Listen to this marax's response in the audience. It is a really nice video organized by Soomaali Minnesotan students, celebrating their culture. That comment ruined the video. A girl asks a man next to her, "What is this about?" His response? "I am not from that tribe." The disappointed girl's back, "Oh, I am sorry." The ugly starts in the 38th second. In the 38-41 seconds. NB - I didn't know buraanbur had clans. It may have originated from some particular Soomaali region, but it is Soomaali-wide now.

Aabayaashii Gobonimadoonka ee SYL waxaan haddee arki lahayeen ka waran? Dad waxee usoo halgameen dad yar qabyaalad rafaadisay waxmagarato ah, Soomaali ku sheeg ah ayaa dalkeena saas maanta Xabasho ugu horseeday, heer xataa keeneen beentooda maalin cad nagu kor aqriyaan. Soomaali lafahooda qabiileed ee hoose ayaan kala celineynaa, oo kala difaaceynaa? What is next? Wiil iyo aabihiis ayaan gurigooda ku kala difaaceynaa?

What was that Horyaalka Sheegoow's [sheegoowband] hees? ABC malii dhigoo [ha] Calanka baluuga malii baroo [ha] Buug iyo qalin malii gadoow ... [ha] Laakiin dadkeena Afsoomaaliga ku hadlaayo waxee u baahanyihiin faraxsanaanta see u kala baxdo in lagu dhigo BTJ. Ee noo keen taas.

Originally posted by rudy: i tried to write an article to allafrica.com, guess what they ask me! they asked to provide a pic of me or else my article wont be published!! lool...! i wrote back to them and ask them if they wanned my dna 2!! what punch of morans!! this shyte is in Uganda!!... can u say puppet regime.

Maxamed Dheere: " Cidaan Cid Toogan Karin Ciidanka Dowladda Ha Iskaga Baxdo ... " Muqdisho, Maajo 01, 2007 (Soomaalinews) - Gudoomiyaha Cusub ee Gobalka Banaadir ahna Duqa Magaalada Muqdisho, ayaa markii ugu horeysay shalay khudbad u jeediyey Saraakiisha Ciidamada Dowladda KMG iyo Saraakiishii hore ee Xooga Dalka. Maxamed Cumar Xabeeb (Maxamed Dheere) ayaa waxa uu ku wargeliyey saraakiisha in Gobalka Banaadir laga bilaabo doono hawlgalo adag oo amniga Caasimadda lagu sugayo, islamarkaana xasiloonidii luntay loogu soo dabaalayo. "Saraakiishiina waxaan idin sheegayaa in hawlgaladu ay bilaaban doonaan cidii Dowladda kasoo horjeesata waa in gacan bir ah lagu qabtaa" sidaana waxaa yiri Maxamed Dheere. Sida ay ilo saraakiil ah ku waramayaan Maxamed Dheere ayaa intaasi sii raaciyey "Cidii aan Cid Toogan karin Ciidanka maxay ugu jirtaa ha iskaga baxdo". R/wasaare Cali Maxamed Geeddi ayaa wareegto uusoo saaray dhawaan ku magacaabay Maxamed Dheere inuu noqdo Gudoomiyaha Gobalka,iyadoona xilkaasi uu horay u hayey Cadde Gaabow. Maanta ayaa la filayaa in Xaflad xilka si rasmi ah uu kula wareegayo Maxamed Dheere ay ka dhacdo Xarunta Gobalka Banaadir ee Magaalada Muqdisho. Soomaali.com Cidda uu ka hadlaayo in la toogto bari yaa waaye? Of course, maatida iyo masaakiinta. Waxaas ayaa nool, isla quman.

I noticed Hindu and Carreabean communities have ururo and meeting centres where they do all sort of activities including walks in park, cooking food and general leaisure activities. Some elders I spoke to say, it alleviates the lonliness they experience when their kids go off to work or school or generally busy. Every sizeable newcomer community I know of has at least one particular community centre, where both their kids learn their native languages and where the elders gather to socialize. Anaga? Hmm. Honestly, we are a dysfunctional community. I was reading on the paper a couple weeks ago about a Vietnamese boy who was killed in accident. They mentioned he was a gooy boy, who used to go to his Saturday morning Vietnamese school. Here, Vietnamese haddee u bataan are half of what we number around here -- Soomaalida are said to be around 100,000-strong in Koronto -- yet, hal iskool oo afkeena ciyaalkeena ku bartaan ma furno. Even if one tried, that person will be ridiculed because we don't value or have in faith afkeena hodanka ah ee suuban ee hooyo. Neither hal meel ay waayeeladda isku imaadaan ma furno. Ah, of course, we have got the usual useless, divided 'community' organizations, geared toward to newly arrivals and immigrants. They don't even help those whom they claim to advocate to. Ayaandaro weyn ayaa na hesysato meel walba aan joogno.

That forum is obsessed with Soomaalida. Poor old veterans with plenty of time on their hands, who to this day cannot comprehend poor equipped, barely trained Soomaali militias had beaten them in their own game with all their modern heavy weapons, in the infamous scene of "Black Hawk Down." Afxumadooda ayaaba igu daran.

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One of its names is buulo [the name it is known in Shabeelladda Hoose], which is the title. Magacyo kale ayaa loogu wacaa, which currently aanan xasuusan. Yes, their feet dancing resembles that American tap dancing which was the last couple decades popularized by the late Gregory Hines.

What a folk, traditional dance this is! There is something majestic about this dance. Lugaha, cagaha iyo garbaha sida loogu ciyaaraayo. This folk dance waxaa la yiraahdaa Buulo, though it has another name aanan xasuusan. Waxaa laga ciyaaraa gobollada Koonfur Galbeedka Soomaaliya, sida Baay, Gedo, Shabeelladda Hoose, Bakool iyo Jubbadda Dhexe. I had never seen qof garabka ka 'niikinaayo' as that lady does. I knew a family friend who used to dance like them, but not garab ka niikis, only lugaha ka ciyaari jirtay, especially markee maqasho Xasan Eedan Samatar's song of "weeraroow dooyoow waniini." The men look like the old traditional members from the Waaberi group. NB - The "king" iyo "queen" ayaa i dilay meesha fadhiyo.

Originally posted by nuune: ^^ Che, Kismaayana waxaan ku nacey wararka ka imaado ama khuseeyo oo dhanba waa very sensitive, waa meel aan ka yaabey, xattaa warar mukhtaracaat baa la iska sameesan mararka qaarkood si looga careysiiyo qola kale Meel infront of the whole Soomaalis and the whole world xaaraan lagu balaarsado la rabo, of course sensitive iyo wax ka daran waaye. Haddee xalaal ahaan lahayd, oo la ishubo, waxaas ma dhacayn. Once more, Kismaayo kuwaan ku hardamaayo, labadadooda waa dad soo duulay. Hadduu Ina'uunlaaye u dagaalami lahaa waaba la kasi lahaa. Waligood ha isku balaariyaan ama yee isku balaarin, xaaraan xalaal ma noqoneyso. Never. Maalintee noqotana waa laga qaadaa, as it just happened markee Maxkamadaha galeen magaaladaas. Maxkamadaha waxee ka dhigeen haddee ku waano qaadan waayeen, mid ka daran ayaa bari imaaneyso. Si fiican hala isku indhatiro ama yaanan la isku indhatirin.

Sunday was a bit beautiful day, weather-wise, where all those indoor-bound all winter long venture out the tiniest warm sun they see, including the usual semi-naked young women. Also the warm sunny days brings out some of our Soomaali elders that mar alla markaan arko ka naxo. It is sad to see the state of theirs. All winter long holed in inside their homes, with few far and between going outside. This takes a heavy toll both on their mental and physical health. Especially on their physical health. When I see our elders -- especially our aged mothers and grandmothers -- aad iyo aad ayaa ugu naxeysaa. In a dark constrast how they were at back home, they are almost universally hard trying to walk. You can see that how painful it is for them. Lugoodana bararay contributed by fadhiga badan and being holed-up inside all those winter months indoors. Some of their legs is more than barar. Each late spring and summer, I am always reminded this, particularly since a large park is just around the corner where some Soomaali elder women gather during those brief months. Sunday was one of them. An elder Soomaali eedo was walking away from the park and trying hard to catch with what I assumed to be her grandson, who was with his young teenage buddies. She was in considerable effort trying to catch them. I greeted her from the back -- "eedo iska waran, ma fiicantahay ... --, she instantly turned and beamed, obviously both equally surprised the unexpected concerned Soomaali greeting and at first not seeing me at all. I wanted to walk with her back to the apartment she lives, but I was in rush and she was not that alone either since her grandchild was with her, albeit not exactly walking with her at her side. That eedo was just a typical Soomaali elder in here Koronto -- lugaheeda sadly bararsanaa, which made her grimacingly difficult to walk, let alone catch fresh-abled teenage legs. Runtii, our elders Eebba ayaa u maqan.

Samatar Soomaalinimo waligiis u taagnaa; one day taalo ayaa loo suri doonaa, Eebbe ha idmo. I can only say that. Meesha ka wad dadaalka, walaaloow.

...sxb about my statement many senior nomads have confronted u about Shariif Xasaan for qabyalat reasons, also supported the Ethiopian intervention in badio (RNS?) ect, u never confronted those senior nomads but in turn confront young Khalaf who doesn’t know u as well as they do from previous exchanges. Bal maxa...hmmm? Have you read this aan ku qoray that above post; if you haven't, let me quote myself again: "I do not give the satisfaction of answers to some aan isku xishoon meeshaan ku jiro, but since you believed their crap, you needed to be cruely reminded and awakened lest you fell for their garbage again." I simply do not read, let alone answer to, some's posts on this forum, including with their desperation, insults and wildest allegations. I just dismiss them. However, you, the "good wannabe young sheekh," fell for it, without aadan hubsan xaqiiqda. You needed to be awakened, as brutal as it was. You are even alleging Xabashada ayaan support gareyaa. Intee ku aragtay anigoo Xabashi la jiro, let alone their invasion of our land, including Baydhabo? Ma wax caddeys ayaa heysaa ka ahayn what vomited junk some spew on here? Hubso intaadan afka iyo gacanta soo taagin. I am answering to you because, again aan kugu celiyo, you believed qashinkaas ay qoraan. This is not the first time for you blindly believing the drivel some drool on here, without aadan hubsan, so it became a norm for you. Waa iga been sheegatay, beena ma fiicno ee mar dambe ha igula imaan been.

Originally posted by Bokero: My humble suggestion of making SOL better for us! Moderators and fellow clients of SOL, I would like to suggest limitation imposed on the number of topics the same individual posts a day, because of multiple postings by the few individuals. I understand the need to uphold the enhance SOL as a place where one can freely start a discussion but to let few individual who seem to be have decided to spend their entire day on posting numerous topics would in the long run affect us all negatively The effect of multiple posting are as follows • makes other voices less visible(other topics are send to the next page by the multiple posters) • The site becomes a tool to advance a political agenda rather than a discussion site. I am not happy to have to suggest restrictions however, freedom comes with responsibilities, and I feel not all of us here are exercising those responsibilities. Looking forward to hear from others Your suggestion is kindly declined. It defies the purpose of the forum, which is a kinda social bookmarking, a sorta discussion boards and message boards, which functions solely because of user generated content. The site has rules. If the rules are not broken, then wax kale ma jiro. Some rare threads might fall under the trolling or spaming, which we will take appropriate actions on those. Bokero, you also joined almost four years ago, yet your contributions is minuscule. I hope you are not another 'lurker.' If you contributed as much as others do, then your viewpoint will be as prominent as you wish it to be. Don't be silent. Contribute, bring your viewpoints and whatever you can find that supports it. We will welcome it.

This is what started it, MMA a supporter of Shariif da qaat seller and Ethiopian intervention (I suppose?) until sharif lost his position said about Al-Azhari: As confused and gullible as you were about supporting qabyaalad and yet claiming about "Islaanimo." Young boy, you can believe whatever you want about qabyaalad iyo qurunkeeda, while prentending to be a "wadaad." You can support whoever you want, including the Frail, Traitor Stooge of Xabashadda, while claiming to be a "wadaad" and a "good" follower of diinteena suuban. You can even, heck, be indifferent, apathetic about the massacre, genocide and carnage that befallen in Xamar. That is not my problem. It was not my problem. That is your conscientious problem, your claimed Islaanimo problem. Your Soomaalinimo problem. Lying blatantly about me is a whole another matter. You will tell me where I said or ever wrote I supported Shariif Xasan Sheekh Aaden? I defend good Soomaali nationalist men, but I never supported nor support a political Soomaali figure or political groups post-civil war, including this Shariif some apparently obsessed with. I defend the likes of Jaamac Qaalib, Galeyr, C/qaasim, regardless of their qabiil affiliations. I defend them because Soomaalinimo ayee u taaganyihiin. If this Shariif dude some obsessed on here is speaking on the interests of Soomaalinimo, he is on my list, as any other Soomaali. Yet I never support anyone, including all those men mentioned above. I only defend when some tarnish their Soomaalinimo, while at the same time worshipping stooge and puppets of Xabashadda. Some qabyaalad-obsessed, idol-warlord worshippers, as some here obviously are, cannot understand not all people are or behave like them. Some of us cannot support warlords because of shared familial qabiil and tolnimo. Some of us do not support puppets and stooges because of qabiilwadaag. We are independent of them, as they are independent of us. Unlike some on here, we are not all associate and label people together with their clans. Eebbe had given us a mind of our own, to think, to utilize, to see the right from wrong. Not to blindly support a stooge and warlord because isku qabiil ayaa noqon kartiin. If you are that fleeceable, easily deceived, misled and believing the usual junk written on here about some members, then go ahead, since that is not my problem again. My problem is lying about me while I am still on here. That, my dear boy, my character ayee meel ugu dhacday. I do not give the satisfaction of answers to some aan isku xishoon meeshaan ku jiro, but since you believed their crap, you needed to be cruely reminded and awakened lest you fell for their garbage again. PS - A little 'brotherly' advice: Iska dhig ashahaadadaas aad meesha suratay since SOLers ogyihiin waxaa aaminsantahay. Be as bold as Ashari, at least as a rascal informant of Xabashadda, Ashari is upfront. The days of pretensions, charade is long gone, if there ever was a day of that on here to begin with.

Originally posted by Northerner: Is there a video of this? My af-carabi has been improving Yes, two videos of it were listed above. you go.

Originally posted by Halgan: You can get away with calling people who disagree with you clanists. Time and again we have witnessed how you call ppl who disagree with you clanists, supporters of clan courts, and what have you. Moderators, this is what could cause name callings and eventually lead to personal attacks. I don't know how on earth this is tolerated. Is is a case of " responding to the messenger " or the message? How should we respond when the messenger is the same as the message? Some help needed here. Obviously this thread had touched a nerve. Some jawaab ma istaahilaan, let alone debated with. Just continue the points about this Xabashi informant and spy, so-called Ashari. Discard and disregard the little noise some make on this thread or others, because this thread, once again, obviously touched meel isog oo qeylada iyo wax walba ka keenay. Indeed. I will, obviously, continue to watch and report this rascal, charlatan so-called Ashari and his ilk. Noisemakers, go ahead, make some little more noises. It is music to our ears.

The Xabashi informant, shameless charlatan opportunist Xabashi spy and a diplomatic Xabashi baasaboor holder also was on Aljasiira Carabi's The Opposite Direction political show prior to that Ingiriis interview. Here, he is unabashedly and fiercely defending his Xabashi Masters, who raised him, claiming those who were dragged the streets of Muqdisho were not Xabashi soldiers, but Soomaali. [This was about the second dragging where it was all over the internet.] The rascal wishes the misfortune to Soomaalis than his Xabashi Masters. Marka qof saas ah wax laga sugo ayaaba iska yar. Here is the translated part, where the Xabashi informant Ashari is vehemently defening his Xabashi Masters. Read on. ------------- Shameless Ashari: No, no, no, no. On the contrary, those who did [the dragging] and those who were dragged in the streets were [all] Soomaalis Feysal Qaasin [the host]: So you are right and all the world's media is wrong! [ ] Shameless Ashari: Yes, of course. Feysal Qaasin: Mashallaah! [ ] Shameless Ashari: Because the media can't distinguish between the Soomaalis and Ethiopians. Feysal Qaasin: But they showed you their [Ethiopian military] clothes, their [Ethiopian] ID cards, their [Christian] crosses -- Soomaalis are 100% Muslims. Shameless Ashari: No, no, no, no, no ... [la, la, la, la ...] ------------ His last prolonged 'la, la, la, la ...' perhaps has to do him believing Soomaalis in Soomaaliya not being a 100 Muslim. Perhaps he is not sure about himself being Muslim, methinks. Magac Soomaali ayuu ceebeeye, cannot even see the mocking tone from the host. You can watch the clip on .

Another political masterpiece essay from one of the few most respected aqoonyahan and waxgarad Soomaalis, who always defends Soomaalinimo. A true son of Soomaaliya and a true daljecel, indeed. Waligaa jir, Inaqaalib; la'aantaa iftiin la'aan waaye.

Mogadishu Calm As the Government Asks for Support of Clan Leaders Mystic, my dear sister, what so-called "government" are you talking about? I don't know why some of you refer this nonexistent, nefarious, treachery puppet entity, dowlad ku sheega ah TFG or whatever. It is an insult to the respected word 'government,' and even more insulting to unflattery ones like regime, junta and totalitarian. They are nothing but an assembled, hand-picked Xabashi group that marba si laga dhigan karo, like a kastuumo. Awood malaha, oo xataa cannot pay their toilet paper tissues, iskaba dhaaf wax kale ay qabtaan. Call them what they and their Frail Traitor Stooge of Xabashadda really are -- treasonous stooges, puppets. They never ruled and never will. Our Soomaali spirit is as high as it ever was. Remember, the early days of Janaayo, what the Junior Stooge Geedi claimed? To hand over the weapons? That Muqdisho was safe? What happened since then? Believe me waxyaaba xun ayaa soo socdo, things the old sycophant, manservant Frail Traitor Stooge of Xabashadda and his Xabashi masters had never experienced before. You watch and see.

He even beats the claim that Azhari has a PhD that he recieved when he was 26 to a distant second place! Bii-Ej-Dhii? The informer has PhD? Maan, maxaa la bililiqeystay titlenimo. The informer, the Xabashi spy, is well-known who have spied for Xabashada since dawn. He carries Xabashi diplomatic passport. That is why he loses his little cool everytime people raise his munaafaqnimo being Xabashi informer and spy. It was and is an open secret. That is why he both lost his temper the two Aljasiira interviews -- both Carabi and Ingiriis ones -- when Ibraahim Caddoow and Sakariye Xaaji both told him so -- how low he is being a Xabashi informer so long. Koley maadaama uu yahay qof cuqdad isku qabo, he easily loses his little temper, never realizing he is at an international media platform. I would take Darmaan any day than the Xabashi informer Ashari. At least Darmaan Xabasho ma keenin dalka, kumana faraxsano Soomaali la xasuuqaayo, la leynaayo. Magac Soomaali ayuu ceebeeye the so-called Ashari. The rumour goes the nick Ashari asagaa isku bixiye, instead of the way usual Soomaali nick names develop, where others call you the nick names. Oo saas waayeba maadaama isku kalsooneen, Ashari hadduu la baxo ma muxuu ismooday in mutacalin waaye dadka u maleyn doonaan? Marax seenbari, had iyo jeer marax waaye.

Bambo/Xamar/Salaad Jeelle, SOL does not allow members to have two or more usernames simultaneously. [it is on rule number two: Accounts: each forum member may have only one account. If you are caught double posting, both of your accounts will be deleted.] It was and is deception of you to register to more than one username, and when one was suspended, to reincarnate this 'parked' one. This too will be suspended.

This thread is closed. I gave you a caution not to post absent-mindedly images that absolutely bear no messages accompanying other than wasting a bandwidth. It is trolling. SOL also has a maximum of eight images per post, not one picture per post. Instead of devoting an image per post, post once and for all in one post. At that, at least it can be accompanied if it has a message. This thread has no message other other than being a troll.

Salim Lone Saturday April 28, 2007 The Guardian Inside Africa's Guantánamo [ The only way the US can prop up its client regime in Somalia is through lawlessness and slaughter ] This is the most lawless war of our generation. All wars of aggression lack legitimacy, but no conflict in recent memory has witnessed such mounting layers of illegality as the current one in Somalia. Violations of the UN charter and of international humanitarian law are regrettably commonplace in our age, and they abound in the carnage that the world is allowing to unfold in Mogadishu, but this war has in addition explicitly violated two UN security council resolutions. To complete the picture, one of these resolutions contravenes the charter itself. Comment Inside Africa's Guantánamo The only way the US can prop up its client regime in Somalia is through lawlessness and slaughter Salim Lone Saturday April 28, 2007 The Guardian This is the most lawless war of our generation. All wars of aggression lack legitimacy, but no conflict in recent memory has witnessed such mounting layers of illegality as the current one in Somalia. Violations of the UN charter and of international humanitarian law are regrettably commonplace in our age, and they abound in the carnage that the world is allowing to unfold in Mogadishu, but this war has in addition explicitly violated two UN security council resolutions. To complete the picture, one of these resolutions contravenes the charter itself. Article continues The complete impunity with which Ethiopia and the transitional Somali government have been allowed to violate these resolutions explains the ruthlessness of the military assaults that have been under way for six weeks now. The details of the atrocities being committed were formally acknowledged by a western government for the first time when Germany, which holds the current EU presidency, had its ambassador to Somalia, Walter Lindner, write a tough letter - made public on Wednesday - to Somalia's president, Abdullahi Yusuf. The letter condemned the indiscriminate use of air strikes and heavy artillery in Mogadishu's densely populated areas, the raping of women, the deliberate blocking of urgently needed food and humanitarian supplies, and the bombing of hospitals. This is a relentless drive to terrify and intimidate civilians belonging to clans from whose ranks fighters are challenging the occupation. There was a time when security council resolutions were hallowed in most of the world, as for example resolution 242 demanding the return of occupied Palestine territory in exchange for peace. But in our new world order, the powerful decide which UN resolutions are passed, and whether they need to be honoured. So the United States, which was violating the UN arms embargo on Somalia, rushed through another resolution in December that it thought would better serve US goals - and then proceeded to violate that one as well. The new resolution forbade neighbouring countries from being part of the regional peacekeeping force the security council authorised for Somalia; but Ethiopia went much further and unilaterally invaded, with the covert assistance of the US - which also joined the war by bombing Somalia. This December resolution actually contravened the charter itself, because it made the security council the aggressor and turned a clearly peaceful situation into war. The resolution linked the Islamic Courts government to international terrorism and mandated peacekeeping force, on the basis of chapter VII of the UN charter, to address the "threat to international peace and security" that Somalia posed - when every independent account, including Chatham House's on Wednesday, indicated that the country was experiencing its first peace and security since 1991. The resolution paved the way for the Ethiopian invasion that has led to the bitter conflict that many independent analysts, including those at a meeting in Addis Ababa organised by Ethiopia's Inter-Africa Group, had warned would be the inevitable result. A government imposed through force by arch enemy Ethiopia was never going to hold sway. The long silence and the refusal even now to announce measures that might arrest this slaughter mark the lowest point in the big powers' abdication of the "Responsibility to Protect" mandate - adopted, with British leadership, at a summit-level meeting of the security council two years ago. The world's most impoverished people are now being ripped to shreds with no effort whatsoever to get the perpetrators to desist. A huge campaign must be launched to press western governments to end this slaughter, which is almost entirely the work of those in control of the country. The European Union warned a month ago that war crimes might have been committed in an assault on the capital last month - in which the EU could be complicit because of its large-scale support for those accused of the crimes. Human Rights Watch has documented how Kenya and Ethiopia had turned this region into Africa's own version of Guantánamo Bay, replete with kidnappings, extraordinary renditions, secret prisons and large numbers of "disappeared": a project that carries the Made in America label. Allowing free rein to such comprehensive lawlessness is a stain on all those who might have, at a minimum, curtailed it. Work must begin to derail the astounding proposal from the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-Moon, which is to be discussed by the security council in mid-June. He would like to mount a UN-sanctioned "coalition of the willing" to enforce peace and restore order in Somalia - in other words, the UN would help Ethiopia and the United States achieve what their own illegal military interventions have failed to accomplish: the entrenchment of a client regime that lacks any popular support. Such an operation is unlikely to succeed in any event, but it could further threaten the turbulent Horn of Africa, which is already teetering on the brink of chaos. The Somali government is busy crying "al-Qaida" at every turn and offering lucrative deals to oil companies, in a bid to entice greater western support. But this war was lost long ago. In turning to the arch enemy Ethiopia, the transitional government's fate was sealed: the nation will not abide an Ethiopian-US occupation. Only a political solution will resolve this crisis. Africa must step up to the plate and show spine and leadership in a drive to protect its civilians, and work with Europe and the UN to convince the US to swiftly terminate its latest destabilising adventure. - Salim Lone, who was the spokesman for the UN mission in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, is a columnist for the Daily Nation in Kenya salimlone@yahoo.com Saalim Lone had been a lone non-Soomaali champsion of Soomaalis lately, participating as many conferences as he could attend and raise the profile on the Galbeedka media the massacre, carnage and genocide Muqdisho has became committed by Xabashadda. I thank The Guardian for publishing this piece.