Hunguri, haday arrintu sidaad o malaynayso noqoto waaba wax fiican. Meel uun ha ka bilowdo (for example, Gaboose first created the Qaran Party and is now part of Kulmiye). Anigu waxaan ku leeyahay intuu Faroole PL o madaxweyne yahay, waxa meesha ka hagagi doona ayaa iska yar. Faroole is an aggressive dictator and such people only pay lip service to democracy.

^^ Whatever reply he gave you would not really matter, would it? 97% was the magic number. Do you know how that was arrived at?

Originally posted by STOIC: quote: saxib, i was approached with a $10,000 marriage proposal not so long ago Now thats a major move right there.A hero welcome.I guess sometimes Hargeysa girls needs someone in their life's (to make a light of their situation) to relieve them their intelligence by being easy and friendly on this fish and chips kid..A hero welcome you are getting there Son They saw him coming you mean? "Kanna wa Kuma eh eh Waka Waka eeeh eeeh Siyaa toban kunna eh eh The new man in Africa"

Heh@dutiful Hitting on the maid is unprofessional warya.

^^ As they say in talk radio shows, "what's your point, caller?" Heh@Liqye getting swayed by the sweet words about clannishness and self interest. Two sides of the same coin, saaxib. Why else would I say it is EVERYTRHING?

Originally posted by Che -Guevara: I don't think these people were complaining when Riyaale was in power, why start now? You accepted the secessionist project in the beginning, live with it! Not "these people" say "this man". And he was not a great fan of Riyaale either. By Mohamed F Yabarag, London, UK Here we go again. Another illegal incarceration from Rayale’s desperate regime; this time the recipients are Qaran leaders, Somaliland’s new political party. The writing was on the wall for Dr Gaboose, the party’s founding chairman and his deputy, Engineer Mohamed Hashi Elmi, a man dubbed by many as the “Mr clean of Somaliland politics” ever since they declared their intention of forming a political organization in Somaliland with the aim of competing for the forthcoming local government elections. In an attempt to cling on to power, Rayale’s government has been fighting tooth and nail with the help of all government apparatus against anyone they presume may threaten their grip on power in the forthcoming local and presidential elections. A man who initially came to the highest office in the land by default to the surprise of almost everyone and consequently won it by the thinnest of margins ever recorded anywhere in a hotly contested presidential election is now on the rampage to destroy this nascent country by using strong-arm tactics that are all too familiar for those who had witnessed Siyad Barre’s dictatorial regime in its dying days. This is blatant and abhorrent abuse of power at its ugliest level by Rayale’s pathetic government. What we are witnessing today in Somaliland is nothing short of dictatorship in full swing. Under this government we are in democracy only by name. This government have no ears to listen to the desperate voices of its citizens who are yearning for a genuine leadership. It has dismally failed time and again to work with members of the elected House of Representatives as well as civil society organizations. With the arrest of QARAN leadership, our much vaunted democracy lies in tatters and the people who would have saved us from this pathetic government through the ballot box are now languishing in the notorious Mandhera jail. http://www.somalilandtimes.net/sl/2007/289/04.shtml Riyale’s government knows fully well that when the day of reckoning comes (Election Day) barring another delay of course, it will lose heavily against the opposition. Even the hard core supporters of the government could not comprehend as to why their beloved government is dithering and scared of the opposition. If the government is doing things right as it often boasts, why is it giving ammunition to the opposition? The further the election is delayed, the more Somaliland voters will smell a rat and leave government’s fold in droves. This government, plagued by corruption, cronyism, nepotism, embezzlement, media harassment, stifling competition, etc, knows its time is up. This is the sole reason why it is dragging its feet and shying away from holding presidential election and others in their allotted time. It was in power for almost a decade without undertaking a single meaningful development project. Not a single road in the capital or elsewhere was paved or repaired during this period, let alone built. Even the main road from Egal airport to the city center is littered with potholes that motorists have to weave and negotiate through. The excuse always given by the government is that its budget is so small that it is lucky if it feeds its huge military and police forces. Fair enough. But if you spare a few minutes and go through its 2009 budget as thoroughly and brilliantly analyzed by Ali Guled, a CPA from California and a critic of this government, you can see who this government has put its priorities wrong again and again. Wrong allocations have been given to wrong ministries (presidential ministry being one of them as in the earlier budgets), while the most important ones have been given peanuts. You need to look no further than the lifestyles of the top echelons of Somaliland government, the most impoverished country on earth, to see how this group has amassed a fortune while the rest of the nation is living in abject poverty. In conclusion, the continuation in office by this government will mean no future developments in the country and more divisions among Somaliland populace, often along tribal lines. The seeds for hatred have already been sown by this government when it curved six more tribal regions from the existing six regions in a country of roughly no more than two million people. A tribal division in Somaliland is rampant and more visible today than when this government had arrived in the scene seven years ago. Somaliland people deserve better administration than Riyale’s inept, inefficient and corruption-plagued government if their aspiration for nationhood is to be realized. http://www.somalilandtimes.net/sl/2009/375/36.shtml And the one to top it all (on the 13th of June this year): In Somaliland, people got stuck with a government that did little or nothing for nearly a decade. A decade is too long a time to waste. People cannot afford another half a decade to waste. There is no sound reason for Somaliland people to stick with this government. All they need to do is to have a hard and long look at their lives if any improvements were made under Rayaale and his government. It is time for change. It is time to give a chance the opposition. It is time to give Ahmed Mohamed Silaanyo and his party the benefit of the doubt. It is time to kick Rayaale's government in the teeth. I urge Somaliland people not waste their valuable votes in vain. Mohamed F Yabarag myabarag@yahoo.co.uk http://samotalis.blogspot.com/2010/06/somaliland-election-choice-between.html What was it he said in that other article of his about "reinventing the wheel of Somali history"? Stuff and nonsense.

^^ Hada ma Malez ayaa Somali oo dhan u sheega waxa uurkiisa ku yaal?

^^ How did it die? Be careful what you say now (and how you say it). We don't want Hunguri to come with all guns blazing.

Viva NostraXiino.

^^ Soo man odhan winks and nudges ayaad la iman doonta? Al-Haji Abtigiis & Tolka has told us that he went to Xaj. We suspect he is telling the truth because he has been missing for the past three weeks. However, Mr. Jacaylbaro from Hargeisa, has mocked the idea and stated clearly that the disputed Xaji is not a Xaaji at all. When questioned further, he scornfully informed us that Mr. Abtigiis & Tolka often goes missing for weeks on end and that because he is a proven attention seeker he chose to take advantage of Xaj coinciding with his current absence. Mr. Jacaylbaro huffily insists that for people who claim to be normal (or should that be intellectual) we are bila caqli. "The fact is that A&T has been frolicking in Nairobi for the past two weeks” he tells us. Markaan xooga objectivity isticmaalay oo in yar subjectivity ku walaaqay oo talada A&T na ku daray...een..waan dawakhay dee.

^^ War I've written extensively about this subject on this forum and neither you nor Xiin are going to change my words. Clan is everything and Farole proves it with every actions he takes (mostly badly). Dee naga daaya.

^^ That he gives it a bad name does not mean it is not everything dee. Wax fahan.

^^ I think the Maakhiris & the SSC boys on here would disagree with you. Farole actually cemented the theory of clan being everything. Wax fahan.

^^ Dee you tell me.

^^ Which theory? I have many.

^^ No, it does not. But it also does not encourage any objective reader to take him seriously. It comes across as lazy propaganda (of which we have plenty) and that, because of his ability and readability, is a real shame.

Xiin, Faroole (or is it Farole?) is not into anything saaxib. If you can't see that he's a mad dictator there must be something seriously wrong with the way you view the world. The longer he goes on the worst that state will become. Mark my words. P.S. You are right about the army talk. Since it has not been tested either way, only kids boast about it.

nuune, no wonder he was trying to blame me for that 'Yaaaaaaaaaaaa' moment above.

^^ Now nuune will tell us he had that exact same experince in 1973, habeen oo kaligi geed hoos jiifay.

Minor Earth Quakes are a bugger. I can just picture people doing their normal everyday things when this thing hit. If Jb was there, and knowing how much he loves his food (and how many times he gets an upset stomach from it), I can just picture him running out of the loo (after a long session) and shouting "gariirka in oo kaligay i haystay ban is laha, ma Borama o dhan baa ila gariirtay? Nacala suqaarka iyo baastada.....".

^^ It is either I am reading it wrong or you are letting your bias get the better of you. I am not rejecting his opinion. I am rejecting the way he is presenting it as a fact. Wax fahan. "To avoid such fate, Somalia must remain in mess. That is why they need stooges and lackeys in any Somali government. Most Somali intellectuals fail to recognize this fact and therefore think policy statements from Somalia affirming the territorial integrity of Ethiopia will calm TPLF nerves." ------- This is as shabby as Xiin's crystal ball, saaxib. For a man having a pop at "Somali intellectuals" this is a faux pas of the highest order. Wax fahan.

^^ He didn't die and it's a Muslim country. So all's well that ends well.

^^ We pop up everywhere. Check this: "A Somalian man has narrowly escaped being buried alive after he was found comatose along with with five other men drifting in a small boat near the island of Makunudhoo in in Haadhaalu Atoll." Source

^^ War he exaggerated a bit there but the point he makes is valid. A state can be created when clans are in agreement. No, Xiin, my position regarding clans remains the same. It is everything. A&T, Yes, it is an opinion masquerading as a well thought and well researched essay. It is obvious and clear that Ethiopia is actively involved in Somali affairs, what is neither obvious nor clear is why it is involved. Many people talk about it wanting a weak Somalia. Others talk about proxy wars with Eritrea and some would swear it is all to do with the ONLF. Mukhtar there leaves all of that and presents (as fact, in the way the article is written) the argument that Ethiopia only meddles in Somali affairs because the weak and outnumbered gang that rules it (Ethiopia not Somalia) wants to hold on to power! So, yes yaa pristine Xaaji, I would like some evidence before I take his words seriously.

^^ ^^ Not recovering. Tentative, saaxib, tentative. I admit that I like the concept of an idealistic theocracy but also know that I would never trust mere mortals to do it justice.