Two months after Hassan was allegedly rendered to the secret Mogadishu prison, Nabhan, the man believed to be his Al Qaeda boss, was killed in the first known targeted killing operation in Somalia authorized by President Obama. On September 14, 2009, a team from the elite US counterterrorism force, the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), took off by helicopters from a US Navy ship off Somalia’s coast and penetrated Somali airspace. In broad daylight, in an operation code-named Celestial Balance, they gunned down Nabhan’s convoy from the air. JSOC troops then landed and collected at least two of the bodies, including Nabhan’s. Hassan’s lawyers are preparing to file a habeas petition on his behalf in US courts. “Hassan’s case suggests that the US may be involved in a decentralized, out-sourced Guantánamo Bay in central Mogadishu,” his legal team asserted in a statement to The Nation. “Mr. Hassan must be given the opportunity to challenge both his rendition and continued detention as a matter of urgency. The US must urgently confirm exactly what has been done to Mr. Hassan, why he is being held, and when he will be given a fair hearing.” Gutteridge, who has worked extensively tracking the disappearances of terror suspects in Kenya, was deported from Kenya on May 11. The order, signed by Immigration Minister Otieno Kagwang, said Gutteridge’s “presence in Kenya is contrary to national interest.” The underground prison where Hassan is allegedly being held is housed in the same building once occupied by Somalia’s infamous National Security Service (NSS) during the military regime of Siad Barre, who ruled from 1969 to 1991. The former prisoner who met Hassan there said he saw an old NSS sign outside. During Barre’s regime, the notorious basement prison and interrogation center, which sits behind the presidential palace in Mogadishu, was a staple of the state’s apparatus of repression. It was referred to as Godka, “The Hole.” “The bunker is there, and that’s where the intelligence agency does interrogate people,” says Abdirahman “Aynte” Ali, a well-connected Somali analyst who has researched the Shabab and Somali security forces. “When CIA and other intelligence agencies—who actually are in Mogadishu—want to interrogate those people, they usually just do that.” Somali officials “start the interrogation, but then foreign intelligence agencies eventually do their own interrogation as well, the Americans and the French.” Some prisoners, like Hassan, were allegedly rendered from Nairobi, while in other cases, according to Aynte, “the US and other intelligence agencies have notified the Somali intelligence agency that some people, some suspects, people who have been in contact with the leadership of Al Shabab, are on their way to Mogadishu on a [commercial] plane, and to essentially be at the airport for those people. Catch them, interrogate them.” * * * In the eighteen years since the infamous “Black Hawk Down” incident in Mogadishu, US policy on Somalia has been marked by neglect, miscalculation and failed attempts to use warlords to build indigenous counterterrorism capacity, many of which have backfired dramatically. At times, largely because of abuses committed by Somali militias the CIA has supported, US policy has strengthened the hand of the very groups it purports to oppose and inadvertently aided the rise of militant groups, including the Shabab. Many Somalis viewed the Islamic movement known as the Islamic Courts Union, which defeated the CIA’s warlords in Mogadishu in 2006, as a stabilizing, albeit ruthless, force. The ICU was dismantled in a US-backed Ethiopian invasion in 2007. Over the years, a series of weak Somali administrations have been recognized by the United States and other powers as Somalia’s legitimate government. Ironically, its current president is a former leader of the ICU. Today, Somali government forces control roughly thirty square miles of territory in Mogadishu thanks in large part to the US-funded and -armed 9,000-member AMISOM force. Much of the rest of the city is under the control of the Shabab or warlords. Outgunned, the Shabab has increasingly relied on the linchpins of asymmetric warfare—suicide bombings, roadside bombs and targeted assassinations. The militant group has repeatedly shown that it can strike deep in the heart of its enemies’ territory. On June 9, in one of its most spectacular suicide attacks to date, the Shabab assassinated the Somali government’s minister of interior affairs and national security, Abdishakur Sheikh Hassan Farah, who was attacked in his residence by his niece. The girl, whom the minister was putting through university, blew herself up and fatally wounded her uncle. He died hours later in the hospital. Farah was the fifth Somali minister killed by the Shabab in the past two years and the seventeenth official assassinated since 2006. Among the suicide bombers the Shabab has deployed were at least three US citizens of Somali descent; at least seven other Americans have died fighting alongside the Shabab, a fact that has not gone unnoticed in Washington or Mogadishu. During his confirmation hearings in June to become the head of the US Special Operations Command, Vice Admiral William McRaven said, “From my standpoint as a former JSOC commander, I can tell you we were looking very hard” at Somalia. McRaven said that in order to expand successful “kinetic strikes” there, the United States will have to increase its use of drones as well as on-the-ground intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations. “Any expansion of manpower is going to have to come with a commensurate expansion of the enablers,” McRaven declared. The expanding US counterterrorism program in Mogadishu appears to be part of that effort.

A Somali who was arrested in Mogadishu and taken to the prison told The Nation that he was held in a windowless underground cell. Among the prisoners he met during his time there was a man who held a Western passport (he declined to identify the man’s nationality). Some of the prisoners told him they were picked up in Nairobi and rendered on small aircraft to Mogadishu, where they were handed over to Somali intelligence agents. Once in custody, according to the senior Somali intelligence official and former prisoners, some detainees are freely interrogated by US and French agents. “Our goal is to please our partners, so we get more [out] of them, like any relationship,” said the Somali intelligence official in describing the policy of allowing foreign agents, including from the CIA, to interrogate prisoners. The Americans, according to the Somali official, operate unilaterally in the country, while the French agents are embedded within the African Union force known as AMISOM. Among the men believed to be held in the secret underground prison is Ahmed Abdullahi Hassan, a 25- or 26-year-old Kenyan citizen who disappeared from the congested Somali slum of Eastleigh in Nairobi around July 2009. After he went missing, Hassan’s family retained Mbugua Mureithi, a well-known Kenyan human rights lawyer, who filed a habeas petition on his behalf. The Kenyan government responded that Hassan was not being held in Kenya and said it had no knowledge of his whereabouts. His fate remained a mystery until this spring, when another man who had been held in the Mogadishu prison contacted Clara Gutteridge, a veteran human rights investigator with the British legal organization Reprieve, and told her he had met Hassan in the prison. Hassan, he said, had told him how Kenyan police had knocked down his door, snatched him and taken him to a secret location in Nairobi. The next night, Hassan had said, he was rendered to Mogadishu. According to the former fellow prisoner, Hassan told him that his captors took him to Wilson Airport: “‘They put a bag on my head, Guantánamo style. They tied my hands behind my back and put me on a plane. In the early hours we landed in Mogadishu. The way I realized I was in Mogadishu was because of the smell of the sea—the runway is just next to the seashore. The plane lands and touches the sea. They took me to this prison, where I have been up to now. I have been here for one year, seven months. I have been interrogated so many times. Interrogated by Somali men and white men. Every day. New faces show up. They have nothing on me. I have never seen a lawyer, never seen an outsider. Only other prisoners, interrogators, guards. Here there is no court or tribunal.’” After meeting the man who had spoken with Hassan in the underground prison, Gutteridge began working with Hassan’s Kenyan lawyers to determine his whereabouts. She says he has never been charged or brought before a court. “Hassan’s abduction from Nairobi and rendition to a secret prison in Somalia bears all the hallmarks of a classic US rendition operation,” she says. The US official interviewed for this article denied the CIA had rendered Hassan but said, “The United States provided information which helped get Hassan—a dangerous terrorist—off the street.” Human Rights Watch and Reprieve have documented that Kenyan security and intelligence forces have facilitated scores of renditions for the US and other governments, including eighty-five people rendered to Somalia in 2007 alone. Gutteridge says the director of the Mogadishu prison told one of her sources that Hassan had been targeted in Nairobi because of intelligence suggesting he was the “right-hand man” of Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, at the time a leader of Al Qaeda in East Africa. Nabhan, a Kenyan citizen of Yemeni descent, was among the top suspects sought for questioning by US authorities over his alleged role in the coordinated 2002 attacks on a tourist hotel and an Israeli aircraft in Mombasa, Kenya, and possible links to the 1998 US Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. An intelligence report leaked by the Kenyan Anti-Terrorist Police Unit in October 2010 alleged that Hassan, a “former personal assistant to Nabhan…was injured while fighting near the presidential palace in Mogadishu in 2009.” The authenticity of the report cannot be independently confirmed, though Hassan did have a leg amputated below the knee, according to his former fellow prisoner in Mogadishu.

The CIA's Secret Sites in Somalia Jeremy Scahill The Nation July 12, 2011 Nestled in a back corner of Mogadishu’s Aden Adde International Airport is a sprawling walled compound run by the Central Intelligence Agency. Set on the coast of the Indian Ocean, the facility looks like a small gated community, with more than a dozen buildings behind large protective walls and secured by guard towers at each of its four corners. Adjacent to the compound are eight large metal hangars, and the CIA has its own aircraft at the airport. The site, which airport officials and Somali intelligence sources say was completed four months ago, is guarded by Somali soldiers, but the Americans control access. At the facility, the CIA runs a counterterrorism training program for Somali intelligence agents and operatives aimed at building an indigenous strike force capable of snatch operations and targeted “combat” operations against members of Al Shabab, an Islamic militant group with close ties to Al Qaeda. As part of its expanding counterterrorism program in Somalia, the CIA also uses a secret prison buried in the basement of Somalia’s National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters, where prisoners suspected of being Shabab members or of having links to the group are held. Some of the prisoners have been snatched off the streets of Kenya and rendered by plane to Mogadishu. While the underground prison is officially run by the Somali NSA, US intelligence personnel pay the salaries of intelligence agents and also directly interrogate prisoners. The existence of both facilities and the CIA role was uncovered by The Nation during an extensive on-the-ground investigation in Mogadishu. Among the sources who provided information for this story are senior Somali intelligence officials; senior members of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG); former prisoners held at the underground prison; and several well-connected Somali analysts and militia leaders, some of whom have worked with US agents, including those from the CIA. A US official, who confirmed the existence of both sites, told The Nation, “It makes complete sense to have a strong counterterrorism partnership” with the Somali government. The CIA presence in Mogadishu is part of Washington’s intensifying counterterrorism focus on Somalia, which includes targeted strikes by US Special Operations forces, drone attacks and expanded surveillance operations. The US agents “are here full time,” a senior Somali intelligence official told me. At times, he said, there are as many as thirty of them in Mogadishu, but he stressed that those working with the Somali NSA do not conduct operations; rather, they advise and train Somali agents. “In this environment, it’s very tricky. They want to help us, but the situation is not allowing them to do [it] however they want. They are not in control of the politics, they are not in control of the security,” he adds. “They are not controlling the environment like Afghanistan and Iraq. In Somalia, the situation is fluid, the situation is changing, personalities changing.” 'Essentially, the CIA seems to be operating, doing the foreign policy of the United States,' said a well-connected Somali analyst. According to well-connected Somali sources, the CIA is reluctant to deal directly with Somali political leaders, who are regarded by US officials as corrupt and untrustworthy. Instead, the United States has Somali intelligence agents on its payroll. Somali sources with knowledge of the program described the agents as lining up to receive $200 monthly cash payments from Americans. “They support us in a big way financially,” says the senior Somali intelligence official. “They are the largest [funder] by far.” According to former detainees, the underground prison, which is staffed by Somali guards, consists of a long corridor lined with filthy small cells infested with bedbugs and mosquitoes. One said that when he arrived in February, he saw two white men wearing military boots, combat trousers, gray tucked-in shirts and black sunglasses. The former prisoners described the cells as windowless and the air thick, moist and disgusting. Prisoners, they said, are not allowed outside. Many have developed rashes and scratch themselves incessantly. Some have been detained for a year or more. According to one former prisoner, inmates who had been there for long periods would pace around constantly, while others leaned against walls rocking.

..CIA using secret Somalia facility, prison: report AFP – ....tweet2EmailPrint......Related Content. ...Militants belonging to Somalia?s Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab Islamists ride vehicles … ....The US Central Intelligence Agency is using a secret facility in Somalia for counterterrorism purposes as well as a secret prison in the Somali capital, the magazine The Nation reported Tuesday. The report said the CIA has "a sprawling walled compound" on the coast of the Indian Ocean which looks like a small gated community, with more than a dozen buildings behind large protective walls. According to the magazine, the site has its own airport and is guarded by Somali soldiers, but the Americans control access. The Nation said the effort is part of a focus on the Shebab, the Al Qaeda-linked group in the region blamed for a number of plots against the United States. It said the CIA seeks to build "an indigenous strike force capable of snatch operations and targeted 'combat' operations" against the Shebab. The report said the CIA also uses a secret prison buried in the basement of Somalia's National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters, where prisoners suspected of being Shebab members or of having links to the group are held. Some prisoners have been captured in Kenya or other locations, according to the magazine, which said the prison is officially run by the Somali NSA, but that US intelligence personnel pay the salaries and interrogate detainees. ...

Somalia iyo Somali ha isku qaldin Somali wa luqad dhaqan iyo Assal ma didi karo Laakin Somalia dee wa dal Like Djibouti.

The Government works hard day in day out going to juba kuwait Djibouti is not the only job they do they provide security do you know president Siilaanyos government doubled the salaries of the armed forces and civil servants free schools for the primary schools and highschools in the country building infrastructure Hospitals roads etc. So let me get this straight so xaglatoosiye asks funding from the single mothers from his clan and you say its oke for them to be ripped of and he chills some where in nairobi or dubai. Ninka u bahaan inu xishoodo wa xaglatoosiye iyo mr A khadar oo ku raacsan inu Xaglatoosiye dhaco Dumarka reerkooda .

NGONGE;733644 wrote: ^^ I will watch them when I get a chance at home insha allah. Xiin, dee adigu dadka kala saar. The guru speaks for himself and has his own unique way of expressing his own ideas. My bone of contention with you follows a clear pattern. I can see that there is an idea brewing in your head but that you're too hasty to let it develop and would rather rush into silly threads about Farole going to Juba or the sudden need to remind us of qiimaha qaranimada. Take a step back, saaxib. You're on the right track but are letting old habits get the better of you. It's good to scratch an itch every once in a while but when it gets too much it time for a second opinion. Waa hadaad i fahantay dee. Ngonge ma waxad leedahay faroole qaranka kama mid noqon karo eeg Xiin fanin Kitaabkisa yar eeh reerkooda wa siita mar mar na dee halkan bu ka sheekeynaya oo wuxu iska dhigaya yaxaas ooyaya

eeg wata Somalidi qaran ba laga hadlaya clan bey ka sheekenayaan markasey leeyihin qaranki aaway

The ladies and the citizens of the people of Somaliland pay tax to government that protects their interest and country President Axmed Maxamad Maxamuud Siilaanyo may allah reward him for his good deeds, was sworn in that he will protect the religion the territorial integrity of Somaliland protect the people of Somaliland he will defend the flag and the Constitution of the country. And in return the citizens of the republic will pay tax to his government like every other civilized society. Hellow what did xaglatoosiye do for the single mothers from his clan in the diaspora other than collecting money from them what did he do with all the money they send him to wage a war Against the Somaliland government. Did he organize the weekly teleconference to collect more money lol, and your telling us he does not need the money come on who are you kidding. And no this thread is not about Sheikh dalxiis this topic is about Somalilands flag flying next to all the other country flags.

Boondheere by the way i don't support Alshabaab or any of the the so called extremist groups in Somalia but do not portray the African mercenaries as angels.

Uganda is defending Islam actually. I stopped reading there

Yes your Xaglatoosiye doesn't get humiliated giving parties at international airports with single mothers from his clan he can't even visit the village he is from called Buhoodle how long has he been away now is he still collecting money from the poor diaspora to buy himself a plane ticket. Mujahid Siilaanyo is a well respected leader meets presidents where ever he goes.

President Amxed Maxamad Maxamuud Siilaanyo Kama qasna he got a personal invitation from the president of south sudan Mr Salva Kiir Mayardit he got welcomed in juba had casho with ban ki moon UN boss president of Eritrea Isayas afewerki President of Zimbabwe Robert mugabe the flag of the nation he represent was raised along all the other flags he celebrated with the people of south sudan and their independence and flew back to his country he's got a country to run you know. By the way how is your clan jabhad leader Xaglatoosiye he is been away for a long time.

You do know that stateless Somalia benefits Yoweri Museveni and his Country he made that clear few months ago he gets funding for his troops in Somalia the same way uncle sam paid the bills of Melez zanawi in 2007 Yoweri is also fighting against islam in the horn of africa he said he would send Islam back to the middle east Uganda and Ethiopia are both members of Igad and foreign Meddiling will continue

^^^^^looool what is the difference between uganda and Ethiopia they are both africans

Somaliland Oo Abaabul Kala Qaybin Ah Ka Wadda Gudaha Buhoodle-(Maqal)- Lasanod Online. Tuesday, July 12, 2011 Buhoodle,(lasanod Online)- Ayaamihii u danbeeyey waxaa ka jiray magaalada Buuhoodle ee xarunta gobolka Cayn shirar markii hore lagu sheegay.. in looga hadlayo aayaha gobolka Cayn, laakiin hada xaaladu waxay isku badashay in shirkaasi uu soo farageliyey maamulka Soomaliland isla markaasna shacabka magaaladu arrintaasi ay ka biyo diideen. Xaalada magaalada Buuhoodle ayaa saaka kacsan kadib markii shirar gooni gooni ahi ka bilaameen magaalada Buuhoodle ee xarunta gobolka Cayn, shirkaasi ayaa waxaa wada xubno ka oo jeeda gobolka Cayn waxayna sheegeen markii hore in ay ka talin doonaan musqalbalka gobolka Cayn, waxaase hada wararku sheegayaan in xubnahaasi u xuubsiibteen kuwo u shaqeeye maamulka Soomaaliland. Magaalada Buuhoodle ayaa saaka waxaa laga qabanqaabinayaa mudaharaad looga soo horjeedo xubnahaasi la sheegay inay gacan saar la yeesheen maamulka Soomaaliland. Taliye ku xigeenka booliska gobolka cayn ahna ku simaha taliyaha qaybta booliska gobolka Cayn ee Puntland Gashaanle Ibraahin Cabdi Balayax "dhoolgu" ayaa Lasanod Online uga warbixiyey arrimahaas, hoose ka dhagayso.

Somalia last its sovereignty long time ago when you have 12000 Amisom mainly ugandan forces in your capital while you don't have the authority of the forces roaming in your country. And the decision are made else where people take this lightly but its a serious issue when the late Mr cheese was told to resign there was nothing he could do he does not control Buhuku and the Ugandan mercenaries and the orders came from Kampala and he does not have loyal clan Militia like the warlords back in he days. The TFG was constructed and designed in this way that it was destined to fail its a failed institution.

Looooooooool@ngonge

Dark day for somalia. Allah ha u sahlo

Halo ciyaaro calankeena

Prospects for the future Whatever government is born from Yemen's conflict, if any, it will face the almost insurmountable task of re-creating a state out of a county that has descended into regional control. With the economy gradually slipping into complete free-fall, powerful tribesmen have taken it upon themselves to supply Sanaa with gasoline and other basic essentials, increasing personal revenue and solidifying their control over major highways. With Yemen importing most of its supply of wheat grain and other basic foods, the power to distribute fuel to trucks bringing food into major cities has fallen to tribes. Any new government that is born from Yemen's political turmoil would face these tribes as powerful rivals to consolidated central government. With tribes seizing control of the northern economy, Yemen's south is left to suffer the consequences of what has essentially become a foreign economic crisis. As already deep-seated hatred for northerners continue to fester as the conflict continues, south Yemen, similar to Somaliland, may simply find it more prudent to secede and avoid undue suffering. Jeb Boone is a freelance journalist based in Sanaa, Yemen, and managing editor of the Yemen Times

Who is running Yemen? Posted By Jeb Boone Monday, July 11, 2011 - 7:12 AM Share On June 3, Yemen's long-ruling President Ali Abdullah Saleh was badly injured in an attack by unknown assailants. His departure from Sanaa to a military hospital in Saudi Arabia seemed to many people to have finally resolved the long standoff between Saleh's embattled regime and a variety of political challengers. But the intervening weeks have brought Yemen no closer to resolving the political uncertainty. Anti-government protesters first erected tents in cities like Sanaa and Taiz. Tribal leaders then began to slowly come out against the Saleh government and express their support for the youth movement. As the once resilient tribal patronage system began to break down, chaos erupted across the country, leaving Saleh with only a small piece of real estate in a northern mountain valley to reign over. With Saleh in Saudi Arabia and no replacement in sight, who is running Yemen? In the vacuum created by Saleh's absence, his politically crippled deputy has been left as a steward to Sanaa's empty seat of power. Just days after his unplanned departure, Saleh's son Ahmed took up residence in the presidential palace, sending a message to protesters and defiant tribesmen that his father's will would be done through his proxy. Meanwhile, Yemen's political opposition, the Joint Meeting Parties, has taken control of Sanaa's Change Square protest camp, attempting to solidify its political life in any new government. While Sanaa's power brokers look to posture themselves to take seats of power, the Yemeni government has lost total control over the rest of the country. Yemen's rugged northern tribal regions have rarely been ruled directly by president, imam, or foreign colonizer until the rise of Ali Abdullah Saleh in 1978. Learning from the dismal failures of the Ottomans and succeeding five failed presidents, two of which were assassinated, Saleh took a more nuanced and delicate approach to ruling the fractured region. Instead of governing Yemen's tribes by force or sheer military domination, Saleh began to co-opt the tribes into Yemen's government through a system of patronage. Some sheikhs received government stipends while others were placed in prominent political and military positions. Throughout most of his political career, Saleh maintained a subtle but stable hold on the Yemen Arabic Republic, known as North Yemen. In 1990, he became the first ruler since the Queen of Sheba to rule over the entire historic region of Yemen (except for northern regions now under the control of Saudi Arabia). In spite of a civil war in 1994, he continued to hold North and South Yemen together in one state. Fissures began to appear in Saleh's fragile dominance over Yemen's north in 2004 when a group of tribesmen, calling themselves the Believing Youth, rose up in armed rebellion against the Saleh government. While the Yemeni government claimed that the Zaidi Shiites of the northern Saada governorate sought to reinstitute an imamate, the rebels themselves claimed that they were marginalized and discriminated against by the government. These Houthi rebels, named after their now dead leader Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, fought a series of six wars against the Yemeni military, with the last war ending in 2009. Ironically, what was once the most war-torn region of Yemen is now the safest. With most of the military focused on maintaining control of major cities swarmed by anti-government protesters, the Houthis have had an opportunity to rebuild their communities and live in complete lack of state control. Sanaa: Saleh's last bastion One of the last remaining vestiges of government control in Yemen is the country's capital, Sanaa. In spite of Saleh being whisked away to Saudi Arabia to receive treatment for wounds sustained in an attack on his palace, his son Ahmed, commander of the Republican Guards, and his eldest nephew Yahya, commander of the Central Security Forces, have maintained a stranglehold over the city. Military checkpoints still dot the city; more ominously, soldiers of the Central Security Forces, the only Yemeni military branch that has remained ostensibly loyal to President Saleh, still roam the streets. All along the city's major thoroughfares, Yahya's men stare intently at passing traffic, looking down the barrels of Russian heavy machine guns mounted in the back of camouflage-painted pickup trucks. The rural north: The land of tribal autonomy Yemen's tribal areas have never been friendly to centralized control, at the behest of foreign powers or Yemeni leaders. The country's most powerful tribal confederation, Hashid, has even managed to bring the fight to Saleh's doorstep in the capital. Under the leadership of Sadeq al-Ahmar and his younger brother Hamid, a billionaire businessmen and opposition political figure, the Hashid confederation and Yemen's Republican Guards engaged in a 13-day-long war in downtown Sanaa. After Saudi mediators managed to negotiate a cease-fire, fighting began in several tribal strongholds such as the city of Arhab, just a few miles outside Sanaa. With fighting still ongoing, tribesmen are showing no intention of coming under the umbrella of Saleh's government ever again. Marib governorate: Yemen's Wild West The Marib governorate, east of Sanaa, has been wracked with chaos ever since the death of Jabr al-Shabwani, son of prominent Sheikh Ali al-Shabwani, killed by a U.S. drone strike in May 2010. To take revenge for his son's death, Ali destroyed a section of one of Yemen's largest oil pipelines, leading to billions of dollars in lost revenue for the Yemeni government. As anti-government protest began sweeping the country, Ali and his tribesmen ramped up their campaign against the government's infrastructure. The oil pipeline was attacked several more times, and attacks against power stations began. In addition, tribesmen still control a long stretch of road leading into Sanaa, blocking shipments of fuel. Taiz: The hub of the youth revolution Last February, protesters first erected tents in the city of Taiz, Yemen's intellectual and industrial capital. Since the first tent spike was driven into the asphalt, crackdowns on protesters have been worse than in any other city in the country. Also unlike anywhere else in Yemen, tribesmen have been fighting back against security forces in Taiz. Sheik Hamoud al-Makhlafi, a former member of Saleh's ruling General People's Congress Party, has declared himself and his tribe to be defenders of the youth revolution. Street battles are a common occurrence in this contested city as Saleh and his relatives attempt to retain control of Yemen's second-largest city. Aden: South Yemen's former capital Founded in 2007, Yemen's southern separatist movement has suffered extremely violent crackdowns and political imprisonments. Claiming to be under the occupation of the northern tribal regime, the southern movement has come out of the shadows in Aden and is operating in the open. The military personnel loyal to Saleh's regime are distinctly absent in Aden. Unlike Yemen's capital where anti-government banners and signs are found only near Sanaa University, the port city is emblazoned with anti-government graffiti on walls and shops and even across the high security walls of now empty government buildings. The flag of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, the former state of South Yemen, is a ubiquitous symbol, hastily spray-painted throughout the city. The Abyan governorate: Under AQAP control? Last month, armed militants descended from the surrounding mountains into the city of Zinjibar, the capital of the Abyan governorate. The militants were able to seize control of the city and adjacent villages with ease, according to Abyan residents and witnesses who say that Yemen's elite American-trained counterterrorism unit inexplicably withdrew from the area hours before the attack. Since the seizure of the area by what the government claims to be al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) militants, a war of attrition has been waged by the Yemeni military through constant airstrikes and artillery bombardments. Thousands of Abyan residents have fled the intense violence. With southern Yemen falling away from government control and the north embroiled in political and tribal chaos, Yemen's fractured entities show little sign of coalescing. While several tribes, including the Houthi rebels and the Hashid Confederation, have expressed support for the youth revolution, few people, if any, have command of the vast tribal network that Saleh utilized so masterfully. Along with disparate northern tribes, many southern Yemenis have expressed a desire to secede from the north completely regardless of who is in power in Sanaa.

Gacanku dhiiglayaashii Afrika ugu caansanaa oo kulmay Sadexda gacan ku dhiigle oo ugu caansan Afrika ayaa ku kulmay magaalada Juba Koonfurta Suudaan Horjoogaha maamulka SNM Danbiile dagaal Siilaanyo oo Soomaali u badan dumar,caruur iyo curyaamiin ka carari waayey ciidankiisii SNM ku xasuuqay gudaha Soomaaliya gaar ahaan gobolada Sanaag Cayn Iyo Awdal ayaa la kulmay dhiigiisa dhinaca xasuuqa ee bariga Afrika madaxweynaha Ereteriya Isaias Afwerki iyo ninka hogaaminaya xasuuqa qaarada Afrika dhinaceeda Koonfureed Robert Gabriel Mugabe. Madaxweynaha Ereteriya Isaias Afwerki ayaa kaalmo ciidan iyo mid lacag waxa uu siiyaa ururka Alshaaba oo ka dagaalamaya koonfurta Soomaaliya iyo degaanada Puntland waxaana hubka uga soo degaa Alshabaab dekeda Berbera sidoo kalena ciidanka ay soo tababaraan Ereteriya ayaa lagu soo daabulaa Buuraha calmadow iyaga oo lagu wado gaadiid laga leeyahay hargaysa si ay nabad gelyo xumo uga dhaliyaan degaanda Puntland. Ugu danbayntii Bulshada Caalmaka waxaan u sheegaynaa in maamulka Puntland iyo Bulshada ku nooliba ay doorteen nabada, horumarka maamul wanaaga deris wanaaga iyo wada noolaashaha wadamada deriska ah sida Itoobiya iyo Bulshada caalamka inteeda kale, hase ahaatee maamulka Hargaysa waxay saaxiibo ka dhigteen falaagada aduunka ugu caansan sida Mugaabi iyo Afwerki oo dadkooda har iyo habeenba xasuuqaya sidoo kalena taageera argagixisada caalamiga ayaa ah maamul taageera argagixsada nabad xumada ka wada degaanada Puntland sidoo kalena baro kiciyey shacab badan oo ku nool gobolada waqooyiga Soomaaliya ayna Beesha uu ka soo jeedo Siilaanyo. caydruush tallow ma bahda allsanaag.com ba

The Zack i have seen it on a video live on the ceremony it's as authentic as it can be

gooni;733530 wrote: Markaad tv ka daawato somaaligaa gaajaysan maxaad dareentaa?ma inaad soomaali tahay mise somaliland? Saxiibkay wuxuu yidhi gow,,, war anaga unbaa iskala qaad qaadeenee yaa na yaqaan:D waxan dareema inay rashin u bahanyihin