Thus even if a peace harmony is signed between the Transitional Federal Government and the Asmara based opposition groups, neither side is capable to carry out any agreement without answering the needs of their protectors; or unless there are penalties allocated by the International Community for a possible breach of any agreement from all stakeholders in the Somali conflict—the TFG, the opposition groups, and also their backers, Ethiopia and Eritrea.

May 09 , 2008 The UN Special Envoy to Somalia, Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, made an earnest request to all members of the Somali Diaspora to support the Djibouti ‘technical meeting’ peace talks between the Ethiopian backed Transitional Federal Government and the Asmara based Somali opposition groups. In exchange, he promised them to inform the process of these talks as it develops. Yet, this meeting may face the same deterrents that disoriented the previous Somalia’s warlord peace conferences: Lack of compromise and commitment, foreign interference, and the absence of useful and effectual menace—for the warlords—that could push the peace process forward. As we all recall, one of the main obstacles that rooted out the outcomes of the previous Somalia’s warlord peace conferences was the foreign interference. Every peace process was virtually spoiled; and every step forward was cruelly incapacitated by either a neighboring country, which is mythically frightened to see strong and united Somalia again, or by a wanderer foreign government discontented with the framework or the conclusion of any of those peace processes. In this ‘technical meeting’ not only the fingerprints and the footmarks of both interferers can easily be seen, but also their intensive activities can be detected again. The TFG representatives are seated on the hard-liner’s side of the table to reject any concession about the constitution amendment, the Ethiopian presence in Somalia, and the power sharing deal between the two sides which are the key factors to the success of this meeting. In an interview with the VOA, the TFG leader, Abdullahi Yusuf rejected any future compromise by his government about any above-mentioned three elements and he called “all those opposed to his government terrorists who intend to use force to take over the country’s leadership.” This statement shows the extremely obstinate attitude of him regarding his rugged position towards the peace process. In addition, every meeting that he holds with the foreign leaders, he stresses only the need for military support rather than pressing credible political peace process. Those three fundamental points are the crosspiece of the conflict between the two sides, and they were advisedly neglected in the last four years. Nevertheless, almost every statement from the top TFG leaders regarding the peace process sounded like the same Ethiopian argument: Prevent any peace accord excluding its interest in the region; this strategy solely benefits the Ethiopian regime which compels the TFG to safeguard Ethiopia’s old age hidden agenda in the region. On the other side, the Asmara based opposition groups are not free from foreign designed policies to counteract the Ethiopian influence in the Horn of Africa. Eritrea can only lessen Ethiopia’s overfilled military build-up on its borders by opening another front from the east (Somalia). It is then the Alliance of the Re-liberation which has to fight a war with two objectives: Librating Somalia from the invading Ethiopian army and fulfilling the compelled Eritrean interest. Similarly, this policy solely benefits Eritrea which conditions Somali opposition groups to be seated in Asmara in return to their commitment of safeguarding its interest in the region. Thus even if a peace harmony is signed between the Transitional Federal Government and the Asmara based opposition groups, neither side is capable to carry out any agreement without answering the needs of their protectors; or unless there are penalties allocated by the International Community for a possible breach of any agreement from all stakeholders in the Somali conflict—the TFG, the opposition groups, and also their backers, Ethiopia and Eritrea. The other serious failure that endangers this preliminary peace process is the lack of compromise and commitment between the two groups. It is not that important to sign a landmark peace agreement, but it is the solidity of that accord and its ability to proceed in the days and months to come that has more significance. Thirteen previous peace conferences were held for Somalia’s warlord over the course of the last seventeen years, and yet none of them has successfully ended the Somalia crisis. That is because the objectives of the Somali crisis stakeholders were not reciprocal. All of these conferences shared one thing: Creating further disagreement, bloodshed, and displacement; the consequence was always energizing the differences between the warlords and the outcomes created more bloodsheds and destruction. Thus, valuable give and take between the two sides that should be propped up by the International Community—if they are willing to do so—would speed up ending Somalia crisis. It is a must and necessary this time to have both compromise and commitment in this meeting for the interest of the millions of the Somali people and for the country. Another serious failure endangers the Djibouti peace negotiation is the absence of useful and effectual menace for war crimes tribunal against leaders of the two groups and their backers to push the peace process forward. This kind of threat can frighten them and may in fact lead to an acceleration of the peace process to find a final solution for the Somalia crisis. It is the only and the effective tool that had never been employed in the entire Somalia peace process. This intimidation can be materialized to put pressure on both sides—the TFG and its ally, the Ethiopian regime, from one side, and the opposition groups and its protector, Eritrea, from the other side—to either accept the peace process and the compromise voluntarily or face dire consequence: The International war crimes tribunal. Conclusion Somali people have no choice but to accept Ambassador Ould Abdallah’s appeal to support the Djibouti ‘technical meeting’ peace process between the Ethiopian backed Transitional Federal Government and the Asmara based Somali opposition groups. They enthusiastically welcome any effort to bring peace and stability back to their country. However, they warn that this Djibouti meeting may face the same obstacles that disoriented the previous peace conferences for Somalia’s warlords: Lack of compromise and commitment between the two sides (Transitional Federal Government and the Asmara based Somali Opposition Groups), foreign interference (mainly Ethiopia and Eritrea), and the absence of useful and effectual means (International war crimes tribunal) that could push the peace process forward. Thus, the success of this meeting depends on what considerations have been given to the sources of these deterrents. Abdirasaq Hashi

tanug you P.S. They risk loosing funds for the elections and why the need for the term extension. Could the so called Guurto has the power to give Riyaale an extension?

Could you be little more specific with your title next time?

^Someone wanted to know, besides I haven't seen in million yrs

One of the most influential (and thus far subdued) voices in the Democratic primary all but declared the contest over on Friday morning "At this point, Barack is the presumptive nominee," web page

In more than dozen messages sent yesterday evening and shared with The Huffington Post, supporters of Clinton emailed a laundry list of political and exceedingly personal attacks on Obama's candidacy, including criticisms of his prior associations and claims that he, not Clinton, had played the race card. The letters underscore the high emotional pitch of the late stage Democratic primary as well as the utter conviction among many supporters of both campaigns that their candidate is solely worthy of the nomination. web page

Maydad laga helay magaalada Garowe 8 May 8, 2008 - 9:04:27 AM Waxaa 24kii saac ee lasoo dhaafay gudaha Garowe oo ah casimada maamulka Punland ka dhacay falal amniga lid ku ah kuwaasi oo isagu jira dilal iyo furasho dad loo geystay. Labo nin ayaa Meydadkoda laga dhex helay gudaha magaalada saakay kuwas oo aan la aqoon ilaa iyo hadda cidda geystay dilkooda. Mayadadka Labadan nin ayaa laga helay xaafada Waaberi oo ku taal bariga magaalada Garowe sida uu Idaacada u sheegey taliyaha saldhiga Axmad Jamac isaga oo sheegey in ay baaris ku wadaan cidii gaysatey dilkaan. Labada nin oo la dilay ayaa la rumeysan yihiin inay ka tirsanaayeen dadka ka soo barakacay dagaallada koonfurta Somalia. Dhinaca kale weerar ayaa xalay lagu qaaday ciidamada booliiska iyo kuwa la yiraahdo PIS ee magaalada Boosaaso, oo xilligaasi ku jiray hawll galo la xiriiray nabadgelyada, iyadoo rasaastas lagu dhawacay labo ka tirsan saraakiisha ciidanka sirta ee Puntland. Wasiirka amniga PL Cabdulahi Siciid Samatar oo wareysi siiyey warsiadaahn maalintii shalay ayaa sheegey in wado qorshayaan amaanka Puntland wax ka qabanayo. Dadka dagan magaalada Garowe ayaa rumeysan in amni darada soo korodhay ay mas'uul ka yihiin dad horey uga tirsanaan jirey ciidamada Puntland kuwaas oo markii mushahar iyo daryeelkii wayeen ka bilaabey falal burcad nimo. Radio Garowe,Garowe

LooooooooooooL@Nephtys

{Garoowe}9-5-08Waxaa maanta ka dhacay magaalada Garoowe mudaaharaad balaadhan oo laga soo horjeedo xaalada amaan daro ee la soo darista Puntland iyo dadka loo gacan galiyay Itoobiya , waxana isku soo baxa maanta abaabulkiisa lahaa Ururka Isku xidhka iyo hor u marinta Nugaal. Mudaaharadka maanta ayaa ahaa mid aad u weyn waxaana ka qeyb qaadanayay dhamaan qeybaha kala duwan ee bulshada sida Wax-garadka , Culimaa’udiinta salaadinta iyo dhamaan dad weynaha ku dhaqan magaalada. Dadka isku soo baxa sameynayay ayaa waxaa meel fagaaro ah kala hadlay qaar ka mid ah ururka soo abaabulay banaan baxa iyo qaar ka mid ah Culimaa’udiinta magaalada waxayna ugu horeyn eedayn u jeediyeen maamulka Puntland oo ay ku eedeeyeen in uusan waxba ka qaban wayay amaanka , waxayna sidoo kale cabareeyeen arintii isbuucyadii la soo dhaafay ka dhacday Garoowe iyo Gaalkacyo ee ahayd dad Soomaali ah uu maamulka Puntland u dhiibay Itoobiya. Isku soo bixii maanta ayaa waxaa sidoo kale hadalo ka soo jeediyay qaar ka mid ah wax-garadka, cuqaasha iyo salaadiinta gobolka waxayna ku baaqeen in maamulka uu ugu horeyn wax ka qabto amaanka isla markaana uu maamulku joojiyo dadka soomaalida ah uu u gacan galinayo Itoobiya. Banaan baxa maanta ayaa ahaa mid aad u badhaalan wuxuuna ku soo gaba gaboobay xaalada dagaansho mana jiraan wax rabshado oo dhacay intuu uu banaan buxu socday. WIdhwidh Online News Desk..Media Center

Somali militants raid police base Islamist insurgents attacked a police station in the heart of Somalia's capital in a night raid as preparations are under way for weekend peace talks. At least two policemen, two soldiers and a civilian died in the heavy fighting, witnesses said. Police say five insurgents also died, but the Islamists say they lost one. Correspondents say delegates are on their way to the Djibouti talks, but face-to-face negotiations between the opposition and government are unlikely. Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, who has been based in Eritrea for the last 17 months, has said he will only meet delegates from the international community. The Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) official told Al-Jazeera TV that he would not talk to the government directly as it had committed human rights abuses. The UIC ruled much of Somalia in 2006 before being ousted by Ethiopian forces backed by Somali government troops, who have been struggling to exert their control over the country ever since. 'Terrifying' Witnesses say more than 100 heavily armed Islamists raided the police station in Mogadishu's Waberi district. They were shouting "God is great" and firing rocket-propelled grenades. "The fighting was terrifying," resident Hawa Abdi told AP news agency. The militants held the station briefly and then abandoned it, witnesses say. Al-Shabab, the militant wing of the UIC which is behind much of the latest violence, has refused to attend the talks due to start in Djibouti on Saturday. They say there can be no negotiations until Ethiopian forces leave. Earlier this week, rights group Amnesty International said Somali civilians are totally at the mercy of armed groups. It said the situation was "dire" in the centre and the south with government troops, their Ethiopian allies and Islamist insurgents "out of control".

^Are you an average Somali?

President kulahaa, globe-trotting I-doit whose people are being massacred on daily basis. I'm afraid his time is up.

Her time is up. She put good fight though.

By George F. Will Thursday, May 8, 2008; Hillary Clinton, 60, Illinois native and Arkansas lawyer, became, retroactively, a lifelong Yankee fan at age 52 when, shopping for a U.S. Senate seat, she adopted New York state as home sweet home. She may think, or at least would argue, that when she was 12 her Yankees really won the 1960 World Series, by standards of "fairness," because they trounced the Pirates in runs scored, 55-27, over seven games, so there. Unfortunately, baseball's rules -- pesky nuisances, rules -- say it matters how runs are distributed during a World Series. The Pirates won four games, which is the point of the exercise, by a total margin of seven runs, while the Yankees were winning three by a total of 35 runs. You can look it up After Tuesday's split decisions in Indiana and North Carolina, Clinton, the Yankee Clipperette, can, and hence eventually will, creatively argue that she is really ahead of Barack Obama, or at any rate she is sort of tied, mathematically or morally or something, in popular votes, or delegates, or some combination of the two, as determined by Fermat's Last Theorem, or something, in states whose names begin with vowels, or maybe consonants, or perhaps some mixture of the two as determined by listening to a recording of the Beach Boys' "Help Me, Rhonda" played backward, or whatever other formula is most helpful to her, and counting the votes she received in Michigan, where hers was the only contending name on the ballot (her chief rivals, quaintly obeying their party's rules, boycotted the state, which had violated the party's rules for scheduling primaries), and counting the votes she received in Florida, which, like Michigan, was a scofflaw and where no one campaigned, and dividing Obama's delegate advantage in caucus states by pi multiplied by the square root of Yankee Stadium's Zip code. Or perhaps she wins if Obama's popular vote total is, well, adjusted by counting each African American vote as only three-fifths of a vote. There is precedent, of sorts, for that arithmetic (see the Constitution, Article I, Section 2, before the 14th Amendment). "We," says Geoff Garin, a Clinton strategist who possesses the audacity of hopelessness required in that role, "don't think this is just going to be about some numerical metric." Mere numbers? Heaven forfend. That is how people speak when numerical metrics -- numbers of popular votes and delegates -- are inconvenient. Gen. Douglas MacArthur said that every military defeat can be explained by two words: "too late." Too late in anticipating danger, too late in preparing for it, too late in taking action. Clinton's political defeat can be similarly explained -- too late in recognizing that the electorate does not acknowledge her entitlement to the presidency, too late in understanding that she had a serious challenger, too late in anticipating that she would not dispatch Barack Obama by Super Tuesday (Feb. 5), too late in planning for the special challenges of caucus states, too late in channeling her inner shot-and-a-beer hard hat. Most of all, she was too late in understanding how much the Democratic Party's mania for "fairness," as mandated by liberals like her, has, by forbidding winner-take-all primaries, made it nearly impossible for her to overcome Obama's early lead in delegates. If Democrats, who genuflect at the altar of "diversity," allowed more of it in their delegate selection process, things might look very different. If even, say, Texas, California and Ohio were permitted to have winner-take-all primaries (as 48 states have winner-take-all allocation of their electoral votes), Clinton would have been more than 400 delegates ahead of Obama before Tuesday and today would be at her ancestral home in New York planning to return some of its furniture to the White House next January. Tuesday night must have been almost as much fun for John McCain as for Obama. The Republican brand has been badly smudged by recent foreign and domestic policies, which are the only kinds there are, so McCain's hopes rest on the still-unattached cohort called "Reagan Democrats," who still seem somewhat resistant to Obama. McCain's problem might turn out to be the fact that Obama is the Democrats' Reagan. Obama's rhetorical cotton candy lacks Reagan's ideological nourishment, but he is Reaganesque in two important senses: People like listening to him, and his manner lulls his adversaries into underestimating his sheer toughness -- the tempered steel beneath the sleek suits. georgewill@washpost.com

Meydadka 12 ruux oo intooda badan la gowracay oo laga helay degmada Wanla weyn ee Sh/Hoose. { 08 May 2008} waxaa la daabacay Thu 08 May 2008 12: 34: 13 Wanla-Weyn(Allmudugnews.com)Meydadka 12 ruux oo rag dhalinyaro ah ay ku jiraan, isla markaana intooda badan la gowracay ayaa la gaarsiiyay deegaanka Yaaq Bari-weyne, oo ka tirsan degmada Wanla weyn ee gobolka Sh/Hoose. Dad goob joogeyaal oo ku sugan deegaankaasi Yaaq Bari-weyne ayaa sheegay in Meydadka dadkan laga keenay deegaana Carmoole, isla markaana 11 ka mid ah uu ka muuqdo in la gowracay, halka qofka kale toogasho uu ka muuqdo, sida ay yiraahdeen. Illaa iyo haatan waxaan si dhab ah loo ogeyn cidda dishay dadkani, hasa ahaatee waxaa uu ku soo beegmayaa xilli qarax xoogan ciidamada Ethiopia shalay lagula beeg saday deegaana Carmoole , halkaasoo ay ku sugnaayeen illaa waqti dambe. Dadka shacabka ah ayaa argagax xoogan ka muujiyay falkan, oo ay ku tilmaameen mid xasuuq ah oo lagula kacay dad aan dhibaato geesan , sida ay xuseen. Xafiiska Wararka Allmudugnews.com,Reporter Abshir Ali Muuse Abshir17@hotmail.com info@allmudugnews.com

Somalia: The face of resistance, or resistance without a face 4 May 4, 2008 - 6:53:14 AM SUNDAY EDITORIAL | Is the U.S. governments 'air strike diplomacy' a policy capable of achieving Washington's long-term strategic objectives? The fact that U.S. government warplanes bombarded a small town in central Somalia to kill one of the country's fiercest guerrilla leaders emphasized, to say the least, the key role the Bush administration continues to play in the chaotic Horn of Africa country some 15 months after the Ethiopian army's initial invasion. Sheikh Adan Hashi Ayro, a rebel who was allegedly trained by Afghanistan's Taliban, was the target of the U.S. bombing in Dhusamareb, the capital of Galgadud region. According to media reports, more than 20 other Somalis were killed in the air strike in the early hours of Thursday, May 1, 2008, including women and children and entire houses demolished to dirt. The death of Ayro was portrayed, rightly or wrongly, as the death of Somalia's al Qaeda leader and, therefore, a minor victory in President Bush's ongoing global "war on terror." Is the U.S. governments 'air strike diplomacy' a policy capable of achieving Washington's long-term strategic objectives in the Horn of Africa region? Does such militarist policy do more harm or good to the American leader's self-professed desire to spread liberty and freedom across the world, and especially in Muslim lands? Did Ayro's death bring any tangible results on the ground, or merely reinforce the Islamist guerrillas' hardline resolve to continue the bloody insurgency? These are questions that arise from the ashes of Tomahawk missiles that torpedoed rudely into the sands of Somalia and in the conscience of a suffering people. Many analysts and insiders have suggested that Ayro's assassination will not bring peace to Somalia, mainly because the essential ingredients that led to the rise of men like Ayro and continue to swell the number of young fighters joining the insurgency remain tacitly in place. That is to say, as long as U.S.-backed Somali warlords continue to selfishly hold on to the country's highest positions of power, and their authority is brutally reinforced by Ethiopian occupation troops, the insurgency will gain strength and spread by the day. In Somalia, there is a new generation of youth who have known little but poverty and drought, armed conflict and disorder, lack of public services and employment opportunities. The U.S. policy of bombarding the enemy is a tunnel vision of the country's numerous troubles that, while terrorism is a deadly factor, include a more complex web of domestic and regional issues that must be addressed in the application of a comprehensive foreign policy. Naturally, that would include investment not only in the country's ruling class, i.e. warlords, but also investing resources directly in civil society with the long-term aim of creating sustainable development initiatives that help tackle the pressing issues of unemployment, economic stagnation and the lack of public services. There is no single 'face' that represents the type of armed resistance we are now witnessing in Somalia. Nearly two decades of conflict have created a dangerous environment for any political force to function regularly. Unless the structure of the current system is dismantled and educated Somalis with no criminal history are given an opportunity to lead, Somalia will remain a minor mirror image of Iraq. The resistance will get new faces as the days of occupation progress, and as the Somali people feel as if they have no choice but to wage war on the hated warlords and their foreign backers. Garowe Online Editorial, editorial@garoweonline.com

^I know your heart is in good place but you sound like Rudolf Kastner in believing you could actually negoitate with the TFG and their masters in good faith!

^I think for some of us it will take Ethios boys raping our women and slitting our throats in the streets of Gaalkacayo and Bosaaso to realise who's really in control and what the TFG stands for. Imaanshaha ciidamada Ethiopia ee magaalada Gaalkacyo ayaa yimid iyadoo Madaxweynaha Puntland uu wali joogo Addis Ababa, kalana hadlayo Dowladda Ethiopia sidii Ciidamo Ethiopian u keeni lahaa Puntland web page It was Xamer, now it is the A-bsame, and tomorrow it will be you!

^Ayeeyo Ayaan Xirsi maxay kaa samayse horta. Intaad budh la boodilaheed bal usoo ducay gabadha.Ana laba faataxo ii soomar And kudos to the kid!!!

^I wish I did. Just wondering Saaxib, do you ever stop and think just maybe the TFG is beyond redemption? And in all seriousness, how much power do they weild in Somalia. The only power in Somalia right now are Ethios who pretty much do watever they like and the Al-shabaab. The TFG and Asmara are merely symbolic entities. P.S. If your call for negiotation is sincere. I say let it be between Somali tribes but let it be done outside the TFG and Al-Shabaab framework.

^Gotta admire your tenacity

With the strong backing of her determined mother, Ayan drew on the resilience she had witnessed among the Somali women she and her family came to know in refugee camps in Kenya, and resolved to be the first of her family to graduate from university. web page

O' the things that pass for criticisms these days, same regurgitated not mention dullish mantric babbling. It is extremely nauseating and equally offensive to the mind but that's reality of bitter men. Let's conflate all dissenting voices and forget those stuck in yesteryears. It is pointless to confute their arguments. Let them capitulate to tyranny. I get the feeling they will be in good company anyway. LooooooooooooL@LX

Yes I agree but the sincerity of some people's criticism could be doubted as being coming from different perspective, you know we are Somali... We could say that about everyone here including you and I but still shouldn't negate people's cricisms considering the fact that the charges are actually true.