Xabad. What have Somalis exactly done to you? In every instance, you either insult us or side with those who we are in conflict with? I assume you are a Somali and so considers yourself to be one, how are you any different from those you criticize beyond considering yourself that you are no longer in stone age? What exactly is contribution to the betterment of our people? It seems like many "educated" Somalis, your contribution to the Somali people is that you have mastered the art of Somali bashing and with out any hint of irony. Either get up and do something for your people despite what you think of them or just leave them alone.

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Dishes and the different regional/country cuisines.

Could you be more specific?

Again, why curb it?

Curb piracy? Why?

<cite> @Johnny B said:</cite> Sad indeed, but then thanks to these very foreigners that we do have a power seat to boot, thanks to these very foreigners, we do have a somehow functioning and internationally recognized government. Sadder is, your implied patriotism is such, Al-qaida's black flag flies better in villa Somalia than the nation's blue one and the foreigners guarding it. . Blah blah, Xasan came to power and yelled security, security, security, and three and half years later, AS is shelling Villa Somalia and tonight killed more people. If so you are so patriotic. the likes of you and Malistar will hold Xasan accountable. He FAILED! I would have been even okay if 300 well-trained Waceysle boys guarded the villa. If Xasan was sincere, a Somali force would be providing the security for Xamar today. You like the blue flag so much, then fight for it instead of expecting foreigners to bail you out.

No amount of posts with images of military gear and soldiers will change the fact that Somalia's seat of power (Villa Somalia) is still guarded by foreigners.

Isn't that lyrics from Khadir Dahir song?

The Nexus between Somaliland and Al-Shabaab http://www.kenyamedia.net/?p=323 Who are Peter Wolfson & Greta Backstrom?

February 16, 2016 BY ABDI GULED MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — He was a teacher at an Islamic school, known in his hometown in northwestern Somalia as a talkative, religious man with a sense of humor. He has also been identified as a suicide bomber who tried to bring down an airliner. Abdullahi Abdisalam Borleh boarded a plane on Feb. 2 with a bomb which exploded at 11,000 feet. The blast created a hole in the fuselage of the Airbus 321, just above the wing, and Borleh was blown out, his body falling to earth and landing in the Somali town of Balad. Borleh said he was going abroad for health reasons, according to Sheikh Mohamed Abdullahi, a mosque imam in Hargeisa near where Borleh was from, and who met with him in January. Abdullahi estimated Borleh’s age at between 50 and 52, described him as “chatty,” and said that he had a leg problem that required him to sometimes walk with a cane. “He travelled to Mogadishu to obtain a passport to go to either Turkey or India for medical reasons,” Abdullahi said in a telephone interview. “He was probably travelling overseas to straighten his leg.” On Saturday, al-Shabab, Somalia’s Islamic extremist rebels, claimed responsibility for the attempt to destroy the plane with 81 passengers and crew aboard. The al-Qaida-linked group mocked efforts to prevent such attacks and threatened more “to purify this Muslim land from the filth of the disbelievers.” “Despite all their security measures … the Mujahideen can and will get to them,” the group said. There are mounting signs that al-Shabab had inside help. A senior civil aviation security officer who supervised operations of screening machines at Mogadishu airport was one of 20 people arrested after he was seen on CCTV accompanying another man who handed the laptop believed to contain the bomb to Borleh after he had gone through security. The other man, identified as an airport employee, was also among those arrested. “It was a meticulously planned and coordinated plot, and the bomber would never have gone beyond any security screening without the assistance of well-placed insiders facilitating his limitless access into the airport,” said a senior Somali counterterrorism official who insisted on anonymity for his own safety. Borleh may also have had help from other official quarters. A Somali federal official recommended that the government issue Borleh a passport, said a senior intelligence official in Somaliland, the autonomous region where Borleh was from. Borleh had been on security agents’ radar, “but we had never considered him to be dangerous,” the official told The Associated Press by phone from Hargeisa, Somaliland’s capital. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media. Officials are also looking at a lead that runs straight to Somalia’s foreign ministry. A senior Somali immigration official said Borleh had obtained a Turkish visa to work in Turkey as a foreign ministry adviser, and provided the AP with a copy of a letter allegedly sent from the Somali Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, to the Turkish Embassy in Somalia’s capital. The letter asked the Turkish Embassy to facilitate a visa for Borleh to be “an advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Investment Promotions.” But the Somali Embassy in Ankara denied making such a request to the Turkish Embassy in Mogadishu and called the document a fake. The Somali Foreign Ministry and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Investment Promotion Abdusalam H. Omer did not comment, despite repeated requests from AP over five days. It is possible that al-Shabab, in a display of sophisticated deception, wrote the letter on official or official-looking stationery and sent it to the Turkish Embassy. The embassy declined to comment to AP on whether it had received the letter or acted on it. Having the visa would have been key to getting aboard a flight, which originally was on Turkish Airlines. In its statement claiming responsibility, al-Shabab lashed out at Turkey, which has been a strong supporter of the Somali government. The flight on Feb. 2 was supposed to have been on Turkish Airlines, but the airline canceled because of bad weather from a previous departure point, and Dubai-based Daallo Airlines was instead used. Flight 159 consequently took off an hour late, a delay which may have saved the passengers and crew. If the bomb had gone off at cruising altitude, as it might have if it was rigged to a timing device set to coincide with the original flight time, the result could have been catastrophic, with the plane possibly disintegrating because of the vast difference between air pressure inside and outside at 30,000-plus feet. Instead the blast happened earlier, at a lower altitude. Borleh was the only fatality and the plane’s controls were unaffected by the blast allowing the pilot able to fly the plane back to Mogadishu safely. The statement from al-Shabab did not mention Borleh. Some intelligence officials believe he knowingly carried the bomb aboard, though that has not been conclusively established. Borleh was seen as very religious but not a firebrand in his northwestern town of Borama, far from the battlegrounds of al-Shabab, which operates mostly in southern Somalia. While the extremist group doesn’t have a presence in the town near the Ethiopian border, intelligence officials say there are a few al-Shabab sympathizers there. Borleh taught the Quran and Islamic ethics to local children but acquaintances said he didn’t discuss politics. He favored a long mustache and usually wore trousers cut to just below the knee. He was married and had children, though how many isn’t clear. “He was a normal and humorous man, and he rarely talked about persecutions against Muslims in East Africa,” said a local journalist who met Borleh before he travelled to Mogadishu. Abdullahi, the Muslim preacher in Hargeisa, is still trying to come to grips with what happened. “It’s hard to believe he committed the crime being reported by media,” Abdullahi said. With officials still trying to fill in the blanks, the man who fell from Flight 159 remains a cipher. — AP writer Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey contributed to this report. Source: AP

Abdiweli's confusion is preferable to Xasan's incompetency and insincerity.

Shuuush, don't let others hears :-) We have silly, indifferent politicians financed by a business cartel.

Isku wax uu qabso Sounds like kacaan slogan hehe.

Read this I thought this was bit interesting DO SOMALIS SUFFER FROM ‘IDENTITY CRISIS’? http://www.wardheernews.com/do-somalis-suffer-from-identity-crisis/

Yes, who knows though I am not directly related to them. Anyway, I will embrace my Afrikaanimo as long as I am the top geel just as Germans are pro Europe as long as they are the top dogs. We need to dethrone Ethios, Ghananians and Nigerians. I would have included South Africans but those niggers think they are African.

Where's Laasa Surad in relation to Maydh?

In retrospect, these dictators were godsend. Just think about Libya.

Let's hope so. This will vastly improve services.

They tend little more expensive. In any case, I now object Somalis calling my fellow bantus jareers hehe :-) But I don't object them insulting Arabs though.

Somaligalbeed dhaanto format is Somali. How can a Somali copy what's already a Somali :-) I personally like this

Gulf to Africa, G2A, a New Groundbreaking Cable System between Oman, Somaliland, Puntland, and Ethiopia That Will Develop the Telecommunications in Eastern Africa Using Xtera’s Turnkey Subsea Solution MUSCAT, OMAN and DALLAS, TEXAS, USA – (February 9, 2016) – Omantel, the national operator of Oman and the leading wholesale carrier in the Middle East, today announced the signing of the supply agreement with Xtera Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: XCOM), a leading provider of high-capacity, cost-effective optical transport solutions, for building yet another unique submarine cable to strengthen its position in the region and beyond. The new cable will be built in partnership with Ethio Telecom, Golis Telecom and Telesom Company and will be a direct highway from Salalah in Oman to Bosaso in Puntland and Berbera in Somaliland, with a terrestrial extension to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. “This is the first step on our expansion journey into Africa where we will go from Oman directly to Somalia and then extend the cable further into Africa to Ethiopia,” said Sohail Qadir, Vice President Omantel Wholesale. “These two highly under-served countries will soon be connected to our international low-latency network, gain access to all the content hosted in Oman with Omantel and consume services from Europe and Southeast Asia,” continued Mr. Qadir. G2A will be a new low-latency cable system with the purpose of bringing content closer to end-users in Africa and providing Somalia and Ethiopia with much needed Internet capacity and access to global cloud services and applications. The subsea part will run from Salalah, Oman, to both Bosaso in Somalia and Berbera in Somaliland. From Salalah, a terrestrial route through Oman will interconnect with all of Omantel’s nine submarine cable systems, soon to be twelve, with some of them the largest in the world connecting the Middle East with the Far East, Europe and North America. Omantel also hosts a wide range of content and cloud providers in Oman serving the Middle East region from their central hubs in Oman, all which will be available to the G2A system. “This is a fascinating project, first of its kind, where we will benefit from Omantel’s international network stretching around the globe to bring tremendous change in the region as access to high quality and affordable Internet services affects all aspects of peoples’ lives and their way of thinking”, said Mr. Abdikarim Mohamed Eid CEO of Telesom Company. “At the same time we will gain access to the main Internet hubs in the world, the countries on Omantel’s international network will become available through G2A to serve enterprise customers in Eastern Africa”, added Mr. Andualem Admassie, CEO of Ethio Telecom. Xtera will supply its turnkey 100G/100G+ submarine cable system solution for this project, including subsea optical repeaters, Nu-Wave Optima™ Submarine Line Terminal Equipment (SLTE), cable and all marine services. Xtera’s subsea repeaters, engineered around a number of electrical, optical and mechanical innovations, use Raman optical amplification to produce very low noise levels for maximal repeater spacing and offer wide spectrum for higher system capacity. “We are extremely pleased to be selected by G2A consortium to build this new submarine cable system as a further validation of our turnkey offering of high-performance, high-reliability cable systems based on our innovative repeater,” said Jon Hopper, President and Chief Executive Officer of Xtera. “This new build project is a perfect illustration of Xtera’s innovative, flexible solutions for deploying new subsea infrastructure or upgrading existing cable assets under water.” Designed for 20 Tbit/s of capacity with the latest 100G technology, the G2A system will optimize the connectivity costs in Africa and add much needed capacity to an under-served and fast growing region. “Today we are mainly relying on satellite communication for our Internet needs; G2A will dramatically change the end-user experience and enable new types of low-latency services both for the residential and corporate sectors”, said Mr. Abdulaziz Gureye Karshe, Chairman of the Board of Golis. G2A will be ready for service in Q4-2016. http://www.xtera.com/news/gulf-to-africa-g2a-a-new-groundbreaking-cable-system-between-oman-somaliland-puntland-and-ethiopia-that-will-develop-the-telecommunications-in-eastern-africa-using-xteras-turnkey-subsea/

Xabad, Apparently I am mix of Southeastern Bantu, Middle Eastern and North African. I guess centuries of migration and trading have led to this. The test is not very sophisticated. The results are estimations.

I did one and I was surprised. We are not as unique as we think we are. At least, I am not. Regardless, we are mashed together, the only identity we have now is being Somali. I don't know about them giving it to the Government. But they do use it for research though you can opt out. In any case, the results will not be difficult to get hold of.