Why does the word 'no', in a questioning tone, usually follow a sentence?

Maybe there is no peace to keep no?

Cons, I need a new Laptop but i have now idea whats out there. Recommend one bal. Middle of the range with decent software etc

Rocko steps off the plane and into the heat of Dubai's summer. "Cricky" is his first word!

^^Re-read my post saxib. I'm on your side,,,,

According to Al-Khaleej, sheik Sharif stipulated the release of the soldiers with several conditions. He said, "Ethiopian soldiers in Somalia should be withdrawn immediately, America should halt the military action in south the country, I should be transferred from Kenya to another safe country (probably Yemen) and the United States should tell the world that 11 of its marine soldiers were seized in Somalia." He is making a deal with the US, he is giving them info on the whereabouts of his brothers, he is callaborating with the US etc etc was last week's speculation by some Ethio inclined featherweights. I wonder what the featherweights have to say now?

Why are there EU and Korea flags? Korea - Banki Moon EU - ?

Zu, forget your pics man!

Originally posted by Castro: Southern Somalis, to me, often sound sincere, suave and affectionate while Northerners sound constipated, narcissistic and unscrupulous. Excluding my family, of course. LoL, I like the calmness of the Xamari dialect, the understandable one that is. There some extreme dialects i simply can not understand. I remember answering the phone when i was younger. On the other end was a lady looking for my cousin. I said she wasnt home. Then she said waxaad kudaahda hebel hebl kusoo wacey (or something to that effect). I was like :confused: at 'wacey'

^^They beat Oman in the Gulf Cup final Women spectators Omani fans The roads were jam packed last night,,,,,

Those Emaaraatis sure know how to party! What a night! Mabruuk! :cool:

Waryaahe, post them up ninyo! I want to see Italia iyo Londonistan! ps any pics of Melbourne?

But I have to admit I was shocked to see on my recent trip to the States that many Somali's in fact do not care where they get their poultry. They like Bisinka qabso loool I have also come across Americans with the same attitude!

'Bus bomb bid' CCTV shown to jury Mr Ibrahim and five other men deny conspiracy to murder Surveillance footage A jury has seen CCTV footage said to show the moment one of the men on trial over the alleged 21 July 2005 bomb plot tried to set off a device on a bus. Muktar Ibrahim is accused of trying to detonate a homemade bomb on a number 26 bus in Shoreditch, east London. A park-keeper also told Woolwich Crown Court how he found a bomb allegedly dumped by Manfo Asiedu. Mr Ibrahim, 29, Mr Asiedu, 33, and four other men deny conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions. THE ACCUSED Muktar Ibrahim, 29, from Stoke Newington, north London Ramzi Mohammed, 25, from North Kensington, west London Yassin Omar, 26, from New Southgate, north London Hussein Osman, 28, of no fixed address Manfo Asiedu, 33, of no fixed address Adel Yahya, 24, of High Road, Tottenham, north London The other defendants are Hussein Osman, Ramzi Mohammed, Yassin Omar and Adel Yahya. Mr Yahya is accused of helping to plan the alleged attacks while the others are all said to have set out on 21 July 2005 to carry out suicide bombings London's transport network. But the prosecution claimed Mr Asiedu "lost his nerve" and left his bomb in Little Wormwood Scrubs Park, west London. 'Eye contact' Bus driver Mark Maybanks told Woolwich Crown Court he heard a "loud bang" and thought another vehicle had hit him. The discarded device was left at Little Wormwood Scrubs Park, in west London. Enlarge Image Mr Maybanks said he found a rucksack on the floor on the top deck of the bus with the alleged explosive mixture of hydrogen peroxide and chapatti flour "oozing out of the sides". "I have never smelt anything like it before," Mr Maybanks told the court. "It was definitely a tainted smell, something that is not right on a bus." Mr Ibrahim is alleged to have tried to set off his bomb shortly after 1300 on Shoreditch High Street, near the junction with Hackney Road. The CCTV footage played in court showed passengers on both decks of the bus suddenly turning in their seats at the sound of the bang. The film showed the man said to be Mr Ibrahim then abandon the rucksack near his seat at the back of the top deck and climb down the stairs. The remains of the alleged device were found on the top deck Mr Maybanks, who had stopped the bus in the middle of the road, opened the bus doors and walked to the back to check for damage. It was at this point that Mr Ibrahim is said to have left the vehicle and fled the scene. After establishing there had not been collision, Mr Maybanks drove to a bus stop. Mr Maybanks said he climbed the stairs to the top deck and noticed several screws - alleged by the prosecution to have been packed around the bomb. Mr Maybanks said Mr Ibrahim had caught his attention when he got on the Waterloo to Hackney Wick bus near Bank station. "It was the way he boarded the bus that makes it stick out in my mind," he said. "This particular gentlemen was waving the bus pass in a funny kind of manner and made staring eye contact with me." DNA match The jury was also read a statement from a passenger who had fallen asleep on the top deck of bus. Security officer Abu Kamara, said he was "woken by a big bang". 21 JULY 'BOMB PLOT' TRIAL Map of London showing key locations of prosecution case Enlarge Map He added: "I was very shocked and didn't know what was going on. I could smell something burning. "The bang that I heard sounded like a handful of marbles or glass being dropped from a height on the floor." Det Con Graham Innes told the court that Mr Ibrahim's DNA was found on a battery alleged by the prosecution to have been part of the bomb. Later, park keeper Jackie Whitcomb described how he came across one of the alleged homemade bombs in shrubbery two days after the alleged failed attacks. Mr Whitcomb said the white top of a container "stuck out quite a lot". "I saw the nuts and bolts on it and slowly put it down and briskly walked away," he said. The trial was adjourned until Tuesday. watch the cctv footage

Bomb material 'as strong as TNT' The explosive was in a container covered with nails, the jury heard The explosive used by the alleged 21 July bombers was as powerful as TNT or gelignite, a jury has been told. Forensics expert Claire McGavigan said that, had one of the devices exploded, lethal shrapnel would have travelled at "hundreds of metres a second". People could have died, been seriously injured or lost limbs, she told Woolwich Crown Court. Six men deny conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions on London's transport network in 2005. They are Manfo Asiedu, Muktar Ibrahim, Hussein Osman, Yassin Omar, Ramzi Mohammed and Adel Yahya. Pictures of the 21/7 suspects The jury has heard how none of the four bombs set off in three Tube trains and a bus exploded properly. Mr Mohammed is alleged to have tried to detonate a rucksack bomb on a Northern Line train between Stockwell and Oval. There would be serious damage to the train itself, there would be serious injuries, quite possibly death to people in the area at the time Claire McGavigan Ms McGavigan, a senior case officer at the Forensics Explosives Laboratory in Kent, tested samples from his bag. "It was comparable to the gelignite and the TNT used in the same tests. These are both high explosives as well," she said. "Any fragment travelling at that speed and possibly very hot is very dangerous and can obviously embed itself in a person and cause serious injury. "There would be serious damage to the train itself, there would be serious injuries, quite possibly death to people in the area at the time." On the day of the alleged attempted attacks, Ms McGavigan examined the remains of Mr Mohammed's alleged bomb on the floor of the Tube carriage. It had a "strong chemical smell, a bit like bleach", was sticky and made her eyes sting when she tried to scoop it up, she said. She also told the court that she thought the home-made device had not gone off because of a problem with the detonator. "It appears that the most likely reason was that the initiator containing the TATP [triacetone triperoxide - an explosive sometimes used in detonators] wasn't actually powerful enough to set off the main charge in this particular case," she said. Smoking and burning The explosive was placed in a plastic container with shrapnel such as nails and screws taped to the outside, the court heard. Earlier the jury was told that a sample of the explosive charge from Mr Mohammed's rucksack started to smoke and burn through layers of forensic packaging five days after the attempted attacks. Ms McGavigan said she had smelt burning the moment she went into a separate building to the main laboratory on 26 July 2005, where the sample was kept. The pale yellow gel-like mixture was being stored in special anti-static bags, placed in water and then in plastic boxes, the court heard. She told the jury that she and the principal forensic investigator had hosed down the outside of the bag. "Some of the material had burnt and was black and charred. It burnt through three layers of packaging and left a hole," she said. -------------------------------------------------- Park-keeper 'found 21 July bomb' The discarded device was left at Little Wormwood Scrubs Park, in west London. Enlarge Image A park-keeper has told a court he found a homemade bomb allegedly dumped by one of the men accused of plotting an attack in London on 21 July 2005. Jackie Whitcomb told Woolwich Crown Court how he discovered the package in Little Wormwood Scrubs Park, west London, and sealed off the area. Prosecutors claim the device was left there by Manfo Asiedu, who "lost his nerve" at the last minute. Mr Asiedu, 33, and five others deny conspiracy to murder. All six men also deny a charge of conspiracy to cause explosions. They are accused of attempting to carry out suicide attacks on London's transport network. 'Viable device' Mr Whitcomb told the jury how he was clearing litter in the park on 23 July when a white container in the shrubbery caught his eye. "It stuck out quite a lot. I didn't realise what it was." THE ACCUSED Muktar Ibrahim, 29, from Stoke Newington, north London Ramzi Mohammed, 25, from North Kensington, west London Yassin Omar, 26, from New Southgate, north London Hussein Osman, 28, of no fixed address Manfo Asiedu, 33, of no fixed address Adel Yahya, 24, of High Road, Tottenham, north London He said he bent down and picked it up but "saw the nuts and bolts on it and slowly put it down and briskly walked away". Colin Goodson, a police explosives officer, was called to the park shortly afterwards. Giving evidence, he said the device was still intact when he arrived and there were wires coming out of the bottom - but he managed to dismantle it. Mr Goodson said he ran tests on the bomb and was satisfied at the time that he was "dealing with a viable device". Earlier, the jury watched CCTV footage said to show the moment another of the alleged conspirators tried to set off a bomb on a bus. The prosecution say Muktar Ibrahim was caught on camera trying to detonate explosives on a number 26 bus in Shoreditch, east London The other defendants are Hussein Osman, Ramzi Mohammed, Yassin Omar and Adel Yahya. The trial continues.

Court shown dramatic 21 July film CCTV shows Angus Campbell confront Ramzi Mohammed CCTV video clips A court has seen dramatic CCTV footage of an alleged attempt to set off a bomb on a Tube train on 21 July 2005. The film pictures Ramzi Mohammed getting on the northbound Northern Line train, and a bang taking place between Stockwell and Oval stations. The footage, seen by Woolwich Crown Court, shows firefighter Angus Campbell remonstrating with him and Mr Mohammed running off into the crowd. Six men deny conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions. They are Manfo Asiedu, Muktar Ibrahim, Hussein Osman, Yassin Omar, Mr Mohammed and Adel Yahya. Smoking debris As well as featuring the confrontation between Mr Campbell and Mr Mohammed, the CCTV images shown to the court also show the chaotic moments after Mr Mohammed's alleged bomb failed to explode. Mr Campbell confronted Mr Mohammed, shouting at him "What have you done? What have you done?" Tube passengers can be seen fleeing from the train and some passengers running in pursuit of Mr Mohammed. Earlier, Mr Campbell, 43, told the court how there was a loud explosion and he had felt "cowed". THE ACCUSED Muktar Said Ibrahim, 28, from Stoke Newington, north London Ramzi Mohammed, 25, from North Kensington, west London Yassin Omar, 26, from New Southgate, north London Hussein Osman, 28, of no fixed address Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, 33, of no fixed address Adel Yahya, 24, of High Road, Tottenham, north London Witnesses recall tube trip Timeline of 'bomb plot' trial In pictures: 'Bomb plot' He said Mr Mohammed was screaming and shouting and there was smoke coming from behind him. After leading a young mother Nadia Baro and her son away from the area, Mr Campbell returned to where Mr Mohammed was standing and demanded to know what a sponge-like debris lying smoking on the Tube carriage's floor was. When told it was bread, Mr Campbell dismissed the claim, adding: "It was nonsensical, it didn't make sense to me." He then shouted - "swearing vociferously" - at the accused: "You are scaring us, I want to help you, I can help you, but I want you to lie down." "I needed him to be submissive to me," he said. Mr Campbell pulled the emergency alarm lever and the train stopped at Oval station. Seconds later the doors opened and Mr Mohammed ran off. "Perhaps I could have intercepted him," said Mr Campbell. But Mr Justice Adrian Fulford, said: "It is not easy for you, Mr Campbell." Mr Campbell and Ms Baro were among up to 30 passengers on the train when Mr Mohammed allegedly tried to detonate an explosive mix of hydrogen peroxide and chapatti flour. Angus Campbell spoke of having felt "cowed" Ms Baro, who was with her nine-month-old son at the time, told the court she was in a panic and thought she was going to die. She said she noticed the person next to her was wearing a rucksack then she heard a bang and something came out of the bag and fell onto the floor. Ms Baro described the substance coming from the rucksack as being like a sponge or a foam with bits of nails on it, and that she could smell something like the smell of oil. 'Too slippery' Retired engineer George Brawley described how he grappled with Mr Mohammed who "came running up the platform like Linford Christie." "I grabbed him by his forearms. I did not know what to do to stop him. But he broke free easily. He got past me without breaking step. I did my best but he was too slippery," said Mr Brawley. Six men deny charges of conspiracy to murder He pressed the stop button on the station's escalators and although Mr Mohammed stumbled he recovered and carried on. Former soldier Arthur Burton-Garbett, 72, told the court he leapt from the train in pursuit of Mr Mohammed. Mr Burton-Garbett said he smelt the distinctive odour of cordite, which he recognised from his time testing ammunition in the army. He said he was about nine or 10 steps behind Mr Mohammed on the escalator but "started to run out of steam". watch the video

Friend 'helped bomb plot accused' Mr Asiedu is one of six men who deny conspiracy to murder A friend of the alleged 21 July bombers has told a jury he helped to collect the main ingredient for their bombs, believing it was for decorating. Matthew Dixon told Woolwich Crown Court he drove Manfo Asiedu to a hairdressing wholesalers to pick up bleach. Mr Asiedu is alleged to have then bought 16 litres of hydrogen peroxide. Mr Asiedu, Muktar Ibrahim, Hussein Osman, Yassin Omar, Ramzi Mohammed and Adel Yahya deny conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions. Mr Dixon, a product designer, was a school friend of Mr Omar and knew several of the alleged plotters, the court heard. Volatile liquid Among them was 33-year-old Mr Asiedu, who told Mr Dixon he needed bleach for "stripping walls in listed buildings" because the wallpaper was so thick that a stripper would not work. The pair drove to Hairways wholesalers in Tottenham, north London, on 19 May 2005, the court heard. A sales assistant advised them that liquid peroxide was volatile, Mr Dixon said. He (Mr Asiedu) said I was the only person he knew with a car Matthew Dixon But Mr Asiedu replied: "No worries, I am a professional, I know what I am doing." Earlier, the court heard that Mr Asiedu bought the hydrogen peroxide allegedly for use as an explosive charge to be used in a plot to bomb London's public transport system. Mr Dixon told the court he had been reluctant to help with the shopping trip because he was busy with his Masters degree, but Mr Asiedu had been persistent. "He said I was the only person he knew with a car," Mr Dixon said. Painter and decorator Mr Asiedu bought all the bottles in the shop and then the pair drove to Sally's hairdressers in Finchley where he bought more bottles, Mr Dixon told the court. They then carried them to the ninth-floor home of Mr Omar in Curtis House, New Southgate, north London, the jury was told. Matthew Dixon knew several of the alleged bombers Mr Dixon said he had no idea at the time of the potential use of peroxide in explosives and believed they were to be used by Mr Asiedu in his trade as a painter and decorator. "I had no reason to doubt what they were going to be used for," he said. He said that, until the failed 21 July attacks, he had dismissed the shopping trip as "meaningless". Mr Dixon also said he had visited north London's Finsbury Park Mosque with Mr Omar and Mr Yahya at the time that radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri was preaching there. He said it had been his first experience of a mosque and he had found nothing "abnormal or radical" about it. He went on to explain that he had "drifted" away from Mr Omar and Mr Yahya during the year before the alleged attacks. THE ACCUSED Muktar Said Ibrahim, 28, from Stoke Newington, north London Ramzi Mohammed, 25, from North Kensington, west London Yassin Omar, 26, from New Southgate, north London Hussein Osman, 28, of no fixed address Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, 33, of no fixed address Adel Yahya, 24, of High Road, Tottenham, north London But he told the court he had called Mr Omar in the days before the attack in response to "drop-calls", when Mr Omar would ring and then hang up because he had no credit. Then two days after 21 July, Mr Dixon said he began to grow concerned about Mr Omar's whereabouts after calls from his family. He told the court that he had seen images in the media of the suspected bombers and thought one of them "resembled" his friend. Marriage Mr Dixon told the court how he went on to visit Mr Omar's home in Curtis House to ask neighbours for information, and then went to Finchley Mosque where he spoke to Mr Asiedu. The pair, along with Mr Omar's brother-in-law, then went to visit the flat of Mr Omar's new wife, who he had married five days before the alleged attacks, Mr Dixon told the court. It was "obvious" she was "distressed", Mr Dixon said. "The only thing she said was 'How could he do this? We just got married' and I said to her 'Don't worry, I do not think he was involved'," Mr Dixon added. Under cross examination by Peter Carter QC, Mr Omar's counsel, Mr Dixon said his friend Mr Omar had disagreed with the 7 July bombings and believed in promoting the good and kind aspects of Islam when encouraging people to convert to the faith. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6286271.stm

The halal ceetificate that HMC (Halal Monitoring Committee) had apparently given them to certify halal was not actually from HMC as they won't issue it cos elctric stunning makes the process not halal ( even though the actual slaughter that is done is halal alone, the process before of stunning is haraam). I've always been picky about where i eat. I do not trust Turkish, Kurd & Iranian joints period! Its easier for me now yes (in a Muslim country) but i do not buy meat from non-Muslim countries at the supermarket. You never know what they have been given. I stick to Somali meat and local chicken.

By Keith Oppenheim CNN Adjust font size: MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) -- It's always interesting to me, that in my own country, I often get assignments where I walk into a room, and everyone looks and sounds different from me. Different language. Different culture. And sometimes, different beliefs. On this story, I crossed such a threshold. I stepped into the taxi depot that serves the Minneapolis - St. Paul International Airport, where drivers sit and wait for their next fare. In this crowded, noisy room, most of the cabbies are Muslims originally from Somalia. "We're doing a story about the conflict between the cabbies and the airport. The Muslim drivers have been refusing to take passengers carrying alcohol, such as wine or liquor purchased at a duty free shop," I explained. A group of men gathered around us. "This is America, we have freedom of religion," says one cabbie. We could see their feelings are intense -- that the issue seems to cut to the core of their identity. "The Metropolitan Airport Commission is discriminating against us Muslim drivers," says Abdulkaddir Adan, a Somalian-American who's been driving a cab in the Twin Cities for two years. We asked Adan if he'd give us a ride, and let us interview him while he was driving. He agreed. CNN Photojournalist Derek Davis set up a "lipstick" cam, a small camera, positioned on the dashboard. From the back seat, I asked why Adan would object if I were carrying alcohol. "The one who drinks, the one who transports, and the one who makes a business of it, they have the same category," he said. "So, by my transporting my alcohol in your cab, you are sinning?" I asked. "Sinning to God, yes," he replied. Adan is not alone. About three quarters of the 900 cabbies serving the airport are Muslim, and many have been regularly refusing passengers carrying beer, wine or liquor. In the past five years, 5,400 would-be taxi passengers at the airport were refused service for this very reason, said the Metropolitan Airport Commission, or MAC. Last May, passenger Bob Dildine says he waited for 20 minutes, and five cab drivers would not give him and his daughter a ride. He was carrying wine he bought on vacation. "They're here to provide service to people," said Dildine. "We were a lawful customer, and we were denied service. That's not our way of doing things." MAC officials said they don't know of any airport other than the Twin Cities where this has become an issue. MAC officials explain that the area has a growing population of immigrant Somalians, many who've sought jobs as taxi drivers. Last year, MAC consulted local Muslim leaders, who issued a fatwa, or religious opinion. "It is expressly stated," said Kahlid Elmasry of the Muslim American Society. "Transportation of alcohol for Muslims is against the Islamic faith, and therefore forbidden." Last September, airport officials sought a compromise, and suggested that distinctive lights could be put on the roofs of cabs operated by drivers who will not transport alcohol. That way, taxi starters -- airport staff who direct people into cabs -- could send passengers with alcohol to those drivers who have no objection. "But the feedback we got, not only locally but really from around the country and around the world, was almost entirely negative," said airport spokesman Pat Hogan. "People saw that as condoning discrimination against people who had alcohol." Right now, MAC says any cabbie who refuses a passenger carrying alcohol must go to the back of the line. No small thing, given cabbies often have to wait at the depot up to three hours for the next fare. But because MAC officials have received thousands of complaints, they're considering stiffer penalties: a 30-day suspension for a first refusal, a two-year suspension for a second. "We're now at a point where the drivers may have to make a choice," said Hogan. For Adan, the choice is clear. "I would leave my job, instead of doing something that's not allowed in my religion," he said. The interview with Adan took a long time. Our fare came to $150, a very good day for him. Normally, he makes about $100 a day, so it became more clear to us that refusing a fare is a big loss. But Adan said he won't accept the idea that in America a cab driver should allow something his religion forbids. cnn.com

Somali extremists post video warning to peacekeepers MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Extremists in Somalia warned on Tuesday they would try and kill any peacekeepers deployed to the country, a sign of further instability and unrest in the war-ravaged nation. In a videotape posted on the official Web site of Somalia's routed Islamic movement, a hooded gunman read a statement saying that any African peacekeepers would be seen as invaders. The video warning comes as African leaders met in neighboring Ethiopia to discuss the deployment of 8,000 peacekeepers to Somalia. So far only three nations -- Uganda, Nigeria and Malawi -- have pledged around 4,000 troops. "Somalia is not a place where you will earn a salary -- it is a place where you will die," one militant, carrying an assault rifle and dressed in military fatigues, said in the warning to the peacekeepers. "The salary you are seeking will be used to transport your bodies." Five other hooded gunmen were visible, armed with machine guns and rocket propelled grenades. The authenticity of the videotape, which echoes those released in Iraq and Afghanistan by Islamic insurgents, could not be independently verified. It is the first time radical elements allied to the Islamic movement have posted video warnings on the Internet. In the capital, Mogadishu, Deputy Defense Minister Salad Ali Jelle said security forces were on high alert and would crack down on rising unrest by increasing patrols on the streets and launching attacks against areas believed to be harboring militants from the Islamic movement. "They will be dealt with severely," he told journalists. Somalia's Islamic movement threatened to take control of Somalia and had confined the interim government to one farming town until neighboring Ethiopia intervened. The movement was quickly routed in the face of Ethiopian tanks and war planes but has vowed to continue an Iraq-style insurgency against mainly Christian Ethiopia. Ethiopia has begun withdrawing its forces after installing the interim government in Mogadishu, but fears are increasing that without a rapid deployment of peacekeepers, a power vacuum would see Somalia slide back into chaos. The video was posted, according to the Web site, by a previously unknown group called the Popular Resistance Movement in the Land of the Two Migrations. "We urge the African Union forces ... not to come to this country," said the statement read by the gunman. "You and those who had invaded our country are equal before our eyes." The United States has accused the Islamic group of sheltering suspects in the 1998 al Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Bin Laden has said Somalia is a battleground in his war on the West. The U.S. launched two airstrikes against fleeing Islamic fighters, although details of the attacks are unknown. Somalia has not had an effective national government since 1991, when warlords overthrew dictator Mohammed Siad Barre and then turned on one another, throwing the country into anarchy. A transitional government was formed in 2004 with U.N. help in hopes of restoring order. But it has struggled to assert authority, while the Islamic movement seized the capital, Mogadishu, in June and now controls much of the south. However, the Islamic group opposes any outside intervention, and is particularly incensed at any role played by Ethiopia, Somalia's historic rival. cnn

Mattar gets camels as present Reuters Abu Dhabi: A patriotic UAE fan has presented top player Esmail Mattar with two camels after the striker scored the goal against Saudi Arabia that sent his country into the Gulf Cup final. Mattar scored in injury time to give his team a 1-0 victory at the weekend. One camel is worth $109,000 but Mattar was quoted as saying on the Asian Football Confederation website: "I don't think about these personal gains. All I'm thinking about is winning the title for my country." Mattar also scored the winning goal against Oman in the final, which the hosts won 1-0 on Tuesday.

Well done the UAE Imail Matter - a very good player! Watch out for him in Europe.

The TFG love foreign troops, if they were not/are not there they would be ousted. Simple so much for a govnt with support of majority Somalis ey,,,,,,

^^Xiin I understand they are standing on thin ice with regard to the Taxi Code of Conduct. I just want the nomads to present a case against the drivers using some sort of back-up. Then, when this is produced, we can analise it for holes and produce a counter case using civil/employment/religious/islamic laws. Minnesota Muslim taxi drivers could face crackdown CHICAGO (Reuters) - Muslim cab drivers at Minnesota's biggest airport are facing a possible crackdown for refusing to give rides to travelers carrying liquor or accompanied by dogs, an official said on Wednesday. A large number of taxi drivers in the area of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport are Muslim Somali immigrants. Many of them say they feel the faith's ban on alcohol consumption includes transporting anyone carrying it. Some have also refused to transport dogs, both pets and guide dogs, saying they are unclean. Under the proposal -- which is also aimed at drivers who refuse to take short-haul passengers in favor of more lucrative long trips -- a first offense would result in a 30-day cab license suspension and a second a two-year license revocation. The public hearing, approved at a commission meeting on Tuesday, will be held February 27. Hogan said the number of refused rides has fallen from about 77 a month early in 2006 to eight to 20 a month currently. The decline is due in part to the government security ban on large quantities of liquid in carry-on baggage, but the staff felt the situation needed to be addressed for a variety of reasons, Hogan said. Hesham Hussein, a spokesman for the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, said that group, in trying to work out a compromise last year, told the commission that Islamic law prohibits not only the drinking but the selling and transport of alcohol. He said the group said nothing about dogs and would not agree that a person with a seeing-eye dog should be denied a ride. The compromise the group tried to work out involved marking cabs to alert dispatchers and customers to those who would not transport alcohol so they would not be hailed or called up from queues. The commission rejected that idea and Hussein told Reuters that approach idea now appears to be dead. Given the "social polarization" and intolerance among some in the country, he said, the "cards are stacked" against the drivers. If the stronger penalties are approved drivers could still refuse to accept a fare if they feel the person seeking a ride presents a threat to public safety or is drunk or on drugs. link