The airport The first flight out of many...after 14 years Here goes the first guest...Insha-Allahu I should be a guest there in the near future. Good to see things coming back to normal in Xamar.

Adeerayaal collaadda naga jooja!

For the love of poetry, Sayidka while entrusting a poem to one of his main memorizers parted memorable words to him, forming as I see it, some of the best lines in Somali poetry ever recited. I thought I'd share them while the fora is in this mood. Xuseenoow ninkii laab leh baan luminin weedhey eh Maantaad lixyowdiyo adoo leylafoo gaban ah Wax badan baan sidii laan Quraan looxa kuu dhigay eh Nimankii laqbada labay ii dhadhami labanka caanuhuye Loolkiyo laamaha laysku xidhay laabatada qoyska hadaan laaman-doodsado hordada, waanan ladi hayne Lahanka iyo caradaan qabaan, laba ligdeeyaaye; liicaanta Soomaali baa, luli caloosheeyde Lufluftadaasaan u dhiman laafa lugudkeede Maandhoow laftii iga jabtaan, luudayaa weliye Maandhow raggii laxadh jiroo loodhadhaa yimiye Luxuskii horey ii ekayd liinka gubiddiiye Maandhoow lix saban buu fadhiyey laaso iyo cayn e' Maandhoow lixaadkaan qabaa laacib baan ahaye Maandhoow libbaan kala hagaa leexa dirireede Maandhoow laqdabo waa ka duufan iyo laaleeys e' Wax badan baan libeystoo gashadey baalag lagadheere Aarkuba haduu soo lalabo laga lenleemooye Gaashaanka nin lowga u dhigaa waa la' aan jirine Maandhoow waxaa igu lamaan duciyo liilaafe Liibaanta Eebiyo waxay laray daraawiish e' Waxa igu laxaamadan kuwaad laxan wadaagtaane Hadaanan diinta laayicin, xaqaa lagu labaadaaye Inkastuu luguug daba-kufrigu ladirka ii keeno Waxaa igu Lilaahi ah inaan layga lalineyne Maandhoow wax badan baad luridey gaalka luunka lehe Wax badan baa Waarabu lud iyo loogsin kaa heley e' Waxa badan baad lakiday Ferenjigii loloshka dheeraaye Marka igu ladoo gabaygu yuu laydha iga raacin Maandhow adaan laxaw ku hayn laylana ha baajinin Adigaa lamaantaye ka dhowr laakib iyo ceebta Listankii horaa kugu jiriyo lufuq habowgiiye Inkastoon ku laal baray fahmadu kuuma looshana e' Maandhoow ha leeleelin yey leexan maansaduye Luuqdana ha bi'in sowdku waa laaxiiboon yahay e' Maandhoow lukowlaha ka dhowr laba haw hoorrin

Sometimes I cannot help but smile at the sheer ineptitude of some folks in this forum. Lol. Just how does what applies to the TFG cannot apply to the ICU? Who actually enforces regulatory policies with regards to the lifting of the embargo? Once the gates are open, all hell will break loose. Whatever the TFG arms gets, others would get an equal measure. The United Nations would in turn regret its decision. So the dream that if the embargo is lifted the TFG will make a functioning government is wishful thinking. No one will gain a dime from such wishful thinking. C.Yussuf and his supporters have an opportunity to make peace and a sustainable government, they shouldn't mislead themselves by opting for war.

Duke, now you are telling me that I am (as usual) jumping the gun, next you will say that I am an Islamist and Allah knows, just like your uncle, I await you to dub me 'an Al-Qaeda agent'. Waa wax adiga kaa suurta gala, runta ood badashana waa caado aad leedahay. Its I who is telling you not to rush things and its I who is telling you to give the courts some time to sort things out. Furthermore, it is I who is talking of how the courts have so far given peaceful negotations a chance. But unsurprisingly, it is you who seem to have taken it upon him self to claim what I have been advocating as your own efforts when it suits you better. The only real point you are making against the courts is summed up by this maahmaah 'hal xaaraan ah, nirig xalaal ah ma dhasho'. And in regards to that point itself, which you seem to insist on, you are as ever insincere and qabiilist -you've always been so. So, it is other who may be reading these posts that I wish to guide them against your instrumental appeal to justice and religiosity. A leopard never changes its spots. There is nothing that can be done about that. PS: Technicals or no technicals, whatever your point is, the issue is bigger than contributions of technicals. Get that through your skull.

^^^ Idinku Baashiyoow (waa adiga iyo Duke e') qeyli dhaankiinnu waa mid ku eg qiil, qofkii maan-fiyoobina garan karayo in aad guusha wadaadka aad ka qarracanteen. Qarracan, waayo, marka aad maqashid nin miyir deganaan sheeganayo oo hadana (qiil-raadis awgeed) marin habow wada. 'Oodi sida ay u kala sarreeyso, ayaa loo kala qaadaa'. Idinkoo taa og, ogna in Maxaakimtu diiradaheedu saaranyihiin dagaal kama dambeys ah, oo aaney awoodin taag iyo hub qaybsama ayaad intaa na leedihiin, Indhacade qabta, dila oo dhulka uu heysto ka kacsha. Ma idin ka dhab-baa in taladiino sidaa tahay? Sababtoo ah hadii talo halkaa idin ka joogto, labo shey keliya unbaad noqon kareysaan: (1) rag laqdabo ay lamaaniso; amba (2) rag maangaab ah! Illeen nin caqli Eebe ku manneeystey oo waliba lilaahi ah sidaa kuma talinyeen e'. Idin garanney: Indhacade iyo qaar kaloo la mid ah ayaa eedeymo dagaal ay ku soo wajahan tahay, cidna taa ma xaqirsana. Balse howshii nabad lagu kala xaq soori lahaa ayaad dagaal dooneeysaan in loola bareero! Dhisitaanka goobo xaq-soor oo caddaallad ah ayaa ku xiga dagaallankan hada socda, wakhtina wey qaadan doontaa inta dhisitaanka socdo ee idinka maxaad uga dhigeysaan in xaqqa aanan la dooneyn? Hadii guri lagaa heysto, Insha-Allaahu waad heli doontaa, hadii dambi lagaa galey, Insha-Allaahu waa laguu aari, hadii cid ama dhulka dad leeyahay xoog cidi ku heysato, Insha-Allaahu waa la xoreyn dhulkaasi (Illaahoow Indhacade-ba ha ahaadee). Sheekado qabiil ka weyn nimanyahow, idinkuna qabiil kama weynaataan. C.Yussufna gogol nabadeed ayaa loo fidiyey, balse, isagaa maamuus xumo ayuu ugu xaareey oo inta uu dibadaha tago, ayuu sidii gabar foodley ah af-lagaadodaa. Dowlad shishiiye walaa mid gudo, cid xaqqa moosi kartaa ayaanba jirin. Hadii ay Maxaakimtu ku guuleysan weydo howlahan cadaallada ah, markaa ka kadib un wax doontaan ka sheega. Intaa ka hor, wixii la sheego waa maalaayacni.

^^^Too bad, as for the latest battle, your analysis and perspective is abosolutely misguided. Have I got news for you, C.Qaybdiid got defeated, injured and admitted to Madina Hospital while his armour is being counted by the ICU as we speak. Check below: MUQDISHO: Ciidammadii Col. Cabdi Qaybdiid oo laga awood badiyay iyo dhaawac gaaray Col. Qaybdiid Posted to the Web Jul 10, 19:35 Muqdisho (PP) - Dagaalkii kululaa ee Muqdisho ku dhex maryay labadii maalmood ee la soo dhaafay Maxkamadaha Islaamiga ah iyo Col. Cabdi Qaybdiid ayaa ku soo afjarmay maqribnimadii maanta in laga awood badiyo Col. Qaydiid oo qaba dhaawac aan sidaas u buurnayn. Col. Cabdi Xasan Cawaale (Qaydiid) ayaa wuxuu haatan ku jiraan Isbitaalka Madiina ee Magaalada Muqdisho halkaasoo looga daweynayo dhaawac yar oo uu qabo, waxaana lagu wadaa sida uu sheegay Afhayeenka Maxkamadaha Islaamiga ah ee Al-furqaan oo ay leedahay Beesha Sacad oo uu ka soo jeedo Cabdi Qaybdiid inuu is-dhiibay Cabdi Qaybdiid hubkana laga tirinayo caawa. Sarkaalkaan oo lagu magacabao Cago-weyne ayaa sheegay in hubka ay la wareegayso Maxkamadda Al-furqaan Col. Qaybdiidna loo ogolaanyo inuu isaga baxo magaalada Muqdisho oo uu qabto meel kale ama uu nabad ku joogo Magaalada Muqdisho. Galabta ayaa waxaa soo gaaray Magaalada Muqdisho Wasiirka Howlaha Guud iyo Guriyeynta Cusmaan Xasan Cali (Caato) waxaana la sheegay in sababta uu u yimid ay ka mid ahaayeen inuu dhexdhexaadin ka dhex sameeyo labada dhinac ee dagaallamaya, balse waxay arrintu soo gabagabowday isla galabta. Sababaha ugu waaweyn ee keenay inay is dhiibaan ciidammada Cabdi Qaybdiid ayaa lagu sheegay inay ugu weyn tahay iyagoo hal goob oo yar la isugu ururshay dagaal aad u xoog badnaa oo ay galabta ku qaadeen Maxkaamdaha inkastoo Maxkamadaha mar laga awood badiyay haddana ay dib ugu laabteen goobihii lag asoo bixiyay ayna ciriiri geliyeen. Isbitaalka Madiina ayaa waxaa la sheegay inay caawa ku hareeraysan yihiiin Ciidammo ka tirsan kuwa Maxkamadaha oo la sheegay inay amar ka haystaan Guddoomiyaha Midowga Maxkamadaha Sheekh Shariif Sheekh Axmed, kaasoo lagu sheegy inay gacanta ku soo dhigaan Col. Cabdi Qaybdiid ayna ka ilaaliyaan inuu ka baxsado Isbitaalka. Maxamed Xuseen Jantiile Wakiilka Puntlandpost - Mogadishu E-mail: puntlandpostmog@hotmail.com

Geedi makes news? I Don Fink So! He aint nofink, you ge' me blad!

Heheheheheehe . Kix kix kix kix Indhocade commanding a platoon of Arab Jihaadists. Hehe, only Duke and Bush will fall for that . So the Somali Arabs living in Mogadishu, or the light skinned Barawanis in Barawa or Marka (which Indhocade occupies) aren't Somali enough? Weger!

Heheheheheehe . Kix kix kix kix Indhocade commanding a platoon of Arab Jihaadists. Hehe, only Duke and Bush will fall for that . So the Somali Arabs living in Mogadishu, or the light skinned Barawanis in Barawa or Marka (which Indhocade occupies) aren't Somali enough? Weger!

Heheheheheehe . Kix kix kix kix Indhocade commanding a platoon of Arab Jihaadists. Hehe, only Duke and Bush will fall for that . So the Somali Arabs living in Mogadishu, or the light skinned Barawanis in Barawa or Marka (which Indhocade occupies) aren't Somali enough? Weger!

^^^ Good God.

Originally posted by General Duke: Now bring something to the table, other than a few lines against my person, or the same silly excuses regarding "Ethiopia" and "A/Yusuf".. Something with more weight otherthan Dayniile.com.. Even if I were to bring an elephant to occupy Duke's table, the man is so blinded that he may still not see the elephant and cry "now bring something to the table". Illaa odeygii Cabdillaahi ahaa kursiga la soo fariisiiyo, wiilku indhihiisu maba furmayaan, tuf iyo taxliilna fibooyi ka qaadi maayo.

Ciidammo Itoobiyaan Ah Oo Soo Galay Magaalada Beledxaawo Ciidammo aad u hubeysan oo wata 7 gaari ayaa saaka waaberigii soo galay gudaha magaalada Beledxaawo, waxaana ay isla markiiba qabsadeen saldhiga booliska ee magaalada. Dadka reer Beledxaawo ayaa ku waaberiistay ciidammadaan oo sida la filayo jaray isgaarsiintii oo iminka aan si hufan u shaqeynaynin iyo gaadiidkii ka bixi jiray magaalada iyo kuwa soo gala oo dhammaan istaagay. Ciidammadaan oo ka soo kallahay degmada Doolow ayaa waxa aan la ogayn sababta ay ugu soo jarmaadeen degmada Beledxaawo oo xuduud la leh degmada Mandheera ee Kenya. Wararka qaar aan la xaqiijin ayaa sheegaya in ciidammo kale oo lixaad leh ay u gudbeen dhulka baadiyaha ah ee magaalada Beledxaawo ku xeeran, iyaga oo aan la ogeyn dhinac ay u dhaqaaqeen. Saraakiisha ciidamada ayaa masuuliyiinta iyo waxgaradka ku sugan magaalada ilaa iyo hadda kula jira shirar isdabajoog ah, iyada oo aan la ogeyn ilaa iyo hadda waxyaabihii shirarkaasi laga wado hadlay. Ciidammo lixaad leh oo tiradoodu kor u dhaafayso 9,000 askari ayaa ku sugan magaalada Dolow ee Itoobiya oo 40km u jirta beledxaawo. Ciidamada Itoobiya ayaa markastaba soo geli jiraydegmooyin ka tirsan gobolka Gedo iyo weliba gobollada Bakool iyo Hiiraan iyo Galguduud. Gedo News Desk Gedo, Somaliya

Ethiopia occupies Somalia key town Sat. July 01, 2006 08:34 am. (SomaliNet) Ethiopian troops are reported to have taken the control of Beled-Hawo district in Gedo region in southern Somalia on Saturday and they began talks with the district’s officials, a move that aggravate the tension in Somalia. 400 Ethiopian troops with 9 battlewagons could be seen entering the Somali’s Beled-Hawo town bordering with Ethiopia and they suddenly made bases at the corners of the town, local resident told Somalinet. Sources say Ethiopian officers have engaged talks with the authority and business people in Beled-hawo. It is not clear what they are discussing with them but unconfirmed reports say they are raising the concern over the power of Islamists in the region. It is yet known whether the latest occupation of Ethiopian troops in border town of Beled-hawo is relating to the plan of foreign troops deployment that had been approved by the Somali legislators based in the provincial town of Baidoa 250km southwest of the capital. Earlier Addis Ababa government vowed to defend the transitional federal government seated in Baidoa against any possible attack from the Islamic courts union. On their side, the Islamists who control the capital Mogadishu and other key towns in central and southern Somalia said they will fight Ethiopian troops if they move into Somalia soil. Many people in the capital city Mogadishu have condemned the Ethiopian occupation in parts of Somalia as an aggression. “We are ready to scarify our lives defending our country against the enemy government of Ethiopia,†one of Mogadishu residents said “Ethiopians should remember the 1977 war in which they lost more,†The power rise of the Islamists in Somalia increases the regional concerns over that Islamic militia might pose Taliban-rule style in horn of African nation, analysts say.

Mohamed Abdi Farah (SomaliNet) Mass rally against the deployment of Ethiopian troops in Somalia has been held in Beledwein, the capital of Hiran region in central Somalia on Friday. After Friday prayer, hundreds of people have gathered in the central of Beledwein where residents strongly condemned the Ethiopian intervention in Somalia affairs. People were chanting ant Ethiopian slogans ‘Down Ethiopia, down the collaborators of the enemy’. The demonstration was organized by officials of the Islamic court in the town. In the rally, local official asked for the world community to see the aggression of Ethiopian government into Somalia. People expressed their strong impression on how they oppose Ethiopia troops to enter Somalia soil. Since the approval of deployment of unclassified foreign troops by the Somali law makers based in Baidoa, it has been increased rallies in many towns of Somalia in which people made clear their total objection to any foreign troops in Somalia. Islamic courts union who controls key parts of Somalia had warmed any deployment of outside troops in Somalia saying this might result more bloodshed.

^^^ The problem with your posts is one thing, half the time they are blindly tribalistic and the other half consist of skewed views bordering non-sense. Educate your mind, please.

Killers should be killed, whatever their colour, creed or race. Talk beyond that point is futile and simply irrelevant.

THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING Women fueled Mogadishu takeover Abused by warlords, they threw support to Islamic militias By Craig Timberg, Washington Post | June 19, 2006 MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Sometimes, the women said, it began with a knock on the door after dark or with a kidnapping in broad daylight. And sometimes, the gunmen who ruled this city would use a long, sharp knife to slice open the tin shacks of poor families and snatch their daughters away. The girls would return -- if they returned -- in the morning, sobbing and marked permanently as castoffs in a traditional Islamic society that demands virginity at marriage. ``Four-year-old girls, 5-year-old girls were raped," said Anab Mohamed ***** , 35, a solemn, long-faced widow who has two girls among her five children. ``I was scared for my daughters." An epidemic of sexual violence during 15 years of lawlessness in Somalia was among the factors that strengthened opposition to this city's notorious warlords, residents said. The Islamic militias who drove them out in months of recent fighting were embraced as keepers of public order, as a force strong enough and pious enough to keep Mogadishu's daughters safe. That helped the militias win the support of Mogadishu's increasingly influential women, who in recent years had joined the job market en masse to support their families in the midst of a collapsing economy. On streets throughout this ruined city, they sold vegetables, plastic jugs of gasoline, and khat, a popular, addictive leaf chewed widely here. ``Women were doing what men used to do here," said Shariff Osman, 45, dean of the faculty at Mogadishu University. ``They were paying the bills." When fighting broke out in January, the airwaves suddenly were full of angry denunciations of the secular warlords and support for the Islamic militias fighting them. Most of the callers were women, said Somalis who monitored the political upheaval as it played out on radio talk shows. And though it was guns and not words that chased away the warlords, the intensity of the public revulsion for them provided crucial support for the Islamic militias as they advanced through this oceanside capital, analysts, activists, and business leaders say. ``Somalia was saved because of the Somali women," said Khadija O. Ali, 47, founder of a women's group here and a graduate student in conflict resolution at George Mason University. ``I think it is even something that the men acknowledge now. Finally." At the top of the list of their concerns, Ali and other women said, was curbing murder, robbery, and rape in one of the world's most dangerous cities. In the absence of a central government -- the last one fell to the warlords in 1991 -- city leaders chose to deal with these problems by establishing traditional Islamic courts, with one overseeing the members of each of the city's dozen or so leading families. The courts relied on Islamic law, which calls for thieves' hands to be amputated, murderers to be publicly executed, and rapists to either die or face public lashings, depending on the circumstances of the case. (Residents say that, in practice, jail sentences have been far more common punishments for crimes.) One such court was set up last year, Ali said, after four gunmen knocked on the door of a home shortly before midnight and demanded that the man inside turn over his 20-year-old stepdaughter. She returned the next day in tears, said a neighbor, who spoke on the condition on anonymity. A month later, the same gunmen returned to rape the young woman again, but she was already gone, said the neighbor, sent away in shame to a remote part of Somalia. So instead the gunmen demanded the man's wife. When she refused, the gunmen shot the man's legs, crippling him, and fatally shot his wife. Few dispute that there has been a dramatic decline in crime in Mogadishu since the fall of the warlords June 5, though in the absence of a police force, there are no crime statistics. But not all women say their stature has grown as the country moves toward Islamic law. Ubah Mohamed, 34, a widow with seven children, was among the women who joined Mogadishu's workforce. But she said the beauty shop she opened a decade ago has been losing regular customers, from more than 300 to about one-third that number, as radical Islamic values appear to be gaining wider acceptance. ``The militias patrol our areas looking to see if girls are going out with boys," she said. ``So the girls don't come to beauty salons like ours." Mohamed, meanwhile, began wearing a black hijab to cover her own hair out of fear of what the newly powerful militias might do. She predicted that beauty shops, including hers, would be closed soon. Yet even for Mohamed, recent months have brought a kind of liberation. When the public mood began to boil, she called one of Mogadishu's several radio stations and complained about the gunmen and their thirst for robbery and rape. ``I was one of those ladies," she recalled. ``We don't need warlords." © Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company

Baydhabo: Madaxwaynaha Soomaaliya oo maxkamadaha ugu baaqay inay ka baxaan gobollada ay xoogga kula wareegeen. Saturday, June 17, 2006 Baydhabo(AllPuntland)-Madaxwaynaha dawladda Federaalka Soomaaliya Md: C/laahi Yuusuf Axmed ayaa ka dalbaday maxkamadaha Islaamiga Muqdisho inay dib uga laabtaan gobollada ay la wareegeen. Madaxwayne Yuusuf wuxuu sheegay inuu qirsan yahay in maxkamaduhu ay ka adkaadeen isbahaysigii hogaamiye kooxeedyada hubaysnaa , wuxuuse sheegay inuusan asagu qolana la fikir ahayn waa labada dhinac ee kala adkaadaye. C/laahi Yuusuf wuxuu maxkamadaha ka dalbaday in qaabka ay u shaqaynayaan iminka loo arki karaayo mid xukun iyo dhul doon ah , asagoo sheegay in mar walba la arkayo maxkamadaha oo dhul la wareegaya. Wuxuusan sidoo kale madaxwayne Yuusuf soo dhawaynin magaalo walba oo maxkamaduhu qabsadaan oo looga dhawaaqayo maxkamad Islaami ah , taasoo uu ku sheegay inaysan ahayn mid habboon. Wuxuu codsaday in maxkamaduhu haddii ay xukun doon yihiin ay qaabkii sharciga ahaa u soo maraan oo ay axsaab samaystaan dabadeedna ay tar tamaan inta ay hubka iska soo wareejiyaan. Wuxuu u sheegay maxkamadaha in marka hore ay dib ugu laabtaan magaalada Muqdisho isla markaana ay ka baxaan gobollada ay la wareegeen. Arinta ciidamada imaanaya dalka ee ay baarlamaanku ansixiyeenna wuxu madaxwaynuhu ku tilmaamay mid aad iyo aad uu ugu farxay oo wadaninimo ah , qorshaha ciidamadana wuxuu sheegay cidda diiddan inay doonayso in dalku sidan uu yahay sii ahaado. Waa markii ugu horaysay oo Madaxwayne Yuusuf uu ka hadlo is beddellada maxkamadaha Islaamigu ay ka sameeyeen gobollo ka tirsan koonfurta Soomaaliya CCC Farayaamo AllPuntland

^^^ Well, Barre Hiraale has no way of denying the crime of Warlordism. Seeraar et al. are also of the same calibre. There is no point denying that too. Xiin, on the General's constant mentioning of Indhacade as a criminal amidst the ICU, I think he is not the priority now. If the ICU starts on Indhacade now, things will fall apart. He can be dealt with the moment a stable and strong administration is put in place, that is when law and order are restored to the nation. Before then all of the current activities of the ICU would be hal bacaad lagu lisey. Those who insist on dealing with Indhacade right now have no other excuse to use. I believe when the right time comes, all warlords must be dealt with similarly.

Ciidamo Itoobiyaan ah oo lasoo tubay Xadka Soomaaliya. (Soomaliya}16.06-06 Ciidamo Ethiopian ah ayaa lagu soo waramayaa in ay soo buux dhaafiyeen xuduudaha ay la wadaagaan Soomaaliya, kaddib markii gobollo xuduud la leh Ethiopia ay qabsadeen maleeshiyaadka Maxkamadaha islaamiga ah ee xarruntoodu tahay Magaalada Muqdisho. Wararka ka imanaya dhulka ismaamulka Soomaalida Ethiopia ayaa waxay sheegayaan in ciidamo wata gawaadhida gaashaaman ay soo buux dhaafiyeen dhammaan xuduudaha ay la leeyihiin Soomaaliya. Lama garanayo ujeeddo kale oo ka dambaysa ciidamadani Ethiopia ee lasoo dhigay Xuduudka soomaaliya oo aan ahayn isbeddelada ka socda koonfurta Soomaaliya. Wararka qaar ayaa waxa ay sheegayaan in ciidamada Ethiopia ay ka cabsi qabaan in Maleeshiyaadka Maxaakiimta islaamiga ay gudaha u galaan dalkaasi, iyadoo wararka qaar ay sheegayaan in dowladda Ethiopia ay ka mid tahay dowladaha ciidamadooda laga yaabo inay ka hawl galaan gudaha soomaaliya. C/raxmaan Seere Seere7@hotmail.com http://www.widhwidh.com/html/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5110

AlleUbaahne, do you know anything about military strategy, planning and execusion? I assure you, Alle-Ubaahne, a war with another state is not going to be as easy as fighting the warlords. Waxaad aad ii sheegeeyso waa laab la kac, laab la kac iyo xeelad dagaalna isma raacaan. Marka the issue is bigger than impression sxb.

^^^ I agree with you on that one. Besides, Beled-Weyne has installed an Islamic court just within today. The locals took to the streets in support of it. No other intervention from the ICU is needed for the time being. Generally, it also means that the ICU will not have the needed resource and men to create a stronghold in Mogadishu, since as reports indicate, tommorrow the ICU forces will be moving on to Bula Barde. This is unnecessary.

One thing that has been verified by local people in Godey is that M.Dheere was hidding in a military camp as of late. I am not sure how significant this would be, but it would be plausible to say that his presence in the military camp may have had something to do with the planning and the movement of the invading Ethiopians. What makes this even more credible is the fact that M.Dheere remained in Ethiopia even when his powerbase was invaded. Unless Ethiopia has promised him something better than loosing Jowhar, I am sure he would have come back to protect his base. So, I think as unpredictable as Somali Politics has become for the last few months, the prospect of Ethiopian intervention cannot be ruled out altogether, atleast not for now. I hope this news is untrue because if it isn't true, this would give the courts a time to re-organize and strengthen their grip on the places they rule. If the news is true, however, it may be nipping the flourishing power of the courts at its bud. This is not good.