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    NN.....The only reason Ethiopia become interested in "helping" the goverment was to dislodge the UIC who feared it would give the Ethio rebellions a base to train and launch attacks against the Tigray regime. In no way, shape, or form was the Ethios interested in reviving the Somali State. Anyone believing otherwise is either promoting the self-interest or simply being delusional.

  3. Posted

    Mohamed Hebaan

    16 Jan, 2007

     

    The typical Somali warlord is an ambitious man who uses his clan connections as a stepping stone to curve up a fiefdom, supposedly, to protect or advance clan interests. But, in reality, a warlord is preoccupied only with self-enrichment and self-aggrandizement, and, therefore, in the end becomes menace on his own clansmen. The best known Somali warlords were Mohamed Farah Aidid, Abdulahi Yusuf, and the Mogadishu warlords, all of whom eventually tormented and terrorized their own clansmen.

     

    Parallel to the usual warlords are the Pen-warlords. This group, the pen-warlords, exists in all of Somali regions, but they are mainly found in large numbers on the three main regions of the country: the south, especially Mogadishu, Puntland and Somaliland.

     

    Pen-warlords rise and fall with the causes and warlords they support or act as their mouth piece. During the rise of Aidid and Mogadishu warlords, some Mogadishu pen-warlords came to prominence primarily to justify the killing of innocent Somalis whose only crime was belonging to wrong clans. And in fact one such pen-warlord actually published a book in which he claimed, among other things, if my memory service me well, that Sayid Mohamed Abdulle Hassan’s statue was sacked because it represented as symbol of oppression,

    for his clansmen. Abdi-Qani Hirad, a prominent contributor to both soc.culture.Somalia and the SAPD, embarrassed the said pen-warlord by asking“What about the statues of Dhagah-tour and Hawo Tako? What about the scrapping of Mogadishu’s water pipes and electricity polls?” Since the star of Mogadishu warlords declined and is now finished completely, the Mogadishu pen-warlords are also in the dust-pin of history.

     

    Somaliland pen-warlords are essentially the secession pen-warlords, and they have been around for more than a decade, or perhaps since the declaration of the secession. From day one, this group built its craft on two components:

    a) Scare tactics and b) vilification. On the first, they directed at the people of Somaliland, and on the latter directed at southern Somalia, or perhaps at the rest of Somalis. But since scare tactic and hatred can never become a vision or achieve progress, Somaliland pen-warlords are stalled in the first square of their game! True, they bought some pen-mercenaries here and there such as the awfully superficial Dr. Pham, but, in the grand scheme of things, the plot never catched on! And now their sacred scheme of perpetual vilification of southern Somalia is to be undone, because the people of Somaliland are now, thankfully, tired of these ridiculous tactics. Therefore it appears the end is not far of for the secession pen-warlords.

     

    The third pen-warlords are the supporters of TFG and particularly the supporters of Abdulahi Yusuf. This is the group that I call ‘the new breed of pen-warlords’, for out of the woods they came, and now they are everywhere! Since this group insists that the TFG is here for the good of the Somali people, and Ethiopia came just to help the TFG, I will pose to them this direct question:

     

    If Ethiopia invaded Somalia to help us and support the TFG, why on earth it didn’t invade Mogadishu in the almost two years the TFG was desperate for help, and was holed up in Jowhar and Baydhaba and practically terrorized by Mogadishu warlords?

     

    The reason Ethiopia didn’t invade Mogadishu when the warlords were in control and were humiliating the government is that by undermining the TFG and by aborting all the reconciliation efforts, the Mogadishu warlords were, themselves, doing Ethiopia’s dirty work. Therefore Ethiopia need not worry about Somalia! It was only when the hated warlords were crushed and kicked out and peace and stability restored, and the call of brotherhood and

    reconciliation spread from Mogadishu all the way to Borama and beyond, that Ethiopia started worrying, hatched its plans, and invaded the country!

     

    In other words, when we, Somalis, tear ourselves apart, Ethiopia is content to give money and weapons to whoever is doing the ACT of tearing the Somalis apart! However when we regain our senses, and come together and settle our differences, and try to move forward, Ethiopia, seeing her proxies failed and no longer up to the job, will decisively roll in and do the ACT of tearing the Somalis apart, herself. As it just did.

     

    It is that Ethiopia which through its history, through its actions and through its wicked designs has shown, time and again, to be the worst and the eternal enemy of the Somali people that has been portrayed, unconvincingly, as our sole sister and new savior!

     

    These new pen-warlords have the misfortune and in fact the shame on two critical points:

     

    1— Those whom they chose to oppose and they are out to destroy are not the usual run of the mill Somali warlords, obsessed with self-enrichment and thievery, but the best, the most competent and the most inspiring leadership the Somali people have seen in many years and decades!

     

    2— By opposing the UIC, the only patriotic front, that unlike all others stood up to Ethiopia, these new pen warlords have, on the one hand, helped to deprive the Somali people a capable leadership that would have moved the country forward, and on the other hand, the pen warlords have found themselves in the unenviable position of ending up in bed with Ethiopia, their people’s and their nation’s worst enemy!

     

    Against the UIC, two specific charges were making the rounds, and they are:

     

    a—The UIC and its leaders are the old warlords with religious clothes, and they can never be trusted.

    b—The UIC leadership is entirely made up of one clan, and does not represent the interests of all Somalis.

     

    These two charges however do not stand to critical scrutiny. On the first charge of the UIC being the old warlords is often made by the new pen warlords, and to them I say:

     

    To take under your wings the real warlords and the true “umulo dooxs” such as Abdi Qaybdid, Hussein Aidid, Sudi Yalahow, Qanyare and the rest of the Mogadishu gangs, who openly murdered innocent Somali men, women and children for simply belonging to wrong clans, and the same time point the finger at Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aways, and Sheikh Sharif, whom no one ever accused of killing a Somali person for clanist reasons, reeks of your hypocrisy and dishonesty!

     

    About the second charge, or the accusation that nearly all the leadership of the UIC belongs to one clan is true! But the charge itself is missing the point. The problem with the Somali leadership was never which clan they belonged to, but what divisive and destructive policies they pursued.

     

    So the appropriate question for us Somalis is not which clan our leaders belong to, (since we will never find leaders who don’t belong to some clan or another) but what have our leaders achieved during their leadership? And in that department, the achievements of the UIC and its leaders have been phenomenal, for they have surpassed all and everyone’s expectations! Had the UIC existed, say, for ten years, and deliberately denied and prevented the leaders from other clans to hold the top ranks of the movement, this accusation would have made sense and would have been damaging. But how long did the UIC exist? Not even one year, but just six months! And even in that short period, the UIC leaders have demonstrated how truly inclusive they were!

     

    Besides, it was not really unusual that nearly all UIC belonged to one clan. Throughout history, in every society and wherever a reform or a revolutionary movement occurred, those who fill the top ranks of the movement or the revolution were always determined by the time and by the LOCALE from which the movement or the revolution started rolling!

     

    In our own Somali history the parallel between the UIC and the Darawish Movement is so compelling and remarkable. For instance, the entire leadership of the Darawish Movement, not just the Sayid, but all the top ranks, and all the commanders of the Darawish forces from Ismail Mire to Abshir Dhorre were all from one clan!!

    Does that fact diminish the significance of the Darawish Movement or its glorious role in Somali history? Not at all! The same is true for the UIC and its leadership.

     

    The views of the new pen warlords come in varieties and different titles, but they have one common theme: Let us forget what happened and support the TFG…The interest of the Somalis lies in supporting the TFG….The best way to get rid of the Ethiopia’s occupation is to support the TFG (I read someone making this last claim in Somali language!)

     

    The problem with these assertions and pleadings by the new pen warlords is that their logic seems to be intended for children, rather than for grown up and thinking people.

    First, you don’t help the enemy to invade the country and kill thousands of its people, and then pretend as though nothing happened. It is not that easy!

     

    Second, how can a corrupt and Ethiopia imposed regime that reached Mogadishu through Ethiopian tanks, and over the bodies of thousands of dead Somalis, be beneficial to Somalia? It will never be!

     

    In conclusion, without a doubt, of all the Somali pen-warlords, this new breed is, by far, the most pitiful! While the Ethiopian tanks were mowing down the UIC men on the ground, and the Ethiopian fighter jets were mercilessly bombing them from the air, these new pen-warlords started falling over themselves to finish off their brother who was down and

     

    History will record this, and the Somali people will never forget it! That is the reason why the new pen warlord’s apologies for Ethiopia and their smear against the UIC are so repulsive and nauseating!

     

    Ugu dambayn, adduunku wuu is badali, oo Ethiopia waa la jabin!(mark my words!)

    Ee ragoow wax ha lays kula hadho!

    Mohamed Hebaan

    Email:mohamed19456@hotmail.com

     

    Source: wardheernews.com

  5. Posted

    NEW YORK -- In his memorable, 1961 farewell speech, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower warned Americans to avoid foreign entanglements and beware the growing power of the military-industrial complex.

     

    It was sharply ironic to see American air strikes being launched this week from the decks of the mighty attack carrier USS Eisenhower against the remote East African nation of Somalia.

     

    "The U.S. has opened a fourth front in the war on terrorism," trumpeted the Pentagon, as if it did not have enough failing wars on its hands.

     

    U.S. warplanes and special forces attacked Somalia from the sea and from the U.S. base at Djibouti. Other U.S. units deployed on the Kenya-Somalia border. Much of Somalia is already occupied by Ethiopia's powerful, U.S.-financed army. Ethiopia invaded defenseless Somalia, with Washington's blessing, under cover of the Christmas holiday.

     

    But was Somalia really a "hotbed of terrorism" as Washington claimed? The U.S.-Ethiopian invasion of Somalia was sparked by last fall's defeat of corrupt Somali warlords armed and financed by the CIA. They had kept Somalia in turmoil and near anarchy for 15 years. Last year, a group of Muslim jurists and notables, the Union of Islamic Courts, managed to defeat the warlords and impose law and order on chaotic Somalia.

     

    The conservative Islamic Courts were sympathetic to pan-Muslim causes. But they were not involved in anti-American jihadist movements and had no identifiable links, as Washington loudly claimed, to al-Qaida. Four or five African suspects on the 1998 bombing of U.S. Embassies in East Africa may have been in Somalia, but going to war against a sovereign nation to try to assassinate or capture a handful of suspects (some reportedly escaped) is like using a nuclear weapon to kill a gnat and is sure to generate more anti-U.S. violence.

     

    But in line with increasing militarization of U.S. foreign policy, the Pentagon's new golden-haired boys, Special Operations Command, pushed aside the humiliated CIA and the feckless State Department and vowed to "drain the Islamic swamp" in Somalia.

     

    Thus begins U.S.President George W. Bush's fourth war against the Muslim world. He failed dismally to capture Osama bin Laden, conquer Iraq, or pacify Afghanistan. Dirt-poor, defenceless Somalia is Bush's last stab at glory.

     

    Once again, the administration is recklessly charging into a thicket of tribal politics in a remote nation it knows nothing about. U.S. policy in Somalia is being driven by rabid neocons seeking jihad against the entire Muslim world, by gung-ho, know-nothing generals, and self-serving advice from ally Ethiopia. Eritrea's 1993 secession took away Ethiopia's natural access to the sea, leaving it landlocked. Ethiopia's prime goal in Somalia is seizing one or more deep-water ports, turning Somalia into a protectorate, and crushing any Islamic movements that might inflame its own voiceless Muslims.

     

    America's attack on Somalia recalls Afghanistan. The U.S. is again blundering into ancient clan and tribal conflicts, using foreign troops and local mercenaries to defend a hated puppet regime without any popular support. Unfortunately, the word "Islamic" triggers murderous, knee jerk reactions by Washington's war party and the Pentagon's dimmer generals. The only good Muslim is a dead Muslim. As U.S. soldiers once said in that earlier counter-terrorism success, Vietnam, "Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out."

     

    Like Afghanistan, Somalia was easy to invade, but may prove very difficult to rule or eventually leave. The invading Ethiopians, blood foes of Somalis, were not greeted with flowers, as U.S. neocons again promised. Somalis saw the U.S. and Ethiopians as invaders, and the now scattered Islamic Courts militias as their best hope for stability and normalcy.

     

    The White House is using puny Somalia as a straw man to be set up and knocked down. "War president" Bush desperately needs a victory in his bungled "war on terror." After three defeats, a fake victory over a fake Islamic threat in obscure Somalia is just the kind of jolly news Bush & Co. hopes will cheer gloomy Americans and divert attention from the disaster in Iraq.

  11. Posted

    Lily-The stories seem to celebrate the deceptive ways of the Dawaco. If you read all them, whether it is Dawaco vs Yaxaas, Maroodi, Dhurwaa, ect, the Dawaco suffers no consequences for its actions. The only time it acts against its nature is when it comes to the Libaax, and the only reason it does is coz it knows "Ishii Dhurwaa tii ku dhacday". So to me, this endorses Khayaano and Tuugnimo. And any child listening to these stories will come away from the same feeling.

     

    And then there is generalisation of the Doqonimo regarding other members of reer Dugaag. Iam reading a little bit too much into this, but it reminds how Somalis generalise each other like Reer Hebel saan lagu Yaqaan or what have you.

  12. Posted

    Hanging of Saddam's aides filmed

    Barzan Ibrahim

    Iraqi officials said Barzan's beheading was an accident

    Iraqi government officials have shown journalists video of the hanging of two of Saddam Hussein's aides, during which one of the men was decapitated.

     

    The film shows Barzan Ibrahim - Saddam Hussein's half-brother - and Awad Hamed al-Bandar hanged side-by-side.

     

    Barzan, former intelligence chief, and al-Bandar, former head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, were convicted over the killing of 148 Shias in 1982.

     

     

    The BBC's Andrew North in Baghdad says the video first shows both men being prepared for execution standing next to each other.

     

    They were both dressed in orange boiler suits.

     

     

    Executioners in balaclavas placed hoods round both men's heads, then the noose.

     

    A short while later the footage, which is silent, shows both men fall.

     

    Almost immediately the rope that was round Barzan's neck flicks upwards, the body dropping below.

     

    The cameraman then shows the pit below and a headless body, bloodied at the neck and what officials say was Barzan's head still covered by a hood.

     

    Al-Bandar's body was still hanging above, said one official who was present at the execution.

     

    Our correspondent says officials say they are not planning to release the footage publicly.

     

    Both men's bodies are reported to have been flown to Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, for burial.

     

    'No taunts'

     

    Witnesses said Barzan and al-Bandar were shaking with fear as they approached the gallows.

     

    One of those present, public prosecutor Jaafar al-Moussawi, told the BBC that when the trap door opened, he could only see Barzan's rope dangling.

     

     

    Executed judge's case

    Obituary: Barzan al-Tikriti

    "I thought the convict Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti had escaped the noose. I shouted that he's escaped the noose, go down and look for him. I went down a few steps ahead of the others to see: I found out that his head had separated from his body."

     

    The hangings took place at 0300 (0000 GMT), apparently in the same building in north Baghdad where Saddam Hussein was put to death on 30 December.

     

    The manner of the former Iraqi leader's execution drew international criticism after unofficial mobile phone footage showing him being taunted and insulted in his final moments was released.

     

    Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said there were no such scenes at the hanging of his aides.

     

    Mixed reaction

     

    The BBC's world affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge says reaction in Baghdad to Barzan and al-Bandar's executions has been mixed.

     

    He says residents of Baghdad's largest Shia district, Sadr City, have celebrated the latest hangings, especially Barzan's.

     

    But other Baghdad residents have said the executions have nothing to do with the problems Iraqis face every day, our correspondent adds.

     

    In the Shia holy city of Najaf, residents beat drums and marched in the streets at news of the executions.

     

    Speaking on a visit to Egypt, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said while the executions were an Iraqi process, "we were disappointed there was not greater dignity given to the accused under these circumstances".

     

    The UK prime minister's spokesman said it was "clearly wrong" if the executions had not been carried out in a dignified way.

     

    Others called for the Iraqi authorities to end further executions and focus on national reconciliation

  13. Posted

    What's point of having good looking patner if both of you have to ignore each other in public. I say hell with the Somali thing, hold on him like any another accessory.

     

     

    Do you really care if you have cute kids. Cute or not as parent, we will have to like them anyway.

  14. Posted

    ^^^^LoooooooooL@cute babies.

     

    I like Wifey to be cute, not coz I wanna my kids to be cute, but merely for my gratification. So Aaliyah, is it really about da kids or you wanna a hubby that looks good in your arms while walking down the street.

  15. Posted

    No, this is not news clip from da motherland, but rather a little story that might have us an insight into the Somali mindset. You all have heard tales of the canning and conniving Dawaco that outsmarts of all reer Dugaag exception being the Libaax who it fears. What exactly are the Moral of these Dawaco stories,and what are young kids suppose to learn from them. Here is one such tale about the Dawaco and Dhurwaa (Waraabe).

     

    WARAABE IYO DAWACO

     

    Bari ayaa dawaco adhi fara badan ka cuni jirtay reero meel deggan. Adhigaas oo riyo iyo idaba lahaa. Maalin danbe ayaa dadkii meel isugu yimaadeen waxaaney ka wada hadleen sidii ay dawacadaa dhibta badan iskaga dili lahaayeen. Waxay dadkii talo ku gaadheen in dabin loo dhigo dawacada. Dawacadii waxay ku dhacday dabinkii loo dhigay. Dadkii waxay ku xidheen dawacadii geed jiridiis, si looga aarsado oo waxaa talo lagu gaadhey in dab lagu dhex rido.

     

    Dadkii waxay soo gureen qoryo xaabo ah oo aad u badan. Waxay xaabadii ka buuxsheen god aad u weyn oo ay ka qodeen geedkii ay dawacadu ku xidhnayd agtiisa. Markaas ayey xaabadii dab ku huriyeen waxayna yidhaahdeen, "Aan iska tagno, oo marka dabku uu aad u shidmo ku soo noqonno oo dawacada ku dhex ridno." Waraabe aad u gaajaysan ayaa wuxuu maqlay cidii dawacada. Markaas ayuu soo orday oo is yidhi, aad ka eryatid neefka ay dilootey maanta, waraabihii wuxuu u yimi dawacadii xidhneyd.

     

    Intuu yaabey ayuu ku yidhi, "Naa dawaco yaa geedka kugu xidh-xidhay?" Markaas ayey dawacadii tidhi, "Waxa igu xidhay adeerkay." Waraabihii (Dhurwaa) ayaa hadana yidhi, "Oo muxuu kuu xidhay?" Dawacadii ayaa tidhi, "Adeerkay aad buu ii jicelyahay." Wuxuu arkay in aan caato ahay markaa wuxuu ii qalay wan weyn oo aad u buuran. Dabkaasna wankaas ayaa lagu karin doonaa. Aniguna waan diidanahay in aan cuno wankaas buuran, waayo gaajo ima hayso oo maalmahan oo dhan ayaan hilib cunayey, oo waxaan ka cabsanayaa inaan calool xanuun ka qaado. Markii aan damcay in aan ka tagana, intuu i soo qabtay ayuu geedkan igu xidhay. Markaan hilibkii cuni kari waayeyna wuu i diley.

     

    Waraabihii ayaa intuu afka aad u kala qabtay illeen waa wax hilib iyo baruur jecele yidhi, "Ihi! ihi! ihi! aniga ayaa xariga kaa furaya ee aniga geedka igu xidh, si aan anigu u cuno hilibkaas adiguna uga nabad gasho." Markii dadkii ku soo noqdeen meeshii dawacadu ku xidhnayd, si ay dabka ugu dhex tuuraan, waxay u yimaaddeen waraabe ku xidhan geedkii. Dadkii ayaa intey yaabeen yidhi, "War Waraabe meeday dawacadii?" Markaas ayuu waraabihii yidhi, "aniga ayaa xarigii ka furay oo way tagtay."

     

    Dadkii ayaa yidhi, "Oo maxaad uga furtay?" Waraabihii wuxuu yidhi, "waxay i tidhi dawacadii aniga gaajo ima hayso, ee hilibka la ii keeni lahaa adigu cun." Markaas ayey dadkii isagii dabkii ku tuureen. Sidaas ayaa waraabihii isku darsaday hunguri xumada iyo doqonnimada ku dhintay.

     

    Source: web page

  16. Posted

    Hayam....Caadi kuu dhacayaa, confront him. Luckly, I never had a racist teacher, but co-workers yes. The best to deal with them atleast in my case is to show that you are not afraid, and that you understand and know your rights.And also make sure that you fullfill your job's requiremnts.

     

     

    Racists thrive on three things,

     

    Fear

    Lack of Aweraness as it relates to your rights

    Lack of knowledge regarding the task at hand.

     

    Obviously, you do your schoool work well, know your rights as student, and hopefully not feeling intimidated by him. So gave after him.

  18. Posted

    My bad...I was confusing him withMorales of Bolivia, part of new wave of leftist regimes. I wonder if Morales is related to Tupac Katari's people who lead one of rebellions in Latin America. True, Simon is much older.

     

    Castro is old, but without Che, it would have been difficult. Pancho was very fav revolutionary though.