HERE ,,,,,,,,,,,, I'm sure you are young enough to join

It is the part of the policy to make people busy watching him arrive/depart They get the usual salary and bonuses ,,,,, they are lucky if they get some Khat on that event

Let them use any words they want ,,, it is just the perfect weapon of the powerless and defeated people ..........

I'm still trying to find that guy's picture ,,,,, It is not a cost effective dee ,,, people just go there and prepare for the departure/arrival and that is it ,,,,,,,,,

looooooooooool

As if ..........

better than nothing ,,,,,,,

looooool ,, u can't wait right ?

Walee yaabnay

looooooooool ,, That is me dee ,,, JB

As i said many times: "A bunch of losers with a PC and internet connection"

We are concerned about bugland's collapse ,,, it is our neighboring country and any insecurity will have an impact on the other's ,,

you can forget about the source and focus on the issue if that helps

Somaliland History

By Prof. Ahmed Al-Azhari Somaliland passed the most important and difficult phase on the way to reaching its founding principles of peace, stability, democracy and nation building to get full recognition. We have convinced and shown practically to the UN, AU, EU, IGAD, and other International Community that we are a nation and that we have taken our fate in our own hands and we have framed and established a state on which we can live and build an everlasting future for our beloved people. For the past 17 years the international community have adamantly refused to accept our claims and our assertions. For that long period, the people of Somaliland witnessed an enormous amount of suffering and economic hardships because of lack of international recognition and the ban of our livestock which is the backbone of our economy by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States. For that long period our people were trapped in the worst prison of poverty; many died and many more are sick. The former South African president Hon. Nelson Mandela said: “In this new century, millions of people in the world’s poorest countries remain imprisoned, enslaved and in chains. They are trapped in the prison of poverty. It is time to set them free.” He was right, Somaliland is one of those poor countries who havenot received any development programmes and any loans because of lack of International recognition. It is the right time to set Somaliland free and recognize it as an independent state to get access to international development programmes. Prime minister Gordon Brown said, “Now as never before, we have within our grasp the means to eliminate the abject poverty once and for all”. Honorable Prime minister if your government recognizes Somaliland, we can eliminate the abject poverty from our people because our country is rich. The former UN secretary general Mr. Kofi Annan said, poverty denies children their dignity, endangers their lives and limited their potential. Conflicts and violence rob them of a secure family life, betray their trust and hope. With the childhood of so many under threat, our collective future is compromised. Yes, Somaliland with its voice, with its votes, with its peace, democracy and stability, with its hard work, we can really make poverty history. Somaliland believes a better world is possible if the International Community have the will to recognize Somaliland. If the present trends and refusal continue it will be inhuman. Our government, our opposition parties and all our people, We all stand united for full recognition. By all our great efforts, all our sacrifies, and by all the anguish and strain through which our people passed, our people were expecting to see the reward and outcome of their glorious achievements which is full recognition. Our peoples’ desire is not a hope. It is not a wish. It is a keen pulsating desire. It is definite, we now have no other choice, to achieve it. Our people have burned all their ships and valuable things and they cut all sources of retreat no turning back. We got a vision and we see it that one day Somaliland will be recognized and all Somalilanders will live out the true meaning of their greed. The road is very rough and the load is very heavy, we have a definite target and we have to reach it, from hell to sky we shall ever turn back. Prof. Ahmed Al-Azhari

Written by: Shamis Hussein Reviewed by: Bashir Goth Given the deluge of writings prompted by the war on terrorism or the Clash of Civilizations as some may like to believe, I could have easily dismissed the above title as another cliché of one of the countless hordes of Muslim apologetics and Al-Qaeda sympathizers who see light in every crime committed by Muslim extremists and evil intention in every action that comes from the West. But one thing that enticed me to flip through the pages of the book before I even committed myself to seriously reading it let alone reviewing it was the author’s name: Shamis Hussein, a Somali woman’s name. It is therefore the idea of a Somali woman taking on the neo-conservative heavyweight thinkers and modern scholarly connoisseurs such as Bernard Lewis, Samuel Huntington, Francis Fukuyama and Charles Krauthammer to mention only a few that raised my curiosity. Another catching point was the author’s claim of objectivity in an innovative way by describing herself as being a daughter of a judge imbued with an egalitarian background and a strong sense of law and justice. Equally appealing also was the way she set the tone for her ensuing argument with a classical Somali poem that vividly describes the disastrous results of arrogance, which in the author’s eyes is symbolized by Bush-Blair alliance against the Muslim world. “Oh men, pride brings disaster; let that be remembered,” says the poem, ending with a resounding prophesy: “…Watch silently, Muslims, and see how those who prosper lose their souls.” The fact that she described her work as a modest contribution of a“ Female, Somali, Muslim, African, Arab affiliated and British citizen,” in that order with her British citizenship coming at the end, did not escape my attention as well. Shamis opens her arguments with a premises that all wars in the 21st century must have been presumably fought in search of justice and equality, but she quickly asserts that “…each age presents its strata of domination…”, leading to wars ending up in economic and cultural domination, citing colonialism as an example and affirming Africa’s poverty as a legacy of such policy of domination. She claims that the sense of justice for all, responsibility, equality and the sharing of world resources that are the soul of free market economy have been torpedoed by an urge for subjugation of the weak by the powerful through their exclusive clubs such as the IMF, the World Bank and others. In her attempt to refute what she calls “The Fallacy of Islamophopia”, Shamis presents a panoramic view of recent and distant history of the Islamic civilization and sheds light on the West’s historical quest to rob and confiscate Muslim culture and wealth. In current history she puts Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Somalia and other hotspots as part of the West’s old war of domination and struggle for supremacy against the Muslim world. She argues that bringing Islam into the equation and launching wars to stem out the threat of Islamic fundamentalism against Western civilization was nothing but a façade aimed at glossing over the centuries-old monopolistic objectives of the West against the Muslim world. Shamis showcases the closure of the Somali Barakat Hawala (money transfer company) after 9/11 despite the USA’s failure to provide evidence on the company’s involvement in financing terrorism, as a classic example of an imperialistic policy of eliminating the rivalry of a successful Muslim money transfer company against the Western Union, questioning, “…what makes someone’s financial bodies legitimate and others’ illegitimate.” On Iraq, she advances the idea of what she calls Bush-Blair war was purely to plunder Iraqi’s oil and cultural wealth. She quotes Blair as saying, “…why we must never abandon this historic struggle in Iraq…the wealth of that potentially rich country, their wealth, their oil.” She also quotes Wolfowitz: “…let us look it simply. The most important difference between North Korea and Iraq is that economically we just had no choice in Iraq. The country is swimming in oil.” In Palestine, Shamis accuses Israel of coaching Western countries by denigrating the Palestinian struggle for liberation as “…a threat to democracy and against western values.” She claims that the Jews had enjoyed their full rights during the heydays of the Islamic civilization after centuries of Greek and Roman persecution. “…You have the old undercurrent of the original anti-Semitism still lingering in those European countries,” she reminds the Jews. She cites that in Andalusia Jews had the rights to practice their religion and had high-ranking political representations. “…Indeed Judaism and its Hebrew language developed their ‘golden age’ under aegis of Islam. Hebrew acquired its first grammar, the Torah its jurisprudence…” She therefore tacitly accuses Israel of using Islamic fundamentalism card as a deception to garner Western sympathy, describing it as “…hasha geela cunta ee haddana cabaada (The she camel that bites camels yet screams for help). She cites Christian figures within the Palestinian struggle to support her argument of Islam not being part of the Palestinian liberation agenda, concluding, “…Therefore, what is most disturbing is not only to disguise the Palestinian plight as Islamic Jihadist, but also to lump it with the new war of terrorism and the Al Qaeda mystic, of the post cold war phenomenon.” Under this context, Shamis conveniently ignores Islamist groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad who are bent on destroying the state of Israel on religious grounds. Shamis devotes the chapter “Who Civilized Whom?” to disprove Bush-Blair’s hackneyed string of justifications of protecting western values against the barbaric forces of Islamic fundamentalism. She makes a sweeping survey of the ancient and Islamic civilizations of the Middle East to show how the region always led the whole world in cultural civilization and tolerance. Apart from the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, the Sumerians, Babylonians and the Assyrians, Shamis demonstrates the cultural, architectural and commercial wonders built by the enlightened Islam of the Abbasid and Ummayad Dynasties, the Fatimids, the grand Mamlukes and the Ottoman Empire. Comparing Islam’s cultural superiority, peaceful co-existence, accommodation of other faiths such as Judaism and Christianity during its heydays with current western arrogance and confrontational policies on the basis of religion, Shamis presents one of her strongest arguments by accusing the west of cultural exhaustion and backwardness contrary to their bravado about superior values: “…the revisionism of religious battles of old, within or between faiths, is displaying an exhaustion of modernity and a reversal of civilization; a civilization based on combustion and continuity, in which no group has the monopoly of righteous claim for its totality. It is a dangerous venture of backwardness to evoke religious paradigms and faith-based confrontations in the twenty-first century. “To pick up Islam as the new enemy in the place of then Warsaw Pact is a rather obscure venture, partly because there is no Islamic empire to overthrow, as was the case during the Ottoman reign,” she writes. She even lashes at what she believes is the western media’s lopsided freedom of press that only serves to fuel existing cultural prejudices, “…paradoxically, when some of the western media air programmes that criticize both Arabs and other ethnic communities, those acts are to be seen as freedom of press but, when it is from the other side of the fence, it is propagated as hate incitement and threat to the ‘national security’”. In her defense of Islam’s treatment of women, Shamis falls into the same conventional trap of name-calling and accusing critics of lacking sufficient knowledge of Islam by subscribing to the conventional conspiracy theories. “To suggest that Islam is a religion that oppresses women is either lacking knowledge of Islam or in a position of ultra motives or selective bias against Islam or all three,” She laments. In wrapping up her polemic, Shamis extends her unequivocal support for Islamic militancy or terrorism, depending on one’s interpretation of the issue, by asserting that it was historically urban terrorism and guerrilla warfare that eventually defeated colonialism and that neo-imperialism would not be any different. She also accuses Israel of trying to do to the Palestinians what the Christian Byzantium and Hitler did to the Jews, “…no nation can be easily extinguished,” she warns them. Shamis equally derides the Americans that “…the hanging of Saddam Hussein echoes when the crusades use to return with the heads of Turks,” reminding the readers of Bush’s “…crusade war” gaffe. In general, one gets the feeling that despite the complex issues that it attempts to cover; the book lacks a central theme and a coherent voice and style. The different chapters do not have a common thread and appear as a patchwork of opinion pieces or impressions written in a hurry and propped up with sketchy research and one-sided anecdotal quotations. Although it fails to live up to its weighty and provocative title, the book provides useful albeit scattered and unrelated historical facts to the patient reader. The author also deserves admiration for her ambition and conscientious intellectual awareness of the ongoing cultural debate. By Bashir Goth.

A new governor for Sool region who will chew in Garowe ,,,,,,,,,,, no problem for that

did you ?

Many commentators have attributed Puntland’s on-going collapse to rampant corruption and mismanagement. This is correct, but it does not tell the whole story. In our humble opinion, Puntland is collapsing because from its very inception, it was built on two unsustainable principles: greed and lies. Greed When Puntland was being established in 1998, it had two choices, with some people advocating that it should stick to the traditional clan borders of ******teenya, while others argued for a more expansionist entity which included incorporating the ***** inhabited areas of Sool and Sanag, supporting Gen. Morgan’s takeover of Kismayo, capturing Mogadishu and once that is achieved then whipping Somaliland into submission. The advocates of this latter vision won the very short debate and Puntland was declared on that basis. So, from the very beginning, Puntland’s orientation was directed towards outside conquest and not towards achieving internal development. It was indeed a bold and audacious vision, and many Puntlanders were dazzled by the prospect of their clan lording it over other Somalis one more time. Nobody asked: is it in our interests to alienate Somaliland, Kismayo and Mogadishu at the same time? Nobody asked: Are our interests served better by embarking on external military adventures or focusing on developing our region. Lies An important part of the unwritten understanding between Puntland’s leaders and its people (through their representatives), was that the leaders would focus on bringing all the territories of the former Somali Republic under Puntland’s control, and in return, Puntland’s leaders would have free reign and would rarely be bothered with questions about anything else. In other words, Puntland’s public officials were given a blank check, as long as they were seen as pursuing the expansionist agenda. It is this blank check, or license, that encouraged a culture of constant lying by Puntland’s public officials. It does not seem to matter to Puntland’s officials that nobody believes their lies. For instance, when Las Anod’s pro-Somaliland forces kicked Puntand’s military from Las Anod, Puntland’s leaders kept repeating that it was not Somaliland alone that defeated them but an alliance between Somaliland, Eritrea and the Islamic Courts, never mind the fact that Somaliland has good relations with Ethiopia and no relations with Eritrea or the Islamic Courts. Again, when Puntland’s people held demonstrations in which they protested against the huge rise in food prices and the printing of false money, Puntland’s leaders said the shadowy hands of Somaliland, Eritrea and the Islamic Courts are behind the printing of false money in Puntland, even though one had to be living in a cave somewhere in Bosaso not to know the exact the names of the people printing money faster than most people in Bosaso can earn an honest penny. Consequences When Ethiopian troops took over Mogadishu and Abdillahi Yusuf was finally ensconced in Villa Somalia, many Puntlanders celebrated and looked at it as a dream come true. Finally, Mogadishu was in their hands. Finally, their time has come. But Puntland celebrated a bit too early, for soon it was clear that although they thought they had achieved a decisive victory, in reality, they were bogged down in a brutal, intractable conflict, a cesspool of death, blood and tears. It is this realization that Puntland’s dream of conquest has turned to dust that led to the disillusion of Puntland’s people with their leaders. That is not to say the bitterness and anger in Bosaso, Garowe, Galkayo has nothing to do with the deteriorating living conditions, but it is to say the deteriorating living conditions are the effect and not the cause. The cause is Puntland’s expansionist orientation which gave license to their leaders to engage in costly military adventures that brought economic ruin to Puntland and earned it the animosity of Somaliland, Mogadishu and Kismayo. Solution As it is, the downward spiral of Puntland may be irreversible. Still, to improve the awfully small chance of avoiding total collapse, it is imperative that Puntland get to the root-cause of its problem by scrapping the Faustian bargain of military expansion in return for a free license to engage in illegal activities that it had made with its leaders, and get new leaders with a strict mandate to attend to Puntland’s problems and eschew external involvements. This is the only approach that has any chance of success. Time will tell if Puntland has the wisdom to change course or if it will continue in that same doomed route. Source: Somaliland Times

Traditional Leader Sentenced to Five-Year Prison Berbera (The Rep) – The Regional Court of Berbera sentenced Traditional Leader Boqor Rabi Yusuf Abdullahi to a five-year prison on Wednesday. The Traditional leader was accused of Treason for attending the Mogadishu Reconciliation Conference organized by the TFG of Somalia. The Regional prosecutor presented to the court written and recorded evidence that Boqor Rabi had committed acts of treason against Somaliland during his attendance of the Conference. The prosecutor said; “We have a letter sent by Boqor Rabi to Abdullahi Yusuf requesting payment of expenses incurred for holding conferences inside Somaliland to encourage people to attend the Mogadishu Conference.” On December 6, 2007 the Traditional leader was arrested by Police and Immigration Officers while trying to sneak into Somaliland by using false passport under another name at the port of Berbera. The sentence was based on the Resolutions by the legislative, which was renewed by the House of Elders in July 2007 warning all Somaliland citizens not to attend the conference in that anyone who attends the Mogadishu conference will be considered as committing an act of Treason against Somaliland. Boqor Rabi said that he was not satisfied with the verdict and that he will appeal.’ Jamhuuriya Online

I don't take a note of what i do for the people ,,,, can't remember what is your plans for the weekend ??

I'm not married to the dead ,,,,,, If there is no other Somalia then Somaliland doesn't need anyone as long as it exists. Yes we existed without the regocnition.

I wouldn't call that name anyone from Somalia ,,,, nobody expected that Muqdisho will one day refuge to Hargeisa though