Garowe Online Editorial: Islam Unseparable from Politics !

[xiinfaniin]

^^Tfg and Shariif’s Asmara team are irrelevant in your mind. Only Ethiopia and Alshabaab are important in this conflict.

 

That’s just not true adeer, but again we’ve been there before and I shall leave it there…

[Che -Guevara]

^I think for some of us it will take Ethios boys raping our women and slitting our throats in the streets of Gaalkacayo and Bosaaso to realise who's really in control and what the TFG stands for.

 

Imaanshaha ciidamada Ethiopia ee magaalada Gaalkacyo ayaa yimid iyadoo Madaxweynaha Puntland uu wali joogo Addis Ababa, kalana hadlayo Dowladda Ethiopia sidii Ciidamo Ethiopian u keeni lahaa Puntland

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It was Xamer, now it is the A-bsame, and tomorrow it will be you!

[xiinfaniin]

^^Me who? What a sickening attitude !

 

You never cease to disappoint me Che!

[Che -Guevara]

^I know your heart is in good place but you sound like Rudolf Kastner in believing you could actually negoitate with the TFG and their masters in good faith!

[Che -Guevara]

Somalia: The face of resistance, or resistance without a face

4 May 4, 2008 - 6:53:14 AM

 

 

 

SUNDAY EDITORIAL | Is the U.S. governments 'air strike diplomacy' a policy capable of achieving Washington's long-term strategic objectives?

 

The fact that U.S. government warplanes bombarded a small town in central Somalia to kill one of the country's fiercest guerrilla leaders emphasized, to say the least, the key role the Bush administration continues to play in the chaotic Horn of Africa country some 15 months after the Ethiopian army's initial invasion. Sheikh Adan Hashi Ayro, a rebel who was allegedly trained by Afghanistan's Taliban, was the target of the U.S. bombing in Dhusamareb, the capital of Galgadud region. According to media reports, more than 20 other Somalis were killed in the air strike in the early hours of Thursday, May 1, 2008, including women and children and entire houses demolished to dirt. The death of Ayro was portrayed, rightly or wrongly, as the death of Somalia's al Qaeda leader and, therefore, a minor victory in President Bush's ongoing global "war on terror."

 

Is the U.S. governments 'air strike diplomacy' a policy capable of achieving Washington's long-term strategic objectives in the Horn of Africa region? Does such militarist policy do more harm or good to the American leader's self-professed desire to spread liberty and freedom across the world, and especially in Muslim lands? Did Ayro's death bring any tangible results on the ground, or merely reinforce the Islamist guerrillas' hardline resolve to continue the bloody insurgency?

 

These are questions that arise from the ashes of Tomahawk missiles that torpedoed rudely into the sands of Somalia and in the conscience of a suffering people. Many analysts and insiders have suggested that Ayro's assassination will not bring peace to Somalia, mainly because the essential ingredients that led to the rise of men like Ayro and continue to swell the number of young fighters joining the insurgency remain tacitly in place. That is to say, as long as U.S.-backed Somali warlords continue to selfishly hold on to the country's highest positions of power, and their authority is brutally reinforced by Ethiopian occupation troops, the insurgency will gain strength and spread by the day.

 

In Somalia, there is a new generation of youth who have known little but poverty and drought, armed conflict and disorder, lack of public services and employment opportunities. The U.S. policy of bombarding the enemy is a tunnel vision of the country's numerous troubles that, while terrorism is a deadly factor, include a more complex web of domestic and regional issues that must be addressed in the application of a comprehensive foreign policy. Naturally, that would include investment not only in the country's ruling class, i.e. warlords, but also investing resources directly in civil society with the long-term aim of creating sustainable development initiatives that help tackle the pressing issues of unemployment, economic stagnation and the lack of public services.

 

There is no single 'face' that represents the type of armed resistance we are now witnessing in Somalia. Nearly two decades of conflict have created a dangerous environment for any political force to function regularly. Unless the structure of the current system is dismantled and educated Somalis with no criminal history are given an opportunity to lead, Somalia will remain a minor mirror image of Iraq. The resistance will get new faces as the days of occupation progress, and as the Somali people feel as if they have no choice but to wage war on the hated warlords and their foreign backers.

Garowe Online Editorial, editorial@garoweonline.com

[Che -Guevara]

Meydadka 12 ruux oo intooda badan la gowracay oo laga helay degmada Wanla weyn ee Sh/Hoose. { 08 May 2008}

waxaa la daabacay Thu 08 May 2008 12: 34: 13

Wanla-Weyn(Allmudugnews.com)Meydadka 12 ruux oo rag dhalinyaro ah ay ku jiraan, isla markaana intooda badan la gowracay ayaa la gaarsiiyay deegaanka Yaaq Bari-weyne, oo ka tirsan degmada Wanla weyn ee gobolka Sh/Hoose.

 

Dad goob joogeyaal oo ku sugan deegaankaasi Yaaq Bari-weyne ayaa sheegay in Meydadka dadkan laga keenay deegaana Carmoole, isla markaana 11 ka mid ah uu ka muuqdo in la gowracay, halka qofka kale toogasho uu ka muuqdo, sida ay yiraahdeen.

 

 

Illaa iyo haatan waxaan si dhab ah loo ogeyn cidda dishay dadkani, hasa ahaatee waxaa uu ku soo beegmayaa xilli qarax xoogan ciidamada Ethiopia shalay lagula beeg saday deegaana Carmoole , halkaasoo ay ku sugnaayeen illaa waqti dambe.

 

 

Dadka shacabka ah ayaa argagax xoogan ka muujiyay falkan, oo ay ku tilmaameen mid xasuuq ah oo lagula kacay dad aan dhibaato geesan , sida ay xuseen.

 

 

Xafiiska Wararka Allmudugnews.com,Reporter

Abshir Ali Muuse

Abshir17@hotmail.com

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[Che -Guevara]

Somali militants raid police base

 

 

Islamist insurgents attacked a police station in the heart of Somalia's capital in a night raid as preparations are under way for weekend peace talks.

 

At least two policemen, two soldiers and a civilian died in the heavy fighting, witnesses said.

 

Police say five insurgents also died, but the Islamists say they lost one.

 

Correspondents say delegates are on their way to the Djibouti talks, but face-to-face negotiations between the opposition and government are unlikely.

 

Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, who has been based in Eritrea for the last 17 months, has said he will only meet delegates from the international community.

 

The Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) official told Al-Jazeera TV that he would not talk to the government directly as it had committed human rights abuses.

 

The UIC ruled much of Somalia in 2006 before being ousted by Ethiopian forces backed by Somali government troops, who have been struggling to exert their control over the country ever since.

 

'Terrifying'

 

Witnesses say more than 100 heavily armed Islamists raided the police station in Mogadishu's Waberi district.

 

They were shouting "God is great" and firing rocket-propelled grenades.

 

"The fighting was terrifying," resident Hawa Abdi told AP news agency.

 

The militants held the station briefly and then abandoned it, witnesses say.

 

Al-Shabab, the militant wing of the UIC which is behind much of the latest violence, has refused to attend the talks due to start in Djibouti on Saturday.

 

They say there can be no negotiations until Ethiopian forces leave.

 

Earlier this week, rights group Amnesty International said Somali civilians are totally at the mercy of armed groups.

 

It said the situation was "dire" in the centre and the south with government troops, their Ethiopian allies and Islamist insurgents "out of control".

[Nephissa]

Even the most diehard amongst us must realize that things must come to a head soon. The Shabaabs will eventually be brought to the negotiating table. Better to take up their seat there of their own volition rather than be dragged there by their 'enemies', mararka qaarkood, ceeb maaha to lick your wounds and pride and to come out. Haddii kale dadkeenii sidii arigii qoorac lagama daynaayo! Meesha waa lagu dhamaaday, addeerayaal!

[Baashi]

^Maa shaa Allah. You are one hekuva realist -- rare quality in Xaawaley world.

 

AbuSalman et al awoowayaal doc-ka-yeer baa nagu rafanaya haatan ee InshaAllah mar kalaanu falaqayn doonaa shidada Somalia ku habsatay.

[Che -Guevara]

LooooooooooooL@Nephtys

[Nephissa]

Woow Baashi, thanks for the backhanded compliment. I noticed it is insulting enough to you that I am [xaawaley] sitting by myself in a territory you have deemed yours.

[Baashi]

Let's not go there Qallanjo. Xaawaleey is no insult. My wifey, daughter, mom, sis are all Xaawaleey to me and FYI I hold them in a high regard. Realist are few and my view of which gender has the lion share of that attribute is backed by academic literature.

 

You are just being paranoid. Easy dhuubo.

[Cara.]

Which academic literature is that Baashi? I'm going to be an unusually realistic Xawaaley and predict that for you academic literature = common gender stereotypes

[Nephissa]

Stop it, you! , we don't want the old man dropping his realist huusgunti.

[Thankful]

Wow Garowe online finally flip flops and it is a source of info. So during the war when they were backing Puntland and the TFG you sure weren't quoting them. Now they are all pissed Abdullahi Yusuf signed the paper allowing the foreign company to come in and have decided to started to support the opposition who they know are against the contract. They've made a complete reversal. You mentioned it and i'll remind you Faroole's the disgraced ex-minister son's write that from melbourne, they have no clue what is going(the webpage is obsessed with the oil contracts). He's waiting until the end of summer beginning of the fall to come back and run for Puntland president.