^Lool @ released inmates, war nimanka sidaa ha ugu dhamaynin waa tolee

^You are as far if not farther than Puntland. Why are you interested in what's happening the Jubba. Also there are a lot of Somali clans and politicians that are against this invasion including reer Mogadishu and Sharif Ahmed who are guarded by AMISON. Why aren't you questioning their motive as you seem to be only interested and obsessed with Puntland folks. One more, Faroole as fool as he is rushed to support this invasion for the excuse of eliminating Alshabaab.

^I am on the same page with you on this one. We are all against this foreign invasion but the TFG is lying as they always did, and this is nothing more than a lip service. Kenyan forces have crossed the border weeks ago and are inside Somalia and in control of areas like Afmadow and some parts of Jubba, they also bombed Kismayo. If all these actions are illegal, and of course it is we know it, the TFG should/must have sent a clear message both the to Kenyan government and the UN demanding a complete withdrawal against this broad daylight Kenyan aggression. Anything short of that, waa xaraan wadayaal.

This is not about a Somali sub sub clan issue or struggle, do not turn it into that. It's the Somali TFG and the whole Somali collective voice and sane logic that are against this open and illegal invasion of Kenya.

C'mon there was nothing tricky in my question, just straight question. You see you know the Somali tribes, the Azania tribe, Puntland, SL and Mogadishu tribes. I was only asking your Ethiopian...? Whatever it is, all I was going to tell you is that, leave the Azania tribe alone, they are the only group that have power and clear influence in the three Kenya, Somali and Ethiopia out of all the people that settle in the region. They want to install Azania state in one of most fertile lands and beautiful beaches of all of East Africa which is better than your little Tikrinya region. Also they settle in of the largest and most resource rich region of Ethiopia and have an immense magnitude of influence in running the state affairs of Kenya.They are way out of your league and much higher than your little short Tigre knee/elbow.

It's a funny joke, lol, but does the story have any meaning behind it, I thought. Mase waa for the laugh of it. Mind your business otherwise you will lose an eye. Lol

^Are you Amhaar or Tigre?

^What will you come back with if Shariifka retracts and apoligizes or rather even worse endorses the Kenyan action?

^Why do you two assume that Alshabaab = Somali. Granted they have a base in Somalia, but there are Kenyan Alshabaab, Tanzanian and every other country. Actually a high number of Kenyan Shabaab were part of those that terrorized the Somali population in Mogadishu and else where in south Somalia.

Abtigiis;753493 wrote: In the corridors of Somali politics, real or arm-chair, his foes and friends know our President –Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, for his fast-paced evolution, in action and ideationally. And because he is one swept by the latest ideas he will have chanced by in a conversation, or by the advices of those who sit next to him before he walks to the podium, it is fair to assume that someone who got a telephone from Addis Ababa or who opposes Azania must have been the last person who saw him when he woke up for morning prayers today. Three days ago, the man who stood by his side as he agreed to the Kenyan incursion, saying that the two countries have agreed to cooperate in the fight against Alshabab due to the ‘unique danger’ the militants pose to the national security of the two nations, was Yusuf Haji, Kenya's defense Minister. In both occasion, he wore the garb of a national leader whose calls matter, with impudence. That he will evolve again is for sure, what we don’t yet know is what words he will use to make the idiosyncratic turns. Four years ago, some spiritually suffused Imams were running away from the same martyrdom they pushed impressionable young men into, in the jungles of lower Jubba. Pursued by Ethiopian army on the ground and US bombers from the sky, they were dying of exhaustion and thrust. They sent the youngest of them, who was also physically the fittest, to go and get dear water for them. The man sent was Sheikh Sharif. They dispatched him with saving dua and yellow jerrycans. They heard him on the BBC few weeks later, not bemoaning his inability to honour his commitment, not regretting his absconding, but drawing up plans and deals with the same enemy the men who trusted him to lead them in war were running from. It wasn’t betrayal, according to the pragmatic religion of the man. It was merely part of a long career, personified by callous progression of principles and loyalties. The Quran teacher from Mahaday, whose theological docility also enabled him to work as a judge in the land of the gangs (under Mohamed Dheere), stood before the Somali people as a Presidential candidate few years after he transformed from Madrsa-politics to mainstream politics. A politics that he thought cannot be survived if the no-hand-shake with women dogmas of the madrasa era is repeated. Soon the hands that waved his uncle’s wife Faadumo squeezed the bleached fingers of Hilary Clinton. And it told all that the man has finally arrived. Elected President, he soon started compensating for lost luxury time in young-hood by evolving to the skies. All the time hoping his fawned anti-enemies-of-Somalia tirade had secured him all-time insurance against legitimate retort founded on his personal culpability for the thousands of Somali youth needlessly sacrificed for a futile cause in Iidaale and Mogadishu. For him, the matter of agreeing to a Kenyan aggression at the end of last week and disagreeing with it at the start of this week is no more than a normal routine in a leadership philosophy based on convenience and who sits next. For the rest of Somalis and the world, it is a confusing contradiction that gives a moral boost to the terrorists, and cements the long-held view that Somalis are a joke. A key question would be, has he consulted the rest of the government? Has he put the matter before the relevant institutions, if not the latest statement which is in sync with the constitution as it is merely a reaffirmation of Somalia’s sovereignty but the one he read before Yusuf Haji and Moses Wetangula? How does he work? And doesn’t he realize that there is a limit to this evolution of principles? Mind you, his name has even evolved as his political career changed. He is no longer Sheikh Sharif, he is Sharif Ahmed! President Sharif Ahmed! If he hasn’t objected to the Kenyan incursion at the right time, what is the point of undermining the gains made so far on the ground at this late hour when Alshabab is in disarray? Is the motivation cheap populism or is it a manifestation of the Sheikh’s yet another footloose political principle? it looks the latter. Which means, we may not have heard his last words on the Kenyan Invasion. If this doesn't make him a complete write-off for leadership at any level, Xinnfanin will have to tell us what will! What an eloquence! This is classic thread, we must keep it for the record. Xiinow, Shariif-ka short himself in the foot, look things in a grand scale. Don't fall for everything simply to enforce your stance. Shariifka is gullible, manipulative and Jirjiroole, and this magnificent post from A&T depicts him right.

OHG. Kenya is under attack! They called for this upon themselves. It's dog eat dog's world; and they are collecting the fruits of their latest idiotic actions. Let's see if they panic or stand right on their feet to do something about it in a meaningful and measured way. Or otherwise attack and focus on the poor Somalis living in Eastleight - to a fruitless end. Alshabaab and their foreign terror network will hit you from where you least expect them, in this case they will use local trained people with local knowledge and know-how to-about, notably Kenyan NFD Somalis or the Swahilis in the coast and even may be other local Kenyan ethnicity rather than the refugees living Eastleigh. Alshabaab's ideology and retaliation tactic is beyond one-border, one-ethnicity or one-target. The operative word here is: They are GLOBAL.

^Lol, OK, marbaa tolnimo iqaadayoo gabay ayaan tirin lahaa sidi Ali Dhuux

Horta kaalay nimankaan 'long-footed'-ka ah as coined by Abtigiis, waligood waa lasii cayrsadaa miyaa oo waa laga dhulbalaarsadaa, ilaa waagii Cali Dhuux gabayga tolnimee gubaabada aha utiriyay... Walle hada inaan gabaygaasoo kale soo celin/tirin doono

^I know but also Kenya will pay a high price should they pursue this war. Kenya needs the Somali people's business and economy in their country and the Somalis need the security they have there, if both factors disappear it affect all, plus Kenya does not have the logistical capability to stop any attacks anywhere being carried out in their country by Alshabaab specially if the population of Somalis living there find them hostile and enemies, and do not work with them.

This Shariif is a buffoon, he utters every little nonsense that comes out of his mouth without thinking or paying attention to it. He thinks he's representing ciyaalka xaafada Caliyaale and not the highest authority of this TFG. Only a week ago, after the Kenyan troops entered Somalia, his government met a high Kenyan delegation at Villa Somalia including the foreign/interior minister of Kenya. Hadhow ayuu dhihi doonaa sidiisii, 'Aryaa waa kanoqday casilaadi R/wasaarah aan casilay' Lol

And who will bear the brunt of this, the poor Somalis living in Kenya.

NGONGE;753375 wrote: You mean the rebels of Benghazi were not real? Were they flown in by Nato planes or something? The West plays a part and you are stating the obvious here, saaxib. But the West can not (on its own) turn a people against its leader, not unless that leader is a dictator that spent decades oppressing said people. Look at Bahrin, the West & Arabs are all taking the side of the king but didn't stop the people from protesting and trying to overthrow the government? How about Yemen? Did the West want to get rid of Mubarak or Zain Al Caabidin to begin with? p.s. We do live in the age of an-eye-for-an-eye warya. Or else what was Osama, Al Shabab, Bush or Qaddafi? What do your ONLF fighters do to oil workers in the desert? War is yeel yeelka jooji dee (wrong it is but it takes place and exists). A hypothetical scenario: Let's flip the coin and say NATO starts bombing the NTC for whatever reason and supports Gaddafi loyalists instead, do you think a new rebel against the NTC led by Saif-Al-Islam with his supports from Tripoli, Sirte, Bani Waliid and the rest of Libya wouldn't take control of Bengazi by storm in less than few weeks. Although situations vary from place to place and it would be foolish to apply the same logic/rule in every corner of the world, I agree with A&T on this, that NATO was the deciding factor in Libya. Gadhafi was captured and killed by the rebels from Misrata not because he hadn't had enough supporters in Libya or that he was extremely loathed and hated but of NATO war planes that led to this eventuality.

^You have some sort of truth in that, however what is clearly true is that they send unprepared illiterate students to study higher eduction on these meager and important scholarships. And this is across the board for all Somalis in every region. The real students who deserve the opportunity to study higher education abroad and have the background and foundation to do so wouldn't get the chance balse waxaa ladiri mid lagu geeyay Adeer anigana kan iigu dar waa ina hebalee.

Yep, the secessionist wouldn't mind this move because Yusuf Yey is no longer the President. Amxaaros and the Kenyans have the green light to invade and clean Alshabaab so long they are not aiding Yey's TFG.

I thought this article was posted a day or a two ago.

Faroole is a mad clown and talks out of his backside,

This story does not add up. Mukhalis is not a sex trafficker, and Somali Mukhalis traffick people across borders illegally or without proper genuine documents and get paid for doing just that.

Thankful, why do you keep repeating that TFG controls Mogadishu and this TFG will control Kismayo. The TFG does not control Mogadishu unless you use TFG/AU interchangeably. Let the AU forces leave and go back to their country and then w'll see who controls Xamar.

Excellent article. Kenya will exacerbate the situation and will not make any impact on AS strength/weakness. It's all about politics and resources, they are coming to claim their share and further enforce the grip influence they have on Somalia.

Guyz don't get overworked, there is nothing wrong with the article, the man is talking about the culture in general and reinforcing the self-reliance, self-determination and the free nature of a Somali man. The anecdotes used SL but not calling for the dismemberment of Somalia.