Al Shabab are voilent, Barbaric, and like warlords, danger to Somalis,warning to their supporters in here,you can be detained for supporting terrorists.

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — UN chief Ban Ki-moon said in a report issued Tuesday that he was prepared to recommend sending UN peacekeepers to strife-torn Somalia if some key conditions are met. The conditions include "a viable and inclusive political process and an agreement on the cessation of hostilities," he noted in a report detailing possible alternatives to the African Union (AU) peace force known as AMISOM currently in Somalia. Under this scenario, the Ethiopian troops currently propping up the Somali government in its battle with Islamist insurgents "would have withdrawn or would be in the process of doing so." "A military technical agreement in support of peace would have been signed by the major clans and factions, which would list security arrangements, such as certain certain to achieve disarmament, in respect of heavy weapons as a minimum, and non-violent settlement of disputes," the report said. Ban released the report in response to calls for greater UN involvement in Somalia made by the AU and some members of the Security Council. The deployment of up to 28,500 UN troops and police was one of four scenarios worked out by UN planners who sent a fact-finding team to the volatile Horn of Africa country which has been wracked by civil war for more than 16 years. The team conducted a thorough analysis of the security situation there. Last month, the UN Security Council voted to extend for another six months the mandate of AMISOM. AMISOM, which currently consists of roughly 2,300 troops from Uganda and Burundi according to Ban, is ultimately to number around 8,000 soldiers tasked with stabilizing Somalia. The Somali capital, Mogadishu, has seen almost daily gun battles between Islamist insurgents and Somali and Ethiopian security forces.

U.S. puts Somali Islamist group on terrorism list Tue 18 Mar 2008, 18:20 GMT [-] Text [+] By C. Bryson Hull NAIROBI, March 18 (Reuters) - The United States has formally designated Somalia's al Shabaab militants a foreign terrorist organisation to increase pressure on what Washington says is al Qaeda's main link in the Horn of Africa nation. The al Shabaab is the militant wing of the Somalia Islamic Courts Council that took over most of southern Somalia for the second half of 2006, until Somalia's interim government and its Ethiopian military allies routed the group in a two-week war. The group, whose leader Aden Hashi Farah Ayro survived a U.S. airstrike in January 2007, is thought by security experts to be leading an insurgency that has killed 6,500 people since last year. The designation put the Shabaab alongside groups such as al Qaeda, Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the Palestinian Hamas group and Lebanon's Hezbollah. "I hereby designate that organisation and its aliases as a foreign terrorist organisation," U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in a notice published on Tuesday in the U.S. government's Federal Register. The designation allows Washington to freeze the assets of any person or group linked to al Shabaab, another tool to go alongside military and intelligence efforts that have led to four U.S. military strikes in Somalia in the last 14 months. "U.S. financial institutions can get assets of anyone involved and block them and prevent any material support getting to them," said a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity. "We will be reaching out to other governments to get them to implement similar provisions." Al Shabaab has adopted Iraq-style tactics, including assassinations and roadside bombs and has claimed at least one suicide bombing -- unheard of in Somalia's moderate Sufi Islamic customs. "VIOLENT, BRUTAL GROUP" "Al-Shabaab is a violent and brutal extremist group with a number of individuals affiliated with al Qaeda," the State Department said in a statement released in Washington. "The designation will raise awareness of al-Shabaab's activities and help undercut the group's ability to threaten targets in and destabilize the Horn of Africa region," it added. Western security officials and diplomats say Ayro trained with al Qaeda in Afghanistan and has provided shelter to al Qaeda operatives involved in 1998 and 2002 bomb attacks in neighboring Kenya. They say the al Shabaab, under Ayro's command, has been responsible for killing aid workers and journalists, the desecration of an Italian colonial-era cemetery in 2004 and scores of attacks during the insurgency. That has always been Washington's concern in the absence of an effective central government in Somalia since the ouster of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991, and It was the second time Washington has moved to freeze assets of Somalis on terrorism grounds. Ayro's mentor, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, was one of 189 people or entities "linked to terrorism" whose assets were frozen by the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The two are among six members or associates of al Qaeda thought by the United States to be in Somalia. In New York, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a report on Somalia which said there were indications that "international terrorists have sought safe haven in the Hiraan and Juba districts, considered to be the stronghold of (Islamic Courts Union or ICU) extremist elements." The Security Council will discuss the report on Thursday and diplomats said it would again consider possibly sending a U.N. peacekeeping force, a move supported by South Africa but which permanent council members Britain and France are wary of. "The security situation remains volatile throughout the country," Ban said. The United Nations has not itself confirmed the existence of "terrorist cells" in Somalia, but Ban's report raised the concern that "the longer law and order is absent from Somalia, the greater the chance that international terrorists will use its territory as a safe haven." (Additional reporting by Mark Trevelyan in London and Arshad Mohammed in Washington, Editing by Matthew Tostevin and David Storey) (For full Reuters Africa coverage and to have your say on the top issues, visit: http://africa.reuters.com/ ) © Reuters 2008. All Rights Reserved. | Learn more about Reuters

By Peter Clottey Washington, D.C. 19 March 2008 Clottey Interview With James Swan - Download (MP3) Clottey Interview With James Swan - Listen (MP3) The United States government has classified al-Shabaab, an Islamic militant group based in Somalia, as a terrorist organization. This comes after the group reportedly committed various acts of terrorism, including beheading three government soldiers during an ambush on a checkpoint outside the capital, Mogadishu and praising Osama Bin Laden in the process. The militant group recently claimed responsibility for a series of bombings and attacks on Somali government and Ethiopian soldiers. James Swan is Deputy Assistant secretary of State for African Affairs. From Washington, he tells reporter Peter Clottey the terrorist group’s presence in Somalia is detrimental to the ordinary Somali. “This group known as al-Shabab has been designated a foreign terrorist organization after a very careful review of information concerning this group. There are documented indications of their close links to al Qaeda, including a number of senior officials in this group who have trained with al Qaeda. They’ve issued statements praising Osama Bin Laden, inviting foreign fighters to come to Somalia. And so for a host of reasons after a very careful review, this group has been designated a foreign organization by the United States,” Swan pointed out. He said the militant group’s presence in Somalia poses a significant danger to Somalis. “I think that is very much correct. We see this organization as a threat to the Somali people. The organization has conducted a number of attacks whose victims have been principally Somalis. Moreover, the group is an impediment, and it’s violent acts have proven an impediment to the reconciliation process in Somalia that in our view is essential to the restoration of peace, stability and prosperity of the country,” he said. Swan said the US government has plans underway to stop the terrorist group’s negative influence. “We believe this designation as a foreign terrorist organization will allow additional tools to be applied to constrain and curtail the activities of what is known as the al-Shabab. Under the provisions of the foreign terrorist organization designation, there would be additional restrictions on financial transfers to al-Shabab. There will be further restrictions on access to property and other resources that they may have, and there will be provisions on travel and immigration for example to the United States. So there are a host of provisions under the foreign terrorist designation that would further limit the activities of al-Shabab. And then more generally, we believe that the designation formally of this organization as a foreign terrorist organization will bring additional publics attention to al- Shabab and help underscore and signal the importance of curtailing its activities,” Swan noted. Somalia has not had a stable central government since the overthrow of President Siad Bare in bloody coup de’tat in 1991.

Maakhir is here to stay...

Waxba ha gawsa cadaynina, LA wa la iska daba iman? Ciyaari waa gelin danbe. I can see u feel so happy for the oppression of LA people.

lol, war nin yahow wax hunguri wayn xagee geeyn, adigaan ba dab yar shidayn!

^kkkk ,xagee?

wallee? and where is the origin?

Great development, North thanks.

^Oo maxay ahayd bal na xusuusi?

It is true, that region has become the polite way of saying which tribe are you? but honesly i don't know the intentions of Hunguri, but I can't tell which region a person comes from by checking the looks, accent maybe. And Yes,I am a Somali Kiwi,and plan to visit Melbourne this year Insha Allah, and news has reached me that in Melbourne, or Australia in general, Kiwis are highly sought-after, why is it? Serenity from Awdal, waw, do u also use "huuno"? lol :cool:

Ther is no harm saying I am from that place,we merely mapping the nomads, that is all, no hidden tricks. Btw, now I am not far from Melbourne,

^Rahima, Tell us which region you from ? , Surely there will be some1 who pcik up that region? lool

Rageedii

Lazy and Hunguri, what a match

Jacaylbaro, xage farta ku fiiqday adigu, waa lagu sugi/ Fatboy, dookhiisa buu ka ciyaaray. Is that a problem?

Here is the story, and the plan of this guy. 1-He dates girls and tells them he is married, convincing them to agree to be the second wife. 2-Once the agreement is made, he can go ahead with the marriege, planing to go for the second marriege after some time, believing it won't cause a problem since the first wife accepted the idea of sharing. It is a great plan, hope it works for him

Isma dhaanto iyo dhasheedii,sheekadan dad Soomaali ah baa sidan loogalay, ama la bur burshay waan ka dheregsanahay, waana lala wada socdaa, maxaad se shaqsi ahaan ka qaban? mise afka bay idinkaga hartey?

Samir iy imaan, Rabi ha u naxariisto.

(6)Awdal has my vote. :cool: Hunguri, gobolada intii kale maye? Nugaal,Galguduud, Shabelle Dhixe, Jubada Hoose, Jubada Sare,Bakool, Banaadir

Here

Thanks Saxb

that is very easy, Soo maaha North?

Will I be allowed to stay?