Thanks all. The pics are still on my cam. I will upload them asap IA

Originally posted by Khalaf: quote:Originally posted by Mujaahid: Red Sea: quote: Originally posted by Khalaf: quote: Originally posted by Al Burcaawi: ^^Please make sense um sure the sister is not making sense to u like the flag avator before u need your glasses sxb! Mr.Khalaf, I always had concerned of your stance.You seem to be influenced from somewhere,becuase every time you come in here with different take on issues such as this.Why can't you be a man and for once look things from your own personal perspective instead of relying what perhaps adeero might have told you or hear from folks like Taako man etc.. If you are sincere with your faith,then you oughta appose these evil doers for what they are not for who they are.They are the enemy of Allah,thus they should be the subject of your hatred.I don't hate them,because they are reer hebel,I hate them for what they have done with their hands,Fear Allah and don't side with the evil doers. this isn't about the blue flag and who carries it or who doesn't,its' about who believes and whose positions on this issues is correct, forget where I am from or where Northerner is from, look at the idea and merits of our argument.If you have no idea of what you are talking about then simply keep it shut.I believe that suppose to be an advice. Thanks for your concern n advice my brother, but my islamic up bringing has alreadly taught me right from wrong.....no politics will change that ya heard.........the arguments of da fake nationalists (I dont include u) hold no merit......... mida kale I find it personally hypocritical to be a warmonger from the comfort of abroad.......one minute saying let the people fight to death against the xabashi, american jets and next minute running marathons, watching football games, laughing, joking, living life in peace! Any government ba ka ficaan having a war which our divided ppl can not win now! Ouch, a little below the belt dont you think khalafow? I'm proud of my run for 3 charities saxib and of watching a game or two I see your using the go and fight kidology! Red, now that you have cleared things up with regard to Riyaale, do you think they (TFG Gaal Raac) will condemn the bombings of towns and villages where innocents died? Its been a week now.

A call for backup Despite not consulting them on its Somalia policy to begin with, America is now calling for the African Union to send in peacekeeping forces. When the United States decided to support Ethiopia in an attack on Somalia and followed this up by mounting its own air attacks on Somalia, it didn't consult the African Union (AU). But now that the bankruptcy of its Somalia policy has been revealed (it has admitted that the "terrorists" it wanted to kill in Somalia were not hit by the air attacks) the US ambassador to Kenya and Somalia, Michael Ranneberger, is in a hurry to get an AU "peacekeeping" force into Somalia yesterday - so to speak. Said Ranneberger: "Deploying an African stabilisation force into Somalia quickly is vitally important to support efforts to achieve stability ... [it] will enable the rapid withdrawal of Ethiopian forces without creating a security vacuum." So the US knew that a "security vacuum" could be created in Somalia and yet it urged Ethiopia to go in. Did it think that Ethiopia could permanently occupy Somalia? No, it didn't. America's idea, all the time, was to go in on the back of the Ethiopians, "take out" the bad guys on America's "war-on-terrorism" list, and then hand the mess - and in Somalia, the US knew from its unhappy experience there in the 1990s that it would be a mess of a spectacular kind - over to the AU to sort out. Preferably without giving the AU any money to do it with. The concept is so cynical and barefaced that one wonders why a man like President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda can't see through it. He is reported to have offered to send over 1,000 Ugandan soldiers to Somalia, as part of an AU peacekeeping force. What Museveni must realise is that the US, under Bush, is not some cautious ally with whom one can concoct subtle diplomatic "offensives" under the cloak of "deniability". With the neocons, US interests reign supreme at all times, no matter who gets embarrassed. Museveni should consider this: Uganda itself has a sizeable Islamic community of its own. What would he think if, as a result of ****** but fiery statements verbalised by some Islamists, the US were to target them as potential Al Qaida recruits? Would he acquiesce if the US wanted to send troops into Uganda to take them out? Or worse still, suppose the US decided that the nominally "Christian" Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) would serve its anti-Islamist agenda better than Museveni's government, and offered support to the LRA? The AU is full of other countries that could fall under a similar scenario. Nigeria, for instance, has a huge Muslim population, many of whom are, as a matter of course, quite "fundamentalist" in outlook and thereby potential Al Qaida sympathisers. What would President Olusegun Obasanjo say if the US were to decide to covertly subvert the more militant of the Islamic states in Northern Nigeria that have adopted Sharia (Islamic Law) as their mode of legal and social practice? Even South Africa, although its Muslim population is far less numerous, could fall into the "war-on-terror" net. The danger to these countries will increase whenever the US, whether acting in Iraq, Somalia, Iran, or Syria, or against the Hizbullah in Lebanon, does not scruple to offend Islamic sensibilities, Now, when the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was formed in 1963, one of its mottos was "Hands Off Africa!" This was a warning to the combatants in the Cold War - the Americans and their allies on the one hand and the Soviets and theirs on the other - to keep their ideological battles out of Africa. It is time the successor to the OAU, the AU, renewed its faith in the idea of not allowing any superpower to ride roughshod over any part of Africa for its own purposes. CiF Some interesting responses

From his writings i think most probably is. I think you have met him though Dabshidow

Never met the guy.

^^purely for amusement

Time for dhikr and music BY BASHIR GOTH 1 January 2007 Phew! Good riddance! The nightmare is over. Yes, I mean the Union of Islamic Courts, UIC. They had their day under the sun and they blew it. They had the support of all Somali people when they stormed to power, routed the notorious warlords, restored peace in Mogadishu, opened the airports and seaports, started addressing looted property issues and began looking like a wise authority. But instead of capitalising on the people’s genuine support and willingness to give in and give up everything, they had become power lusty, belligerent and fatwa-crazy. Instead of building bridges with the community, improving services, opening hospitals, winning the trust of international organisations and NGO’s to help them with projects to generate employment, they burned all bridges. They alienated the youth by banning all types of entertainment, segregated women and deprived tens of thousands of families from their only livelihood by banning Khat without bringing an alternative source of income. They even embittered traditional Islamic scholars with their self-righteousness and condescending attitude to mainstream Islam. Not only did they become more warlords than the ones they had defeated, but they emblazoned their belligerency with Islam and brandished the spirit of Jihad, thus projecting themselves in the model of Taliban and regurgitating the tired jihadist rhetoric of Al Qaeda. They mistook their easy ride to power for being an unstoppable revolution and started stirring instability in the peaceful Republic of Somaliland by branding the leadership of that democratic country as an infidel and threatening to bring Somaliland under their cloak. Just like they introduced a strange school of Islam to Somalia, they had also imported the scary phenomenon of suicide bombers in an attempt to assassinate the leadership of the Transitional Federal Government, TFG, in Baidoa. They stonewalled the peace talks counting on the support of unsuspecting Arabs and they sent their die-hard agents to Puntland to wreck havoc to that peaceful and self-ruling state. In a gross miscalculation of their military power and world geopolitics, the Islamists have used hostile language against neighbouring countries, the United States and the Judeo Christian world. By reviving the Somali irredentist policies of reunifying all Somali people in the Horn of Africa and creating greater Somalia, they reminded Ethiopia and Kenya of the era of wars and instability they had with the successive Somali governments over their claim for the Somali regions in their respective countries. But as is often the case with all self-aggrandising megalomaniacs, they fizzled into thin air when the hour of truth has arrived and all their bravado had ended into a farcical denouement. While they threw the young children they recruited in the name of Jihad into the fray, the Islamist leadership took flight liked scared chickens. None of them was reported to have died heroically fighting at the front. They just burst like a bubble. Even their prolific web site qaadisiya.com fell silent, failing to sign off the last chapter of their fantasy medieval caliphate. Now, it is time for the people of Mogadishu to reclaim their freedoms and their true religion. Time to read the Quran with piety and not with politics; time to perform Dhikr in the Sufi Qadiriya style; time to dance in weddings and listen to the music of our late melody queen Magool, which the Islamists wanted to burn. It is time to let our women come out to the sunshine and swim with their children in the lido beach; time to shave the beards, watch cinemas and let our youth revel, sing, dance and ring in the New Year with Mohammed Suleiman’s eternal lyrics “… kii noo hagaagee, noqo loo hanweynyahay.” (…Be a year that brings us good fortune and high expectations.” Amen. Al Khaleej Times

The silence from the pro TFG camp is almost deafening!

Somalis in Dubai resent US strikes, Ethiopian meddling By Riyasbabu 13 January 2007 DUBAI — Somali expatriates living in Dubai are a worried lot in the wake of US intervention and advance of Ethiopian-backed troops in their country. The residents of ‘Somali Gully’, a street in Deira mostly inhabited by people of Somalian origin, are worried about the safety of their near and dear ones. The coffee shops and restaurants in the street have turned into discussion forums where Somalis are openly expressing their apprehensions about the developing situation in their country. Most of them here believe that the US airstrikes and actions of Ethiopian-backed troops would result in more instability in the country. “In the past six months we had peace in our country after the Islamic courts took over. “It is clear now the Ethiopian-backed attack was a US plan. The new developments would only result in more bloodshed and instability in Somalia,” said Ahmed Hassan, a resident of Somali Gully. “We are suffering since 1991. We do not want warlords to return to power. All these developments would lead to a civil war,” he lamented. Hassan Mohammed echoed the same sentiments and said: “I am worried about my relatives who live in Sinai on the outskirts of Mogadishu. I could not talk to them after the American attack.” “I had visited Somalia three months back and everything was better. There was not much violence and people were happy,” he added. Abdul Kareem, who has been living in ‘Somali Gully’ for the past 10 years, said: “We are all worried about the situation. We all watch television together to know what is happening. I am optimistic that all these problems would be solved one day.” here

I finished within the first 1000 (just), eat humble pie Castro! The after effects are not as bad as i thought. Burco University account No: D2789 - Dahabshiil The guy just got back from Hajj so no blame on him for providing info late.

Originally posted by Castro: ^ Only if you can scream Zenawi's name while hopping on one leg on top of the moving tank. So be it. How much would i need to pay at the road blocks? or do i get a discount

Originally posted by Castro: quote:Originally posted by Al Burcaawi: I want to go to Xamar IA (never been). When will it be safe to do so ya Duke? When you renounce your secessionist tendencies and join the TFG. Do i get to roll in in a tank?

I want to go to Xamar IA (never been). When will it be safe to do so ya Duke?

^^I think Baydabo may be decent team these days, ala Chelsea

^^ouch

Where?

Few and far between

^^Reer Kismayo waa lasheegay iney kubada ciyaarikaraan. Laakinse reer Burco wax umagaysan karaan

Rocko, what was you doing in the outback man?

Notice there is hardly anyone there? Yet they tell us the TFG has the support of all Somalis! We will compare this week's protest (Sat) in London to this one IA. That should give us an idea of the TFG's 'suuport'

Sorry for not being 'politically correct' in my notion ya tako man.

RS, See you there IA

Let me address her 'concerns' So the governments support base is from one clan My hunch but the majority are against the govnt. you've said before that those who support the government are 'gaalo rac'. Those who supported the Ethio (gaalo) invasion and killing of Muslims yes. Now what should us god fearing somalis do with those people from said clan I would rephrase the q a little. What should we do with the people who supported the Ethio invasion (whatever clan they are)? As you wish, i choose to lable them as gaal raacs obviously a gaal and his protector are one and the same hmmm, thought provoker!

^When are you heading there saxib?

^^your words Lets just say i know how London works