Dhaq dhaqaaq xoogleh oo laga dareemayo Ciidamada Puntland Last Updated::2006-08-09 16:19:24 Gaalkacyo:- Dhaq dhaqaaq xoogleh ayaa laga dareemayaa xarumaha Milatariga ee ku yaal magaalada Gaalkacyo. Ayadoo wakhtigan magaalada Gaalkacyo uu ku sugan yahay Madaxweynaha Dowlada Puntland, Gen.Cadde Musse iyo dhamaan taliyayaasha ciidamada Daraawiishta ayaa waxaa soo baxaya dhaq dhaqaaqyo xoogleh oo heegan lagu gelinayo Ciidamada Dowlada Gobaleedka Puntland. Saraakiisha Daraawiishta ee magaalada Gaalkacyo ayaa ayagu ka gaabsaday in ay wax faah faahin ah ka bixiyaan shirar kala gedisan oo ay maalmihii lasoo dhaafay si joogta ah ulla yeelanayeen Madaxweynaha Puntland. Sarakiisha ayaa hadalkooda kusoo koobay in ay socdaan hawlo lagu adkeenayo xuduudaha iyo amniga deegaanada Puntland, in aysan ku faafin xiisada ka jira dalka Soomaaliya. Dowlada Puntland ayaa horey digniin adag uga soo saaray in gobalada Puntland lala soo galo dagaalada kasoo bilowday Muqdisho ee u dhaxeeya Hogaamiye kooxeedka iyo Maxkamadaha Islaamiga. Madaxweynaha Puntland ayaa todobaadyadii lasoo dhaafay ku sugnaa magaalada Gaalkacyo, halkaasi oo sidoo kale kormeero ku maray xarumaha ciidamada ayadoo ay jiraan dadaalo lagu xoojinayo amniga iyo ka hortaga wax kasta oo khatar ku noqon kara amniga Puntland, waa suu hadalka u dhigay mid kamid ah Sarakiisha Daraawiishta ee xaruntoodu tahay magaalada Gaalkacyo. Waxaa sidoo la arkayey dhaq dhaqaaq ciidamada hubka culus ku gaashaaman oo ay ku jiraan gawaarida Tiknikada loo yaqaan. Dhinaca kale waxaa markii ugu horeysay muddo sanado ah la arkay tijaabinta gaadiidka Tangiyada ee ciidamada, ayadoo tijaabooyikaasi lagu sheegay kuwo qeyb ka ah heeganka ay ku jiraan ciidamada. Ciidamada Puntland heegan la geliyey ayaa kusoo aadaya wakhti ay jiraan xiisado ka dhextaagan beelaha dega Koonfurta Gobalka Mudug oo intooda badan kasoo horjeeda in ay deegaankaasi kusoo fidaan Maxkamadaha Islaamiga. Deegaanka Gelinsoor ayey ku sugan yihiin maleeshiyooyin kasoo jeeda beelaha Koonfurta Gaalkacyo kuwaasi oo la sheegay in ay kasoo horjeedaan in ay halkaasi yimaadaan Maleeshiyooyinka kasoo baxay Galgaduud iyo magaalada Muqdisho oo ah kuwa Maxkamadaha. Dagaalo ka dhaca koonfurta Gobalka Mudug ayaa keeni karta in dagaaladan ay kusoo fidaan dhinaca magaalada Gaalkacyo, arrintaasi oo ay Puntland sheegtay in ay ka hortagi doonto. Koonfurta Gaalkacyo ayey shalay ka dhaceen banaanbaxyo dadka deegaankaasi ku dhaqan ay uga soo horjeedaan Maxkamadaha Islaamiga, arrintaasi oo keentay in dabley taageersan Maxkamadaha ay rasaas dadkii mudaharadaayey ku faraan kadib markii la sheegay in dhagaxaan lagu tuuray, dhacdadaasi ayey ku dhaawacmeen sadex ruux oo rayid ah. Cabdifutaax Shirwac HorseedNet.com

Galkacyu is not Beledweyne. If they attack Galkacyu city they will triger a clan war, be in no doubt about that, and this will set the country back..

^^^The funnier scetch is the one in which only a certain armed clan can create courts only in its areas and then claim to be Islamic. Funny thing also is how they ignore Afgoyee which is 30km and ruch to Cadaado and South Galkacyu. Al-Furgan, Chircoole, Dayniile, Sisis, Ifk-Xalin...What about Al-Baravane, Al-Jareer, Al-Tuni and so on.... No justice no peace... Even more comedic is that they [clan courts] get supplies from coptic Christian Eritria and then cry about the involvement of coptic Christian Tigray in Ethiopia... Dave Chappelle anyone?

^^^The funnier scetch is the one in which only a certain armed clan can create courts only in its areas and then claim to be Islamic. Funny thing also is how they ignore Afgoyee which is 30km and ruch to Cadaado and South Galkacyu. Al-Furgan, Chircoole, Dayniile, Sisis, Ifk-Xalin...What about Al-Baravane, Al-Jareer, Al-Tuni and so on.... No justice no peace... Even more comedic is that they [clan courts] get supplies from coptic Christian Eritria and then cry about the involvement of coptic Christian Tigray in Ethiopia... Dave Chappelle anyone?

But that doesn't make Waqooyi galbeed a "country" of its own. Here in the states, we have different codes for most states as well. In one state alone one can find different area codes for towns adjacent to one another. 612 minneapolis area, 952 bloomington, 651 saintpaul, 507 rochester to mention a few and these are towns in one small state few miles apart the size of Somalia if not less I never agreed with Mr Xoogsade on anything, but that hit the nail right on the head...

Nice gorgeous George does it again...

THE BRUTAL OCCUPATION IN THE SOUTH: A LITMUS TEST TO THE SOMALI ISLAMIST By Dr. Ali Said Faqi August 5, 2006 In Somalia where there is no foreseeable future for millions of people because of the inexorable madness, any new change is perceived as very positive. Somalis inside and those in diaspora are debating the implication of the recent victory of the ICU in Mogadishu and in Somalia as a whole and are forming up their own mind carefully. Despite the fact that the major base for the ICU supporters is the same as the one that supported the Mogadishu warlords for the last 16 years, nevertheless; ICU has gained some genuine followers across Somali clans. To their credit, ICU will be remembered as a political group that succeeded to bring peace and security in Mogadishu, a city which most analysts would admit to have been a very dangerous place. On the other hand, the ICU failed miserably by deliberately sidestepping to disarm Mr. Yusuf Indha adde and his cronies, who have been illegally occupying the land and the resources of the natives of the Lower Shabelle and Jubba. As a testimony to my statement, I would like to remind the readers on a very particular episode. A couple of weeks ago when ICU militia left Mogadishu to institute an Islamic Court in Burhakaba they did not bother to disarm Mr. Hussein Cirfo, and Mr. Sharuub who illegally occupy Afgoye and Wanleweyn, respectively. For those of you who are not familiar with Somalia or who were very young to remember, let me orient you a little bit about what I am talking about. There is only one main road that connects Mogadishu to Burhakaba and that road goes through Afgoye and Wanlaweyn. These two cities and many other cities in the Lower Shabelle and Jubba are ruled by warlords who are not different in terms of brutality from the rest of the warlords recently ousted by the ICU. So the big question is why were these individuals left untouched? I will leave this to be answered by those who are calling themselves the SHURA of Islam. Allah says in his Quran “O ye who believe! Stand out firmly for justice, as witnesses to Allah, even as against yourselves, or your parents, or your kin, and whether it be against rich or poor: For Allah can best protect both. Follow not the lusts (of your hearts); lest ye swerve, and if ye distort (justice) or decline to do justice, verily Allah is well-acquainted with all that ye do. (The Noble Quran, 4:135)". This very basic principle of Islam is what a true believer would like to see implemented and practiced. In several interviews Mr. Sheikh Dahir Aweys, the leader of ICU indicated unmistakably that ICU has no plans to remove from the power the warlords forcefully ruling the Lower Shabelle and Jubba. He emphatically insisted that there is no need for change describing these regions as peaceful. In contrary Mr. Aweys while addressing the people of Cadaado (his native region) on the occasion of the opening ceremony of an Islamic court said “We came here by the wishes of the locals not by force". This clearly means that he does not believe the will of the locals in Benadir, Lower Shabelle and Jubba is crucial? This is utterly ridiculous, and his contradicting statements are nothing but clan bigotry and should be fully rejected. It is this kind of rhetoric that makes people wonder whether there will ever be peace. Any decent human being would question why someone who claim to have submitted himself to the will of Allah; would discriminate against others based on a tribe affiliation? Is this ignorance or a calculated political hypocrisy? For me ICU seems to be picking and choosing its friends and foes merely on a clan basis. Unfortunately, tribal allegiance will always be stronger than the faith for Allah in Somalia, an ideology which clearly contradicts to Islam. The barbaric rule in the Lower Shaballe region for example collects illegal taxes including a 40,000 Somali Shillings a month per house from residents of most districts of the Lower Shabelle who do not have jobs and sources of income. Anyone who does not pay these fees either goes to jail or loses his property. The revenue generated from illegal taxation, chopping trees for charcoal and over fishing is used as a financial source for acquiring military arsenals to maintain the illegal occupation. Let me remind you again that these are the only places in Somalia where outside clans abuse the locals and impose rigid rules. It is a religious and moral responsibility to speak out against injustice and evildoers and this is what I am doing. ICU established Islamic courts some hundreds of kilometers north of Mogadishu empowering the natives of each city to be in charge of the administration by physically removing the warlords, while cities just thirty to seventy kilometers south of Mogadishu were left deliberately to the very same people who been abusing them over a decade to be the ICU commissioners. It appears that the criteria posed by the ICU to qualify for self-rule would not make these residents eligible as they are either considered inferiors or carrying no great weight in the eyes of the ICU leadership. Islam calls for peaceful coexistence and harmony between communities. Tribalism is an enemy of Islam and civilization because it calls for the systemic killing of rival clan members. A general consensus is that tribes are unruly and thus pose a threat to the society and to peace as a whole. Let us examine the current scenario that has been put in place by the ICU to some residents of Mogadishu including Hamar Weyne and to Lower Shabelle and Jubba and explore whether it makes any sense. Everyone would agree with me that the clan militia in Hamar Weyne, lower Shabelle and Jubba are now part of the official militias of the ICU. Imagine then this, an individual who have been harassing your neighborhood for years and all of a sudden you find him representing a religious authority. Also imagine the person who have looted your farm or property, molested your daughter or sister, killed your neighbors is suddenly calling your head to be chopped if you don’t show up in the mosque. These are very scary thoughts, unfortunately are real facts in Benadir, Lower Shabelle and Jubba. The natives of these areas have waked up to realize that ICU spokespersons in their respective districts are no one else, but the very same individuals who they badly wished and prayed for to be kept away from the society for years. Little knowledge and hatred against anything different, clan in this case is the basis for extremism. I am appalled and extremely saddened about the abuse of Islamic basic principles in Somalia. A raw model for our lovely religion should not be a criminal element of the society; we ought to have respect to the religion that we dearly care and worship. ICU’s tolerance on the illegal administrations in Lower Shabelle and Jubba is nothing, but clan chauvinism. We must remind ourselves that Islam is the only thing that Somalis share and cherish together; everything else has been already tarnished and tossed to the trash and it wholeheartedly saddens me to see it abused. Somalia is a country that went to a brutal civil war, where the only sin to cost people’s life was to belong to a rival or unarmed clan. If peace has to prevail reconciliation is the best way to proceed. Changing names and shirts will only extend the chaos and may win time for those who are not interested in peace. Rhetoric must stop and dialogue between rival communities should be honestly encouraged. True issues should be debated and the natives of Southern Somalia should be allowed their rights for self-determination. The Land grabbing policy is the main issue of conflict in Somalia and neither the ICU leaders nor TFG will be willing to admit and face it and it is this issue that makes both institutions morally corrupt. The ICU will not be different from the other failed political organizations as long as they are ignoring the facts in the south. Islam is a religious that has no dual face of worshipping and I am quite sure that it does not call for a tribal loyalty. Manmade constitutions call for establishments of justice in the society, insure domestic tranquility, and promote general welfare of the communities as the basis to coexist as a nation. I believe Islam calls for more than that, therefore, let us face the Somali issues seriously and stop the hypocrisy once for all. I am for peace and justice and for the full integrity of Somalia. Dr. Ali Said Faqi Alifaqi@yahoo.com

Funny but the funniest (US)comedian is Dave Chappelle from the Chappelle Show... That dude is crazy.. Here is the black Bush SKIT black bush

I will give the tall man some props, he has guts and since everything was done legally I wish them what I would any other couple, a happy life isha Allah..

But Im also wondering was this violance between Shia and Sunni fomented by the British in the South of Iraq and the US in the rest of the country for reasons of political expediancy in order to gain a stronger hold over Iraq, but now there is occuring a huge Blowback form the aforesaid classic policy of divide and conquer Yes, the occupiers of IRAQ started to highlight the differences or ethnicities in Iraq, you had the silly SUNNI TRIANGLE which was never used in the general discourse of that nation. Kurds, Shia and Sunni was used to strengthen the hand of the occupiers. They belived they could control the Shia and buy of the Kurds and bomb the Sunni to submission. They were mistaken the Shia fighters and rebels came back with a clear agenda of their own. The pro-western Shia politicians like Ahmed Chalabi, Iyad Allawi etc, took a back seat to the Mullahs and young upstarts like Al-Hakim and Sayid Muqtada Al Sadr..Further more the Ayatolah Al-Sistani an Iranian is the most powerful man in Iraq today, because he can with one word call up the 18 million Shias to the streets.. The Americans are now courting the Sunni's in order to weaken the Shia coilition who now run the government and the new army. You mentioned Bahrain a valid point which illustrates the nature of the problem, remember also that the Iranians are next door to UAE and QATAR, who happen to be pro American. Imagine if there is a war on the Iranians or a Shia-Sunni confrontation?

The west will learn that they will have to respect the Muslim world.. Like they have learned to respect the Chinese and the Indians..

We wait and see...the title confused me for a second...

We wait and see...the title confused me for a second...

Puntland Ministers Visit Minnesota The ministers from Puntland, Somalia arrived in Minneapolis Minnesota. A large crowd of people welcomed them at the airport including one of the Minnesotan professors who visited Somalia last month. The ministers were excited and they feel at home in Minnesota. After their welcome at the airport, the ministers went to the hotel where they were greeted by another group of Minnesotans and Somalis. The ministers told the group about their purpose for coming and who they plan to visit in Minnesota. This is the first time a Confederation Somali Community of Minnesota has invited a delegation from Puntland State of Somalia to Minnesota. The invitation was hand delivered by a Minnesota delegation who visited Puntland in July, 2006. The Somali community will welcome the ministers with a large event to be held at the Brian Coyle Center at Cedar Riverside in Minneapolis. This event will take place from 4:00PM to 9:00PM, Friday August 11, 2006. Assistant Director of CSCM: Abdirisaq Minister: Mohamed Yusuf (Gaagaab) Vice Minister: Weli Geyre Reported by Somali Media, Abdimalik Askar

Robert Fisk: A Nato-led force would be in Israel's interests, but not Lebanon's Published: 01 August 2006 Every foreign army - including the Israelis - comes to grief in Lebanon. So, how come George Bush and Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara - after their inevitable disasters in Afghanistan and Iraq - believe that a Nato-led force is going to survive on the south Lebanese border? The Israelis would obviously enjoy watching its deployment - it will be time for the West to take the casualties - but Hizbollah is likely to view its arrival as a proxy Israeli army. It is, after all, supposed to be a "buffer" force to protect Israel - not, as the Lebanese have quickly noted, to protect Lebanon - and the last Nato army that came to this country was literally blasted out of its mission by suicide bombers. How blithely the US and British governments have erased the narrative of the old Multinational Force - the MNF - which arrived in Beirut to escort Palestinian guerrillas out of Lebanon in August of 1982 and then, after the massacre of up to 1,700 Palestinian guerrillas at the Sabra and Chatila camps by Israel's proxy Lebanese militia, returned to protect the survivors and extend the sovereignty of the Lebanese government. Does that sound familiar? And they also came to train the Lebanese army - one of the missions being foisted on the new Bush-Blair army - and they failed. Blown up by suicide bombers at their Beirut headquarters with the loss of 241 American lives, the US Marines retreated into the ground, digging earthworks beneath Beirut airport. And there they lived until the newly-trained Lebanese army broke apart in February 1984 - at which point, President Ronald Reagan decided to "redeploy" his troops offshore. Like other famous historical redeployments - Napoleon's redeployment from Moscow, for example, or Custer's last redeployment - it represented a national disaster, a colossal blow to US prestige in the region and a warning that such Lebanese adventures always end in tears. The French left shortly afterwards. So did the Italians. A company of British troops had been the first to scuttle out. So, how come anyone believes that the next foreign army to arrive in the Lebanese meat-grinder is going to be any more successful? True, the MNF was not backed by a UN Security Council resolution. But since when were Hizbollah susceptible to the UN? They have already failed to disarm - as they were required to under UN resolution 1559 - and one of the world's toughest guerrilla armies is not going to hand over its guns to Nato generals. But most of the force will be Muslim, we are told. This may be true, and the Turks are already unwisely agreeing to participate. But are the Lebanese going to accept the descendants of the hated Ottoman empire? Will the the Shia south of Lebanon accept Sunni Muslim soldiers? Indeed, how come the people of southern Lebanon have not been consulted about the army which is supposed to live in their lands? Because, of course, it is not coming for them. It will come because the Israelis and the Americans want it there to help reshape the Middle East. This no doubt makes sense in Washington - where self-delusion rules diplomacy almost as much as it does in Israel - but America's dreams usually become the Middle East's nightmares. And this time, we will watch a Nato-led army's disintegration at close quarters. South-west Afghan-istan and Iraq are now so dangerous that no reporters can witness the carnage being perpetrated as a result of our hopeless projects. But, in Lebanon, it's going to be live-time coverage of a disaster that can only be avoided by the one diplomatic step Messrs Bush and Blair refuse to take: by talking to Damascus. So when this latest foreign army arrives, count the days - or hours - to the first attack upon it. Then we'll hear all over again that we are fighting evil, that "they" - Hizbollah or Palestinian guerrillas, or anyone else planning to destroy "our" army - hate our values; and then, of course, we'll be told that this is all part of the "War on Terror" - the nonsense which Israel has been peddling. And then perhaps we'll remember what George Bush senior said after Hizbollah's allies suicide-bombed the Marines in 1982, that American policy would not be swayed by a bunch of "insidious terrorist cowards". And we all know what happened then. Or have we forgotten? Day 20 * Lebanese dead - at least 577 confirmed, could be up to 750. Israeli dead - 51. * Israel bombs and shells southern Lebanon despite announced halt in air raids. * Rescue workers find 28 bodies buried for days in destroyed buildings in three Lebanese villages. * UN postpones a meeting on Lebanon peacekeeping force indefinitely. * Bush says he will seek UN action this week to end the fighting. * Clashes near Aita Al-Shaab leave four Hizbollah fighters dead and three Israelis wounded. Every foreign army - including the Israelis - comes to grief in Lebanon. So, how come George Bush and Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara - after their inevitable disasters in Afghanistan and Iraq - believe that a Nato-led force is going to survive on the south Lebanese border? The Israelis would obviously enjoy watching its deployment - it will be time for the West to take the casualties - but Hizbollah is likely to view its arrival as a proxy Israeli army. It is, after all, supposed to be a "buffer" force to protect Israel - not, as the Lebanese have quickly noted, to protect Lebanon - and the last Nato army that came to this country was literally blasted out of its mission by suicide bombers. How blithely the US and British governments have erased the narrative of the old Multinational Force - the MNF - which arrived in Beirut to escort Palestinian guerrillas out of Lebanon in August of 1982 and then, after the massacre of up to 1,700 Palestinian guerrillas at the Sabra and Chatila camps by Israel's proxy Lebanese militia, returned to protect the survivors and extend the sovereignty of the Lebanese government. Does that sound familiar? And they also came to train the Lebanese army - one of the missions being foisted on the new Bush-Blair army - and they failed. Blown up by suicide bombers at their Beirut headquarters with the loss of 241 American lives, the US Marines retreated into the ground, digging earthworks beneath Beirut airport. And there they lived until the newly-trained Lebanese army broke apart in February 1984 - at which point, President Ronald Reagan decided to "redeploy" his troops offshore. Like other famous historical redeployments - Napoleon's redeployment from Moscow, for example, or Custer's last redeployment - it represented a national disaster, a colossal blow to US prestige in the region and a warning that such Lebanese adventures always end in tears. The French left shortly afterwards. So did the Italians. A company of British troops had been the first to scuttle out. So, how come anyone believes that the next foreign army to arrive in the Lebanese meat-grinder is going to be any more successful? True, the MNF was not backed by a UN Security Council resolution. But since when were Hizbollah susceptible to the UN? They have already failed to disarm - as they were required to under UN resolution 1559 - and one of the world's toughest guerrilla armies is not going to hand over its guns to Nato generals. But most of the force will be Muslim, we are told. This may be true, and the Turks are already unwisely agreeing to participate. But are the Lebanese going to accept the descendants of the hated Ottoman empire? Will the the Shia south of Lebanon accept Sunni Muslim soldiers? Indeed, how come the people of southern Lebanon have not been consulted about the army which is supposed to live in their lands? Because, of course, it is not coming for them. It will come because the Israelis and the Americans want it there to help reshape the Middle East. This no doubt makes sense in Washington - where self-delusion rules diplomacy almost as much as it does in Israel - but America's dreams usually become the Middle East's nightmares. And this time, we will watch a Nato-led army's disintegration at close quarters. South-west Afghan-istan and Iraq are now so dangerous that no reporters can witness the carnage being perpetrated as a result of our hopeless projects. But, in Lebanon, it's going to be live-time coverage of a disaster that can only be avoided by the one diplomatic step Messrs Bush and Blair refuse to take: by talking to Damascus. So when this latest foreign army arrives, count the days - or hours - to the first attack upon it. Then we'll hear all over again that we are fighting evil, that "they" - Hizbollah or Palestinian guerrillas, or anyone else planning to destroy "our" army - hate our values; and then, of course, we'll be told that this is all part of the "War on Terror" - the nonsense which Israel has been peddling. And then perhaps we'll remember what George Bush senior said after Hizbollah's allies suicide-bombed the Marines in 1982, that American policy would not be swayed by a bunch of "insidious terrorist cowards". And we all know what happened then. Or have we forgotten? Day 20 * Lebanese dead - at least 577 confirmed, could be up to 750. Israeli dead - 51. * Israel bombs and shells southern Lebanon despite announced halt in air raids. * Rescue workers find 28 bodies buried for days in destroyed buildings in three Lebanese villages. * UN postpones a meeting on Lebanon peacekeeping force indefinitely. * Bush says he will seek UN action this week to end the fighting. * Clashes near Aita Al-Shaab leave four Hizbollah fighters dead and three Israelis wounded.

Weeks of bombing leave nation in ruins By Thanassis Cambanis and Rana Fil, Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent | August 5, 2006 TYRE, Lebanon -- Three-and-a-half weeks of war have undone Lebanon's renaissance. The human toll has been catastrophic enough, with more than 900 Lebanese killed and 913,000 displaced, at the government's last count. But Israel's bombing campaign has also reduced much of the nation's infrastructure to a shambles, setting back painstaking and costly reconstruction that had finally put Lebanon on a prosperous path after decades of civil war and economic stagnation. Bridges, seaports, fuel depots, and the nation's airports and ports, border crossings, and all the major national highways have been attacked, causing more than $2 billion in damage. In the latest blow, Israeli warplanes yesterday destroyed four key bridges on the country's last major land route to Syria, raising a new obstacle to aid efforts and adding to the rebuilding burden. ``If there is a definitive solution to the crisis, it will take two to three years to get back to where we were on July 12," the day the war began, said Marwan Mikhael, an adviser to Lebanon's minister of economy and trade. Lebanon's prime minister, Fuad Saniora, said at an Islamic conference in Malaysia on Thursday that Israel's offensive on Lebanon ``is taking an enormous toll on human life and infrastructure, and has totally ravaged our country and shattered our economy." Another less visible cost is the virtual shutdown of the nation's tourism industry, which was projected before the Israeli offensive to generate 12 percent of the nation's gross domestic product this year. Many of the Mediterranean beachfront resorts, built with foreign investment along the 135-mile coast and developed with international grants, now serve as refugee clearinghouses. Israel says it is fighting the Islamist Hezbollah militia, not Lebanon. But Israel has repeatedly struck targets that appear to have little to do with Hezbollah and plenty to do with the daily life of the Lebanese -- many of whom oppose Hezbollah. The bombing campaign, according to Israel, aims to cut off Hezbollah's supply routes. But many Lebanese believe Israel is trying to inflict so much damage that political leaders will crack down on the Shi'ite militia, which hasn't happened yet. Although the bombing continues, the existing damage from the war has already produced a daunting list of repairs for this small country of 3.9 million. Bombs have devastated the country's brand-new network of superhighways -- the centerpiece of the late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's long-term recovery blueprint for Lebanon. The Israeli strikes have been particularly devastating in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah's stronghold and home to about 10 percent of the country's population. Almost every road in the south has been cratered by bombs. Villages near the Israeli border have been razed by shells and bombs. Not a single bridge has been left standing over the Litani River, cutting off southern Lebanon from the rest of the country. Only four-wheel-drive vehicles strong enough to forge through the river can pass the Litani, except at a single point where the Lebanese Army has created a one-lane sand-berm bridge sturdy enough to withstand civilian traffic. All commerce to the south flowed through the north-south arteries. And Lebanon's economy is highly centralized, with many people traveling regularly to Beirut for everything from work to government services to healthcare to shopping. Fuel shortages have become epidemic, spawning long gas lines in Beirut, central Lebanon, and even the comparatively unscathed Christian and Sunni areas in northern Lebanon. Major cities have all suffered electricity shortages, and power supplies have been entirely cut in most of heavily bombed areas of the south. Lebanon has more experience than most countries in coping with war. However, during the 1975-1991 civil war, no outside power imposed a crippling external blockade, as Israel is doing now. And although the civil war ravaged Lebanon much more deeply over 16 years, the sheer speed and scope of the current destruction in just over three weeks has been stark. Lebanon's recovery, government officials said, depends on how much foreign aid flows into the country after a cease-fire. Saudi Arabia has pledged $500 million and Kuwait $300 million toward rebuilding infrastructure. ``The cost of the damage to the infrastructure exceeds $2 billion," the transportation and public works minister, Mohammad Safadi, said during a lull in the bombing early this week.

Deadliest rocket barrage of war kills 15 in Israel Sun Aug 6, 2006 5:54pm ET BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hizbollah rockets killed 12 soldiers and at least three civilians in Israel on Sunday, the deadliest day of the war for Israel, as Lebanon rejected a draft U.N. resolution to end the 26-day-old conflict. Israeli bombardment of southern Lebanon killed at least 19 civilians and a Lebanese soldier. In the Israeli village of Kfar Giladi, a rocket hit a group of Israeli reservists called up for the Lebanon offensive. Medics said 12 were killed and dozens were wounded. Soldiers near the scene held their heads and one wept as a military ambulance pulled away. Helicopters landed nearby to fly the badly wounded to hospitals further from the war front. "I don't recall so many dead ever. This is terrible," said Ron Valensi, head of the upper Galilee municipal council and a resident of Kfar Giladi, speaking on Channel 2 Television. More Hizbollah rockets hit the northern city of Haifa, killing at least three people and wounding up to 121, medics said. A police commander told Israel Radio that a rocket slammed into two adjacent houses, causing them to partly collapse. Lebanon's parliament speaker Nabih Berri said his country rejected the U.S.-French draft Security Council resolution because it would let Israeli forces stay on Lebanese soil. Berri, a Shi'ite politician who has been the main channel between Hizbollah and Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, said the draft ignored the Beirut government's seven-point plan calling for a ceasefire, the withdrawal of Israeli forces and the return of all displaced civilians among other things. "All of Lebanon rejects any resolution that is outside these seven points," Berri told a news conference. Lebanon submitted an amendment to the Security Council calling for an Israeli withdrawal to be added to the resolution. The Syrian state news agency said President Bashar al-Assad had told U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan by telephone on Sunday that "any decision taken without a Lebanese consensus will complicate matters and deepen instability". SKIRMISHES EXPECTED U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that agreeing on a resolution would not end all fighting. "I would hope that you would see very early on an end to large-scale violence," she said, but did not rule out "skirmishes for some time to come". Hizbollah, backed by Syria and Iran, has killed 58 Israeli soldiers and 36 civilians in the conflict, sparked when its men seized two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on July 12. The Israeli army said on Sunday it had captured one of the Hizbollah fighters who took part in the seizure of the soldiers. At least 759 people have been killed in Lebanon during the war, including 16 overnight and on Sunday in the bombing of five southern villages. Two civilians died when an Israeli air strike hit a pickup truck ahead of a U.N. aid convoy heading for the southern city of Tyre, U.N. source s said. A Lebanese soldier was killed in an air raid near Tyre and another civilian in a strike inside it. Hizbollah announced that three more of its fighters had been killed, bringing its declared toll of deaths to 52. Lebanese security sources estimate about 90 Hizbollah deaths in the war. Beirut was rattled by an air raid in the Shi'ite-dominated southern suburbs, witnesses said. And the Bekaa Valley was hit by several air raids, one near a Lebanese army base. U.N. peacekeepers in south Lebanon said a mortar round fired by Hizbollah wounded three Chinese members of the force. Hizbollah said its rocket attack on Haifa, using Raad 2 missiles, was a response to continued Israeli bombing, particularly the strikes on Beirut. ISRAEL FAVOURABLE TO DRAFT Israel views the U.N. draft favourably, a senior government official and Israeli media said, noting that it allowed Israel to respond to Hizbollah attacks after a truce and did not order Israel to withdraw its 10,000 soldiers from southern Lebanon. Israel wants its troops to remain until an international force can take over. Hizbollah says it will keep fighting until Israel stops bombing Lebanon and withdraws all its forces. The draft was hammered out in negotiations between the United States, Israel's main ally, and France, touted as leader of the anticipated international force for Lebanon. Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon said Israel would keep attacking Hizbollah targets in Lebanon and its soldiers would stay there until the international force arrived. We must continue the fighting, continue to hit whoever we can hit from Hizbollah," Ramon told Army Radio. Lebanon will seek support for its position from Arab foreign ministers due to meet in Beirut on Monday. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Mouallem, arriving by land a day early, reiterated that Syria would respond if Israel attacks it. The war coincides with an Israeli military offensive in the southern Gaza Strip to recover another captured soldier. An air strike killed one Palestinian in the strip on Sunday, bringing to at least 167 the number of Palestinians killed in the campaign, more than half of them civilians.

Baydhabo:Madaxda dawladda Soomaaliya oo ku heshiiyay in xukuumadda Geeddi lagu soo koobo 31 Wasiir. Sunday, August 06, 2006 Baydhabo(AllPuntland)- Madaxda sare ee dawladda Federaalka oo heshiis ku wada gaaray magaalada Baydhabo ayaa laga sugayaa inay faah faahiyaan qodadii ay ku heshiiyeen. Madaxwaynaha Soomaaliya C/llaahi Yuusuf Axmed , guddoomiyaha baarlamaanka Shariif Xasan Sheekh Aadan , iyo raysulwasaaraha Soomaaliya ayaa isla meel dhigay arimo keenay inuu mugdi kala galo. C/rashiid Aadan oo ka tirsan madaxtooyada Federaalka ayaa sheegay in madaxdu ay heshiiyeen , hase ahaatee waxyaabaha ay ku heshiiyeen oo faah faahsan lawada sugayo Shir dhowr saacadood socday oo ay kasoo qayb galeen madaxda Itoobiya ayuu heshiiskani ka danbeeyay , waana mid la xiriira in la isla shaqeeyo. Qodobbo la sheegay inay heshiiska kamid yihiin ayaa waxaa kamid ah in Cali Maxamed Geeddi xukuumaddiisa isku shaandheeyo dabadeedna uu aad usoo koobo. Waxaa lagu heshiiyay in xukuumadda aan laga badin 31 illaa 42 wasiir si loo helo dawlad tayo leh. Afhayeenka dawladda Soomaaliya C/raxmaan Diinaari ayaa sheegay inay madaxdu ku heshiiyeen inay isla shaqeeyaan tix galiyaanna dastuurka dalka u yaalla. Arimaha laga heshiiyay waxaa kaloo kamid ah shirka Khartoum oo muranka ugu wayn ee madaxda ugu saraysa uu ka dhashay , hase ahaatee in la tagi doono iyo in kale waxaa laga sugayaa masuuliyiinta dawladda. Waxaa kaloo kamid ah in maalinta bari ah baarlamaanka la hor geeyo heshiiskan dabadeedna ay ansixiyaan baarlamaanku , shan maalmoodna la siiyo Geeddi , si uu xukuumad usoo dhiso. Khilaafka madaxda sare ee dawladda ka dhex qarxay ee hadda laga heshiiyay waa mid ay wada dareemeen shacabka Soomaaliyeed. CCC Farayaanmo AllPuntland

^^^There is a clrear split and a fear in the corrupt oil rich Sunni nations of the emerging power of the Shia. Iran is the only regional power, it has a large population, educated and they have managed to control their oil. Iraq is for the first time in its history run by the Shia who are estimated to be 60% of the population. They also have the most powerful millitias, Badr Brigade, Mahdi of Al Sadr. Lets add Lebanon which has 1/3 of its population Shia making up the ranks of the world famous Hizbollah.. The Saudi,s have 10% Shia population, who reside in an important oil rich province. So while the fat cats in the Gulf helped destroy Sadam in Iraq, they have become the midwife who delivered the new Shia power Iran...

Here is the pic of the child. Please help..

Here is a pic of the child...Again please help... She was born with these marks..

Its called democracy mate, they can fight, puch and disagree. But let me tell the secesionists a few things. Alhamdulilah the warlords are finished, the only sympathiser to the secesionist was Bashir Raage, but now he is gone. Mogadishu is as safe as it ever been. Puntland is getting stronger. Baidoa and Mogadishu are holding talks.. Dear lads keep talking. The arguments of the secesionist is making less, today there are no warlords in the south, , Mogadishu is resurecting itself. There is no major civil war.

Alas poor Paragon is confused again. This government is based on power Sharing, the President still has the power of his region and the support of many Somali's..Sharif Xasan is also a popular figure in the TFG, now their position is not for negotiation, you would require a 2/3 majority to get rid of them, which is not possible. Now coming back to the topic, the question is what can both sides agree on, first the ICU recognises the TFG as the sole legitamate goverment of Somalia There should be a unified armed forces, thus bringing in the armed clans and the courts millitias. There should be an end to the occupation of the lower Shabbele. A power sharing agreement must be put in place.. There should be no Ethiopian, Eritrian or anyother foreign forces in the Somali territories. But alas Paragon as usual gets things twisted and starts to belive the hype he has been told by some corners regarding the power of his favourite warlord Inda Cade... NGoon, the TFG has survived the so called powerful warlords, it will survive the new so called powerful courts...

Xasan Dahir is just one individual, he has no option but to make peace. Lets not get too focused on him or the others...

You have nothing to lose by talking, and everything to gain.... If these courts do not want peace, the people will see them for what they are.. Lets talk, lets negotiate and lets find a Somali soultion...