Originally posted by al-Hashimi: Yes people, there is Shell, the place is even beter then the Somali Capital lol...how? I am glad to see magaalo yar oo horumar ka muuqdo. How is it better than the Somali capital...are u telling us the economy is better...(yes it is safer of course)...Are you telling us there is more nice buildings? Horta meeshaan BAD ma leedahay?...lol I don't think so...sidee Xamar Caddeey uga fiican tahay hee saaxiiboow? Mise markii tuulo yar oo awoowgeen baa ku dhashay la dhaho qiiro ayaa na qaadeysa?

http://www.frontlineclub.com/club_videoevents.php?event=2872 Huge difference in the two Somali guys on the panel. No wonder in Asmara Group hore u dhaqaaqi waayeen illeen dadka noocaan oo kale ah baa metela oo shirarka uga qayb gala. I don't think it is about the age as we always talk about odayaal baa Soomaaliya gubey...dhallinyaraduna kaalin weyn bay runtii ka qaateen oo xagga xilal ku orodka ayaantaan qaarkeen odayaashaa waaba ka daran yihiin.

loool...You have to be a warlord to hold such posts and of course have an experience in controlling Isbaarooyinka or road blocks...lol...what a fool miyuusan ku quusan diyaaradihii hadda ka hor dib la soo ridey marka uu rabo inuu shacabka naftooda halis geliyo isagoo aan laftiisu jidadka mari karin isaga iyo ********ta ilaalisaba. Ilaahay Soomaaliya Xal ha u keeno, kuwaan dadka dhiiggooda cabeyna ha dhaafiyo oo masuuliyiinta isku sheegaya...when they can't even count their fingers...

Khurraafaad!

I am looking forward to Eid Insha Allaah?!

As many might have said before me Somalia needs Freedom, peace and Justice and the rest will follow Insha Allah

loooooooooool Maskiin Muqalaska ku lahaa waa iga qoslisey saaxiib. Haye adiga kuwii Cabdalla Shideeye baasaboorrada ku fujin jirey soo ka mid maahid maa u sharraxdid hee the best way mise waa ka ruqsaysatay oo arrimaha Kenya waa kaa weyn yihiin?

Waaw New babe for Beesha SOL...Qaasatan a dear brother Northener...bro Alxamdulillaah and Hambalyo Ilaah cimri dheer caafimaad iyo cibaado suuban ha idin siiyo ilmaha cusub iyo adinkaba.

Hargo maran side...lol...Waxna ma qabtaan odayaashaan xilna kama degaan...in katiifad guduudan loo dhigo oo salaan loo wada taago calanna loo suro sacabna loo tumo ilkahana loo caddeeyo bay ka siman yihiin...Koofur iyo Waqooyi meel ay joogaanba!

Originally posted by J.a.c.a.y.l.b.a.r.o: Acting ??? I thought they are a colonial power ,,, :confused: loool acting more like...malla yaabtey JB? Waa kaftan hagari ku jirto. Mise waaba jeesjees?

KK...bal meeso sanaad jirtaa anigu ku dhihi maayo oo waanba ka xishoone ee horta meeqa jeer ama sano baad sidaan oo kale u soo dabbaal-degtey?

http://www.somalitalk.com/2008/jun/10jun208.html thanks to Somalitalk for reminding us how long we have to wait for to see the Djibouti dream to come real and those unpopular and uninvited Ethiopian troops to leave Somalia.

Originally posted by *Blessed: Aww, so nice to see Somalis there. Btw.. Is Duraan, the torch bearer from London? I think he was my dugsi teacher. And now you should be even more proud that he is the flag-bearer and may be the leader of the olympics team for our nation.

Originally posted by Dabshid: Our flag-bearer, Duran Farah, proud Somali, Waa runtaa.

After many years of driving to work I have finally got rid of my car and joined the daily London commuters. Luckily I only had to get one bus from my near my house to my work place. The beauty of buses is that you could be close to the world around you, People hopping on and off. One painful story I would like to share is this Somali mother who shares the bus with us for a short journey to take her kids to school. She has four kids with her, the eldest being 5 or 6. As soon as she boards in and kids try to filter through the other passengers and jump around then starts her worry and in panic she starts calling their names. Kids are kids they don’t even wait and give her a chance while she shows her oyster card to the driver. While pushing the youngest on a pram, as soon as she leaves the area near the entrance she starts calling their names again and looks around even including outside the bus in order to makes sure that none of them is left outside the bus or around the bus stop. Once she locates them she makes sure that they are all in a save seat. I just wonder what happened to the father or fathers of those kids. Only one day I saw a man taking some of these kids with him. He could have been an uncle or a distance relative or maybe the milkman himself (a term used for father who either work on night shifts or regular Marfish clients). I was not close to where he was standing in order to confirm whether he is the wanted man?

The Associated PressPublished: May 6, 2008 NAIROBI, Kenya: Amnesty International said Tuesday that Ethiopian troops who support Somalia's U.N.-backed government are killing civilians, slitting people's throats and gang-raping women. The human rights group called on the international community to intervene to halt the bloodshed. It released a report Tuesday containing chilling witness accounts of indiscriminate killings — and even the intentional targeting of civilians — in the Horn of Africa nation. The accounts single out Ethiopian troops for some of the worst violations. Somalia's shaky transitional government invited Ethiopian forces into the country at the end of 2006 to help it battle Islamic insurgents. In addition to the insurgency, Somalia has been rent by years of violence between the militias of rival clan warlords. The human rights group says it has scores of reports of killings by Ethiopian troops that Somalis have described as "slaughtering like goats." In one case, "a young child's throat was slit by Ethiopian soldiers in front of the child's mother," the report says. Today in Africa & Middle East In democracy Kuwait trusts, but not much Scarred by strife after election, Kenya begins to heal 2 die in Somalia riot over food prices Such victims often are left to die in the streets, lying in pools of blood until fighters retreat and their bodies can be recovered, the report says. Ethiopian government officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The Ethiopian government last month denied an Amnesty report that accused its troops of the "targeted killing of civilians," particularly in a deadly raid on a mosque. The April 19 raid on Al-Hidaya Mosque killed 21 people, some of whom had their throats slit. Amnesty's report says some 6,000 civilians were reported killed and more than 600,000 people forced from their homes in the Somali capital last year. Some people are being buried in the grounds of schools because it is not safe to reach cemeteries, it says. "The people of Somalia are being killed, raped, tortured. Looting is widespread and entire neighborhoods are being destroyed," Michelle Kagari, Amnesty's deputy director for Africa, said in a statement from Nairobi accompanying the report. "The testimony we received strongly suggests that war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity have been committed by all parties to the conflict in Somalia and no one is being held accountable," Kagari said. The situation requires immediate and effective action by the international community, the report says, calling for intervention particularly from the United Nations, the African Union, the Arab League and governments in the International Contact Group for Somalia, which includes the United States. "The international community must bear its own responsibility for not putting consistent pressure on the TFG (Somali government) or the Ethiopian government to stop their armed forces from committing egregious human rights violations." Amnesty also called for more than 2,000 African Union peacekeepers in Somalia to be given a mandate to protect civilians. The peacekeepers' key mandates include protecting government officials and key institutions and training Somali security forces. Until about nine months ago, Mogadishu residents preferred the conduct of Ethiopian troops over Somali forces, the report says. But since Islamic insurgents intensified their struggle against Ethiopians, whom they consider invaders, the frustrated Ethiopians appear to have turned on civilians, it says. "There is no safety for civilians wherever they run," Amnesty said. Those fleeing Mogadishu still face violence on roads, including theft, rape and shootings. Once they reach refugee settlements, they face further violence in addition to chronic shortages of food, clean water and medical care because humanitarian operations are frequently impeded by parties to the conflict and armed criminal groups, it said. Somalia has been mired in chaos since 1991, when warlords overthrew longtime dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and then turned on one another. Last year, Islamist militants took control of most of southern Somalia, including Mogadishu. Troops from neighboring Ethiopia deployed in December 2006 and ejected the Islamists from the capital. But since then, Mogadishu has been caught up in a guerrilla war between the government and its Ethiopian allies on one side and the Islamist insurgents on the other. Grenade attacks and exchanges of heavy gunfire are frequent. The report, nearly 9,000 words long, quotes testimony from about 75 witnesses as well as scores of workers for non-governmental organizations. People are identified only by their first names to protect them from attack. Aguled, 32, said he saw his neighbors "slaughtered." He said he saw many men whose throats were slit and whose bodies were left in the street. Some had their testicles cut off, he said. He also reported seeing women raped. One incident took place next door to him where a newly wed woman was raped by more than 20 Ethiopian troops in a line, he said. Haboon, 56, said her neighbors' 17-year-old daughter was raped and their sons were killed by Ethiopian troops. The daughter is in a coma in Mogadishu as a result of injuries sustained in the attack. The boys, ages 13 and 14, tried to defend their sister but the soldiers beat them and gouged out their eyes with a bayonet, Haboon said.

Mark Tran guardian.co.uk, Wednesday April 23 2008 Article historyAbout this articleClose This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Wednesday April 23 2008. It was last updated at 15:53 on April 23 2008. Ethiopian soldiers in Mogadishu, Somalia, guard a cache of ammunitions they said were used by insurgents during two days of heavy fighting. Photograph: Mustafa Abdi/AFP/Getty The US "war on terror" has backfired, strengthening extremists in Afghanistan and Somalia and turning them into legitimate political actors in the eyes of their local populations, a thinktank said today. The Senlis Council, which has strongly criticised US policy in Afghanistan in the past, is particularly scathing of the Bush administration's "abject policy failures" in Somalia. It said air strikes, support for Ethiopian troops that attacked Somalia last year and the ill-timed designation of a radical Islamist group, al-Shabab, as a terrorist group had been successfully exploited by the insurgency to boost recruitment. "The lack of strategic acumen present in the 'war on terror' in Somalia and Afghanistan is in fact enabling the spread of the insurgencies present throughout both countries," said Norine MacDonald QC, the council president. "The US is the common denominator in both countries – instead of containing the extremist elements in Somalia and Afghanistan, US policies have facilitated the expansion of territory that al-Shabab and the Taliban have psychological control over." Aid groups say Somalia, wracked by anarchy and violence for decades, is suffering its worst humanitarian crisis since 1993. Militias linked to the former Islamic Courts authority, which controlled Mogadishu in the latter half of 2006, are waging a guerrilla war against the occupying Ethiopian troops and the weak central government. With a small African Union peacekeeping force reduced to the role of bystander, several thousand civilians have been killed in the crossfire since early 2007. The UN, which considers a wider peacekeeping mission too dangerous, says 700,000 people fled Mogadishu last year. A 10-mile stretch of road outside the city now hosts more than 200,000 people, humanitarian groups say - perhaps the biggest concentration of displaced people anywhere in the world. According to Phillippe Lazzarini, the UN head of humanitarian affairs for Somalia, 2.5 million people are in need of food or other aid. Against this grim backdrop, the Senlis Council, in its 79-page report, directly accused the US of undermining reconciliation efforts by backing the hardline president, Abdullahi Yusuf, instead of the more moderate prime minister, Nur Hassan Hussein. According to the security thinktank, the US government in February disrupted negotiations with opposition parties - including hardline Islamists - by exerting pressure on the prime minister to exclude certain groups and individuals from a reconciliation process, particularly those on a US list of designated terror suspects. The council urged Bush to end all bombing operations in Somalia, back a phased withdrawal of Ethiopian troops who are shoring up Yusuf, and create a UN stabilisation force to neutralise the power of Yusuf's transitional federal government. "President Bush has the perfect opportunity to adorn the twilight of his final term in office with a success story in his self-proclaimed war on terror – a fast track 'surge for peace' to end the current Somali crisis," the council said. Yusuf personally heard calls to lead a reconciliation effort during a visit to the US. Norm Coleman, a rightwing Republican senator, yesterday urged the Somali leader to reach out to "all stakeholders not associated with terrorism". "The president said he took my words very seriously, and would maintain his commitment to reconciliation," said Coleman, who represents Minnesota, a northern state where more than 10,000 Somalis have settled. Last month, the Bush administration granted Somalis living in the US under temporary protected status an extra 18 months as conditions in Somalia remained "dire". As for Afghanistan, the Senlis Council said the resurgent Taliban provided a bleak example of how the US-led war on terror had failed there as well. It said: "The Taliban and al-Shabab are successfully exploiting policy mistakes such as aerial bombings, ongoing poverty, and aggressive foreign military presence to the extent that they are increasingly viewed by local populations as representatives of their legitimate political grievances."

Originally posted by Suldaanka: Nin ayaa laga hayey laba walba isa saaray laba tagoogo waligay isma saarin. Xabashi xeebta ku xaara waaan filaayey laakin Xabashi maasijkii ilaahay saxaro la soo raadsada waa wax aad looga naxo. Waa hadal sax ah bro, waxaadse ka warrantaa kuwa Islaamka iyo Soomaalidaa sheeganaya oo dhahaya waa been abuur oo dad ba sameeyey oo masaajid laguma saxaroon iyo Masjid lama gelin oo waa been iyo jid bay ahayd in masjidka la galaa oo dadka lagu laayaa. Waa wax laga naxo iyo adduunyo gaddoon.

http://waagacusub.com/news/banaanbax%20sawiro.htm

loool...at the so called presidet...Inta beebe korkiis laga soo gemey ayaa haddana lagu sii gemey, waxaas wax furid miyaa. Did anyone see the atmosphere? Very tight security sidii in Malaga nafta gooya ay qoryo badan kaa celin karaan. And yeah Gabra was there as well telling Yey when to hop the armoured vehicle and when not to. When that guy leaves our soil then can the likes of Yey claim to be the president and Finally whatever happened in Diin soor, Qansax Dheere, Jowhar, Buulo Barde, Ceeldheer, Jalalaqsi, Kala Bayrka, and Cadaado Today? I think no one iska indha tiri karo ma leh that inay mucaaradku marba meeshii ay rabaan gaardis ku maraan? Odaygaan yaa dhaho hadda meeshaan iskaga tag gaarigaas qufulan orod meel kuma gaaro ama Badda ayuu kula geli sidaad u cararayso amaba waa laguu imaan oo madaxtooyada ayaa laguugu soo dhici insha Allaah.

check here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7325790.stm Tartankaan geela oo Soomaalidu qayb weyn ka geli lahayd xitaa waan ka harnay, xaaladda murugsan ee dalka ka jirta owgeed. Ciil badanaa...toloow geelii Soomaaliya laga soo bililiqaystay maku jiraa oo malla soo bandhigi doonaa?

lol...@Calanka propaganda...

Originally posted by Che -Guevara: iidamada ethopianka oo gaadhay Tukaraq.xagay ku socdaan? loool...xaggee kale ma ogeyn miyaa Cadde iyo C/llaahi inay dhulkii Itoobiyaan ka iibiyeen?

Dhegeyso Maxamed Dheere oo Khalkhalay. loooooooooool...Ar hooyo maxaa loo gefey...hooyooy xaal qaado, bal ninkaan saca ah maqal wuxuu ku hadlaayo, xitaa prank call ma kasaayo...! yaab waaye cagtii joogsan weydaa mar bay ceeb la kulantaa oo sidaan baa u dambeysa cabsi awgeed qofkii ummaddiisa ku soo noqda oo cadow u gacan geliya.

waa ayaandarro.