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^ you were both right here is a very interesting piece by the new york observer regarding the conflict of interest of the writer of that piece of propoganda. it appears she has financially benefited directly from the invasion of afghanistan and has put $millions into her coffers as a direct result of the occupation of afghanistan. and it would also appear that the TALIBAN have condemed this practice/incdident an excerpt from the below article critiquing the propoganda peice: Meanwhile, in a story light on specifics, there remains some question as to whether the unnamed Afghan judge who ordered Aisha's mutilation qualifies as a "Taliban commander" in any formal sense. And if Aisha's is the face of the notoriously cruel Taliban justice system, the Taliban aren't taking credit. A Taliban press release on August 7 condemned the maiming as "unislamic" and denied that the case was handled by any of its roving judges — to whom many Afghans are now turning, distrustful of Karzai officials. The entire thesis of the article is complete and utter fabricated bovine fecal matter. even if it were true this ignorant practice of disfiguring women is not and connot be justification for occupying a country .. and if it is it raises two questions 1- this happened 8 years into the occupation so if they cannot prevent their whole reason for occupation what good is it ? 2- unfortunately this practice takes place all across the globe are they willing to send their armies .. where ever this happens ? have a good read With Its Horrifying Cover Story, Time Gave the War a Boost. Did Its Reporter Profit? The maimed face of 18-year-old Aisha, her nose and ears cut off as punishment by her Afghan husband for fleeing his home, made the cover of Time magazine last week and changed the debate over the country's military involvement in Afghanistan. Hitting stands just as a growing chorus of pundits and lawmakers had begun to question the costs, the goals and the point of the country's longest war ever, the gut-punch cover image, beneath a stunningly blunt coverline conspicuously missing a question mark — "What Happens if We Leave Afghanistan" — and accompanying story by Aryn Baker, the magazine's Afghan/Pakistan bureau chief, gave a boost to supporters of America's continued military involvement in the country. But there was more than a question mark missing from the Time story, which stressed potentially disastrous consequences if the U.S. pursues negotiations with the Taliban. The piece lacked a crucial personal disclosure on Baker's part: Her husband, Tamim Samee, an Afghan-American IT entrepreneur, is a board member of an Afghan government minister's $100 million project advocating foreign investment in Afghanistan, and has run two companies, Digistan and Ora-Tech, that have solicited and won development contracts with the assistance of the international military, including private sector infrastructure projects favored by U.S.-backed leader Hamid Karzai. In other words, the Time reporter who wrote a story bolstering the case for war appears to have benefited materially from the NATO invasion. Reached by The Observer, a Time spokesperson revealed that the magazine has just reassigned Baker to a new country as part of a normal rotation, though he declined to say where. While Baker, traveling in Italy, did not respond to Observer.com's request for comment, Time defended its cover story as "neither in support of, nor in opposition to, the U.S. war effort" but rather a "straightforward reported piece." Time added that "Aryn Baker's husband has no connection to the U.S. military, has never solicited business from them and has no financial stake in the U.S. presence in Afghanistan whatsoever." But two years before his wedding to the Time bureau chief, Samee told Radio Free Europe in 2006 that Digistan — apparently the local arm of an international IT operation, run from a villa in Kabul — was discovering for itself that the "opportunities are definitely here" in the telecom field, thanks to "quite a bit of involvement from ISAF [NATO's International Security Assistance Force, commanded until recently by Stanley Gen. McChrystal] and coalition forces." The same year, he told Entrepreneur: "You won't find another place that offers so many opportunities" and the AP that profits "have been higher than I expected." Three years later, Digistan was advertising for sales staff skilled in "Government and Military Procurement," reflecting the company's connection to the cloudy world of NATO-enabled civilian wartime contracts. Baker announced her engagement to Samee in a September 24, 2008, e-mail to friends. "Stop the Presses!!" had become the subject line by the time I received the forward from a succession of mutual acquaintances (we were J-school classmates at Berkeley a decade ago). She said the two had been dating "since last July, when we went hiking on a trip together through the Afghan Pamirs," and invited recipients to an engagement party in Central Asia. "For those of you not in Kabul," she added, "we will be sorry to miss you, but we also understand that travel to a war zone may not be in your plans." Two months later, the ceremony itself was held in Baker's native L.A. For her work in Central Asia, which has included surviving the 2007 attack on Islamabad's Red Mosque by the Pakistan army, Baker has been praised by her boss Rick Stengel, who gushed to Marketwatch last November, "If I were President Obama, I'd ask Aryn Baker what she thinks. She's dazzling." When the war started, Samee, then working as a manager for a telecom firm in northern Virginia, had followed what investigative journalist Pratap Chatterjee, author of Halliburton's Army, calls a typical pattern for Beltway-area members of the Afghan diaspora, whose involvement was encouraged by the Pentagon. Nothing nefarious about it, Chatterjee says, but "there was a lot of money to be made." A Time spokesman claims that Digistan has been defunct for 18 months and that Samee had entered the sandwich business. But online evidence suggests the company was in operation much longer and that Samee's stake in NATO involvement in the country goes deeper. For instance, Digistan's sister company, Ora-Tech Systems, still lists an office in Kabul, and Digistan remains listed in the directory of the Peace Dividend Marketplace, an approved list of government contractors that an NGO founded in 2007 to identify trustworthy partners in a business environment where as much as $10 billion in the hands of Afghan officials has reportedly gone missing. Much of the work is for civilian agencies. According to the listing, Digistan's clients have included the IMF and GTZ, a Frankfurt consulting group that advises the Afghan government's Export Promotion Agency. Business owners join the list in order to profit from an "Afghan First" policy issued by Gen. McChrystal a few months before his departure. According to the Peace Dividend's Kabul director, former Canadian army Col. Mike Capstick, the Peace Dividend Marketplace list is where officials in the U.S. Department of Defense contracting system turn when deciding where to spend $1 billion a year on Afghan businesses. Scott Gilmore, the former U.N. national security diplomat who founded the Marketplace, praised Digistan's work — "Those guys are great," he said — and told Observer.com that any company on the list was "still kicking around" in the last six months, as his group works hard to keep their directory current. Samee lists his chairmanship of Digistan on his LinkedIn profile and on a public Facebook profile, which cites his current place of business as Beruit and until this week showcased a photo of his wedding to Baker. Before her marriage to Samee, Baker — who worked as a Paris pastry chef before entering journalism — was reporting for Time on "hardy strain of entrepreneurs" — including at least one Digistan client, bank founder Hayatullah Dayani. Though she never profiled Samee, she wrote about his acquaintances. One was Rory Stewart, a Scottish diplomat, author and former Iraq administrator for the Coalition Provisional Authority who had once crossed Afghanistan on foot. She dubbed him, in a glowing 2007 profile, "Stewart of Afghanistan." Stewart, a dashing figure who wears lamb fleece hats like Hamid Karzai's and has inspired a Hollywood screenplay with Orlando Bloom attached to play him, is also founder of the $1.7 million arts charity Turquoise Mountain, of which Samee is a sponsor. The group hires engineers to restore Kabul's historic districts. The charity's activities have included an art contest that a U.N. press release issued in July claimed was "created through a brainchild of President Hamid Karzai and Britain's Prince Charles" (whose sons Stewart tutored). Stewart later wrote a July 2008 cover story for Time, "How To Save Afghanistan," recommending, among other things, that the Karzai government be given the money it seeks for communications infrastructure. Baker and Samee, courtesy Facebook Even if Baker's husband has pulled up stakes in Kabul's IT market, as Time asserts, he's still listed as one of just six board members on a Karzai government minister's $100 million project to create, according to its mission statement, a "flourishing investment environment" in Afghanistan. Known as Harakat (or in English as AICF, the Afghanistan Investment Climate Facility), the group issues grants for lobbying projects to change laws and expand the availability of credit. It is run by U.K.-educated Suleman Fatimie, who has recently served in a number of Kabul government posts. Karzai's Ministry of Commerce still lists Fatimie as chief of the Ministry of Commerce's export promotion agency. Created with $50 million in British aid money, the group is actively seeking an extra $50 million in private funds. While on the board of Harakat, Samee has been a featured guest at a number of business and aid forums in Kabul and beyond. One exclusive affair, highlighted by Foreign Policy as "the only [Afghanistan conference] you really want to go to...and sorry, you're not invited," was off-the-record and headed by Obama Afghanistan-Pakistan policy chief Richard Holbrooke. Meanwhile, Digistan appears to have earned healthy profits. One of Samee's former employees, tech salesman Shah Afghan, boasts on a LinkedIn resume of bringing in $1.2 million for Digistan between 2006 and 2008. An "elite" portfolio of customers, Afghan notes, include Kabul Bank — whose reputation for lawlessness has fueled demands by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Karzai clean up corruption, and which embodies, according to the Washington Post, "a crony capitalism that enriches politically connected insiders and dismays the Afghan populace." Put the Taliban back in charge, and many such contracts will likely begin to dry up. The Aisha story marked a last hurrah for Baker's time in Afghanistan. On July 10 she and her husband reportedly held a going-away party, though the reporter's husband is still pursuing business opportunities in Afghanistan. Another bash, six days later, celebrated the launch of Samee's organic-branded sandwich business, Tazza, "the new tasty, healthy and safe catering kitchen in Kabul." A party invitation welcomed an elite guest list to their home in the city's central district, promising a "secured residence." And what about Aisha, a new war emblem? While it's long been evident that women have suffered unimaginable horrors under customs practiced in Afghanistan, Aisha's brutal mutilation occurred in 2009, almost eight years into the American invasion. Meanwhile, in a story light on specifics, there remains some question as to whether the unnamed Afghan judge who ordered Aisha's mutilation qualifies as a "Taliban commander" in any formal sense. And if Aisha's is the face of the notoriously cruel Taliban justice system, the Taliban aren't taking credit. A Taliban press release on August 7 condemned the maiming as "unislamic" and denied that the case was handled by any of its roving judges — to whom many Afghans are now turning, distrustful of Karzai officials. In the long run, the NATO-backed president, Hamid Karzai, may not be the friend Aisha and other persecuted Afghan women so desperately need. Last August he signed the Shia Personal Status Law, allowing men to starve wives who withhold sex and to punish those who walk outdoors without permission. Under this law — passed by a parliament that is 25 percent female as mandated by the new Afghan consitution — Aisha's decision to leave home would have been considered a crime. UPDATE: A Time spokesperson requested that we print their statement in full. Here it is: "These assertions are completely untrue; Aryn Baker's husband has no connection to the U.S. military, has never solicited business from them and has no financial stake in the U.S. presence in Afghanistan whatsoever. TIME fully stands by our recent cover story, and as is made clear in the editor's letter—and from the reading of the actual piece—the story is neither in support of, nor in opposition to, the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan; it is a straightforward reported piece about the women of that country." Story

Ramadan kareem yaa reer SOL and to somali muhammed

This terrorist label is getting out of hand, now every group who is legitimately opposed to this puppet of a government gets caught in this situation. The damn Americans are too ****** to realize that this whole 'We are fighting terrorists' has become a joke .. a sort of con among puppet regimes .. when they wish to extract a few billion from uncle sam. the word has lost all meaning .. any two groups that disagree on anything are throwing it around now. and these innocent civilians have to suffer for it.

^ Good Catch. waryaa Prometheus nifaaqa jooji ... the ladies have a problem with the topic of discussion .. while you are only interested in delegitmising ahadith and promoting gaalnimo. dont hide behind them .. gaalnimada banaanka la soo istaag .. so that you may get your just reply.

Hi Ibti. all is well walaal, socod lama gadhin .. just started guur-guurasho. how have you been ? troll section waad cidlaysay Malika I tried but it was futile .. it was like a strip club with city limits

^ waxaan ku maqnaa sin city for a conrence. indhahaba iskuma qaban .. i've never seen so much skin in my life .. acuudubilaah waa aduun kale

Maalin wanaagsan reer Troll. just got back home .. dhowr maalmood hurdo dayn ah la igu leeyahay !

The heat here in Vegas is oppressive 44 degrees Celsius.. the hotel im in and the one where the conference is being held are next to each other .. the few meters walk between them you think your being roasted alive. reminds me of jabuuti during the xagaa bax season

The iPhone has legitamate drawbacks that are a result of Apples bone-headed decisions. for example the non-replacable battery which has been a basic feature of mobile phones since they were invented. As soon as you have a battery problem the whole phone is paper weight. The lack of a standard USB port, lack of Flash support. the design flaw in their new iPhone4 .. with the antenna issues. when making trade-offs in the design of their phones .. they sacrifice form for function. The App store which is completely controlled by Apple and make arbitrary decisions on what apps get approved and what does not. there are some good things about the iphone though , the multi-touch screen, tight integration with itunes, the enormous amount of free apps, the browser etc. The android based phones have the opposite problem .. there are so many forks of the base andriod system that some apps are not interoprable between different driod phones .. it is a chaotic app market where there is no central control. iPhone does deliver a pretty good integrated environment overall .. the browser is great .. if you are not interested in the tech details an iPhone is a pretty good phone.

The following is excerpts from the patent disclosure document. A significant and unfulfilled need of human lifesaving proportion presently exists in the field of preventing suicide bombing attacks altogether. What is needed is a personally controlled suicide bomb deterrent which presents as defensive, rather than offensive, in nature, design, and implementation, incorporates a preemptive methodology of deterrence, rather than reactionary, to be utilized before, rather than after, a first suicide bombing has occurred, in operational pursuit of protecting and preserving all human life, potential bombers and intended victims alike In accordance with one embodiment, the present invention as claimed is a manufactured device of self-defense designed to preemptively warn and deter the potential fanatical religious suicide bombing terrorist from otherwise detonating an explosive charge in close proximity thereto, comprising a frangible retention envelope containing material including porcine derivative, which is affixed to a substratum of solid yet frangible material imbued with porcine derivative. An operational warning notice adorns the front of said substratum, disclosing capability of said device to effectively deliver a retaliatory consequence in self-defense against a suicide bomber detonating an explosive charge in close proximity thereto to break down this flowery technical language .. what this patent is talking about is a packet of pork or a pork derivative that is frangible (will break up into fragments)combined with a big warning sign .. to the potential suicide bomber .. informing him/her of the contents of the packet. something like: " Beware suicide bomber .. we have a frangible pork based defense system .. if you blow yourself up .. you will get bacon bits all over yourself ... having second thoughts ? ... That's what we thought " and this will prevent said suicide bomber from detonating himself/herself for fear of getting some of the pork product on his/herself and this "device" is to be placed in areas where there exists a potential for said suicide bombing. this is not satire I assure you ... some bufoon actually believes this will prevent a suicide bombing .. I bet he was watching an old vampire movie and he thought to himself .. garlic repels vampires and pork repels Muslims .. ergo I should come up with a pork based defense system what has me amazed is that .. filing a patent application is a lenghty, complex and expensive process that involves patent attorneys etc. did nobody see how ridiculous this is .. or are lawyers really this evil.

PHOENIX, July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Mark S. Price, a specialist in public security, and his privately held company, Paradise Lost Antiterrorism Network of America ( www.plan-a.us ), have recently applied to the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a Utility Patent on their Suicide Bomb Deterrent, a security device designed, manufactured and distributed by PLAN-A. This device has been designed to warn and deter potential fanatical religious suicide bomb-wielding terrorists from otherwise detonating an explosive charge within close proximity of said device, to the intended end of successfully accomplishing its namesake purpose of Suicide Bomb Deterrent and the protecting and preserving of all life and property otherwise in mortal and destructive danger. The device is presently scheduled for deployment at several high traffic public venues around the nation in order to protect America's vital transportation and critical infrastructure, and is manufactured to serve its warning and deterrent affect in all manner of placements, to include automotive, airplane, rail, residential, office, industrial and governmental concerns. A minimally redacted copy of the Patent Disclosure Document, giving full and complete details of the design and operational parameters of said device, is available for download review at the company website noted above. Mr. Price may be contacted by direct e-mail to Fat-Al@Cox.Net . Link

cowke are you aware a video is a series of moving pictures ? what you have here is a series of still pictures otherwise known as a slideshow. I regret to inform you, you have yet to produce a video

I actually carry both of them. The Blackberry is for work, and the iphone is my personal phone. Blackberry is designed to work with corprate email systems i.e Exchange it is tightly integrated with your work email.calendar/IM it is a great business phone .. you can control how many minutes are used, you can wipe the phone and lock it remotely, it is designed for the corporate environment The iphone is better for personal use it has a better browser/apps. but ive been hearing nice things about the droid phones.

Maalin wanaagsan reer Troll. maxaa isku dhacaya ?

^ .. The only way Al-shabaab would be involved if there was a jihad .. they they would have probably taken her as spoils of war i.e bounty and then being "Ma malakat yameenik" there would be no danbi involved ... mugaas habeen iyo maalina ha saarnaado haduu rabo lakin seriously, I was speaking from the point of view of their so called legal system .. and if they insist on applying this ruling to him .. they dug a deep hole for themselves .. of course I am being charitable here and assuming they would apply it even-handidly .. but knowing how sneaky the Jews are i doubt it.

That he was doomed to failure was a sure thing. The man is a spineless turncoat who would sell his soul just to temporarily be called 'madaxweyne' a cowardly puppet that hides behind African mercenaries ... who's entire government controls less than 2 square kilometers. Abdullahi amxaar comes out smelling like a rose compared to this one.

ninkaan gar-daro lagu haystaa. This woman approached him first and then had sex with him in a nearby empty office building within minutes of meeting him in a market ... somehow I doubt she needed much lying to to get into the sack. and she has the gall to cry rape .. because the false name he gave her 'implied' he was a jew. this whole thing would be comical of the poor guy didnt have to be locked up for 18 months.

I took the family to watch on IMAX a few weeks ago. pretty good movie.

This is crazy. if they start doing this ... almost everyone engages in some level of deception to this end. how far are they willing to take this ? - What if you told her you will marry her ... are you now a rapists - what if she misrepresented her age - application of makeup that disguises her true appearance and push-up bras. - how about the "I'm on birth control" is this rape too ? - what if you misrepresent your financial situation or professional or any one of the hundreds of lies that are used to grease the wheels that would make a majority of men and women rapists

Sheikh Ali Alhutheifi

kuligiin xoolo tihiin (most of you anyway) maxaan ku idhi ? .. a few weeks ago someone posted a thread about a somali model and a video iyadoo sidii habarteed ku dhashay ah (nude) ... marka runta laga sheegay ... how many defended her .. speaking out of both sides of your mouth .. "Dont judge" you said "her choice" you said ... "just because she undresses for the masses .. doesnt make her a stripper" you said. here you have pictuers, just pictues of somali muslim woman dressed modestly ... and you fall over each other to to ridicule and make fun of them. sxbkay Ngoge is a genius .. naago qaawan buu soo dhajiyay and not a single comment .. the the stench of hypocrosdy is too much. where is the xuquuqual dumar brigade , where is the do not judge brigade ? you have a problem with their support for the mujaahidin fine address that but refelect for a moment .. ask yourselves why the image of modestly dressed muslim woman raises such hatred and ridicule from you .. while you are quick to defend ... the whores and the strippers and congratulate them ? maybe your sense of moral needs re-calibration

Cowke you cannot be serous .. have you no interest other than reer hebel has the most camels, owns xawalad, has the biggest or the best xyz ? talo aan ku siiyo sxb, sidan waa lagu waashaa .. adigoon is ogayn ayaad khafiifaysaa

Cowke you cannot be serous .. have you no interest other than reer hebel has the most camels, owns xawalad, has the biggest or the best xyz ? talo aan ku siiyo sxb, sidan waa lagu waashaa .. adigoon is ogayn ayaad khafiifaysaa

^ Advice Taken.