The US Navy says two of its warships have returned fire on a group of suspected pirates off the Somali coast, killing one person and wounding five. The incident happened early on Saturday as the ships were conducting maritime security operations, said a statement by the US Naval Forces Central Command. The ships spotted a suspect vessel, which opened fire on them, it said. Hijackings and piracy have recently surged off Somalia - which has had no central government since 1991. The navy statement said the two warships - the USS Cape St George, a guided missile cruiser, and the USS Gonzalez, a guided missile destroyer - were conducting maritime security operations about 25 nautical miles off the Somali coast when they spotted a suspect vessel towing two smaller skiffs. The Gonzalez sent a team to board the vessel and noticed that a group of suspected pirates was brandishing what appeared to be rocket-propelled grenades. According to the statement, the suspected pirates then opened fire on the navy ships, which returned fire with mounted machine guns in self-defence. One suspected pirate was killed and a fire started on board the vessel. Weapons seized The navy said it detained 12 suspects and confiscated a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and automatic weapons. It said the wounded were receiving medical treatment. No US sailors were injured in the incident. The US warships were patrolling the area as part of a Dutch-led coalition task force. The waters off the Somali coastline have become among the most dangerous in the world for piracy since warlords ousted Somalia's former dictator in 1991 and divided the country amongst themselves. The International Maritime Bureau has warned ships to stay away from the coast because of the attacks. It has recorded 37 attacks since mid-March last year. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4821518.stm Guys in speed boats with grenades and machine guns to take on a Warship with more than 10 times the crew. While that works for Cargo ships, to attack a warship is just too funny for words. The Cole was in a port, and the boat that hit her was disguised as a friendly vessel. These pirates attacked two warships on the high seas. walahi this is a disgrace. :mad:

too much @$$...LOL that is a killer

JACKSON, Miss. — Gov. Haley Barbour said Wednesday he would probably sign a bill under consideration in the state House that would ban most abortions in Mississippi. The measure, which passed the House Public Health Committee on Tuesday, would allow abortion only to save a woman's life. It would make no exception in cases of rape or incest. Barbour, a Republican, said he preferred an exception in cases of rape and incest, but if such a bill came to his desk: "I suspect I'll sign it." The full House could vote on the bill next week, and it would then go to the Senate. South Dakota lawmakers passed a similar bill last week that was intended to provoke a legal showdown over Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court ruling establishing the right to an abortion. The measure is awaiting Republican Gov. Mike Rounds' signature. He has said he is inclined to sign it. Mississippi already has some of the strictest abortion laws in the nation. It requires a 24-hour waiting period and counseling for all abortions, plus the consent of both parents for minors who seek the procedure. What do you guys think america is doing the right thing or not.If abortion is banned americans could have more kids and people than china in a year.God knows how many women get abortion each day of the hour.

I see too many white people....NO GOOD... :eek:

thanks...

^^^ LOL...maybe it is the other way around 16

For all we know this could turn into a civil war.The muslims will respond with the same actions violence.

ONITSHA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Christian youths burned the corpses of Muslims on Thursday on the streets of Onitsha in southeastern Nigeria, the city worst hit by religious riots that have killed at least 146 people across the country in five days. Christian mobs, seeking revenge for the killings of Christians in the north, attacked Muslims with machetes, set fire to them, destroyed their houses and torched mosques in two days of violence in Onitsha, where 93 people died. "We are very happy that this thing is happening so that the north will learn their lesson," said Anthony Umai, a motorcycle taxi rider, standing close to where Christian youths had piled up the corpses of 10 Muslims and were burning them. Dozens more corpses had been thrown into the back of pick-up trucks by security services overnight, residents said. Uncertainty over Nigeria's political future is aggravating regional, ethnic and religious rivalries in Africa's most populous nation and top oil exporter. Elections are due next year and many Nigerians believe President Olusegun Obasanjo and some state governors will try to stay on after eight years in power. The prospect angers those who want their own ethnic or regional blocs to have their turn. Militants in the oil-producing Niger Delta have waged a three-month campaign of attacks and kidnappings, which has cut exports and driven up world oil prices. One of their demands is greater control over their region and its resources. There was no fighting in Onitsha on Thursday but Emeka Umeh, of human rights group the Civil Liberties Organization, called it "the peace of the graveyard." Some charred corpses were still lying on the streets and hundreds of Muslim men, women and children fled the city crammed into open-top trucks for fear of more killings. Thousands more were hiding in army barracks and police stations. Umeh said most of the bodies his group counted were Hausa, but some Ibo were killed too. The Hausa are the main ethnic group in northern Nigeria and most are Muslim, while the Ibo are dominant in the southeast and almost all are Christian. FUNERALS It is impossible to verify the exact number of deaths but Red Cross figures from all the different cities give a toll of 146. Local authorities decline to give death tolls. In northern Maiduguri, where the Christian Association of Nigeria says 50 Christians were killed in a weekend riot that began as a protest against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, tensions were high during several Christian funeral masses. The Red Cross said at least 21 people died in Maiduguri and 9,000 were driven from their homes. A crowd of Christian youths broke away from the burial of one of the victims, a Catholic priest, and ran shouting through the streets before police dispersed them. At the funeral of 13 children from two families who were burned in their houses, mourners wailed as police stood by. News of the Maiduguri killings set off the bloodletting in Onitsha, and tit-for-tat violence spread on Wednesday to Enugu, another southeastern city, where seven people were killed. Nigeria's 140 million people are divided about equally between Muslims in the north and Christians in the south, but sizeable religious minorities live in both regions. Thousands of people have been killed in religious violence since the restoration of democracy in 1999. Killings in one part of the country often spark reprisals elsewhere. The triggers for riots that killed at least at least 46 people, mostly Christians, in northern Maiduguri, Bauchi and Katsina, were different, but religious and secular leaders have linked them to political tensions. In Bauchi, an alleged blasphemy started the trouble, while in Katsina it was a constitutional review that many see as an attempt to keep Obasanjo in power. The constitution bars Obasanjo, a Christian from the southwest, from seeking a third term in 2007 and he says he will uphold the charter. But he has declined to comment on a powerful movement to amend the constitution to allow him to stay. Maiduguri and Katsina are both hosting public hearings on constitutional reform this week which many Nigerians believe are geared toward furthering the so-called third term agenda. (Additional reporting by Estelle Shirbon in Abuja, Ibrahim Mshelizza in Maiduguri and Tume Ahemba in Lagos)

“WHY in a TIME when the MUSLIM UMMAH was UNITED on an ISSUE (the Danish Cartoons), did this BOMBING of this scale have to occur?†The west isn’t only after the Muslim world’s oil. It wants to divide them and corrupt them in all aspects of life; by turning them against each other. It may work and it may not work. But I head some of the shia’s were saying the US is behind it. The American game is starting to get old by now. But allah can see what is going on and may he guide as to the light

Or tell them to shelter the Jews…

“The lawyer believes Germany is the best country in which to file the suit, because it is the "most influential European state" and because the country is directly linked to the case.†What a great course of action; use the country that has an unswerving tie to the holocaust to do their dirty work…When will the west realize that the Jews had chew them and spitted them out million times….This is unbelievable….Further more the only think I want to hear next is what the president of Iran has to say…Boy can he talk

Miiskiin you right i don't think it is the toxic if it was glowing for hundreds of years...but insha'allah we will raise...thou i found this picture just wonder amazing...God i can't describe it...Allah blessed us in so many ways we aren't even thankful for...Look at somalia we have the longest coast line in africa and we can't even control it...One Day "WE" Will About the light part...All my somalis are probably a sleep you know blow out the feynuus...after the sunsets

:confused: For hundreds of years dhuh "Satellite images captured a large patch of glowing water off the coast of Somalia. The area is about the size of Connecticut, and researchers think billions of glowing bacteria are the source. " Our ocean is glowing ... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4990705 November 5, 2005 · For hundreds of years, ship captains in the Indian Ocean have been writing of nighttime voyages through eerie stretches of water -- areas where the surface of the ocean glowed so brightly that sailors could read books on deck at midnight. These milky waters were said to cover thousands of square miles. Marine biologists used to ignore these kinds of reports. Now they don't. A group of satellite photos has changed their minds.

Damn thats girl is so skinny the red cross is sending her food lol loool OUCH DAMN

and I stand SOMALIA like the statue of liberty you got it girl and you are blessed with it too...Use it well...

I enjoyed reading that.Well written by Bashir Goth.

^^ castro I am talking generally look at Somalia and tell me that people did not lost hope. Because you know they did. And if we didn’t lost hope why is Somali still in chaos? 16 years man that is my age by the way thanks a lot to the generation before me…wonderful 16 years don’t you think.

Originally posted by Viking: Lost hope, Most people do care about history sxb. Maybe you should look at the history of somalia in the last 16 years and learn from it.You people need to stop worrying about what somali words sound like the names of the AE Gods that were nothing but statues.It won't get you anywhere.

COMMENTARY BY M.M. Afrah, Toronto (Canada) Having been raised as a "good boy" and changing over to become a sluggish copy boy in a newspaper office and later climbing up the ladder to become an editor and then editor-in-chief. But as I got older, I thought I liked to think that I have a strong sense of right and wrong. I joined anti-colonial demonstrations and with the help of hand operated press we printed inflammatory anti-colonial leaflets that naturally upset our colonial masters. The Somali Youth League (SYL) formerly the Somali Youth Club (SYC) was formed by 13 devoted Somali youngsters who fought relentlessly for independence in their own way. Their slogan was 'XORNNIMO AMA GERI" (independence or death). Thousands of like minded boys, girls and elders joined them in their wholehearted and noble struggle. They all had grand dreams for the future of Somalia. Hence, the nationalist song "Soomaaliyey toosa." This Wake Up call paved the way for full independence in July 1960 despite various obstacles put up by you know who. I also know that young students, like George Padmore, Kwame Nkrumah, Du Bois and Jomo Kenyatta among others created the great Pan Africanist movement in Britain in the 1930s and 1940s. From that humble beginning Africa sprung up to a full independence in 1960 when dozens of African countries became independent which subsequently led to the creation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU). Unfortunately, old Haile Selassie hijacked the organization and used it to undermine Somalia's fledging independence, convincing African heads of state that infant Somali government was an expansionist. Our delegates have been outnumbered and outmaneuvered by the emperor and his like minded cohorts within the OAU. As a result of these behind the scene machinations, a calamity was in the making in the form of border skirmishes intermingled with war of words. And eventually a full-scale war that claimed the lives of our youth in the spring of their lives. Historians now link those very machinations with the present conflict in Somalia as well as the volatile situation in the Horn of Africa. But that's another story. What bugs me most is why our contemporary youth became docile and indifferent to the grim events in our country? I understand that not all people can get along due to the cancer of clan loyalties back home. But would it not make more sense for the youth in the Diaspora to join together and step out into the world as a unified force to bring about peace in their native country? Now I may be an old fashioned man who has gone through the mills, but I am sure I am not the first person who has entertained this notion. Take for example the postings on the Banadir Public Forum by Libangedon who has been preaching a united Somali youth to fight the villains at home who ruined our country and reduced our people to paupers and corpses. The country became rapidly without government and people, a country where foreigners who wanted could come in and could go out at will without so much as by your leave. As a matter of fact a foreign diplomat described Somalia, unlike Afghanistan, as a fruit hanging from a tree (READY TO BE PICKED UP!). This was not the way the founders of the SYL visualized that Somalia should be run, and that it needed to be put straight. That's where you come in. You should not expect manna to fall from the sky. Only you could make a difference. It is not for me to say who is called to lead the United Somali Youth and who is not. It is not for me to say whether or not someone is qualified to start the new movement or not, it just seems to me to be unnecessary to have the Somali youth divided along clan lines forever. I had always believed that the youth in the Diaspora are free from that cancer called tribalism or clanism. This leads me to wonder what is wrong with our youth today? I believe many would say I am a dinosaur and that boys wearing ear rings and spending hours glued to the BET channel, listening to rap music or wearing over sized pants are "the in thing". But I ask myself: do those Pan Africanists and the founders of the Somali Youth League long time ago did not know what they were doing and as such it is necessary to be ashamed to be a Somali, and that boys wearing ear rings and watching the BET channel day in and day out is "Cool". I am sure BET will never teach you how to rebuild the country from the ashes of vicious clan wars or resuscitate the economy. Today the old Wake up Call is as important as it was 50 or 60 years ago. No doubt that after you have been uprooted from your native country by nasty people with guns, it has been challenging living in the Diaspora face-to-face with stone-faced immigration honchos, beefy security men and bullying landlords. But thanks to our Somali ingenuity and tenacity we are still standing and it is time to begin to look ahead to all the good things the old country has in store for us in the near future. You may have faltered, you may have stumbled or you may even have considered yourself an outright failure, but dear future leaders of Somalia I want you to rise and prepare yourself for tomorrow. There is nothing you can do about what had happened to our country during the last ten years. Yes, the past may be a story written in blood but the future can be written in gold. Do not be discouraged about the sad stories emanating daily from Somalia. For almost every great country on earth had gone through similar turmoil, or even worse. Here are few examples, the American and Spanish civil wars, not to mention the devastation of the Two World Wars and the Bolshevik Revolution that claimed the lives of millions of people. Again, it was the youth and the womenfolk who rebuilt their countries from scratch under extreme difficult circumstances. The ball is NOW in your court.

What good is this?...please tell me a rap song? :eek: i heard of it and decided not to listen to it the first time and I am not about to do it now

May he rest in peace and may is sins be forgiven….amin amin This is amazing even the police are taking revenges now…Power on my people protest to the fullest I am sorry but I am not in the UK but I wish all of you that are going the best; and make sure that your voice(s) are heard cuz there are plenty of Somalis in the UK

Who cares look at us now? Don’t look back at the past look at the future and present. :rolleyes:

They left us in the mist of a civil war, just like that they had ones packed their staff and left Somali in chaos they will do the same again. We as a nation can only help ourselves. This is dog eat dog world they will take what they want from you and leave you in the dust

Shot the b@stards down. Few rule the many. When did my people became so weak? what happen to stand up for what you believe in. these damn warlords...May they burn in hell. :mad:

I love this, but who really cares what happens to the Somalis in Saudi Arabia when we don’t care about the Somalis in Somalia? The Somalis have chosen to take the low road and suffer so let them suffer. Until we open our eyes and smell the coffee I would say we are a nation full of flies… It won’t be a shock if all the Somalis get abused cuz they have always been abused in every country….Weak people can easily be picked on.