I read this a couple months ago on the paper. The 12-year-old arbiter of cool Murray Whyte Toronto Star The life of 12-year-old Adam Fuhrer, which takes place largely against the peaceful suburban backdrop of Thornhill [Ontario], would seem as normal as any. He is tall, long-limbed and taciturn. He wears braces, which he shields shyly with a half-smile. [sNIP] But then there's this: In his bedroom, Adam has a computer. Through that computer, Adam transforms, from shy pre-teen to one of the most potent influencers in the rapidly growing world of social bookmarking . On sites like Reddit (Adam's favourite), Digg (the largest of the group, with 20 million users), Del.icio.us and StumbleUpon, Adam and other users talk amongst themselves, pointing out the latest, coolest, most interesting or just plain weirdest things they can find. It's a realm that has quickly moved from chatty online fascination to a potentially potent marketing tool – a holy grail for niche advertisers for whom web ad-buying remains a relative shot in the dark. Social networking sites pare down the guesswork as users like Adam drive heavy traffic to the sites they post. And the most important users are the ones that consistently lead where others follow – like 12-year-old Adam. Using an online pseudonym, which his father, Gerald, requested not be revealed in this article (Adam was "all right" with it being revealed; "You'd be `all right' with having your face on the front page of the paper," Gerald laughed), Adam scours about 100 of his favourite websites, looking for points of interest. "Tech sites, blogs, news," he says, his hand over his face as he scans updates onscreen on his Google reader. When he finds items he judges to be sufficiently interesting – recently, a story on how Fox News devoted three times as much airtime to the death of Anna Nicole Smith than to the Scooter Libby trial; some images of a giant sinkhole in Guatemala City – he posts them on Reddit.com, one of a groundswell of sites where users share what they deem to be the tastiest tidbits found in the vast smorgasbord of information the Internet serves up, minute to minute, hour to hour. Once they're posted, the community – in Reddit's case, several hundred thousand strong, from all over the world – votes, up or down, posting comments and creating conversation around the posting. If you're voted up, your story climbs the list and entrenches itself in the community's sightlines. Voted down, or not voted at all, and the story freefalls into oblivion. Adam has been good at staying on top. He clicks on a listing of top users – those with the most "up" votes, which result in karma points – Reddit's measure of success. "I'm here," he says, sweeping the mouse to the top of the screen. Number 8. "Not bad," he says, smiling shyly. To some, it may seem that Adam is a particularly engaged hobbyist. He's interested in information, its churn, and, of course, the rush of competition. Eight months ago, he and two friends joined Reddit at the same time. His choices skyrocketed, while the others foundered. "I got 500 karma right away, and they started saying `Adam, find us some stories to post.'" In the end, his friends gave up. "They didn't want to compete with me," he smiles. But Adam is also a member of an Internet vanguard which is helping, through its own naïve enthusiasm, to impose structure on a rapidly expanding, increasingly chaotic Internet universe. "At the beginning, I didn't think anyone would vote for my articles," he says. He was quickly proven wrong, as he climbed user charts and stayed there for months. When the Wall Street Journal, in a story about the Net's most influential players, recently revealed his age, there was a furor online. "Is Adam Fuhrer fictional? Is someone at the WSJ playing with our heads?" wrote one user, laprice. "Don't believe a word of it," wrote jamal, another user. "BUT he is 21, not 12." An understandable, if entirely incorrect, assessment. (Adam's bar mitzvah is in June.) "I just kind of sat back. There was a lot of controversy," he said. As the social bookmarking realm has grown, it has gone – like many things online – from community to corporate concern. CondéNet, the online division of publishing giant Condé Nast, recently acquired Reddit; Del.icio.us is owned by Yahoo! The anonymity of the users raises an ongoing Internet controversy: Who is directing traffic on the Web – and why? Marketing companies already have their hooks into Digg, promising they can place clients on the site's front page. To do so requires those companies to pay off Digg users to vote up content, reducing the community's like-minded conversation to a sales pitch. (Digg and its brethren say they can police these pushes.) As these sites mature into media phenomena in their own right, there is a resistance to over-regulate what was born as an open, egalitarian model. "It's been a wild experience, really," says Alexis Ohanian, the 23-year-old co-founder of Reddit. So far, the corporate parent has allowed the community to evolve naturally. "We have a motto here – let the users do the hard stuff," Ohanian says. The original concept – self-policing, democratic community, built on common interests, still holds. For now, at least. At his desk, Adam scans his reader, clicking through links, looking for things to post. He clicks one, and considers "House Creates Special Global Warming Committee," from the U.S. Congress, then dismisses it. He eschews hockey news, despite his own interest. "People in Europe, or Asia don't care about that. They won't read it," he says. Nor will they vote on it, costing him valuable karma points. He's always looking for the home run – like the sinkhole, which scored him nearly 700 points. (Anna Nicole vs. Scooter Libby garnered a respectable 168.) He settles on a story about Adobe Photoshop introducing image authentification, in response to a handful of photojournalistic images that were revealed to be doctored in the past year. But Adam is drawn less to the news than to the image that accompanies it: a diver climbing a rope ladder into a hovering helicopter beneath the Golden Gate bridge – and the massive great white shark leaping up to make a snack of him. The image is dramatic, funny, and clearly doctored. "People click on pictures – which is funny, because it's `Reddit,'" he says, and posts it quickly. Gerald watches with bemused pride. "At first, I was thinking, `What's he doing up there?'" he says. "Now, I tell everyone I know. I mean, it's crazy, right? He can find these subjects that start conversations that go for a thousand posts. "He may start a conversation that changes the way someone thinks about something, and that's really interesting." ------------- If you want to read the boy's posts and links.

Ilaa hadda mar alla markaan maqlo the following phrase, which we childhood 'ciyaal xaafadda' used to recite back in Xamar in the old days in late 1980s, waa yaxyaxaa. Some of us back then knew its literal meaning, however we never paid attention into that deep political meaning behind it. The phrase [or series of phrases] was said in a quizzical rap way: Aw'waraaboow Hee! [or hoo!] Hargeysa aantee? Haa! Xamar ki darba I didn't and don't still know why the words were in Afmaay or whoever came up with it wrote in Maay, since ciyaal xaafadda back in Xamar spoke in Afmaxaatiri. But it is simple to understand and can easily be digested by Maxaa speakers; however if you are still lahjad-challenged, explained in detail. Aw'waraaboow meant Max'ed Siyaad Barre. "Hargeysa aantee" waxaa laga wadaa "Hargeysa ma cuntay" "Haa" markuu ku jawaabana, la raacsiinaa, "Xamar ki darba," meaning Xamar ku dar. The habaar I am talking about is the last part. Anagii Xamar deganeen ayaa ishabaari jirnay. We used to think it was funny and nothing else. We never knew the political weight those words carried.

Baddacase, hokey, waan kasay, oo gartay. Laakiin waxaan waa iska siyaasad qalafsan, oo dhiigaaga yuu ku qaadin runtii. Xaaladdaan murugeysan maanta aan ku jirno, dadkeena ku jiraan, maalin ay tahayba waa laga baxaa, Eebbe ha idmo. Taas aan ku wada duceysano.

Somalia 'is not a human place' Group asks PM for help before it becomes another Rwanda San Grewal May 12, 2007 Toronto Star Desperate to escape Mogadishu after artillery shells had transformed the Somali capital into a graveyard, Toronto taxi driver Abdullahi Ahmed paid $500 to fly out of the hell that some of his family and friends are still living through. The U.S.-backed invasion of Somalia by Ethiopian forces started while Ahmed was on one of his regular trips to the city where he and other Somali-Canadians opened a school in 2003. "It was late December, early January. I was in the school at about 11 in the morning when the artillery shells began falling to the east and west of us, just one or two blocks away," he said. "First you heard the whistle of them coming and then boom, boom, boom. We brought all the students down to the main floor and told them to hide under the tables." At a press conference Thursday, Ahmed recounted the harrowing months that followed the start of the ongoing invasion, which has displaced more than 400,000 Somalis. After the school was shut down on the first day of the shelling, Ahmed said, he moved from one abandoned home to another, throughout the city, avoiding the latest artillery targets and Ethiopian soldiers roaming the streets. This went on until late March when he was able to flee to Dubai on a private plane. The Somali Canadian Diaspora Alliance organized the press conference in hopes of putting pressure on the Canadian government to help avert what they say may escalate into the next Rwanda or Darfur. After frantically trying to call family in Mogadishu day and night from her home in Toronto, Sadia Osman received bad news three weeks ago. "My family's home was destroyed and my father's legs were hurt," she said after the conference. "He was taken to hospital." Her nine siblings fled the area, but a week later Osman found out one of her brothers was shot by an Ethiopian soldier while looking for their elderly aunt. "It is not a human place." As a result of the devastating invasion, which has escalated in recent weeks, the United Nations has declared Somalia the country with the worst refugee crisis in the world. "It was a nightmare," Ahmed said. "I was taken to a brick home that had already been bombed. People had gone there afterward for shelter. I saw 18 dead people inside, shot at close range. Soldiers killed people randomly on the streets and in their homes." The organization is asking Prime Minister Stephen Harper to pressure the U.S. and the rest of the international community to get the invasion halted and avoid what could escalate into a Somali genocide. "The international community is paying very little attention to the Somali invasion," said Omar Yassin Omar, a spokesperson for the group. "The U.S. is involved because they believe Somalia is housing terrorists and they are now fighting a proxy war through Somalia's old enemy, Ethiopia." Omar says many of the more than 50,000 people of Somali descent living in the Greater Toronto Area are increasingly frustrated by the lack of attention paid to the bloodshed. "I'm wary that we'll stay silent until it's too late and this becomes another Rwanda or Darfur."

Sawiro qiimo iyo qaayo leh, indeed.

Qashinkaan intee kasoo aqrisay. Shuud. Itoobiya is Horn of Afrika kulahaa. Perhaps the dude who wrote that crap does not know the literal and original meaning behind the word 'horn.' Mise wuxuu ka maseersanyahay that word mostly associated with Soomaaliya as a country and the wider region -- which Xabasholand of Tigrey and Amxaar includes. He wished Itoobiya alone were known or awarded that. Jabuuti should have been returned to Xabasholand kulahaa. Since when was it part of it ever? There is no such nation called "Itoobiya," only a fragmented nations and peoples la isku kabkabay and occupied territories, and always protected by outside powers. Soon Oromos -- the largest people in the region -- will free their land and country, Oromiya. Let the three million Tigreys and the four million Amxaars carve a fancy empire called "Itoobiya" or that old grand name, "Abissinia," if they want. However, not at the expense of other people as they did the last hundred years or so and still doing.

Forget robot rights, experts say, use them for public safety James Randerson Tuesday April 24, 2007 The Guardian Scientists have criticised a [british] government report which advocated a debate on granting rights to super-intelligent robots in the future as "a distraction". They say the public should instead be consulted over the use of robots by the military and police, as carers for the elderly and as sex toys. The robotics experts were commenting on a report published by the Office of Science and Innovation's Horizon Scanning Centre in December. The authors of Robo-rights: Utopian dream or rise of the machines? wrote: "If artificial intelligence is achieved and widely deployed (or if they can reproduce and improve themselves) calls may be made for human rights to be extended to robots." The idea of robots becoming so smart that they acquire a conscious sense of self has fascinated science fiction writers for generations. The recent films I, Robot and Bicentennial Man, both based on books by Isaac Asimov, dealt with the question of whether intelligent robots should enjoy human rights. In the first a policeman played by Will Smith tracks a robot called Sonny that has apparently gone against its programming to commit murder. In the second Andrew the robot embarks on the quest for equal rights. But the scientists said true robot intelligence is so far in the future that it should not be treated as anything more than science fiction. "It's really premature I think to discuss robot rights," said Owen Holland, a computer scientist and expert on machine consciousness at Essex University. "[This report] is certainly not based on science and it is not realistic." Noel Sharkey, a roboticist at the University of Sheffield who is a regular contributor to the BBC's Robot Wars, agreed, but he said there were more immediate concerns. "The idea of machine consciousness and rights is ... a bit of a fairy tale as far as I'm concerned," he said. "My concern is about public safety. I think we need proper, informed, public debate about where we are going with robotics at the moment. We need to tell the public about what's going on in robotics and ask them what they want." Last year the South Korean military unveiled a robot border guard built by Samsung that can shoot targets up to 500 metres away. He said these could be programmed with a shoot-to-kill policy. The US, meanwhile, is on the way to achieving its goal of replacing one third of its ground vehicles with autonomous robots. "It would be great if all the military were robots and they could fight each other, but that's not going to be the case," he said. "My biggest concern there is that it goes against the body bag politics. If you don't have body bags coming home, you can start a war much more easily." Once robots become more common in warfare, he predicted they would be used more widely in policing and surveillance; so far there has been very little serious and informed public debate on these issues. Offenders could, he suggested, be monitored at home by a guard robot and the streets could be patrolled by mobile robot CCTV. They could also be used to deal with riots and other civil disturbances, he predicted. "Imagine the miners' strike with robots armed with water cannon." By providing companionship and basic care and health monitoring for older people, robo-carers could look after the increasing numbers of elderly people. And he predicted that vibrating sex-robots would be available soon for those bored with blow-up dolls. -------------- Since I had decided a few years ago that nothing, absolutely nothing, will ever surprise me anymore in Galbeedka, this will join the long, just-shake-your-head-and-move-on list, and surely won't be on the top, either. Just another oh-ka-soco-madax-luxid news.

Bababa, ababaay. Fashionkaan ileen 1940s ayuuba jiray. Ar yaa u sheego jeegadheeriyaashii Nayroobi ku gishan jiray in the 1990s surwaaladda holofholofka ahaa in loogu horeeye. Xataa surwaalka hoos laga soo laabay ayaaba i dilay. I thought that style in uu soo baxay in mid and late '80s.

The monument dedicated to their cause in Xamar.

Meelahee iyo sanidhii ay dhasheen Aabiyaashii Gobanimadoonka. ------------- 1. Maxamed Faarax Hilowle waxa uu ku dhashay Mareeg oo ka tirsan Gobolka Galgaduud sanadkii 1925kii 2. Max'ed Xirsi Nuur (Siidi) waxa uu ku dhashay Magaalaa Mareeg oo ka tirsan Gobolka G/guduud sanadku markuu ahaa 1915kii 3. Yaasiin Xaaji Cismaan waxa uu ku dhashay Degmada Hobyo oo ka tirsan Gobolka Mudug sanadkii 1917kii 4. Xaaji Maxamed Xuseen waxa uu ku dhashay Muqdisho, Gobolka Banaadir sanadkii 1917kii 5. Cismaan Geedi Raage waxa uu ku dhashay Muqdisho, Gobolka Banaadir sanadkii 1925kii 6. Dheere Xaaji Dheere waxa uu ku dhashay Muqdisho, Gobolka Banaadir sanadkii 1926kii 7. C/qaadir Saqaawadiin waxa uu ku dhashay Degmada Tiyeeglow ee ka tirsan Gobolka Bakool sanadku markuu ahaa 1919kii 8. Cali Xasan Maxamuud (Faranaaji) waxa uu ku dhashay Degmada Hobyo ee Gobolka Mudug sanadkii 1927kii 9. Maxamed Cali Nuur waxa uu ku dhashay Degmada Shangaani oo ka tirsan Gobolka Banaadir, sanadkii 1927kii 10. Daahir Xaaji Cismaan waxa uu ku dhashay Degmada Hobyo ee Gobolka Mudug sanadkii 1925kii 11. Xaaji Maxamed C/llaahi (Xayeesi) waxa uu ku dhashay Muqdisho, Gobolka Banaadir sanadkii 1918kii 12. Huudoow Macallin Cabdulle waxa uu ku dhashay Mareerey oo ka tirsan Gobolka Sh/Hoose sanadkii 1926kii 13. Maxamed Cismaan Baarbe waxa uu ku dhashay Baardheere oo ka tirsan Gobolka Gedo sanadkii 1910kii

Originally posted by Castro: Do you happen to know the biographies of these men? Including which clan each belonged to? It would be instructive to learn the path each took to get to the SYL and how they dealt with clan politics among themselves and in the society at large. They mostly downplayed their qabiil identities runtii; and they utmostly succeeded on that. Very, very few Soomaalis know their clans and those whose clan they know are a handful number of them only. I am very glad they achieved to downplay their qabiils completely. The little info. I do know is. Daahir Xaaji Cismaan and Yaasiin Xaaji Cismaan were brothers, and their pictures are the top, slight right corner, along with Cismaan Geedi Raage, who is on the top right corner, next to Daahir Xaaji Cismaan Dhagaweyne. Several of them were named after several public schools pre-war. Mostly famous schools were Cismaan Geedi Raage in Wardhiigleey; Yaasiin Xaaji Cismaan; Saqaawadiin; Max'ed Cismaan Baarbe in Wadajir [?]. Read this essay a founding member wrote few years ago. In that essay, Daahir Xaaji Cismaan writes: Markaan soo xusuuusto xilligii uu hanaqaaday xisbigii SYL marna waa farxaa, marna waa naxaa. Waa farxaa oo waxaan soo xusuustaa wanaaggii, wadaninimadii, midnimadii, isqadarintii iyo kalsoonidii Soomaalidu isu qabtay waagaas, kuna guuleeysatay. Marna waa naxaa, oo waxaan arkaa xaaladda maanta Soomaali ku sugan tahay oo ah: dawlad la'aan, daryeel la'aan, dagaal joogto ah, dulli qaxootinimo iyo dugaagnimo. [sNIP] Shan ilaa lix bilood markuu furanaa Xisbigu, ayaa waxaa dhacay qiso la yaab leh. Dhiinsiga Ingiriiska ayaa noo yeeray oo na tusay warqad ku qoran farta Cismaaniya. Wuxuu yiri "Warqaddaan waxaa laga helay jeebka nin shufto ah oo ciidamadu dileen, sidaas daraadeed, waxaan idin farayaa ianaad joojisaan hawsha Xisbiga oo dhan ilaa iyo inta arrintaan laga baarayo, lagana salgaarayo inaad lug ku leedihiin iyo in kale". Arrintii markii la baaray waxay noqotay warqad uu ninkaas la dilay ka helay xaaskiisa oo Gaalkacyo ku sugan, kana wareeysaneeysa xaaladiisa iyo sababta akhbaar looga waayey. Markaas ka dib ayaa naloo fasaxay Hawshii Xisbiga. Taasi waxay ku tusaysaa sida diiradda loogu hayey Xisbiga. [sNIP] Intaan guddigu imaan, Leegadu waxay qabatay shriweeyne ay ka soo qaybgaleen Guddiyada Leegada ee gobollada Soomaaliyeed oo idil, si looga wadatashado, meelna la isula dhigo mawqifka Leegada ee ku aadan Guddigaas. Wadatashi iyo dood dheer ka dib, Leegadu waxay go’aansatay in la codsado in Soomaliya ay wadajir u maamulaan Afarta Quwadood. Go’aankaasi wuxuu ku saleeysnaa laba aragti oo ah: Inaan marnaba la aqbali karin in la soo celiyo Talyaaniga oo la ogyahay maamulxumadiisa iyo waliba dhibaatda uu u geeystay ummadda Soomaaliyeed. Inkastoo Ingiriisku ku dhawaaqay inuu Soomaalida oo idil meel isugu keenayo, loona riyaaqay oraahdaas, haddana waxaa la istusay inaan la aamini Karin Ingiriiska. Leegadu waxay Ingiriiska u aragtay Dawlad weeyn oo mustacmir ah oo aan la iska kicin Karin mar hadday kugu habsato. [sNIP] Dhacdadii Dhagaxtuur Bishii Sebtembar 1949 ayaa waxaa furmay kalfadhigii Golaha Guud ee Qaramada Midoobay. Kalfadhigaas ayaa laga sugayey inuu go’aan ka gaaro aayatiinka dalalkii Talyaanigu gumeeysan jirey ooy Soomaaliya ka mid ahayd. Leegadu waxay New York u dirtay Mudane Cabdullahi Ciise si uu cabbiro Mawqifka Leegada oo ahaa in Afarta Quwadood ay wadajir u maamulaan Soomaaliya, madaxbannanina ku gaarsiiyaan muddo 10 sano ah, iyo inaan marnaba dalka lagu soo celin Talyaani. Waxaa xusid mudan in kharashkii ku baxay safarkiisa ay ku tabaruceen gabdhaha Leegada oo gaday dahabkoodii . Bishii Oktoobar horrankeedii waxaa la helay farriimo muujinaya in Soomaaliya loo dhiibi doono Talyaaniga. 5tii Oktoobar 1949 ayaa Leegadu mudaaharaad ka dhan ah Talyaaniga, ku sameeysey goobta loo yaqaan Dhagaxtuur. Ingiriiska wuxuu soo diray askartiisii oo amar ku bixiyey in 15 daqiiqo gudahood dadka mudaaharaadaya ku kala dareeraan. Haseyeeshee, lagama yeelin, balse waxaa loogu jawaabay dhagax lagu tuuray askarta oo lagu asqeeysiiyey. Waa sababta goobtaas loogu baxshay Dhagaxtuur. Askartii waxay dadkii ku fureen xabbado. Waxaa halkaas ku dhintay laba qof, waxaana ku dhaawacmay 50. Afar booliska Ingiriiska ah ayaa halkaas lagu dhaawacay. Ingiriisku intaas kuma ekaan ee wuxuu musaafuris ku xukumay qaar ka mid ah madaxda Leegada. Waxaa Ceelbuur loo musaafuriye Aniga oo Daahir ah, Maxamuud Maalinguur, Cali Xirsi, Ottavio iyo Xaaji Diiriye Xirsi. Their initial manifesto was simple, yet powerful, unheard in those days in Soomaaliya: In loo halgamo, lana xaqiijiyo gobanimada iyo madaxbanaanida ummadda Soomaaliyeed. In shanta Soomaaliyeed la mideeyo, hal maamulna la isugu keeno. In xoog la saaro tacliinta, siiba in lagu dadaalo waxbarashada dhallinyarada, iyadoo la aaminsanaa inaan horumar iyo madaxbanaani la gaari Karin tacliin la'aanteed. In Afsoomaaliga la qoro oo weliba la qaato farta Cismaaniyada, iyadoo fartaas loo arkayey inay tahay mid waddani ah. In shacabka lagu baraarujiyo halganka gobanimadoonka iyo madaxbanaanida. In la tirtiro caadooyinka iyo dhaqamada foosha xun ooy ka mid yihiin qabyaaladda, quursiga, iskala takoorka iwm. And this is 1943! Ka waran kuwa maanta Soomaali iska sheeganaayo oo waxaas inaay kusoo dhacdo iska dhaafee, xataa intii hartay in la kala tirtiro rabo, qabyaalad qurunkeeda ku nool, takoornimo, quursi iyo cunsurinimo ku dhaqma. ------------- Daahir Xaaji Cismaan [Dhagaweyne) i think is the only member still alive? Haa. Of the original 13, only Daahir Xaaji Cismaan and Cali Xasan Max'ed Faranaaji ka noolaa. Eebba ha u naxariistee, however, Faranaaji Qoryooleey ayuu ku geeriyooday laba sano kahor. Marka that makes in uu maanta ka noolyahay Daahir Xaaji Cismaan Dhagaweyne, oona ku nool Ottawa, Kanada.

Sanadguuradii 63 ee maalintii la aasaasay kasoo wareegatay ururkii gobanimadoonka waa bari. Shan iyo tobanka Maajo [15th May, 1943.] Waligeena ma ilooweyno magacyadooda halyeeydaas iyo intii kale magaca iyo jiritaanka Soomaaliya u halgamay. Magacyada Aabiyaashii Gobanimadoonka: Yaasiin Xaaji Cismaan Xaaji Maxamad Xuseen Cabdiqaadir Sakhaawadiin Khaliif Huudoow Macallin Max'ed Cismaan Baarbe. Cismaan Geedi Raage Max'ed Faarax Hilowle Dheere Xaaji Dheere Max'ed Xirsi Nuur [siidi] Max'ed Cabdalla Xayeesi Max'd Cali Nuur Cali Xasan Max'ed [Faranaaji] Daahir Xaaji Cismaan [Dhagaweyne]

Another mahadnaq waxaa naga leh Reer Ottawa again. Waad mahadsantihiin mar sadexaad. Jimco, May 11, 2007 Ottawa, Canada (HOL) - Bannaabax si weyn looga soo qayb galay loogana soo horjeedo joogitaanka dowladda Itoobiya ee dalka Soomaaliya ayaa ka dhacay magaalada Ottawa ee dalka Canada. Bannaanbaas oo kuwa la mid ah ay halkaan horay uga dhaceen ayaad moodaa in ay dad badan ka soo qayb galeen oo ka kala yimid magaalooyinka Toronto, Montreal iyo Ottawa. Dadkii halkaas isugu yimid oo watay calanka Soomaaliya iyo boorar ay ku qornaayeen eryo cambaareynayo dawladaha Itoobiya iyo Mareykanka ayaa ku hor bannaabaxay safaaradaha Itoobiya iyo Markeynka. Xigasho [Click each thumbnail to enlarge.]

War Badgaduudoow, xee tahay militantnimadaan aad lasoo baxday labadaan bari. Ninkii degnaa, deganaansho lagu yaqiinay maba tihidee. See camaleeto igaarka? Baaruudnimadii ayaa ku qarxisaa u maleynaa. Baaruud xaa kuu geeye hortiiba.

Murugadda jirto waa laga baxaa bari, Eebba ha idmo. Soomaalis were not always in grim predicament like this, nor will we remain in this challenging times forever.

Qoys magaalo degan ayaa iska ahayn. However, like many other Soomaali families, many siblings abroad ayee jireen, qaarkood waxbarasho, qaarkood shaqo, qaarkoodna ganacsi. Runtii civil war or not, Soomaali badan ayaa dalka ka maqneed, and probably many more were going. Soomaalidaas dibadjooga ahaa waa lagu baxsaday dagaaladda markee dhaceen. Haddaan shaqsi ahaan ka doorto liiskaas, beer lahaansho ayaan dooran lahaa.

Originally posted by Dhulqarnayn -alSumaale: I myself am a descendant of King Wiilwaal himself and proud son of Queen Araweello Aaheey, another powerful statement from a true daljecel iyo daludhalad. Saas ku wad halganka. Kuna dar Cigaal Shidaad [yaaba og in uu jiray?], Olol Diinle, Geedi Shaamboow/Baaboow, Bucur Baceyr ... True Soomaalis they were!

Faransiiska renamed their illegal colonial territory from "French Soomaaliland" to "French Territory of ..." The date of renaming? 1967, the same year riots took place, some demanding an immediate reunification to Soomaali Republic. Faransiiska panicked, beginning to change the name of the territory, erasing the 'Soomaali' part and even forcibly exiling thousands of Soomaalis to Awdal and Soomaali Galbeed. Those following images will illustrate. Protesters stand on barrels and wave sticks during riots in Djibouti caused by a falsified referendum produced by the French government stating that a majority of voters had voted to continue French rule. The manipulated results of the vote were achieved by the arrest of opposition leaders and the expulsion of the Somali population. [March 22, 1967] Protesters march together during riots in Djibouti caused by a falsified referendum produced by the French government stating that a majority of voters had voted to continue French rule. The manipulated results of the vote were achieved by the arrest of opposition leaders and the expulsion of the Somali population. [1967] French soldiers, armed with rifles, stand on alert during riots in Djibouti caused by a falsified referendum produced by the French government stating that a majority of voters had voted to continue French rule. The manipulated results of the vote were achieved by the arrest of opposition leaders and the expulsion of the Somali population. [1967] -------------- If Faransiiska did not stage that forged and bogus 'referendum' or if the referendum went smoothly, as opposed to manipulation and falsification in mid '60s, Jabuuti today would have been in Soomaali Republic, even with some Canfar objections. Faransiiska, unlike their colonial Ingiriis counterparts in Waqooyi, waxaa u darnaa their military outpost ku yaalay Jabuuti, which they invested heavily, ilaa haddana ku yaalo. Sadly, another decade of Faransiis indoctrination rule that had empowered Canfars politically, the military coup that took place on 1969 in Soomaaliya, dagaalkii 1977 ee Soomaali Galbeed and increasingly authoritarian military regime -- all gave a great ammunition to Faransiiska colonial rulers to persuade the Jabuuti Soomaali elites to opt an independent republic instead of joining Soomaaliya. However, it would have been different in '60s, when Soomaaliya was a shining beacon, a model for Afrika.

This reminds me to wixii aan ku maqli jiray ka dhici jiray Isgoyska Sanca [the intersection was between afarta degmo of Kaaraan, Yaaqshiid, Huriwaa and C/casiis]. Dagaaladda kahor that isgoys was infamous for gangs gabdho garbasaaraha, sifaleetiga iyo goorgoradaha ka dafi jiray. Yes, goorgorad, particularly kuwa expensive ahaan jiray waagaas. Kuwa isla shaqeeyo ayee ahayeen, oo mid ama laba intuu gabadha kor u qaado, kan kalena si sahlan goorgorada ugu siibaa. Markaa iyagoo dhoolacadeynaayo sii dhaqayayaan. Ciyaal Siyo ayaa la dhihi jiray kuwaas.

Originally posted by Dhubad: quote:Originally posted by Paragon: ^^And that got him banned. MM ninkii wax kasheegaa will be gone. Careful guys....! Noo, widaayoow, waxaas ma jirto. It is just that clean-up meesha ka socoto. No second chances. By the way, reer Gedoodka dhabta ah adiga waaye, oo ixtiraam ayaa iga heysataa, oo deegaankaasna u hadli ama ka hadli karo. Kuwaan Cabuudwaaq kasoo yaacay maba u jawaabo.

Originally posted by Abdi_Xaafid: REMEMBAR I AM THE ONE WHO IS RUNING THE SHOW IN SOMALIA NOT YOU. :cool: MADAX WEEYNAHAADA KA XISHOOW. Maba ogeyn inaa Xabash ahayd maadaama those who are 'running the show' maanta in Soomaaliya ay yihiin Xabasho.

Originally posted by Nabadshe: quote:Moyale, Isiolo, and Marsabit Are These Somali inhabited regions? i realy doubt. Yes, they are. Mooyaale [labadda qeyba ee Soomaali Galbeed iyo NFD ka tirsan] iyo Siyeeloow Soomaali waa degaan, iyagaana ku badan, oo la wadaago Booramaha in Mooyaale iyo Reer Diinle [Rendinle] in Siyeeloow. --------------- [Added] I just saw this paragraph from the above post since I hadn't read the original article. With a few clarification words, let me use the writer's own ideas and sentence. The TFG is all we have now. We cannot deny it the support and the resources it immediately needs and then expect it to do well. In the eyes of some of us the TFG may be bad or fall short of our expectations. But, seventeen years of anarchy and bloodshed must have taught us that a bad government is better than no government at all. No, we don't have a dowlad ku sheeg. We have a Xabashi occupation. We CANNOT deny that. We cannot also deny the resources, political support and national defense of the country and to the liberation groups need immediately. In the eyes of most of us, Xabasho is a real, an occupying force. Seventeen years of internal, domestic interference, arming one warlord today over the other, and the same warlord over the other yesterday, we've had enough of Xabasho and their constant hindrance of a united, peaceful Soomaaliya. If seventeen years of Xabashi interference was not enough, her brutal occupation of the entire country today should be what unites us all and make us defend our country, and kick the few stooges u shaqeeyo out.

War Barwaaqo dalxiis ayee ku jirtaa. Waa wareey. Enjoy hee walaashiis. Hadaba laakiin goormaa anaga noogu imaanee Kanada? Kamoon, if you had knew how Bigabove ay tahay, you wouldn't have gone to that desolate, water-challenged Downunder. Come to Bigabove. It is summer time and, yea, biyuudhiful. Anyway, enjoy dalxiisnimadaada.

There was a Brazil-based forum I had come across a few years ago. What surprised me was a whole section dedicated to Soomaalidda, whereas the rest of Africans had one section lumped. Alas, my expections were dimished by a few Soomaalis on that forum who, even on a Brazili forum, isku kala bixinaaye qabiil, a couple of them desperately trying to "educate" [miseducate, actually] the disinterested shisheeyaha on that forum about peculiar sub-sub-clans of Soomaalidda. Yes, there are a lot discussion boards up there where Soomaalis are displayed disproportionally. Oromadda kaliya are twice of what we number, yet ... Perhaps then again Oroma people are not found every darn corner on this Earth.

Originally posted by Jimcaale: Paragon, Gedo was represented by Hiiraale, a member of JVA headed by Al-Sheikh Yusuf Indhocade. Let's not drag the good name of Gedo to this mess. I'm sure many of Gedo natives have nothing to do with Hiiraale-Indhacade JVA alliance. If we are focusing on the issue of majority, JVA alliance is as much relevant as anyone and how it come to life. Jimcaale, LoL, u sheeg. Indhamadoowe, Goobaale iyo Seeraar maxaa ka reebaayo, since they occupied both Jubbooyinka and Shabeellada Hoose since late '90s. Iyagaba xaq ayee u leeyihiin meesha haddee Galgaduud boys umalayeen inay meesha wax ku leeyihiin. By the way, Reer Garbahaareey and Buuloxaawo are peaceful people, oo shaqo kuma laha dagaaladaas dhulbalaarsiga ah ama dantooda ma'aha dadka Kismaayo ka dagaalamaayo. They even released statements and baaq ku aadan inay dagaaladda ku jirin. Dadka Kismaayo inay xoog ku qabsadaan rabaan, xaaraantooda inay xalaaleystaan rabaan waa Reer Cabuudwaaq oo Galgaduud kasoo cararooyo. All of them waa kuwaas, xataa kuwa inta quuqda ku haayo. Dad cararadii kululeyd ogaa, aanan arag meel Kismaayo iyo kisteeda iyo kaskaaga ah, oo meeshiiba jano la noqotay waaye hee, ee ma'aha Reer Buuloxaawo iyo Garbahaareey. Dadkaas anaa kuu aqaano, waa peaceful people, oo dhulbalaarsi iyo xaqdaro mayaqaanaan, like their fellow original Reer Waamo and wider Southerners isku deegaanka yihiin. By the way, Jimcaale, Reer Kismaayo badan ayaa inta Koronto degan, oo true Reer Waamo dhabta ah. Banooni ayaa isla ciyaarnaa. Koley inaa taqaanid qaarkood laga yaabaa. Daleys yar la yiraahdo ma maqashay? Cabaas? Warsan? Max'ed Yare [whose wedding happened on here a couple months ago]?