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Watch the 3rd Annual Somali Diaspora Youth Conference LIVE! Watch

^Don't dampen the excitement:D It doesn't bode well for the future when one goes to the federal authorities to settle Somali tribal wars. Someone in Boston went to the FBI only to have eggs on his face. What's worse they don't realize the larger implications for all Somalis. FBI literally make house visits now when something happens that deemed suspicious.

^Malaa XX shirka gurigiisa hortiis in lagu qabtoo rabaa:D

loooooool@Nina Fox....I think I might know couple of people there if they were students at Yaasin Cusmaan during Saciida Koofe years.

Good stuff

Somalia and Somalis are facing greater threat today than secessionists. Two thousand people are arriving everyday in Dadaab and half of children that are arrive in the camps die within days despite urgent care and not mention those are lost along the way. This is extreme contrast to my last visit to Dadaab where only thousand or so arrived weekly, most of whom were from O-Gaden. So my dear Somalis, waste your time in helping your people and leave these boys to themselves. Contact ICRC, the Red Crestent, UNCHR, OXFAM, and Islamic Relief and see how you can help. Lobby your local Rep and Senator, and of course raise funds.

Jeremy Scahill The Nation July 12, 2011 Nestled in a back corner of Mogadishu’s Aden Adde International Airport is a sprawling walled compound run by the Central Intelligence Agency. Set on the coast of the Indian Ocean, the facility looks like a small gated community, with more than a dozen buildings behind large protective walls and secured by guard towers at each of its four corners. Adjacent to the compound are eight large metal hangars, and the CIA has its own aircraft at the airport. The site, which airport officials and Somali intelligence sources say was completed four months ago, is guarded by Somali soldiers, but the Americans control access. At the facility, the CIA runs a counterterrorism training program for Somali intelligence agents and operatives aimed at building an indigenous strike force capable of snatch operations and targeted “combat” operations against members of Al Shabab, an Islamic militant group with close ties to Al Qaeda. As part of its expanding counterterrorism program in Somalia, the CIA also uses a secret prison buried in the basement of Somalia’s National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters, where prisoners suspected of being Shabab members or of having links to the group are held. Some of the prisoners have been snatched off the streets of Kenya and rendered by plane to Mogadishu. While the underground prison is officially run by the Somali NSA, US intelligence personnel pay the salaries of intelligence agents and also directly interrogate prisoners. The existence of both facilities and the CIA role was uncovered by The Nation during an extensive on-the-ground investigation in Mogadishu. Among the sources who provided information for this story are senior Somali intelligence officials; senior members of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG); former prisoners held at the underground prison; and several well-connected Somali analysts and militia leaders, some of whom have worked with US agents, including those from the CIA. A US official, who confirmed the existence of both sites, told The Nation, “It makes complete sense to have a strong counterterrorism partnership” with the Somali government. The CIA presence in Mogadishu is part of Washington’s intensifying counterterrorism focus on Somalia, which includes targeted strikes by US Special Operations forces, drone attacks and expanded surveillance operations. The US agents “are here full time,” a senior Somali intelligence official told me. At times, he said, there are as many as thirty of them in Mogadishu, but he stressed that those working with the Somali NSA do not conduct operations; rather, they advise and train Somali agents. “In this environment, it’s very tricky. They want to help us, but the situation is not allowing them to do [it] however they want. They are not in control of the politics, they are not in control of the security,” he adds. “They are not controlling the environment like Afghanistan and Iraq. In Somalia, the situation is fluid, the situation is changing, personalities changing.” Guji

I wish I could!

I was suppose to go the New York one but tied up with other things.

Xaaji Xunjuf;733445 wrote: Gaw waba saado oo angelina jolie is mooday Koleey adi weyku dhaantaa XX.

And someone was asking if Rageh is Muslim:D Shoot-video not available in the US

Oodweyne....Don't mock individual misery. It has a face.

These people have been snoozing in their HIPAA course or seminars (I'm assuming they are yanks).

Oodweyne;733177 wrote: ^^^ Well, I guess, in that case, you and him, must have been "neighbors" in that institution in which most likely both of you have done a runner from it. Hence, going by that "analogy" of "birds with same feathers flying together" and all, one can deduce that you and the chap in that clip must really be bosom-bodies, indeed... Oh dear, the man could be one of the many SNM foot soldiers dacayan that are either maimed or mentally scared without support and nothing to show for his struggle and loss of limbs and mental peace. Now stop mocking your heroes and get them help.

loooooooooooool@hooyo iyo aabe

Xaaji Xunjuf;733042 wrote: Like the beginning of the video like scene from reservoir dogs. Qudhac......I guess you inherited the queen's manners and English aristocrat class.

Buying their tongue?

Moonlight....The fella is avid reader and member of SOL, leave him alone:D

Why does it matter if he's Muslim or not?

What did Arabs do to London? This much hatred can't be good for one's health.

Carab waa lagu qafiifey

^As long as you do understand the context in which international community engages with Somaliland...I understand the distinction between legality and legitimacy but does the world really the source of Somaliland's legitimacy as long as it's legally under Mogadishu? N to be clear, Sharif and his paper are not of course legitimate.

^looool...I understand you just fine, if your argument is legitimacy is gained and maintained through people's consent....that might be be so but legally you are part of Somalia regardless of your protestations or your perceived sense of legitimacy.