I often get nostalgic about great games, great players, great shots, great save etc. This thread will show whatever you want it to in terms of classic re-runs. Any sport and occasion good or bad. I dont know why but I thought of this tune today. Probably because of the England manager speculation. This, along with Italia 90, is the main reasons England is my team. Loves got the world in motion

LoL Somaalidu been badanaa!

Who was the guy who built the first mosque in the UK? I think he was Somali/Yemeni and living in Liverpool. Any info?

Alonso is a first choice of course but so Mascherano now. 3 in the middle? Strong Squad this year. Sunday is an early kick off and I need an excuse. Any suggestions? (some of us work on Sundays)

HK has played some blinders over the years. Olypiacos in 2004 stick out. He has brought a much needed balance to the team. Riise is not a winger. ps you still think SG is better on the right?

Bring on Milan!

<<< Unique

Looks like I will have to get the ART package in Feb/Mar '08 :cool:

Originally posted by Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar: Taloow baasaboorkee uu ku socdaa? Cagaarkii lee iga dheh. Ala SL Diplomatique?

Originally posted by NGONGE: ^^ Two flags and two mics? 3 mics saxib. Indhaha fur

Originally posted by J.a.c.a.y.l.b.a.r.o: Now thats a pic!

^^How is Hargaisa man? Glad to be back home?

^^I'm sure you will be bored in Sydney and wish you was in Dubai.

I saw a car smashed up and up-side-down on the way home last night. Not the first time either. Subxanallah

^^As Eid is approaching I shall call for peace

Recognise Somaliland, Analysts Tell U.S. Kevin J. Kelley A debate is raging within the Bush administration over possible US recognition of Somaliland and a consequent shift away from its longstanding support for Somalia's Transitional Federal Government. According to an unnamed senior US defence official quoted last week in The Washington Post, the Pentagon believes Somaliand should be independent." The provocative remark was made in the course of Defence Secretary Robert Gates's visit to the base in Djibouti that houses the US military's Horn of Africa Task Force. The official made explicit reference to the disagreements between the State Department and the Pentagon on Somalia policy that seldom seep into the open. The Horn of Africa Task Force is eager to carry out missions in Somaliland, but the State Department is standing in its way, added US Navy Captain Bob Wright. "We'd love to," Captain Wright told the Post. "We're just waiting for State to give us the OK." The anonymous Defence Department source who urged US recognition of Somaliland also criticised the current American approach of seeking to strengthen central authority in Mogadishu in hopes of quelling the chaos that has engulfed Somalia for the past 16 years. "The State Department wants to fix the broken part first - that's been a failed policy," the Pentagon official asserted. By contrast, the Defence Department source suggested, formal recognition of Somaliland would add a key element to an alternative US strategy of encirclement and containment. Close collaboration between the United States and the three countries bordering Somalia - Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti - has apparently helped prevent attacks in East Africa by Al Qaeda militants who, Washington says, are able to find shelter in Somalia. Islamists hostile to the United States remain powerful in parts of Somalia despite last year's US-backed invasion by Ethiopia that was intended to rout Islamist militias and to bolster the pro-Western TFG. For now at least, the Bush administration is continuing to focus on efforts to stabilise Somalia by supporting both the TFG and the Ethiopian occupation force. Somaliland, an area in northwestern Somalia that unilaterally declared independence in 1991, enjoys the inter-clan tranquility that Somalia itself so ruinously lacks. Somaliland has also managed to put in place a democratically elected government. These achievements have come about with little or any assistance from the West while Somalia has remained a failed state despite having received hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of US and European aid. "Somaliland is an entity that works," a Pentagon official told the Post during Mr Gates' stopover in Djibouti. Some mid-level American officials have visited Somaliland in recent years and leaders of the breakaway territory have likewise come to Washington in search of aid and recognition. But the US remains reluctant to accord Somaliland full diplomatic status partly out of concern that such a move would encourage the further fracturing of already-splintered and ungoverned Somalia. Washington's unwillingness to endorse Somaliland's claim of independence also reflects US agreement with the African Union's policy of discouraging secessionist tendencies on the continent. Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer reiterated that position in the Post's December 4 story. "We do not want to get ahead of the continental organisation on an issue of such importance," Ms Frazer said in an e-mailed response to questions posed by the Post reporter covering Secretary Gates's visit to Djibouti. In addition, recognition by the United States and, perhaps, the European Union "would not give Somaliland legitimacy in the eyes of other Somalis," said Ted Dagne, an expert on the Horn who works at the Congressional Research Service in Washington. Relevant Links East Africa Conflict, Peace and Security Somalia United States, Canada and Africa Certification of Somaliland's independence would likewise encourage other centrifugal parts of Somalia to seek the same status, Mr Dagne added. "What would be the containment mechanism to prevent there being four or five Somalias?" he wondered. Offering a perspective similar to that of the State Deparment, Mr Dagne said, "At the end of the day, Somalia must develop some sort of federal structure that gives regional autonomy" to areas such as Somaliland. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Share this story on: Facebook Digg Del.icio.us StumbleUpon -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright © 2007 The East African. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). 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Originally posted by J.11: 'Bakhtiga ma cuno. Balse fuudkiisaan cabbaa' sums up the predicament of fellow SOLers who support Ethiopia in one principle, and yet, are opposed to it in another. Their argument, far from having any substance to hold water, rather has an amusing oxymoronic entertaining quality to it. The kind of argument you would want to be beguiled with, by a hoary nay-sayer while you sit by the fire sipping Suusac. It's that sort of a bitter-sweet argument. If only Meles were aware of the argument they are entertaining . Good to see them run around in circles trying to convince us though

Waan ka baqaa the roads here. I dont go too fast because people drive on every lane and there are no rules.

Its on the 19th. Confirmed. Arafat will be on 18th. Enjoy

I would say it was 25 years ago. 1982? Or was he in Yemen back then?

Originally posted by Sharmarkee: I thought only Ngonge and Xiin used to dance with Umu kalthuum's "BA'a ulakum Eey" That woman is always on at the local Egyptian dry cleaners. I get depressed whenever i go in there. as you were,,, :cool:

Originally posted by NGONGE: ^^ Sharja city. I bet there are still stray cows roaming the streets even now. What would you know, you probably only been to the city centre Cant say I have toured Sharjah much but I have not seen any loose cows yet. When was you 12 again?

Ngonge, where did you live when you was 12? A cow walking the streets to be knocked down but a car? Xagaad joogtay ninyow?

^^Shaaha sonkor ayay ka buuxin laheedh (excuse the pun)

Val I dont know. I havnt decided yet. Will be in Damascus IA so may go to the abbatoir and put a cow into head lock! Originally posted by NGONGE: ^^ North is in a country where he's allowed to do it himself. I don't see why he should not. I remember slaughtering a cow when I was twelve. It got hit by a car and the driver sped away without stopping. An old Indian man asked me to run into my house and bring out a sharp knife. He then commenced to lecture me on the best way to slaughter a cow. Luckily, the owner came out on time and helped me out. They all thought it was a big deed for a young boy to slaughter a cow. I was just happy to stick a knife into something, to be honest. Have you ever seen a cow gurgle with the last gasps of death? ps North, are you trying to break your Ramadan record when you wished us all a happy Ramadan a full week before the event itself? LoL@ I just wanted to stick a knife into something. Well I actually went out to look for the new moon last night and couldnt see it. I'm wondering if Khalaf saw it in the States Eid mubarak kuli aam wa antum bi khayr