A Chicago Tribune Presentation

[Shilling]

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[Shilling]

"a telecommunications expert in Mogadishu who began receiving the dreaded "Private Number" calls after bidding for a government contract. He asked that his full name not be used.

"They say, 'The bullet is coming' or 'Kiss your children goodbye tonight,'" Ahmed said. "Then they hang up."

"I don't recognize my people anymore," said Hawa Abdi, who runs the displaced people's camp outside of Mogadishu that was attacked by group of thugs. "I feel Somalia is lost. There is no Somalia. It is just a name."

Trained in Ukraine as a nurse, Abdi, a Mogadishu native, has managed her sprawling camp for 17 years. She squinted out over its sea of huts, domed like Native American wickiups but fabricated from scraps of trash. Even the trash looked old, tired. The camp is growing. Refugees from Mogadishu are arriving at the rate of 50 or 60 a day. Some kept on walking, nobody knew where.

Abdi put her hands gently on her head, as if her head hurt.

"You can only stay frightened for so long," she finally said. "And I am really tired of it."

Walking back to her office, she said she couldn't stay in Mogadishu anymore."

[Shirib]

Muqdisho was safe in 2006

[Cawar]

Ghost city..a dying actually a dead city indeed.

[Shirib]

Ghost city..a dying actually a dead city indeed.

Thats what they would like to turn it into, but it won't die

[King-of-Awdal]

Muqdisho was safe in 2006

And why wasnt it safe before that and dont give me the warlord crap answer. Those people down there dont want peace because if they did they would have taken things into their own hands. TFG,ICU, AL SHABAB and all the likes of em have one thing in common. they all want power at any cost.

[Grant]

It was nothing like that in 1967, either.

[Cawar]

:cry: It was nothing like that in 1967, either.

It was nothing like that in 1990.

[Shilling]

Muqdisho was safe in 2006

With such crazed Sheikh's (ex-thugs):



Sure it was shirib.

By the way, having witness who walked out of the Somali peace talks in Djibouti it should be clear to you by now who is against peace talks.

[Shirib]

Muqdisho was safe in 2006

And why wasnt it safe before that and dont give me the warlord crap answer. Those people down there dont want peace because if they did they would have taken things into their own hands. TFG,ICU, AL SHABAB and all the likes of em have one thing in common. they all want power at any cost.

The truth is warlords who controlled wealth when poor people wer just trynna get by. The same warlords who were ruthlessly killing people in 91. The same warlords who are doing the same today.

But ur reading out of the wrong handbook now and blaming all the residence of the city aren' u. Yes the residence loved the roadblocks where they had to pay money just to get to the other side of the street. Ofcourse they did.

What kinda stupid logic are u using.

[Shirib]

Muqdisho was safe in 2006

With such crazed Sheikh's (ex-thugs):



Sure it was shirib.

By the way, having witness who walked out of the Somali peace talks in Djibouti it should be clear to you by now who is against peace talks.

U don't know who the hell that guy is, so stop with the accusations.

The lady was selling illegal drugs, and she got a whipping, big deal. In the US they would jail her for 5 years. Its called law and order buddy.

There is no peace to negotiate. The time for peace was in Sudan, but the TFG brought Ethiopians, there is nothing to negotiate when u have a foreign army in the country.

[Broccoli]

We somalis have a disorder that the anarchic climate in Somalia has worsen exponentially; were staunch individuals. each and one of us thinks of himself a president, a king, an impeccable emperor. thats the core embryo to all this mayhem.

I see no ending in sight. Somalia is one big fat Fight Club.

[IRONm@N]

This Shilling guy is obsessed with Sheikhs!
Do the ICU control Mogadishu now?
they left the city 1yr ago, back then it was clean, remodeling, trash was being collected, there were no bullets, no road blocks and pirates!
Today, Abdullahi yusuf, his ethiopia soldiers and mohamed dheere are there --its worse then ever, everything good is gone, everything bad is back. even the money isn't working and TFG can't even print a new money or force the old one --ppl are starving!

so are you blinded by tribalism or hate for Islam?

[Shilling]

Shirib,

Your right I don't know who the heck that man is other then that he is whipping a lady whose crime was selling the some drug Aways and Indha-Adde (apparently the two men against the Somali peace talks in Djibouti) were selling behind close doors.

We could go on and blame each others parties, but at the end of the day you know damn well that those dying are the Somalis themselves and right now it seem that your party is deaf to Somalia's plight by walking out of the peace talks.

[King-of-Awdal]

Muqdisho was safe in 2006

And why wasnt it safe before that and dont give me the warlord crap answer. Those people down there dont want peace because if they did they would have taken things into their own hands. TFG,ICU, AL SHABAB and all the likes of em have one thing in common. they all want power at any cost.

The truth is warlords who controlled wealth when poor people wer just trynna get by. The same warlords who were ruthlessly killing people in 91. The same warlords who are doing the same today.

But ur reading out of the wrong handbook now and blaming all the residence of the city aren' u. Yes the residence loved the roadblocks where they had to pay money just to get to the other side of the street. Ofcourse they did.

What kinda stupid logic are u using.

Who were fighting for the warlords? Where were they getting majority of their funding? Unless a society wants to change itself no one will. The people in Somalia only brag and cry but dont take steps to solve their problems. Arrogance is what it is. You are blinded by the so called Al Shabab but am not cause i see it from a different angle and have no agenda here. All of the warring factions are the same to me. You blame them, they blame you. When will the cycle end. one must give in or else yall are doomed for eternity.