Some people are acting very primitive after having read this beautiful, almost educational to the untrained mind in these affairs. Maxaa ka si ah in laga hadlo amuuraha sidan oo kale ah, haddii dad waaweyn kaliya ay akhrisanayaan. Waa waxbarasho, just like any other. Stop putting your palms over your faces and read and learn. Geel-Jire, Thanks saaxiib.

All well and good, but the reality of life is that no two relationships are the same. When couples astray from the constitution of the marriage, i.e., honesty, love, genorisity, trust, respect etc, is when the boat starts to go sideways. Having said that, I don't see it to be costing the world if the girl asks a little show of love - you know to rekindle the love you once had. No time. out.

RMT, eh? What a union! The mayor of London was categorically stating the fact that He has got guarantees that their memebers' pension and jobs are safe. Signed by both the mayor and administrators of the company. And the other two unions have suspended their strike having satisfied with the guarantees. These people have got the city of London by the balls, iga wallee. So, what are the alternatives 'cause this will certainly occur again and again. Simple. BICYCLE -CYCLE TO EXTEND YOUR LIFE CYCLE. That is TfL catchphrase. However, given that 20% fatalities on the roads are cyclists, i would say practice before you get on London's furious traffic/roads.

Like others said, you are either way too attractive in which case you have no choice but to accept the gift/curse or you're giving timid chemical signals which makes most of the weirdos think they've a chance with you. Whatever the case, work on your posture and attitude. For example, look people in the eyes and hold stare without being rude. Don't prelong it. Such simple things give off positive messages. I hope it helps.

right on.

The Hotel is to blame. Period. They should have had a health and safety rules in place so that such events are thought of, in advance. It is not the responsibility of the waiter at all. As said, it is typical of these morons to treat minorities in such a manner. Horrendous.

If you are rich and too posh to gear, then automatic it is, huuno. I am joking. If not, automatic transmission licence will leave you standed. Legally, you wouldn't be able to drive a manual transmission vehicle. So, consider your options carefully. Don't rush. I am sure that you are able to successfully complete what most of have, that is pass the manual test. It is in your interest in the long run.

Investing the cash where it shouldn't be. Typical African president. Djibouti is damn hot and electricity cuts off all the time. Plus the bloody electricity bill is a ransom. Why doesn't he invest the cash in what his people want most in his own country, which he apparently is the ceo. He's way out of touch. Oh, I forgot, the airport at Djibouti is in diabolical condition - there are so many ways he could have invested this cash in his own country than investing in habash land.

Now is the time for him to sack the generals! They're pain in the back side, aren't they? Why would they intervene the people's choice everytime? This lot are worse than the Ethiopian regime! Think of this. Iran = Islamic republic, Turkey = Islamic republic. Allies give up on Iraq and Islamists stabilise it and take power. The Gulf girls will come running and the middle east politics has all new meaning. Alle waxba uma aha, is it?

Wallaahi, these 50+ years old planes that currenlty operate in Somalia are all accidents waiting to happen. Daallo included. If these companies can't get rights to land these planes in other international airports 'cause of their luck of insurance and low standards and maintenance, I say our lives deserve better and are important. It is not like we don't have a choice now. Ethiopian Airlines currently operates in Somalia, Hargeisa, to be specific. I know anything Ethiopian is not where our money would go at this point in time, but considering our lives and our safety, and as a gesture of boycott of low standars and safety to the current airlines in somalia, it IS a choice. I, for one, would seriously consider other choices with my flights back home. I have to be honest, I have nothing against these businesses, I wished they would flourish and become successful. I just don't wanna see lives been short changed for money!

Wallaahi, these 50+ years old planes that currenlty operate in Somalia are all accidents waiting to happen. Daallo included. If these companies can't get rights to land these planes in other international airports 'cause of their luck of insurance and low standards and maintenance, I say our lives deserve better and are important. It is not like we don't have a choice now. Ethiopian Airlines currently operates in Somalia, Hargeisa, to be specific. I know anything Ethiopian is not where our money would go at this point in time, but considering our lives and our safety, and as a gesture of boycott of low standars and safety to the current airlines in somalia, it IS a choice. I, for one, would seriously consider other choices with my flights back home. I have to be honest, I have nothing against these businesses, I wished they would flourish and become successful. I just don't wanna see lives been short changed for money!

Thierry you have got it, mate. They're sleepworking into God knows what! Besides, somali maids and this hideously treated maids are not the same. Most somali maids I have seen both in somalia and Djibouti are practically members of the family, even though, I still detest having another human being serve in my home no matter how wealthy. Only way I would accept is when we have written contract of rights and responsibilities....but not the current state of affairs. It borders being unIslamic, in my opinion.

It is funny how Gulf Arabs build such breathtaking skyscrapers yet leave the minds of the very people that would run these things in the gutter. It is not like Malaysia or Taiwan where 6-year-olds programme robots! Most of them are fat, laid-back and disgustingly materialistic - to be fair, that is not common to all, though.

And the fact is that muslims are not doing any favours for themselves. Are we?

It is plain and simple: Muslims are living a fake muslim lives hence the epidemic of corrupted souls amongst themselves. The gov's do not practice Islam yet they want to impose the rules of Islam on the populace. Doesn't work. There is a huge problem in the Islamic world, it is as though the core of Ummah is rotting away and very little is happening to salvage it! It is diabolical, wallaahi. May Allah help us.

Don't you just love Malaysia and their modern technological endeavours!

You can run but you can't hide. The self appointed ambassador is caught red handed! Typical. His degrees are falsified, like many of somali individuals in the spotlight, and he is a close family friend/relative of ina Yeey. Following is the article that smoked him out: ==================== Dubious Diplomacy Slade Gorton says that 28-year-old Seattle grocer Koshin Mohamed is an official Somali representative to the U.S. But the State Department says otherwise. By Nina Shapiro Source: www.seattleweekly.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Koshin Mohamed: Fresh face of U.S.-Somali diplomacy, or pretender to the throne? Kevin P. CaseyExtra Info Watch Koshin Mohamed speaking at a Discovery Institute event.Somali version: Akhri: Fadeexad Haysata Wiil Cabdulaahi Yuusuf u Magacaabey Safiirka Mareykanka In the little grocery store he runs next to a Pizza Time on 12th Avenue East, Koshin Mohamed gets worked up as he describes his efforts to prod U.S. officials into supporting the tenuous new government in his native Somalia. Mohamed has just returned from Washington, D.C., a place he goes so often that his cell phone number has a 202 area code. There, he gave State Department officials a $316 million aid proposal to help jump-start Somalia's newly formed Transitional Federal Government, of which he says he's an official representative. The three-page request includes funding for such things as 45,000 police, military, and security officers, as well as 500 employees in the executive and judicial branches. "It just gives me a stomachache," says the 28-year-old Mohamed, who wears jeans and a blue-and-white-striped turtleneck, and whose youthful face is framed by a well-trimmed beard. He acknowledges that the U.S. has encouraged Somalia's new government, which in late December seized the capital, Mogadishu, from an Islamic coalition that has been accused of links to Al Qaeda. But Mohamed says the U.S. has not backed up its words with money: "If the [somali] government doesn't provide services and build the police and security forces right away, it's going to lose respect in a heartbeat," he says. As he talks, sitting in front of a block of computers that he rents out by the minute, Mohamed is periodically interrupted by customers, who browse the shelves of couscous and curry powder and an ice-cream freezer packed with halal meat. It is an odd double life that he appears to lead. Last month, the Discovery Institute, a conservative local think tank with a budding foreign policy division, held a press conference for Mohamed at which it announced that the Transitional Federal Government had chosen the fresh-faced small businessman as its ambassador to the U.S.—or, rather, its "ambassador designate," since the U.S. does not as yet officially recognize the Somali government. Bruce Chapman, the Discovery Institute's director, says he was introduced to Mohamed through former U.S. Sen. Slade Gorton, one of several influential advisers the young man has become acquainted with. While the local press dutifully reported Mohamed's appointment as fact, others were immediately skeptical. David Shinn, a former senior State Department official and ambassador to Ethiopia who now teaches African affairs at George Washington University, says that there's a standard diplomatic protocol that doesn't jibe with Mohamed's peculiar appointment. "Certainly, the Transitional Federal Government is going to have its primary representatives in Washington and New York," says Shinn. In fact, he says he's met current TFG officials who live in those cities. "What this man has been doing is bouncing around from person to person trying to find a way into this building," says a State Department official in a position to know Mohamed's status, speaking on the condition of anonymity. "This man has no bona fides. He's presenting himself with all sorts of different titles he doesn't have." As for the proposed aid request Mohamed says he submitted, the official says: "It would not be considered an official document. We deal with the government ofSomalia through our embassy in Nairobi." Yet even the official concedes that Mohamed's lack of official standing, in the State Department's eyes, does not mean he has no relationship with the Somali government. "He probably knows people," the official says. "He may know the president." Somalia is a country divided alongregionally based clan lines, so it is significant when Mohamed says his paternal grandfather hailed from the same northern province, Puntland, as current Somali (and former Puntland) President Abdullahi Yusuf. Both families belong to the ****** clan, and because of this, Mohamed refers to Yusuf as "uncle." According to Mohamed, his grandfather cut an unusual figure in Puntland: Named Mohamed Ilmi Jama, he was a wealthy cattle farmer who developed an interest in women's rights, believing that true Islam afforded women more liberties than did Somalia's Muslim culture. Mohamed's father, Abdiaziz Mohamed, was purely a businessman, Mohamed says. Based in Mogadishu, he built a trade around importing and exporting. He was an early admirer, however, of now-President Yusuf, then a dissident leader who had defected from the army of dictator Siad Barre. "My father used to talk about him," Mohamed says, referring to Yusuf. "He used to say this guy is our future." Mohamed says he himself didn't think much about Yusuf until later in life. In 1991, amidst warlord-driven chaos, Mohamed's father sent him and his siblings out of the country. Mohamed stayed with relatives in Africa and the Middle East until 1997, when he ventured to Seattle to live with an older brother. Here, he was in good company: The Seattle-area Somali community is believed to be the third largest in the U.S., after those in the Minneapolis and Columbus, Ohio, vicinities. Local activists estimate that about 30,000 Somalians live here, their presence most visible in the long-skirted, veiled women commonly seen on the streets in Rainier Valley, South King County, and other hot spots. Upon arrival, Mohamed would go on to major in ethnic studies at the University of Washington. At the time of his press conference, he said he graduated from UW, but university records indicate otherwise. Producing pictures of himself in a cap and gown, Mohamed explains that he went through commencement ceremonies but was not recognized as having graduated because of financial holds placed on his records. But UW spokesperson Bob Roseth says that theuniversity would not prevent anyone from graduating because of financial holds; that, in fact, Mohamed had not completed the necessary course work to matriculate. Shortly after concluding his studies, Mohamed became president of a Somali social service group, one of several in town that go by the name Somali Community Services. At the same time, he says, he started thinking about the situation back home. "I realized that a lot of the thingsmy father said about Yusuf were true," Mohamed says. "He was the most capable leader Somalia had." At this point, he says, he simply called up the then--Puntland president in early 2001, when Mohamed was 23. Over a month's worth of conversations, Mohamed says Yusuf told him that he couldn't afford representatives in D.C., where he was considered an authoritarian figure—if not a warlord. "You know, Koshin, I know your family," Mohamed recalls Yusuf telling him. "You can represent me." Mohamed quickly showed a knack for bending the ears of important people. "I was trying to educate myself and get mentors," he says. John Calvin Williams, a D.C.-based economic consultant and former International Monetary Fund official specializing in Africa, recalls that Mohamed came up to him a few years ago after he participated in a forum at George Washington University. "I tried to help him in any way I could," Williams says. "He was obviously—and I hate to use the word—articulate." Ensconced in his high-rise office at the Seattle headquarters of law firm K&L Gates, former U.S. Sen. Slade Gorton describes a similar reaction when Mohamed walked in after arranging an appointment five or six years ago. "I felt that I liked this young man," the 79-year-old Gorton recalls. He also felt like Yusuf, whatever his limitations, had the best chance of uniting a country that had been without a government for more than a decade. Accepting the role of Mohamed's adviser on a pro bono basis, Gorton and colleagues at the firm began trying to set up meetings for him with officials in D.C. In 2002, Gorton and Mohamed planned to bring Yusuf to an event at the Sea-Tac Doubletree Hotel. But Yusuf's trip to the U.S. was held up by his participation in peace talks in Kenya, where he was ultimately chosen to lead the new Somali government that just assumed power. But Yusuf remains a tough sell in the Somali immigrant community. At Banadir Super Store, a sizable Rainier Avenue establishment filled with vividly colored headscarves and flowing Islamic robes, a fierce, anti-Yusuf sentiment prevails. "We call it a made-up government," says owner Nordin Wassame. "Our people didn't elect that government. Some people in Kenya elected it." Yet Wassame and two friends at the store don't put much stock in democracy. "We're Muslims," proclaims Mohamed Ali, a young man wearing a black leather jacket over a long white Islamic-style tunic. "We need our rules—Islamic rules, not democracy. That's a Western tradition." What they want is Sharia, the code of Islamic law imposed by the Islamic Courts coalition that Yusuf ousted. Down the street, in a ramshackle office bedecked with posters of Mogadishu's perch on the Indian Ocean, a stopped clock, and a map from 1930 that shows colonial Somaliland divided among the French, Italian, and British, a young man named Abdo Mohamed says he absolutely supports democracy. "I don't trust any government not based on votes," says Mohamed, acting president of the Somali Banadir Community Services (not the organization Koshin Mohamed once led). But he, too, is skeptical of Yusuf's Transitional Federal Government. "How can they run the country when everyone in the government has a history of promoting violence?" he asks. "The largest group of Somalians here don't support Yusuf," acknowledges Koshin Mohamed. He attributes that to a "propaganda machine" against the president. He portrays Yusuf as a "peacemaker," somebody who has reached out to enemies rather than kill them, and who is trying to get beyond clan ties and build up the country's infrastructure. Mohamed has had an easier time selling this viewpoint to mentors like Gorton. The former senator has not been directly exposed to other opinions among Somali immigrants, having not met any besides those introduced to him by Mohamed. Nor,Gorton concedes, has he done much digging into his young friend's relationship with Yusuf. "He just told me [he represented Yusuf]. I accepted it." He produces, however, a copy of a 2006 letter that purports to be from Yusuf's office and declares Mohamed a "special assistant to the president." "I'm guessing that probably the Transitional Federal Government sent letters to a number of people," says Shinn. The former ambassador maintains that, as a Seattle resident, Mohamed is not in a position to influence policy formulated in D.C. But, Shinn notes, "He can influence the African diaspora, and that, I suspect, is the point." =======================================

The so called somali ambassador to the US delivering a presentation to a certain US institute. I hope that the above link works for you, if it is unviewable, please go to www.wadanka.com, it is there on the right hand side of the site. The thing that amazes me most, he is unashamingly exploiting the socalled US war on terror campaign so bad he is close to telling them that everything and anything Islamic is a terrorist. He is probably a young chap trying to make it in this brave new world and leave his mark, but this is not an ambition, it is more like naked selling off of everything that you stand for. One has got to know where to draw the line, and for Allah's sake, one doesn't need to stoop this low to gain some cred with the West. Besides, how on earth does a 29 year old hold such an important post as the US ambassador. Doesn't it require someone with a bit more experience and a bit of grey hair - latter not necessary, but it helps. Very important nation in the world, influence-wise. Yes, our country is f*cked (excuse my french)as if you didn't know.

I will be there one day insha Allah and that my friends is in no doubt whatsoever. I think I belong to that group, in fact I was born to be in that group and am working my way up....yeehaaaaaaaaa! Cheery Faarax.

The answer is a big fat NO! There is nothing to be proud of. We are the low of the lowest. Period. Don't even think of challenging that statement.

Can you download anything from the site?

I wonder why they need to cover their tracks. Who the heck tells off the US admin these days? Why don't they just say we're training our GI's on how to hunt and destroy muslim people and lands. Just a simple and routine training exercise. That is all! Media class effing dismissed.

ICU accomplishments: - the airport opened after 11 yrs - shipping ports were secured to ensure safe transport of food and products - Law and order resurfaced once more in Mog - Education and health were becoming a top priority - Environmental regulations were reinstituted (bans on defrostation etc) - Crime diminished significantly What have we done to deserve the return of the WarMongers!? (list source: Mail & Guardian Online)

Darn it, sounded more like W talking to B-liar there. It was fun. A follow up would be fantastic. This time with the ultimate poop Mrs Geedi, oops, Mr Geedi/Yeey/ Aid-doone et al.

^My Lord, these views are so narrow. Some of it does make sense (moving on after so many yrs) but to compare a halal job to exotic dancing is bang out of order! Firstly, in the UK, black cabbies - pro black cab drivers - earn a decent living, and for your info i've heard and it is been confirmed qualified physicians changing jobs to become a black cabbie driver. That is one example of probably many out there. Deux, a living is a living, no matter how you make it. What matters is that it is permissible from the Islamic point of view, i.e., the how. Honestly though, I have to agree that something can become a habit and prevent one from progressing. That, i think, is down to one's willpower and ambition. Now, why did I respond to this, I am suspecting that somewhere down the line people value more the standing - social standing - of the person rather than the actual person and what he/she is got to offer. Keep this in mind: Do not judge a book by its cover. Don't think that one wears nice clothes and seems professional or is professional is going to guarantee a good family life. What one would be aiming for is a longterm co habitation and mutual happiness in a family. Look beyond the obvious! Delve deep and do not be judgemental. Warning: I don't mean to offend/cross anybody, just airing my views and how i see issues. If it comes across as such, I unreservedly apologise.