people are better fed today than at any time in history, consuming more per person than ever before. The problems are not global in scale, but local. Where tragedy in the Third World has hit hardest--Africa--is also where population densities are relatively low: less than one-tenth that of India. The cause for the brutal starvation in Somalia recently, or in Rwanda, Ethiopia, and elsewhere several years ago, is almost always war, or repression of various kinds. Africa is poor because its leaders subjugate its peoples, because development agencies foist unsound development on them, and because Africa debt--which was incurred without the public's approval--kept people poor. To the great frustration of Africa citizens' groups, most Westerners do not understand these facts-on-the-ground: when asked what the Africa's number one problem is, Westerners generally cite the fictitious "population crisis." These African groups know that as long as Western governments and international agencies like the World Bank are able to focus Westerners--who fund most of the Africa's destruction--on imaginary problems the funding of more devastating development projects will continue. Afrcan citizens' groups also want Western citizens to know that foreign aid-funded development has only bred dependence. The countries that receive the most foreign aid, in fact, are worse off than they were before the development dollars started flowing. While aid to Africa increased more than tenfold between 1970 and 1988, Africans are poorer. After $100 billion in investments, Africa's economy shrank by 20%--the GNP of that entire continent compares to that of Belgium, which has a land mass of 1% the size of Africa The basic problem with any type of foreign aid is that they strengthen the institutions which prevent progress while weakening the institutions of Africa which could bring true prosperity. Aid increases the role of government and bureaucracy in the economic life of the continent, while it minimizes the role of markets and private entrepreneurship. If they want to help developing nations prosper, they must find a method that creates a bigger role for institutions such as the market. One way of aiding African nations is through free trade. By lowering their (Western) import barriers, they can allow the private sectors of the continent (Africa) easier access to Western markets. With the huge markets of the Europe and N. America available for their products, entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to develop new industries or expand old ones. As Lord Bauer writes, removing protectionist barriers will allow more African countries to experience the success of such Pacific Basin countries as Hong Kong and Singapore: As for economic development, the West can best promote this by the reduction of its often severe barriers to imports from poor countries. External commerce is an effective stimulus to economic progress. It is commercial intercourse with the West which has transformed economic life in the Far East, South-East Asia, and parts of Africa and Latin America.25 Free trade also has the advantage of helping Western own economy. While this is no place to explode the numerous protectionist fallacies, free trade will increase Western wealth with a great influx of goods and services from abroad. Like all voluntary exchanges, international trade is a positive sum activity; both America and the Africa benefit from it. Foreign aid fails as a development policy because it destroys the incentives of the marketplace and extends the power of ruling elites. Because it leads Africa away from the free market, it actually increases Africa’s poverty. On the other hand, the alternative policy of free trade will give the private sector of the LDCs an opportunity to expand and flourish. It must be emphasized that free trade alone will not solve all the problems of Africa poverty. Free trade only increases the opportunities of the less developed nations. It will not eliminate the shackles of government regulation and intervention that dominate Africa’s economies. That task can only be done by the people of Africa themselves. Yet, eliminating foreign aid and instituting free trade will at least encourage African peoples to develop institutions such as private property rights and free markets which will lead to growth and prosperity. You (Westerners) must not let government aid agencies get away with blaming the people of Africa for the governments' failed attempts at development. Development won't come to Africa and other poor parts of Africa until people are empowered, and able to direct their development. That's why Probe International has been working with grassroots citizens' groups in Africa to defend their customary rights to the land, forests, air, and water that they depend upon. Until these decentralized and democratic resource-use systems are recognized and enforced in law--systems that have sustained Africa’s populations for millennia--unaccountable development as practised by International Financial Aid Donors and other government aid agencies will continue to undermine Africa’s populations and their environments ___________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Jama Elmi , Sr. Research Scientist and The Founder of Biogas as Alternative Energy of Horn of Africa elmij@yahoo.com

"That said, I am still on the side that Mr. Qaybe is a man of principles and not a "Dhuuni Raac" as you are asserting. We've seen countless of the "Dhuuni Raacs" with absolutely zero credibility that keep on crisscrossing the border between Somaliland and Puntland; I don't think Mr. Qaybe is among the ranks of those kind of people." Actually, his name is Mohamoud Salah Nuur and he has never been vice president of Somland but has been the longest serving foriegn secretary. Another correction; Fagadhe is from Ceerigaabo Sanaag not Buuhodle Ceyn. ----- Waxaa ii muuqata Mudane Qeybe inuu isu taagey xil ka saarnaa umada Soomaaliyeed. Shaqsi ahaan; waa xidiga duplamaasiyiinta Soomaliyeed. Waxaan aad ugu farax sanahay in uu ku baraarugey taladii Ismail Ali Ismail Geeldoon.

"Where are all the Harvard/Oxford/Stanford/Cambridge Ivy-league somalis?" Busy Studying!.

Hi my fellow Law graduate. Have you done any internships? If not, do you know which area you would like to get into? The best thing to do is to apply directly to firms that you might want to work for; this entirely depends on which area you want to get into; if they find your application enticing enough they offer you a contact which will pay for your LPC-- in my case; I did my intern at Slaughter and May on M&A and Tax. The partner I was working with offered me a join the firm with my LPC being paid for of course. But I chose not; for a while I intertained the thought of going to the Bar and did mini pupilage but I was scared off by the fact that though I can pass the BAR and get a pupilage I might not get tenancy. Anyhow, coporate world does not ticle your fancy then I know a Somali guy who has a law firm in London-- practices in Immigration and wants to get into Criminal Law thusly you might want to speak to him. I hope that helps.

Hello poster, Graduating from Oxbridge or say Harvard/Yale would indeed help the person a lot in securing the job he desires. Especially being ethnic minority this definitely helps; I speak from experience here. As Somali who had been given the opportunity to be educated at both Oxford and Cambridge; getting the job I wanted has been made easy by the fact that I went to these institutions and also getting a decent degree after three years without working very hard--- GPA is normally much higher (for example 69 percent of my fellow law graduates got 2:1) in comparison to other none traditional universities in Britain. The other day, I was horrified to learn that a university which attracts many Somalis in London has the worst drop rate in London and 65 percent of its graduates leave with 2:2 and below. This of course explains to a CERTAIN extend why a lot Somali graduates find themselves in none graduate jobs. For me, my experience at Oxbridge had been positive; learnt a lot and made lasting friendships. DO I see myself an Elite! Hell YEAH but such a view of myself has not been formed as consequence of my erudition; it stems from my childhood upbringing. As I once wrote in the Vasrsity; Cambridge does not necessarily attract the most brightest of all but indeed the most self assured—or if you want to be derogatory the most arrogant of British pupils. Tankale, I left 2 somalis behind at Cambridge. When I was at Oxford there were other two Somali ladies and chap who was in my college. I know a guy who read MA law at Cambridge (a year ahead of moi)and subsequently went to Harvard Law to do another MA--- he actually visits this website. If you have any questions regarding how to get into Oxbridge please do ask and I would be very happy to assist you.

uncover the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms" ... == Waxaad ka feejignaataa khatarta dahsoon ee nacnacleynta joogtaha taas oo laga yaabo iney kugu khasabto inaad ku dhacdid godka buufiska!!!!

I was actually in the gym when it was annouced and was listening to Surat Kahf. All I saw was a woman and nobel prize winner written on the screen.

I thought I would see pictures of Las Anod!!

He had Lost it to some woman.

Caano, how are you old boy? I have been "busy"; just been overwhelmed by the modern slavery----- working in capatalistic world. How about you, what have you been up to?

Nobel for literature being announced this week LAST UPDATE: 10/11/2005 5:36:14 AM STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - The Swedish Academy is announcing the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday. Favorites include Americans Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates along with Canadian Margaret Atwood and Nuruddin Farah of Somalia. Many Nobel observers were surprised the honor was not handed out last week. The rest of this year's Nobel Prizes already have been announced.

Suldaan! I thought these portals were local and as such would have local news access! or perhaps somaliland.org et al is much better as far as SOOL, Sanaag and Ceyn concerned huh?