Liqe, this topic is already posted in the general section and discussion is already going on. too late brother. http://www.somaliaon line.com/ubb/ultimat ebb.php?/topic/6/130 66

Originally posted by Juje: Ururka Alshabaab ayaa maanta isugu yeedhey maleeshiyaad beeleedkii ka qaybgalay dagaalka ayna usheegeen inuu jiro shir dagdag ah oo arimo muhiim ah looga hadlayo. Markii ay yimaaddeen goobtii ayaa dhamaan loo qaybiyey lacag gaadheysa $50 lana amrey iney hubka iska dhigaan isla markaana amrey iney soo celiyaan waxii hub ah ee loo qaybiyey. This is so hilarious. So Al-Shabaab tricked the ragtag mercinary militia. loool. That is justice awooweyaal. No one is above the law in Kismayo. You do, you pay.

This is what folks need to do. Go back to their hometown, rebuild it, and make a difference. WATCH THE VIDEO HERE Back From the Suburbs to Run a Patch of Somalia "It was hard for my wife and kids. But I'm doing something big here, and they know that." MOHAMED ADEN (Cadaado, Somalia) -- New York Times - ABOVE the shimmering horizon, in the middle of a deserted highway, stands an oversize figure wearing a golf cap, huge sunglasses, baggy jeans, and an iPhone on his hip, not your typical outfit in war-torn Somalia. But then again, Mohamed Aden, the man waiting in the road, is not your typical Somali. The instant his guests arrive, he spreads his arms wide, ready for a bear hug. “Welcome to Adado,” he says, beaming. “Now, let’s bounce.” Mr. Aden, 37, is part militia commander, part schoolteacher, part lawmaker, part engineer, part environmentalist, part king — a mind-boggling combination of roles for anyone to play, let alone for a guy who dresses (and talks) like a rapper and recently moved from Minnesota to Somalia in an effort to build a local government. Think of him as the accidental warlord. And a shard of hope. In less than a year, Mr. Aden, who was born in Somalia and emigrated to the United States at age 22, has essentially built a state within a state. With money channeled from fellow clansmen living in the United States and Europe, he has transformed Adado and its surroundings in central Somalia, which used to be haunted by bandits and warring Islamic factions, into an enclave of peace, with a functioning police force, scores of new businesses, new schools and new rules. Somalia is one of the most violent countries on the planet, and at times Mr. Aden has had to speak with the business end of a machine gun. His patch — which encompasses around 5,000 square miles and a few hundred thousand people, most of them desperately poor nomads and members of his own Saleban clan — is now one of the safest parts of this broken nation. Even outsiders are noticing. “When I landed here, I was taken aback, in a good way,” said Denise Brown, a United Nations World Food Program official who visited Adado in March. “I didn’t see what I usually see in Somalia: destitution, chaos, needy people.” Mr. Aden does not get much help from the United Nations or the internationally supported transitional government of Somalia, which is led by moderate Islamists and preoccupied with beating back an intense insurgency in the capital, Mogadishu. Most of what Mr. Aden has accomplished he has accomplished on his own, in distinctly Somalian fashion. His police officers carry rocket-propelled grenades. Parked in front of the police station are two enormous tanks. “My Cadillacs,” Mr. Aden calls them. But however playful or flamboyant he may come across, Mr. Aden seems to have hit upon a deeper truth. People want government, he says, even in Somalia. “They’re begging for it,” he said. His experiment of building a small local government from the bottom up, relying on that one feature of Somalian society that has bedeviled just about all national governance efforts to date — the clan — may have wider implications for the rest of the country, which seems to export trouble continuously, most recently in the form of pirates. Many pirates are actually from Mr. Aden’s area, and one pirate whose nom de guerre is Son of a Liar is building a huge house in Adado — right behind the police station. “I’d take these guys on, but I can’t right now because I don’t have the resources,” Mr. Aden said. “Besides, you can’t just wipe out a whole line of work for thousands of young men. If you take something away, you must replace it with something else. Otherwise, more problems.” WHAT drove him to give up a comfy life with his wife, Shamso, and their five boys in Burnsville, Minn., a Minneapolis suburb? How was he able to make the transition from running a small health care business to being “president,” which is what his constituents in Adado call him? “When I first arrived, I was afraid,” he recalled. “I didn’t know how the people would react to me, if they would trust me. That first year I was focusing on muscle. Without muscle, you can’t do anything.” Of course, there’s much about America he misses. “SportsCenter, Subway, AC, even winter,” he says. But in a way he didn’t have a choice. He came to Adado last year for what he thought would be a few weeks, to help out with a killer drought. He organized water trucking and emergency food deliveries and channeled tens of thousands of dollars from middle class Somalis in the United States to nomads dying of hunger and thirst. Afterward, Adado’s elders, impressed by how fast he could work, turned to Mr. Aden and asked: want to be our leader? “We needed a man of peace and he is from a peaceful place, Minnesota,” said one elder, Mohamed Ali Farah. It did not hurt that Mr. Aden had a pipeline to overseas cash and a college degree from Minnesota State in management information systems. With the elders firmly behind him, he was able to form a well-armed police force of several hundred fellow clansmen who are fiercely protective of him — essentially his own private army, which has made it difficult for the extremist Islamists wreaking havoc in other parts of Somalia to establish a beachhead here. Skip to next paragraph People who have challenged his authority have paid the price. Last summer, his police officers shot to death four men who violently refused to vacate a piece of property that Mr. Aden’s administration ruled belonged to someone else. “I knew there were outliers, people with their own rules,” he said. “I knew I had to challenge them, sooner or later.” Nowadays, from Adado’s dusty town square, he hands down new laws, like a recent one saying that anyone who cuts down a live tree has to pay a fine of 100 camels. The orderly refuge he has carved out has become a magnet for displaced families fleeing the relentless bloodletting in Mogadishu, and at noon each day, the metal roofs of thousands of new homes sparkle like mirrors scattered across the desert. Mr. Aden grew up in Mogadishu, the son of a military mechanic, the firstborn of 10. He fled Somalia with an uncle in 1992, a year after the central government collapsed and his friends split into rival militias. “I didn’t see myself in this war,” he said. But the war saw him. He was shot in the ankle by a stray bullet. Soon he packed up for Kenya and then on to Miami, where he lived in a homeless shelter. He eventually took a Greyhound bus to Minneapolis, the promised land for Somali immigrants and home to the largest Somali community in the United States. There he put himself through college parking cars and working in a factory, always keeping abreast of politics back home, hoping to jump in one day. Yet when finally presented with the opportunity, he turned down the Adado elders twice before relenting. “It was hard for my wife and kids,” he said. “But I’m doing something big here, and they know that.” HE spends his days in a large house in the center of town, where he has rigged up a small command center with a laptop, his iPhone and an Internet connection. As chairman of Himan and Heeb Administration, the province where Adado is located, he often meets with elders on his living room carpet, and he has had to straddle a delicate religious line, respecting the conservative Muslim culture here without coming across as phony. This spring, central Somalia was hit again by a devastating drought, and the elders asked him to lead a rain prayer. “I ain’t no imam,” he grumbled at first, though he eventually agreed to do it. Mr. Aden seems to be a naturally upbeat person, but the one thing that drags him down is the drought. During a drive across the skinned landscape of his area a few months ago, he came upon a young man lying under a lean-to of sticks and blankets. The man was in bad shape, very thin, sweaty and empty-eyed. People said he had typhoid. And tuberculosis. And malaria. Mr. Aden looked down at him and said he would pray. “There’s really nothing else I can do,” he said. “There’s no 911 out here.”

Sheikh Shariif

Today, Chicago lost the bid to host the 2016 olympics to Rio. Obama tried hard to lobby for Chicago and even went to Copenhagen, Denmark to meet with IOC voting members. How much do the Republicans love America? Here are few comments from the right wing conservatives ... RED STATE: "Hahahahaha, I thought the world would love us more now that Bush was gone. I thought if we whored ourselves out to our enemies, great things would happen. Apparently not. So Obama's pimped us to every two bit thug and dictator in the world, made promises to half the Olympic committee, and they did not even kiss him." MICHELLE MALKIN: "The news effectively ended the Obama campaign motto of "Yes We Can" with a "No, You Can't. This is a big win and a massive relief for taxpayers, But Chicago cronies are not going to take this well. Gird your loins." THE DRUDGE REPORT: "The ego has landed. World rejects Obama"

Ibtisam is not vicious at all.

Celebrate Kool, and rejoice! After all you have been crowned "the queen of all queens on SOL" . PS: Nuune will offer some app tips very soon.

Sheekh Cali Dheere -- “Dagaalkani Mujaahidiinta Dhexdooda uma dhexeeyo, umana dhexeeyo Garabyada jihaadka kuwada jira. Dagaalkani uma dhexeeyo Xisbul Islaam iyo Al-Shabaab umana dhexeyn doono, mana Dagaali doono idinka Alle S.W”. Waxaan is-haynaa Axmed Madoobe iyo Ciidamado uu wato. somalimirror.com

Originally posted by Dhubad.: Quote of the day : Ama Shariif Raaca, Ama Shabaab Raaca, Ama Shacab noqda Godane, Mansuur, Shangoole, Yacquub and others don't have a clan agenda in the grand scheme of things. Axmed Madoobe does. Raaskamboni/Caanoole in its raw package is a loose collection of clan-oriented trailblazers, and is more susceptible to the whims of the clan grievances. The end goal for Al-Shabaab is not to get the better off clan this or that. Theirs is rather more principled, more focused agenda based on common conviction, me thinks.

Correction, Sheikh Yacquub is the spokesman. The most recent mayor was a Somalilander. Anyways, Al-Shabaab names new admin today ---------------- Xarakatu Shababul Mujaahidiin ayaa uga dhawaaqey Gobolka Jubooyinka, Maamul Islaami ah oo hoos tagaya, waxaana magacaabista Maamulkan iclaamiyay Afhayeenka Xarakada, Sh Cali Maxamuud Raage. Afhayeenka oo Shir jaraa’is Saxaafada u qabtey ayaa sheegay inay Gobolada Jubooyinka u magacaabeen Maamul Islaami ah oo hoos taga Xarakatu Shababul Mujaahidiin. Ujeedka Maamulkan loo magacaabey ayuu ku sheegay Sh Cali Maxamuud inuu yahey sidii loo dhameyn lahaa khilaafka, tafaraaruqa iyo kala shaqeyntii ka dhex jirey. Intaa ka dib waxa uu akhriyay Magacyada Maamulka Islaamiga ah ee Gobolada Jubooyinka kuwaas oo kala ah sidatan:- 1- Waaliga Walaalayada Islaamiga ee Jubooyinka :-Sheekh Abuu Bakar Al Saylici 2- Kuxigeenka W/Walaayada Islaamiga ee jubooyinka:-Sheekh Xuseen Cabdi Geedi 3- Taliyaha Xisbada Guud ee Walaayada Jubooyinka:-Sheekh Aadan Salaad C/raxmaan. 4- Taliye Ku Xigeenka Xisbada Walalayada jubooyinka:-Sheekh Ciise Sheekh Max’uud. 5- Masuulka Dacwada Walaayada gobolada Jubooyinka:-Sheekh C/raxmaan M.Nuur 6- Ku xigeenka Masuulka Dacwada Jubooyinka:- Sheekh c/naasir Yuusuf Cabdule 7- Masuulka Maaliyadda Walaayada Islaamiga ee jubooyinka:-Cabdi Wali aadan Max’ed 8- Ku xigeenka Maaliyadda ee Maamulka Jubooyinka:-Yuusuf Saciid Tooxin 9- Masuulka Warfaafinta ee Walaalayada Jubooyinka:-Sheekh Xasan Yacquub Cali 10-Ku xigeenka Madaxa Warfaafinta ee Jubooyinka:-C/Fitaax Ibraahim Cali 11-Masuulka Hormarinta Walaayada Jubooyinka:- Sheekh Farxaan Daahir Warsame 12-Ku xigeenka Masuulka Hormarinta Jubooyinka:-Sheekh C/raxiin Cali Muudeey 13-Masuulka diiwaanka Sakada ee gobolada Jubooyinka:-Sheekh Fu’aad Sheekh Axmed. Sidoo kale Sh Cali waxa uu sheegay in Magaalada Kismaayo si gaar ah iyana maamul Islaami ah oo kan Jubooyinka ka tirsan loo magacaabey. Waxa uuna bogaadiyay Maamulkii hore oo uu sheegay inuu wax badan soo qabtey. Waxa ayna kala yihiin Xubnaha Maamulka Islaamiga ah ee Kismaayo:- 1- Gudoomiyaha degmada Kismaayo:-Ugaas Max’ed Ugaas Cabdule 2- Taliyaha Ciidanka Xisbada ee Kismaayo:-Sheekh C/raxmaan Cali Axmed 3- Taliye ku xigeenka Xisbada Kismaayo:-C/raxmaan Wacdi Barre (Carab) 4- Masuulka Dacwada ee Maamulka Kismaayo:-Sheekh Ibraahim C/raxmaan 5- Masuulka Garsoorka degmada Kismaayo;-Sheekh C/raxmaan Xuseen Jarato Ugu danbeyntii Sh Cali Maxamuud Raage, waxa uu sheegay in Sheekh C/qani Max’ed Yuusuf Kaba-Jecel oo horay u ahaa ku xigeenka waaliga Magaalada Kismaayo laga dhigey ku xigeenka Waaliga Gobolka Sh/Hoose. somalimirror.com

The Attorney General is on top of this case as we speak. The perpetrator will not get away with injustice if this incident actually occurred.

A powerful Somali woman indeed. Good to see her doing well.

Welcome Maakhir Lady.

I am happy to see the criminal is sentenced to death. Cowke, please don't use tribal names on SOL.

lool. These guys are the backbone of America's "opposition". Good one Gheelle.

Ilkojiir is doing an exemplary work. The minister wants to take ownership of the entire Puntland coastline, and not let these foreign vigilantes fill the security void created by the unbridled piracy.

Ilkojiir is doing an exemplary work. The minister wants to take ownership of the entire Puntland coastline, and not let these foreign vigilantes fill the security void created by the unbridled piracy.

Ilkojiir is doing an exemplary work. The minister wants to take ownership of the entire Puntland coastline, and not let these foreign vigilantes fill the security void created by the unbridled piracy.

Originally posted by Cowke: Ururka MPHDO waxaa u qorsheysan in ay u qabato 3 Tababar oo kale Bulshada GalMudug, Ururku waxuu ku barayaa Suxufiinyta deegaanka xquuqda muwaadinka, Anshaxa Saxaafada iyo hab dhaqanka Maxaabiista. That is what is needed. Grassroots movement to build the nation block by block, city by city.

Juje, great pictures, but I still think ninka Jingeli baa u qayilay oo ku yiri anigaa Obama soo raadinayee adigu raggaan sii salaan.

Originally posted by Juje: I thought he was a jihadist. :confused: :confused: Axmed Madoobe is a worrying individual awoowe. That he has been pushing for a clan hegemony in diverse Kismayo (A city that has moved on from clan disputes) is well recognized, and for a period godfather Turki has been all but ignoring this man’s clan wailing. Madoobe was in Ethiopian dungeon for some time and many believe he may have been "reformed" in detention and was sent to undermine the movement and destabilize this peaceful city. We shall see where his project ends.

How did Jingeli snatch a picture with Obama and Michelle? That is the biggest coup for a somali politician I tell ya. Well done Mr. Jingeli. Historic picture indeed.

I am very sure the clanist called Axmed Madoobe will be taught a tough lesson. He miscalculated by bringing clan militias to a peaceful city.

"Come to daddy michelle, hurry up!"

Originally posted by Abtigiis & Tolka: Fadlan wixii ii codeeyaa ha igu soo ogaysiiyaan PM kolka ay codkooda dhiibtaan si aan wax la isu dabamarin oo Ibtisam aan ula xisaabtamo. Mahadsanidiin. haaaaa. Ibti has been looking all "suspicous" in the last few days. We are watching her very closely. Hopefully the voting won't be rigged by her last minute maneuver.