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^^LoL Something for you to discuss at the new maqaaxi in LA!

So you will be heading there tomorrow right? I hope the food is good homie!

^^The irony of it indeed. Worse thing is ya Kashafa, they actually think the Ethios are here for the benefit of Somalis and Somalia. The only threat to SL was the ICU (however imperfect they were) and a welcome threat at that. Many people (including myself) took to them and the idea of an Islamic Republic of Somalia (in all its pure glory, with rightly guided leaders). It is something one cannot go against. SL's recognition has gained strength and not weakness as some Xabashi lovers would make you think.

The same people who have been shouting ‘somalinimo’ brought the Xabashi’s to kill the Somalis. The same people who were shouting ‘somalinimo’ are today talking of negotiating with SL. The same people who were shouting ‘somalinimo’ are being encouraged to strike a deal with SL (by the Xabashis). The same people who were shouting ‘somalinimo’ may by the end of this year see Ethiopia be the first to recognise SL. It will be an interesting year to say the least.

I belong to those who'll continuously seek the unity of the Somali people. Of course you do son, of course you can get that xabashi flag out now,,,,, We have a nomad who has given hope on unity. Why not ask him why before you indulge in your new found Ethiopian 'delicacies'(spelling) son.

Tell him to not eat any chicken Dukow!

Man that was hard to stomach! We need more quality up front!

A time for prayer,,,, It is He Who made the sun to be a shining glory and the moon to be a light (of beauty), and measured out stages for her; that ye might know the number of years and the count (of time). Nowise did Allah create this but in truth and righteousness. (Thus) doth He explain His Signs in detail, for those who understand. 10:5 Narrated by Abu Masud: Allah's Apostle said, "The sun and the moon do not eclipse because of someone's death or life but they are two signs amongst the signs of Allah, so pray whenever you see them." link Solar/Lunar Eclipses and Islam

Skywatchers eagerly awaiting Saturday's total lunar eclipse say that the spectacle could be the "best in years". The eclipse begins at 2018 GMT, with the Moon totally immersed in the shadow of the Earth between 2244 and 2358 GMT. During "totality", only light that has been filtered through the Earth's atmosphere reaches the Moon's surface, making it appear a reddish colour. The eclipse will be visible from the whole of Europe, Africa, South America, and eastern parts of the US and Canada. "They are beautiful events," said Robert Massey, spokesman for the UK's Royal Astronomical Society. "They have a really romantic feel to them as you look up because the Moon, which is normally pearly white, takes on this reddish colour." He added that it was totally safe to observe and no protective filters were needed because the Moon would actually be less bright than during a normal full moon. See where the eclipse will be visible Mr Massey encouraged everyone to witness the "spectacular" event. "It is like Mars suddenly coming a thousand times closer and just hanging there in the sky above you." Lunar eclipses occur when the Sun, Earth and Moon are in a near-perfect line in space. The Moon travels through the long cone-shaped shadow that the Earth casts in space. At totality, the only light reaching the Moon's surface at this point has been refracted through the Earth's atmosphere. The appearance of the lunar surface varies according to how much dust is in the Earth's upper atmosphere. For example, following major volcanic eruptions, the Moon appears to be a deep red and almost invisible. As there have not been any recent sizeable eruptions, astronomers are predicting that the Moon will be bathed in a bright orange light. 'Best in years' Professional astronomers will also be enjoying the spectacle rather than worrying about any science, Mr Massey says. "It is not like a solar eclipse where you get to see the outer atmosphere of the sun," explained Mr Massey. "There were some people in the past who measured how different parts of the Moon cooled down as the Earth's shadow passed over it, but I doubt much of that work is going on now." Robin Scagell, from the Society for Popular Astronomy, was hopeful that the event will be the "best in years". "If the clouds stay away, it will be fascinating to watch the Moon's graceful movement through the shadow of the Earth," he said. The last total eclipse visible from the UK was back in May 2004, but it was obscured by cloudy skies. After Saturday's eclipse, the next to be seen over western Europe will take place on 21 February 2008, but in the middle of the night between 0300 GMT and 0400 GMT. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6411991.stm

u know i look at it, it didnt register first day so i drove by and let the image swirl in my head. cuz it wasnt just registering!! next sunday came the same scene!! everytime i pass by there, i see same amazing sky blue with white star flag and like 4 or 5 xalimos sitting there!! i drive, look at them, they look me, i smile, they smile and then it disappers in 5 sec! amazing!! Glad you now have some company there. A little bariis iyo hilib on a sunday after football (soccer) is always a good thing. Keep us posted saxib. ps why you in LA in the first place? I mean why not the usual Somali places? LA seems so distant and i can only think of Hollywood or South Central, Watts, Crenshaw etc.

A good read i must say,,,,,,,

^^Rudy,true. So why is brother Che asking such a question? Che, putting a value on one's own life is contrary to what the prupose of that life is saxib. Or you just need to clarify what your getting at.

An interesting question but i think the worth in monetary terms is wrong.

Originally posted by Violet: All major fighting has ended. The TFG isn't fighting the ICU because the ICU no longer exists. The TFG isn't fighting anyone. If you mean the disturbance in Mogadishu, it's only kids high on khat who get paid by clan court remnants to fire martors so these kids can buy more khat. Inshallah this problem will be solved soon. Priceless!

How has such an offensive word become common amongst those it offends?

Focus people focus The article, lets talk about the article,,,,,, Why is it more difficult to have as many kids as possible in the west as it is in the africa/ middle east? 2.4 children is a common rule in the UK but why?

^^Mashallah

Whenever i say i have 5 brothers and sisters gaaladu are like :eek: . Then i mention some of my cousins who are 15 strong

^^a case of former malitia men aiding the warlords' malitias and xabashis.

Soma Inc, what are you laughing at saxib?

Last day of the working week on these shores,,,

A nightmare without end Shahajan Janjua's story is a glimpse of what the war on terror means for young British Asian men Victoria Brittain Thursday March 1, 2007 The Guardian How does a young man from west London find himself landed in a Kenyan police station, hanging from his wrists, his feet tied to buckets of freezing water? How does he find himself, soon after, being dined by MI5 officers at a Nairobi hotel one moment, then imprisoned underground in the desert the next? The story of Shahajan Janjua, a British Asian, is a little window into the "war on terror". As with the cases of the three young men from Tipton who ended up in Guantánamo Bay, MI5 officials in this case showed themselves apparently incapable of making a judgment of young British Asian men's likely links to terrorism. So, another has come back from an innocent overseas trip traumatised. Would it have happened if he had been white and middle-class? The backstory is to be found across Kenya's eastern border, in Somalia. That country's state weakness, acute poverty, and strategic position on the Red Sea made it a handy client for both sides in the cold war. In 1993, 18 US soldiers were killed there in an ill-advised UN mission. Subsequent years of warlordism and state collapse were ignored abroad. Then, last year, came six months of peace under the Union of Islamic Courts. The US responded recklessly, instigating - and aiding with spy satellites and a special operations unit - an Ethiopian attack that involved airpower and 15,000 troops. The Islamic government was brought down in days. Needless to say, it was all cast as a war against terrorism. On Christmas Day, Janjua was in Mogadishu for the wedding of a childhood friend to a Somali woman. He was the only guest from London. Janjua, a young man who had put a troubled inner-city past behind him, planned to leave the country on December 31, stopping over in Dubai to see friends before returning to London to celebrate his 22nd birthday in January. But he fainted at the wedding on Christmas Day, and was admitted to hospital with malaria. Mogadishu was under bombardment, and his passport was stolen. Within days he was taken from the hospital, still linked to his drip, and put in a van with cans of tuna, a gravely wounded Zimbabwean on a stretcher, another wounded Somali, and foreign fighters. It was a grim two-day trip to the southern port city of Kismayo, where the Islamic Courts were still in control and the streets seethed with men carrying AK-47s. When Janjua was offered the chance to head for the Kenyan border, he leapt at it, desperate as he was to find a British consulate. Still weak from malaria, he was put in one of two crowded vans along with the two wounded men. The border was closed and they split into three groups to walk. As an argument broke out about carrying the stretcher case, the Zimbabwean took a direct hit from Ethiopian troops. Janjua saw a Tunisian and Swede dead, too. Everyone ran. Janjua's group of 13 then began a two-week walk with no food and only muddy water to drink. After two days, during which time he heard them speak nothing but Arabic, he discovered that three were British. They were arrested by the Kenyan military after villagers turned them in. Janjua was smashed in the face with a rifle and his nose fractured. In police cells in Nairobi those in authority assaulted and interrogated him. Next he was taken to expensive hotels and quizzed by six different British MI5 officials. They showed him pictures of British men he mostly did not recognise, and asked him repeatedly: "Who sent you? Who funded you? Who are your friends? Which mosque did you go to?" His lucky break came when he persuaded a Kenyan policewoman to lend him her phone and alerted lawyers in London. Kenyan lawyers then tried to visit the prison, but were not allowed in. MI5 had ample time to confirm his account of his visit to Somalia, but on February 2, police in London were telling his family that he had been caught on the Kenyan/Somali border with guns. Janjua and three other British men were flown back to Somalia and held for three days in an underground desert cell. Then he was flown back to Kenya, and on to London, where he was questioned by police, but not charged. It should all be over, but he has nightmares and headaches, and is haunted by the men he left in Kenyan or Somali jails. He, and they, are yet more casualties in a mindless, misbegotten "war on terror" which the US and Britain cannot win militarily. · Victoria Brittain is the co-author, with Moazzam Begg, of Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim's Journey to Guantánamo and Back. Victoriacbrittain@hotmail.co.uk source

New York city council bans use of the N-word · Motion forbidding term is purely symbolic · Black artists urged to rein back in song lyrics Ed Pilkington in New York Thursday March 1, 2007 The Guardian New York banned the word nigger yesterday in a symbolic crackdown on the widespread use of the term in hip-hop songs, in films, and on the city's streets. The city council voted unanimously 49-0 in favour of a motion to encourage New Yorkers to stop using the word and to learn its racist provenance. The resolution carries no sanctions and is designed to lead by example rather than through penalties; it is the latest move in an argument raging across the US over the common use of the word, especially in the black community, where it has morphed into a slang word similar to "mate". The issue rose to the top of public debate in November when the former Seinfeld actor Michael Richards, who is white, hurled the term at black members of the audience at a comedy club in Los Angeles, later apologising profusely. There has also been a chorus from African-American politicians for black artists to rein back on the frequent use of the word in screenplays and rap lyrics. Leroy Comrie, a New York city councillor who proposed the resolution, has called on the academy which runs the Grammy awards to withhold nominations from acts using it. At the awards last month, artists such as Ludacris and Chamillionaire were honoured for songs which contained the term. Though the moratorium is purely symbolic, it has raised the hackles of champions of the first amendment, who oppose any attempt to involve government in regulating speech. Robert Richards, of the Pennsylvania Centre for the First Amendment, said it "seemed a waste of government resources to pass resolutions that have no impact. It's just a feel-good move for the New York city council." Finding something offensive was not enough to overcome the first amendment right to free speech, Mr Richards said, pointing to the supreme court's decision to uphold the right to burn the American flag, and its ruling that a man resisting military conscription had the right to wear a jacket in court saying "**** the draft". Marcia Williams, of the campaigning website Ban the N-word, said that it was a shame New York had to resort to a moratorium, because it showed the city's education system had failed to teach children about historical background. "This is a word that is rooted in hatred," she said. The etymology of the word lies with the Latin "niger", Spanish "negro", and middle French "negre" meaning black. One of the earliest uses of the written word was in 1786 by slave masters to label their Africans. It is through its application in slavery that it has come to be seen by many as the most offensive racial slur in English. Roy Miller, a lawyer from Atlanta, Georgia, was invited to speak to a committee of the New York council when it debated the resolution on Monday. The civil rights committee voted by five to none to pass the resolution imposing a moratorium. Mr Miller campaigned successfully in 1994 for the removal of the word from a popular US dictionary published by Funk & Wagnalls. "At its worst, the N-word is the ultimate form of disrespect against black people. It is a dangerous snake which is liable to bite," he told the Guardian. He said black entertainers were drawn to using it for money, "but no amount of money will make up for the damage it causes". source

New Somali anti-terror bill 28/02/2007 14:25 - (SA) Baidoa - The Somali interim parliament was debating an anti-terrorism bill on Wednesday which includes the death penalty as punishment for perpetrators of terror attacks. The bill also proposes life and long-term prison sentences and confiscation of property for suspected terrorists, according to a motion circulated by the government, which sits in the provincial town of Baidoa. "Anybody who assists, trains, or provokes terrorists will receive one or more of the above mentioned punishments," the bill said. It also bans the use of symbols, flags, and teaching used by known terrorist organisations, without specifying which groups. The bill, already endorsed by the council of ministers, was expected to be passed on Thursday. The Somali capital Mogadishu has seen a surge in insurgent attacks and fighting since joint Somali-Ethiopian forces ousted a powerful Islamist movement late last year. In January, US forces deployed heavily armed AC-130 gunship aeroplanes to carry out at least two air strikes in southern Somalia against suspected Al-Qaeda members. http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,9294,2-11-1447_2076308,00.html