LooooooooooooooooooooooL...Now you agreed on something.Was that so bad? Now you two kids go and get white chocolate mocha for me:) Somalina....I don't preach-somethings speak for themselves. Duke....All I'm saying we are saying we are in the same dhiiqo. Wax la,isku caayo ama la,isku faaniyo meesha majiro.

Duke-Yeey watched while the Somali Capital carpet-bombed by the Tigrays and Sharif is no different as AMISOM levels the neighborhoods. I don't see adiga and Somalina isku heeysataan. The TFG is joke now as it was then. Taleexi...Seriously?

This would be have been funny if it wasn't for the dead civilians-AUN.

Good on them!

^Interesting indeed, the Bahrain Government attacked people camping at the Pearl Square. People camping in the square included families of toddlers and infants-not bad publicity.

A case of national security interest vs. supposed American democratic ideals-will the Obama administration ratchet up their rhetoric against the Royal Family as they have against the Iranian Theocracy? On Bahrain "Bahrain is a key US ally, hosting the US Navy's Fifth Fleet. The US has expressed concern at the violence and called for restraint." On Iran "US President Barack Obama sharply criticised the authorities' response."

Iran protests: Clashes at demonstrator's Tehran funeral Fresh clashes have erupted in Tehran during the funeral of a student killed in anti-government protests on Monday, Iranian state television says. Rival groups of pro- and anti-government protesters both claim the dead man as one of their supporters. Sanea Jaleh, 26, was among two people killed during Monday's protests, when thousands of opposition members rallied for the first time in more than a year. The protests come amid a wave of unrest in the Middle East and North Africa. Tight security Wednesday's clash took place during Mr Jaleh's funeral procession, which started at Tehran University in the centre of the capital, broadcaster Irib reported. "Students and the people attending the funeral ceremony... have clashed with a limited number of people apparently linked to the sedition [opposition] movement and forced them out by chanting slogans of death to hypocrites," the report on the state-run channel said. It gave no details of any injuries. The BBC's Mohsen Asgari, who attended the ceremony in Tehran, said he did not see any major clashes. But he said police forces had blocked all the roads leading to the university and were only allowing in pro-government supporters. On Monday, thousands of supporters of opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi took to the streets of Tehran to show solidarity with the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, which have both succeeded in toppling their unpopular leaders. Two people were killed and several wounded during Monday's clashes with riot police in Tehran. Some 1,500 people have been detained, opposition groups say, but official figures put the number at 150. 'Pay the price' Following the deadly clashes, Iranian MPs called for the two opposition leaders to be tried and executed. But Mr Karroubi and Mr Mousavi - who are both being held under de facto house arrest - issued defiant statements via their websites on Wednesday. "I am not afraid of any kind of threat and as a soldier of this great nation for the past almost 50 years, I am ready to pay any price," Mr Karroubi said on his official site Sahamnews.org. In a separate statement on his own website, Kaleme.com, Mr Mousavi praised the protesters for Monday's rally. "The glorious rally on 25 Bahman (14 February) is a great achievement for the great people of a great nation and for the Green Movement," he said, referring to the opposition movement and its supporters. The protests were the first anti-government demonstration since February 2010, when similar agitation was crushed by security forces and militiamen. Opposition supporters maintain that the re-election of President Ahmadinejad in June 2009 was rigged. Many of the slogans chanted by protesters on Monday were aimed against the most senior figure in the Iranian regime - Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He is seen by them as the power behind the opposition crackdown, Mr Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election, and behind many of the president's domestic and foreign polices which have brought hardship to Iranians. President Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that the latest opposition protests seen in Iranian cities were "going nowhere" and vowed to punish their organisers. US President Barack Obama sharply criticised the authorities' response. BBC

Security forces in Bahrain have dispersed thousands of anti-government protesters in Pearl Square in the centre of capital, Manama. Hundreds of riot police using tear gas and batons moved into the square before dawn on Thursday. At least two people were killed in the police operation, the opposition says. The protesters are calling for wide-ranging political reforms and had been camped out since Tuesday. Clashes earlier in the week left two dead and dozens injured in the country. Tear gas Ibrahim Sherif, of the secular Waad party, told the BBC that the police had acted without any warning at about 0300 (0000 GMT). "Throughout the day there were rumours that we would have another 24 hours, but the attack has come without warning. "You have hundreds of women and children already camping there. People are sleeping in the tents [...] there is a dense fog of tear gas, these people could be trapped there and inhaling this tear gas," he said. He said that he had seen at least 100 riot police on one side of the square and hundreds of people running away from the square down the side roads. He added that two people were killed as Pearl Square was cleared, and a third person was in critical condition. Bahrain is a key US ally, hosting the US Navy's Fifth Fleet. The US has expressed concern at the violence and called for restraint. Wednesday saw more than 1,000 people attend the funeral in Manama of a man who was killed on Tuesday during clashes with police at the funeral of another protester. Mourners chanted slogans calling for the removal of the government. Police officers are reported to have been detained over the two deaths, with the country's interior minister describing the deaths as "regrettable" and extending condolences to the families of the deceased. The disturbances in Bahrain - where the Shia Muslim majority has been ruled by a Sunni Muslim royal family since the 18th Century - are part of a wave of anti-government unrest that has swept the Middle East. The Bahraini demonstrators say they want: * political prisoners to be released * more jobs and housing * the creation of a more representative and empowered parliament * a new constitution written by the people * a new cabinet that does not include Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa, who has been in office for 40 years In a rare TV appearance on Tuesday, Bahrain's king, Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, expressed regret about the deaths of protesters and said he would continue reforms begun in 2002 when the emirate became a constitutional monarchy. Opposition boycott Since independence from the UK in 1971, tensions between the Sunni elite and the less affluent Shia have frequently caused civil unrest. Shia groups say they are marginalised, subject to unfair laws, and repressed. The conflict lessened in 1999 when Sheikh Hamad became emir. He freed political prisoners, allowed exiles to return and abolished a law permitting the government to detain individuals without trial for three years. He also began a cautious process of democratic reform. In 2001, voters approved a National Action Charter that would transform Bahrain into a constitutional monarchy. The next year, Sheikh Hamad proclaimed himself king and decreed that a National Assembly be formed. There was also greater protection of democracy and human rights. Although political parties were banned, "political societies" could operate. Landmark elections were held in 2002, but the opposition boycotted them because the appointed upper chamber of parliament, the Shura Council, was given equal powers to the elected lower chamber, the Council of Representatives. BBC

Human rights training in Ethiopia? LooooooooooooL

It's not about personalities anymore. People in the Algiers have the same problems as those in Cairo and they believe the ruling regime can't deliver them anything.

I said Somali not AS:)

Dhalinyarada Ku Dhaqan Muqdisho oo Sheegay in ay samayn doonaan Banaanbaxyo lamid ah kuwii Masar iyo Tunisia Dhalinyarada ku sugan magaalada Muqdisho ayaa sheegay in dhowaan ay samayn doonaan banaanbaxyo balaaran lamid ah kuwii ka dhacay dalalka Tunisia iyo Masar oo sababay in xilka ay isaga degaan Madaxweyneyaashi dalalkaas. Qaar kamid ah dhalinyaradaas oo maanta kulan ku yeeshay magaalada Muqdisho ayaa sheegay in ay dhigi doonaan dibadbaxyo nabadeed oo ay ku muujinayaan sida uga soo horjeedaan dagaalada kasocda dalka. Dhalinyarada ayaa intaas ku daray in banaanbaxyadaas ay ka qayb qaadan doonaan dhamaan qaybaha bulshada laguna codsan doono in la joojiyo dagaalada aan dhamaadka lahayn ee sii soconaaya. Ma aysan sheegin banaanbaxyada cidda uga soo horjeesan doonaan,waxaana ay soo dhoweeyeen kuwii ka dhacay dalalka Masar iyo Tunisia. Horseed Media

Al Jazeera is shifting gears and now talking to bloggers in Algiers.

Riot police have been deployed in the centre of the Algerian capital, Algiers, ahead of a planned anti-government rally. The government has banned the protest, but opposition and rights groups say they intend to go ahead with the march. Algeria - like other countries in the region - has recently witnessed demonstrations for greater freedoms. On Friday, police stopped people from gathering to celebrate the fall of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak. The BBC's Chloe Arnold in Algiers say the authorities want to avert any popular uprising similar to those in Tunisia and Egypt. "We are ready for the march," Mohsen Belabes, a spokesman for the small Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD) opposition party, said. "It's going to be a great day for democracy in Algeria," he told Reuters news agency. 'Armoured vehicles' Demonstrations are banned in Algeria because of a state of emergency which has been in place since 1992. A heavy police presence is normal in Algeria but far more officers than usual were in place hours before the start of the protest at 1100 local time (1000 GMT), Reuters reports. At least 15 police vans, jeeps and buses were lined up at 1 May Square, where the march is due to start, and about the same number on a nearby side-street outside the city's Mustapha hospital. Small military-style armoured vehicles were also parked at junctions around the city. Earlier this month, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika reportedly said the country's state of emergency would be lifted in the "very near future". Mr Bouteflika made the announcement at a meeting with government ministers in the capital Algiers, according to the country's state-run media. He said protests would be allowed everywhere in the country except in the capital. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12438015

^You alluded to Turkey's military. Since the founding of the republic, the 'secular' army staged four coups the last being in 1997.I think it's fair to say that's more than temporary arrangement. The army became so politicized that no piece of legislation gets passed without the consent of the generals and their cronies at the Constitutional Court and this was the era of militant secularism in Turkey where theoretically the institutions of democracy and free market liberalism should have been entrenched. The problem with entrusting undemocratic institution with the country's fate is that the institution looks after its interests first and that of the people second. In the name of defending secularism, the army was given unchecked powers which it used to its own benefits. Apart from current Islamist leaning Justice and Development Party, no Turkish Government was ever reelected consecutively. Every Turkish Government prior the rise of the Islamists came and went within the span of three years or less, not enough time to institute any meaningful social, economic and political change. Ironically enough, it's under the Islamists that Turkey's economy grew exponentially, its politics stabilized and stature rose joining the likes of Brazil, India and China. Even more interesting, it's under this Islamist Government that Turkish's accession talks was initiated. The point here is any ideology sustained by brute force and not derived from people's consent could be hardly considered fair and free.

Taleexi....He still has his socks on;)

Prometheus...I just wanna go back to the something you said about the army being the guardians of secularism. How can the least democratic institution of the State be entrusted with such power and by making the army not answerable to the civilian rulers, aren't you in essence weakening the very institutions that are the bedrock of the democratic process?

Val-you are ruining the fun with your sane comments and common sense:p

Somalia has to break down to the primal existence- each tribe on his own before they realize one can't exist in vacuum and without the other.

^N shoes either.

^Good point!

Val and Malika-You are trying to reason with people in state of euphoria and gadaal ka gaar like NGONGE is even worse.

Faroole

^How's militant secularism different religious militants?