Mogadishu: Whose City Is It Anyway?

[Taleexi]

Mogadishu: Whose City Is It Anyway?

By Hassan M. Abukar

Nov. 16, 2010

 

Several weeks ago, there was a duel on the airwaves between Sheikh Ciise Ahmed Dalabey (Chairman of Guurtida Beelaha ******) and Sheikh Fuad Shangole, one of the top leaders of al-Shabab group. Mr. Dalabeey (******) started it when he gave a rousing speech before his supporters and demanded, among other things, that the ***** take their ‘man’ (then TFG Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke) from Mogadishu because the capital belonged to the ******. I will summarize key points of Mr. Dalabay’s speech, in which he addressed larger and smaller clans under the 4.5 formula (******, *****, ***, ****, and the “0.5” smaller clans) as following:

 

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[ November 21, 2010, 01:11 AM: Message edited by: Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar ]

[Saalax]

Definitely not SSC.

[Abwaan]

Waa Magaalo Soomaaliyeed, ma shaki baa ku jira? Ninkii iska dhaadhiciya in laga xigo isagu ha is eedeeyo. Waa laysu soo noqoneey, wixii nool adduunyada!!!

[Taleexi]

Nin baa laga sheegay soortaan cuni doono sansaanteedaan ka gartay.... In laysu soo noqon doono bay u badan tahay because all paths are leading us that unity is the only way forward.

[Abwaan]

Originally posted by Taleexi:

Many years ago, I visited Washington D.C, which has predominantly Black residents, and I naively told an African-American cabbie of the city’s uniqueness for being a “Black city”. The cabbie looked at me with disgust and ruefully said, “Sir, Washington is not a Black city. It is an American city and the capital of all Americans”. I was hoping that Sheikh Dalabey would be a purveyor of hope rather than despair; a unifier rather than an agent of schism and belligerence. Any Somali national has the right to settle any part of Somalia without fear and recrimination. One can safely say that non-****** Mogadishu residents suffered tremendously in the Civil War whether it was losing life, limb, or properties. Perhaps, the ***** and the Benadiris were specifically targeted as people and became piñatas for the Mogadishu warlords (Aidid, Ato, Ali Mahdi, Yalahow, etc). ****** residents, in turn, also suffered in the hands of Siad Barre’s forces, the TFG governments under Abdullahi Yusuf (remember the Ethiopian invasion) and now under Sheikh Sharif and his AMISOM backers; not to mention the ruthless Al-Shabab (Shangole, Godane, and Robow) and Hizbul Islam (Hassan Dahir Aweys). No one group in Mogadishu can claim to be the sole owners of the city and only victims. After all, Mogadishu belongs to all of us and, frankly, we all have been robbed!

 

well said.

[Abwaan]

Waa la isu soo noqon insha Allaah. Dhibkana waa laga bixi, balse dedaal bay naga rabtaa.

[Kamaavi]

Abwan iyo taleex, saaxibayaal rajadu ma xuma. Wakhtiguna wuu ina hayaa. Isagoo faral ah.

 

Marwo Saado, inta nabada iyo midnimada jecel iyo weliba shacabka SSC dadaalada ay muujiyeen, ha la garab galo. Idam Alle jamhuuriyada Somaliya oo dhisantay Illahay indhaha wuu inoo saari. Jiilka soo korina dhaxal maguuraan ah wuu hantiyi.

 

 

 

 

Originally posted by Libaahe*:

Definitely not SSC.

Kolka, Libaahow, SSC ma Baqdad mise Nairobi ayaa laga xukumi lahaa? War abtow gacaliye saas isu dhaan. Agah!

[Liibaan]

Kamaavi,

 

Iska daa dad badan sida Faroole, Siilaanyo, iyo Libaahe ayaa sas iyo waali ka qaaday SSC, dadkaa habeenkii maba seexdaan, sababtuna ee tahay xanuun

[Kamaavi]

Liiban, dadku waa sokeeye aan kala fogeyn. Intii jirin Illahay ha inoo shaafiyo. Adu balooniga daji. Qori tuurkana yaree abtow.

[Liibaan]

Kamaavi, shacabka soomaaliyeed waa isku mid, waana walaalo aan kala fogeyn sida aad sheegtay, waxa laga hadlayo waa siyaasiinta dalka qasaya, 20 sano ee lasoo dhaafay, walina dhibtii ee ku hayaan ummada soomaaliyeed sii wada

 

 

Anuu waxaan aaminsanahay in somalidu nabad, midnimo,isqadarin, ixtiraam, kaladanbeyn, iyo wanaag ku wada noolatu insha Allah

[Kamaavi]

Libaan, waa fikir fiican. Waxaan ana kuu hubaa in siyaasi , Ardeyd, mutucalim, hooyooyinka iyo cuqaasha Somaliyeed ee war galka ah wakhtigii ay dib wax u gorfeyn la hayeen la joogo. Nina ma rabo dhul iska halaq mareen ah sidii awelto.

 

 

Bal adu intaanada aan weli iftiinka kula arag fursad na sii oo abtoow adkeysi iyo dulqaad noo muuji.

[Liibaan]

Ok, walaal waa muhiim in lala yimado dulqaad iyo sabar sida aad ku talisay

 

AS-Sabr MiftaaHu al-faraj ama Sabarku waa Furaha Khayrka

 

 

Markaa khayr iyo wanaaq baanu u rajeenanaa shacabka soomaaliyeed oo dhan iyo Dalkeena SomaliWeyn( including Western Somalia, NFD, Djibouti, & Socotra)

[Liibaan]

[oba hiloowlow]

Originally posted by Taleexi:

Nin baa laga sheegay soortaan cuni doono sansaanteedaan ka gartay.... In laysu soo noqon doono bay u badan tahay because all paths are leading us that unity is the only way forward.

Lool Gobolka banaadir waxaa leh Carab somali, Jareerwäyne iyo ****. Garowe ma magaalo somali baa, gaalkacyo ma sidaa,hargeisa ma saasa, dadkii uu dhashay ayaa leh miney somali xamar qeybsaheyso hade magaalo kasta ha la qeybsado, cadaalad ha noqoto Taada waan kula leeyahay keygana ma lihid waa laga so daalay...

 

[ November 21, 2010, 01:13 AM: Message edited by: Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar ]

[Naxar Nugaaleed]

^last time I checked, hargeisa, Garowe are regional capitals, and they belong to the people of those regions. Mogadishu, one its the national capital and two it has always been a diverse city. I don't know who **** was but were lived in magadishu, you wouldn't find a single carabi somali or jareerwayne for miles and miles and my immediate neighbors included a white woman and a italian man with a Somali wife....

 

[ November 21, 2010, 01:14 AM: Message edited by: Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar ]