Name one famous Somali author/poet & where I can get his works from? Nurudin Farah.....n Go to amazon.com/books I like his novel "secrets"...Touches on taboo subjects while reflecting on impending collapse of Somalia. N He is some sort of feminist too...a "rational" feminist I might add

Just thought share dis article..glimse in the lives of Somalis living in war zones, and how are they adapting in grief-ridden Xamar. Could the human condition ever get used to perpetual violence and brutality beyond belief?. Remembering my own experience in 1991, It was horrifying for me to see death everywhere, and knowing that I could die a violent death at any given time, but as time passed, my fears subsided. As the Barre regime fled, the USC in-fighting commenced, I could remember people watching clan militias exchanging gun fire. We were drawn to the violence like captivated audience in horror flick. It wasn't that we had total disregard for our lives. Far from it, everybody wanted to make out alive,but I guess we have resigned ourselves to our fate, and learned to live with the danger. Share your war stories and the effects it had on you!!! here is a day of in life of Axmed!!!! Student Ahmed Hasan, 21, spoke to the BBC News website from his home in southern Mogadishu about the heavy fighting that is intensifying in Somalia's capital. Women are fleeing the city with their small children We woke up to the sound of gunfire. It was early, about 0530 local time. The fighting was very close and it frightened us. I got up and went quickly to a nearby area, the scene of the fighting, to see if some of my relatives were all right. They were but their neighbour's home was hit by a mortar shell. A young girl, their daughter, was killed. Then as I walked in the street on my way home I saw a stray bullet hit a girl in the head. All of us that were there helped as much as we could and I have heard since that she is still alive, although severely injured. If she does live, she will definitely suffer permanent damage as the bullet must have touched some of the nerves in her head. Confusing It was unfortunate that she was hit. It was because the fighting was so close, confusing, and was taking place in different directions. This civil war has become almost normal to us. It is sad There were battles raging close to the K4 area and then clashes were also taking place in Damile, close to the military barracks named after former President Siad Barre, the Academy of Kale Siad. It took me 15 minutes to walk from where my relatives live to where I live with my parents and my newly-wed wife, in the area known as Black Sea. When I returned my wife was delighted. She was so happy that I was safe. Adapting The thing is though that us Somalis that live in our capital, Mogadishu, we seem to be adjusting to the bad situation in our city. Now when fighting resumes, people do not stay at home. Before that was the way. But now, even in areas where fighting is nearby, most shops are open - people are going about their business. A lot of people go close to the scenes of the fighting to find out what is actually happening. We want to know the facts. Yes it is dangerous, yet Somalis accept it. We are adapting to the situation. We are accustomed to it and do not feel scared. Well, not that frightened. The women and the girls do. But the men do not and nor do some of the young children. This civil war has become almost normal to us. It is sad. Somalis are suffering. Yesterday when this fighting resumed people were not shocked. People are coming to realise that this sort of fighting is not going to terminate. It is endless. We have a saying in Somali: "Markii ay timaado waqtigayga dhimashada, waan ogahay waan dhiman doonaa, marka waa inaan shaqadayda iska wataa." It means that when my death time cometh, I know that I will die and so I must keep on with my work until then. When we see each other and greet one another, this is what we say. Resists The heavy fighting around K4 on Thursday morning has now subsided because the Islamic courts have control. They gained the Sahafi Hotel, the K4 junction and the CID centre from the alliance of warlords. The Islamic courts are known for their persistence however the alliance may launch a counter-attack. I have been told people have seen them re-grouping. We will see what happens but until then, the shops are open, we have food, our tap has running water - we are all right. Repeatedly, I ask my wife to leave the city. I beg her to go with the other women and small children that are fleeing the fighting but she also seems to have become adjusted. She resists. She tells me that she wants to stay with me. source: bbc.com

Duke.....Monetary support for these men is not problem and it is unlikely to be problem for them in the near future. Reer Hebel is always eager to help their #1 tuug.

Xukun janadii Alla haka Waraabiyo

Cast---ouch....be nice now awoowe Scarlet....Thankz for da link.Very Informative Apparently abstaining from sex can even lead to insanity and shrinkage....lol N who among us remembers to say Bismillah before sex...lol

I was with you with till you said common that would not be natural Why?.....It is an exchange of info between two people.

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^^^^give da guy break.....Maybe he means within da context of Marriage. Halal Dating....loooooool good one Ahura....Maybe he is just comfortable talking to Faaraxs when it comes to certain subjects.

^^^^It is called FOOTBALL. IT ROCKS unlike ice hockey and beseball....Ok i admitt i like da violence in ice hockey, but dats about it

The warlords are no longer the power brokers of even Mogadishu let alone Somalia. This fight ain't over.As long as we worship Qabiil, these warlords ain't gonna run out of young men to sacrifice.

Alla Dabigayda Ha dhaafo dadkeenada simir iyo imaan haka siiyo.

Apparently Qanyare is retracting his earlier statement and stating that he is busy fighting "terrorists", while our beloved Mogadisho is again on the march to self destruction.Thirty people dead so far according to some reports.People in diasporo should wake up and get involved.!!!! Somali political apathy in home and abroad allowed to these men to do as they please. Lily....A decade and half should have been enough time for us to know these men are not in it for us....It is the public that's ineffecient and indiffirent to their own plight, the warlords are just doing fine. Mogadishu 25 May. 06 ( Sh.M.Network) Somalia's Internal Security Minister warlord Mohamed Qanyare on Thursday denied media reports that he and three other ministers in the country's fledging administration were resigning. Qanyare Qanyare has come under pressure from other members of parliament who say he and other warlords involved in Somalia's worst fighting in a decade should be sacked as government ministers and charged with war crimes. Around 250 people, many civilians, have died this year in Mogadishu during street battles that continued on Thursday between Islamic fighters and warlord militias, which many analysts and Somalis believe are funded by the United States. Radio reports late on Wednesday stated that Qanyare had said he and three other ministers were thinking of resigning. "That's pure propaganda, it's not true, I did not say that," Qanyare told Reuters by telephone. "I said we are busy fighting with terrorists now. We don't have time for the government." Members of parliament meeting in the southern city of Baidoa last week asked Prime Minister Mohamed Ali Gedi to dismiss warlords from the cabinet, saying they had broken ceasefire accords signed in Kenya during the formation of the government. Other warlords include Commerce Minister Muse Sudi Yalahow, Religious Affairs Minister Omar Mohamed Mohamud and Militia Disarmament Minister Bootan Isse Alim. The interim Somali parliament met inside the country for the first time in February but the warlords had formed an "Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism" a few days before in what many Somalis saw as an attempt to undermine it. The interim administration, the 14th attempt at restoring central rule since the 1991 overthrow of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre, is powerless to control fighting in Mogadishu. Ibrahim Mallim, a militia member close to Qanyare, said fighting that erupted on Wednesday, ending a nearly week-long ceasefire brokered by local elders, had resumed on Thursday.

Iam happy these I-d-o-i-t-s choose to quit, but at the same they have point in stating the goverment in Baydhabo is no of use to the people of Xamar and to Somalis at large. Yeey should for once do the right thing and step down.

Probably Seychelles or Comoros Island...n obviously Xamar Cadeey...Anyway somewhere in Swahili coast where it is closer to home.

kixkixkxix....Good one Castr.....We have Jeff Foxworthy in da house.

Edit; for those of us who live in the Qurba land do indeed have their share of the blame, I agree! But we are not nearly—or vast majority of us are not—as guilty as those who directly fueled, and still fueling, this war by supporting men like Yalaxow. Xiin....We are worse in lot of ways. Thanks to our exposure to the world, we know it doesn't have to be this way. We know we could do better, yet we choose to be indifferent to say the least. As for Sudi.....we should be all ashamed as Somalis. It is simply sad!!!!

The parliment asked him to take action and he gives them an extra 7 days to come to Baidoa. This sends the wrong message, that 400 Somali lives are not worth much. He the PM , and the Sharif are more than incompetent for not taking actions against the warlords.... Yes...the 400 Somali lives are not worth much as far the so called goverment is concerned. If Somali is worthy anything in Somalia, we wouldn't have Yeey as the head of the state.These are men who made their bunisses slaughtering the masses. Why should this time be any diffirent. N Just Why does it annoy when Geedi talks about your PLand and its illegal dealings with foriegn companies. He is the PM of Somalia afterall. It is right to intervene in Pland affairs.

I just wonder what else goes on in that hood. Ask someone who actually lives there. I would be just speculating!!!!...Iam sure Xarago will find some more horrors to report. N why do think it irks me to see this in the open?

Amazing...Now Geedi is incompatent for failing to follow Yeey's wishes!!

Originally posted by Xarago: War ileen anaga balayo aragney...where am I biased in this report? Why do I sense you guys did not want this in the open.....? Yu sense nothing ayeeyo...Iam just speaking to Point's perceptions of what your intentions actually are for posting this article. Your reasons for choosing to highlight these heinous should matter little to everybody. Besides, you haven't actually said anything. You just cut n paste. Che...well said!!!!

Point- Regardless of the poster's intentions, the fact remains these crimes did happen. You should worry less about the messenger's bias towards Somalia and more about these gruesome acts of savagery visited upon our fellow innocent Somalis!!!!!!!!

Those who commited these crimes will brought to justice Inshallah. The vast majority of Planders obviously does't condone these crimes and are understandably outraged. Pland should be safe haven for all Somalis, and no thug should get away with anything just cuz they happen from da majority tribe.

I can definetaly do it in my city. This would obviously consume of great deal of everybody's time (Most of us work) and would require some organizational skills to organize disorganized maryooley, but it can be done!!!!!

Well said...lily Wat is so annoying about Ayaan or the so called critics of Islam, none of them could actually point to one thing that they have done for the oppressed masses. Talking is cheap n dats all she does. Jabkiida wax laga faa,idaayo ma jiro...Alla hasoo hanooniyo.