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ERITREA to the RESCUE: Troops & Arms to head to Somaliya
Asmara, Talaado, July 25, 2006 Waagacusub.com
Dowladda dalka Ereteria, waxay sheegtay inay diyaar u tahay inay Ciiddamo u soo dirto gudaha dalka Somalia, iyadoo ka dabaaqtamaysa Kumanaanka Ciiddamadda Ethiopianka ee haatan ku sugan gudaha dalka Somalia.
Afhayeenka Wasaaradda Arrimaha Dibedda ee dalka Ereteria, ayaa waxa uu sheegay inay diyaar u yihiin inay Ciiddamo u soo diraan dalka Somalia, maadaama aysan jirin qoddob u diidaya inay Ciiddamadaasi soo diraan, wuxuuna Afhayenku ku dooday inay Dowladda Ethiopia kumanaan Ciiddamo ah u soo dirtay iyadoo aan fasax rasmi ah ka haysanin Golaha Ammaanka ee QM iyo Ururradda kale ee Midowga Afrika iyo Urur-gobaleedka IGAD.
Afhayeenka, waxa uu tilmaamay inay Urur-gobaleedka IGAD waqti hore ku heshiiyeen inay Ciiddamo Nabad-ilaalin ka socda IGAD u soo diraan dalka Somalia, waxayna taasi horseeday inay Dowladda Ethiopia ciiddamo u soo dirtay Somalia iyadoo aan fasax ka qaadanin Dowladaha kale ee Gobalka.
Afhayeenka u hadlay Wasaaradda Arrimaha dibedda ee dalka Ereteria, waxa uu carrabka ku dhuftay inay Ciiddamadooda tegi doonaan Goballo ka tirsan dalka Somalia, waa sida uu hadalka u yiri, wuxuuna Afhayeenku ka gaabsaday inuu sheego Tiradda Ciiddamadda ay u soo dirayaan iyo Xilliga ay soo gaari doonaan gudaha dalka Somalia.
Dhinaca kale, Dowladda Federalka, waxay horey ugu eedeyeen Dowladda dalka Ereteria inay Tababar, hub iyo maalgelin siiyaan Midowga Maxkamadaha Islaamka, iyadoo Madaxweynaha DFKMGS, Md. C/llaahi Yuusuf sheegay inay boqolaal Ciiddamo Ereterian ah ku sugan yihiin Magaalladda Muqdishu, oo ay Maxkamadaha kala qeybgaleen dagaalladdii ay kala hortageen Dagaal-oogayaashii xubnaha ka ahaa Isbahaysigii guuldareystay ee Argagixiso-la-dirirka.
Xeeldheerayaasha, ayaa waxay saadaaliyeen inuu dalka Somalia noqon karo dhul ay Ciiddamo ka kala socda dalalka Ethiopia iyo Ereteria mar kale ku dagaalamaan, iyadoo la og yahay inuusan wanaagsanayn xiriirka labadaasi dal, waxaana Ciiddamadaasi dhex maray dagaal lagu hoobtay oo dhacay sannadihii 1998-dii ilaa iyo sannadkii 2,000.
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Xasan Dahir Aweys oo soo dhaweeyay hadii Dowladda Eretrea Ciidamo u soo dirto Soomaaliya
Guriceel, Isniin, July 24, 2006 (Waagacusub.com)
Sheekh Xasan Dahir Aweys oo ah hogaanka ugu sareeya dhinaca kulanka Maxaakiimta Islaamka ayaa shaaca ka qaaday inay soo dhaweeynayaan hadii Kaalmo Melleteri ay u fidiso Dalka Eretrea,inkastoo uu sheegay inuusan waxba ka ogeeyn go-aanka ay arrintaas ka gaartay Dowladda Eretrea.
“hadii ay Eretrea kaalmo noo fidineeyso waanu soo dhaweeyneeynaa" ayuu yiri Sheekh Xasan oo tilmaamay in Soomaalida abaal badan ku leedahay dhinaca Eretrea ,marka la fiiriyo Jabhadii la dagaalami jiray Itoobiya ee Eretrea.
Sheekh Xasan waxaa uu sheegay oo kale in maamulka Addis Ababa ka taliya ee Tigreegga ah ay gacan siin jirtay Soomaaliya ,taasina sabab u ahayd Asbaabta ay u afgambiyeen dowladii jirtay ee Itoobiya uuna Madaxda ka ahaa Mingiste Xeeyla Maryama.
Sheekh Xasan oo suÂ’aalo badan Telefoonka kaga jawaabayay isagoo ku marti ahaa Barnaamijka Doodaha ee Idaacadda 95:00 FM ee SIMBA ,ayaa Sheekhu sheegay in dagaal lagu qaadi doono dalka Itoobiya Ciidamadda ka joogo Soomaaliya ,hadii aysan sida ugu dhaqsiyaha badan uga bixin goboladda Somaliya ee ay soo galeen.
Dhinaca kale Korneyl Dahir Aweys wuxuu ku tilmaamay Maamulka Cabdilahi Yusuf danaha Soomaaliyeed,marka ay noqoto dhinaca Nabad Raadinta,wuxuuna ku tilmaamay Cabdilahi Yusuf nin leh Taariikh madoow dhinaca shacbigga Soomaaliyeed oo u baahan inuu Mustaqbalkiisa hagaajisto
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Dowladda dalka Ereteria, waxay sheegtay inay diyaar u tahay inay Ciiddamo u soo dirto gudaha dalka Somalia, iyadoo ka dabaaqtamaysa Kumanaanka Ciiddamadda Ethiopianka ee haatan ku sugan gudaha dalka Somalia.
Afhayeenka Wasaaradda Arrimaha Dibedda ee dalka Ereteria, ayaa waxa uu sheegay inay diyaar u yihiin inay Ciiddamo u soo diraan dalka Somalia, maadaama aysan jirin qoddob u diidaya inay Ciiddamadaasi soo diraan, wuxuuna Afhayenku ku dooday inay Dowladda Ethiopia kumanaan Ciiddamo ah u soo dirtay iyadoo aan fasax rasmi ah ka haysanin Golaha Ammaanka ee QM iyo Ururradda kale ee Midowga Afrika iyo Urur-gobaleedka IGAD.
Afhayeenka, waxa uu tilmaamay inay Urur-gobaleedka IGAD waqti hore ku heshiiyeen inay Ciiddamo Nabad-ilaalin ka socda IGAD u soo diraan dalka Somalia, waxayna taasi horseeday inay Dowladda Ethiopia ciiddamo u soo dirtay Somalia iyadoo aan fasax ka qaadanin Dowladaha kale ee Gobalka.
Afhayeenka u hadlay Wasaaradda Arrimaha dibedda ee dalka Ereteria, waxa uu carrabka ku dhuftay inay Ciiddamadooda tegi doonaan Goballo ka tirsan dalka Somalia, waa sida uu hadalka u yiri, wuxuuna Afhayeenku ka gaabsaday inuu sheego Tiradda Ciiddamadda ay u soo dirayaan iyo Xilliga ay soo gaari doonaan gudaha dalka Somalia.
Dhinaca kale, Dowladda Federalka, waxay horey ugu eedeyeen Dowladda dalka Ereteria inay Tababar, hub iyo maalgelin siiyaan Midowga Maxkamadaha Islaamka, iyadoo Madaxweynaha DFKMGS, Md. C/llaahi Yuusuf sheegay inay boqolaal Ciiddamo Ereterian ah ku sugan yihiin Magaalladda Muqdishu, oo ay Maxkamadaha kala qeybgaleen dagaalladdii ay kala hortageen Dagaal-oogayaashii xubnaha ka ahaa Isbahaysigii guuldareystay ee Argagixiso-la-dirirka.
Xeeldheerayaasha, ayaa waxay saadaaliyeen inuu dalka Somalia noqon karo dhul ay Ciiddamo ka kala socda dalalka Ethiopia iyo Ereteria mar kale ku dagaalamaan, iyadoo la og yahay inuusan wanaagsanayn xiriirka labadaasi dal, waxaana Ciiddamadaasi dhex maray dagaal lagu hoobtay oo dhacay sannadihii 1998-dii ilaa iyo sannadkii 2,000.
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Xasan Dahir Aweys oo soo dhaweeyay hadii Dowladda Eretrea Ciidamo u soo dirto Soomaaliya
Guriceel, Isniin, July 24, 2006 (Waagacusub.com)
Sheekh Xasan Dahir Aweys oo ah hogaanka ugu sareeya dhinaca kulanka Maxaakiimta Islaamka ayaa shaaca ka qaaday inay soo dhaweeynayaan hadii Kaalmo Melleteri ay u fidiso Dalka Eretrea,inkastoo uu sheegay inuusan waxba ka ogeeyn go-aanka ay arrintaas ka gaartay Dowladda Eretrea.
“hadii ay Eretrea kaalmo noo fidineeyso waanu soo dhaweeyneeynaa" ayuu yiri Sheekh Xasan oo tilmaamay in Soomaalida abaal badan ku leedahay dhinaca Eretrea ,marka la fiiriyo Jabhadii la dagaalami jiray Itoobiya ee Eretrea.
Sheekh Xasan waxaa uu sheegay oo kale in maamulka Addis Ababa ka taliya ee Tigreegga ah ay gacan siin jirtay Soomaaliya ,taasina sabab u ahayd Asbaabta ay u afgambiyeen dowladii jirtay ee Itoobiya uuna Madaxda ka ahaa Mingiste Xeeyla Maryama.
Sheekh Xasan oo suÂ’aalo badan Telefoonka kaga jawaabayay isagoo ku marti ahaa Barnaamijka Doodaha ee Idaacadda 95:00 FM ee SIMBA ,ayaa Sheekhu sheegay in dagaal lagu qaadi doono dalka Itoobiya Ciidamadda ka joogo Soomaaliya ,hadii aysan sida ugu dhaqsiyaha badan uga bixin goboladda Somaliya ee ay soo galeen.
Dhinaca kale Korneyl Dahir Aweys wuxuu ku tilmaamay Maamulka Cabdilahi Yusuf danaha Soomaaliyeed,marka ay noqoto dhinaca Nabad Raadinta,wuxuuna ku tilmaamay Cabdilahi Yusuf nin leh Taariikh madoow dhinaca shacbigga Soomaaliyeed oo u baahan inuu Mustaqbalkiisa hagaajisto
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good news, like i said arabs are watching this situation very closely, amxaaro will be now pushed back, they are now to scared to invade somalia, and trust me their wont come any war, atleast not yet, and if it comes to war amxaaro knows that it will lose this war, somalis are now beeing needed than used, and i hope that these glorly days will bring somalis only closer, although this battlefield will be played in to somalia, and that eritirea is going only out for their own interests, but it doesnt really matter, we rather want to work with those, than those who are keen on oure divisions, and like oure leaders said this war could reach addis ababa
SOMALIA HAA JIIRTO
ERITIREA HAA JIIRTO
DEATH TO AFBIJO AND THE TFG
DEATH TO AMXAARO
SOMALIA HAA JIIRTO
ERITIREA HAA JIIRTO
DEATH TO AFBIJO AND THE TFG
DEATH TO AMXAARO
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[quote="Xplosive"]Its kind of sad that Somalis are forced to do the dirty work of Xabashis. Wadaads will have to accept any kind of support that they can get even if its coming from the traditionally anti Islamic government of Eritrea.[/quote]
""even if its coming from the traditionally anti Islamic government of Eritrea""
Xplosive,
There are times when the adage "My enemy's enemy is my friend" comes handy, and this is one of those times. Eritrea is fifty fifty Muslim/christian and the Muslims can deal with that, but the current situation dictates alliance/interest with forces with the same enbemy. Besides, Somalia assisted Eritrea when they needed help, it's now our turn.
""even if its coming from the traditionally anti Islamic government of Eritrea""
Xplosive,
There are times when the adage "My enemy's enemy is my friend" comes handy, and this is one of those times. Eritrea is fifty fifty Muslim/christian and the Muslims can deal with that, but the current situation dictates alliance/interest with forces with the same enbemy. Besides, Somalia assisted Eritrea when they needed help, it's now our turn.
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theres nothing 2 be proud of here.
what you have to realise is that they will both be fighting in our country it will be our innocent people dying, and eriteria is only after their interest, eriteria waa gaalo, and dont care about somali people.
theres no point the goverment and courts both using different countries who'r actaully enemies 2 fight their battles for them, ruining our countries and killing our people.
what you have to realise is that they will both be fighting in our country it will be our innocent people dying, and eriteria is only after their interest, eriteria waa gaalo, and dont care about somali people.
theres no point the goverment and courts both using different countries who'r actaully enemies 2 fight their battles for them, ruining our countries and killing our people.
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sur-lugooyo afbijo waa naacas naacas dhaley and he does not represent majeerten people his only after his interests.
uic waa sheiqs if they so religious why they using non muslims to fight their battles, doesn't this mean it's not jihad anymore, because it gaal and muslim verses another gaalo.
hows that jiihad.
and how can we trust eriteria?
uic waa sheiqs if they so religious why they using non muslims to fight their battles, doesn't this mean it's not jihad anymore, because it gaal and muslim verses another gaalo.
hows that jiihad.
and how can we trust eriteria?
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[quote="Somaliman%"]sur-lugooyo afbijo waa naacas naacas dhaley and he does not represent majeerten people his only after his interests.
uic waa sheiqs if they so religious why they using non muslims to fight their battles, doesn't this mean it's not jihad anymore, because it gaal and muslim verses another gaalo.
hows that jiihad.
and how can we trust eriteria?
[/quote]
So, are you telling me that Majerten are against his flawed policies? It is rooted in the Somali culture if one person is on a self destructing path, his kins are expected to intervene and guide him to the right path. But here we have an MJ elder heading towrds the destruction of a nation and a country and his kins, instead of holding him responsible, they are drumming and routing for him. You don't have to look far, you can find plenty of them in this medium. As for the UIC, well, let's just say Eritrea is not a Christian county but a mixture of fifty-fifty and they are facing a stronger adversary, any assistance is welcome no matter.
uic waa sheiqs if they so religious why they using non muslims to fight their battles, doesn't this mean it's not jihad anymore, because it gaal and muslim verses another gaalo.
hows that jiihad.
and how can we trust eriteria?
[/quote]
So, are you telling me that Majerten are against his flawed policies? It is rooted in the Somali culture if one person is on a self destructing path, his kins are expected to intervene and guide him to the right path. But here we have an MJ elder heading towrds the destruction of a nation and a country and his kins, instead of holding him responsible, they are drumming and routing for him. You don't have to look far, you can find plenty of them in this medium. As for the UIC, well, let's just say Eritrea is not a Christian county but a mixture of fifty-fifty and they are facing a stronger adversary, any assistance is welcome no matter.
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The Tigrayan-dominated regime that seized power in Ethiopia in 1991 at first agreed to the secession of Eritrea in 1993, which ended the world's longest-running civil war and met longstanding Eritrean aspirations for nationhood. Eritrean rebel forces had, in fact, cooperated with their Tigrayan counterparts during long years of struggle to overthrow the military regime of Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam. But Ethiopia's claim to Eritrea, which had previously constituted its entire coastline, would not be so rapidly resolved. It flared into battles along seemingly-insignificant stretches of desert border, fuelled by Tigrayan expansionism and a desire to recover strategic access to the Red Sea. Very quickly, the largest land war in Africa was underway, and it resurrected the pattern of former Ethiopian campaigns against Eritrean rebels during the 1970s and 1980s. Massed armies of undertrained Ethiopian conscripts were flung into the teeth of fortified Eritrean positions; the number of killed is probably in the low tens of thousands at the time of writing. In recent warfare, the Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict is probably matched only by the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s as a World War One-style meat-grinder. In mid-1999, the distinguished war correspondent David Hirst described one of the bloodiest battles of the war:
Nearly two months after the battle of Tsorona, the bloodiest yet of this desert "border war," Ethiopian soldiers still lie unburied on the baking plain, just metres from Eritrean trenches. A fifth of Eritrean combatants are women. "I was born in Addis Ababa [the Ethiopian capital]," said Agib Haile, aged 21. "Ethiopians are my friends. It was horrible." The horror was less in what Eritreans themselves suffered than in what they inflicted on the enemy. The Ethiopian commanders' strategy was simple. Deploying tens of thousands of barely trained recruits along a 5km front, they drove them forward, wave upon wave, with the aim of blowing them up on minefields until they had cleared a path to the Eritrean front line for better trained infantry, mechanised forces and armour. ... It didn't work: the soldiers hardly raised their weapons, but linked hands in communal solace in the face of certain death from mines, the trenches, perfectly aimed artillery and their own officers, who shot them if they turned and ran. This was the horror of which Ms. Haile and her companions spoke, of mowing down the horde till their Kalashnikovs were too hot to hold.
Hirst adds that the present Ethiopian regime is "a thin democratic facade for a Tigrayan supremacy that was even more extreme than that of the Amharans" under the old Ethiopian military regime. "Tigrayans dominated the administration, security services, police and army. ... It was Oromo peasants who were selected as human minesweepers, and Tigrayan officers who shot them from the rear. Yet the TPLF [Tigrayan People's Liberation Front] showed hardly less contempt for its own people. Local Tigrayan villagers were pressed into that suicidal train, and many Tigrayan soldiers died in tanks." (Hirst, "Ethiopia strikes out for the sea," Guardian Weekly, May 30 1999.) Conscription policies thus overlapped with ethnicity, class, and other variables (notably age), the standard pattern the world over. The result in the Ethiopian/Eritrean conflict is mass killing that, if not gendercide strictly viewed, must still be seen as a profoundly gender-selective slaughter -- one of the worst of the post-World War II era, in fact. This is especially true in that, as with the Iran-Iraq conflict, the Ethiopian/Eritrean war has been confined so far to thinly-populated border areas, and has not swept up large numbers of civilians in the killing -- apart from the young men press-ganged as minesweepers and cannon fodder. (The Eritrean military is the only one in the world that conscripts women into active combat service, but casualties have been much lower on the Eritrean side, as Hirst's account of the Tsorona battle suggests.) (Update: In June 2000, after renewed fighting that saw a rearmed Ethiopia make major gains, the two belligerents agreed to a ceasefire. The border issue, however, remains unresolved.)
Ethiopia
Military branches:
Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF): Ground Forces, Air Force
note: Ethiopia is landlocked and has no navy; following the secession of Eritrea, Ethiopian naval facilities remained in Eritrean possession
Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 14,568,277
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 8,072,755
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$595.9 million (2000 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
4.4% (2000 est.)
Eritrea
Military branches:
Army, Navy, Air Force
Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 893,361
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 555,553
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$520.1 million (2000 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
30.7% (2000 est.)
I n__ t h e___ l a s t__ w a r__ b e t w e e n___ E r e r t r e a___ a n d ___e t h i o p i a___ 125,000
The Tigrayan-dominated regime that seized power in Ethiopia in 1991 at first agreed to the secession of Eritrea in 1993, which ended the world's longest-running civil war and met longstanding Eritrean aspirations for nationhood. Eritrean rebel forces had, in fact, cooperated with their Tigrayan counterparts during long years of struggle to overthrow the military regime of Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam. But Ethiopia's claim to Eritrea, which had previously constituted its entire coastline, would not be so rapidly resolved. It flared into battles along seemingly-insignificant stretches of desert border, fuelled by Tigrayan expansionism and a desire to recover strategic access to the Red Sea. Very quickly, the largest land war in Africa was underway, and it resurrected the pattern of former Ethiopian campaigns against Eritrean rebels during the 1970s and 1980s. Massed armies of undertrained Ethiopian conscripts were flung into the teeth of fortified Eritrean positions; the number of killed is probably in the low tens of thousands at the time of writing. In recent warfare, the Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict is probably matched only by the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s as a World War One-style meat-grinder. In mid-1999, the distinguished war correspondent David Hirst described one of the bloodiest battles of the war:
Nearly two months after the battle of Tsorona, the bloodiest yet of this desert "border war," Ethiopian soldiers still lie unburied on the baking plain, just metres from Eritrean trenches. A fifth of Eritrean combatants are women. "I was born in Addis Ababa [the Ethiopian capital]," said Agib Haile, aged 21. "Ethiopians are my friends. It was horrible." The horror was less in what Eritreans themselves suffered than in what they inflicted on the enemy. The Ethiopian commanders' strategy was simple. Deploying tens of thousands of barely trained recruits along a 5km front, they drove them forward, wave upon wave, with the aim of blowing them up on minefields until they had cleared a path to the Eritrean front line for better trained infantry, mechanised forces and armour. ... It didn't work: the soldiers hardly raised their weapons, but linked hands in communal solace in the face of certain death from mines, the trenches, perfectly aimed artillery and their own officers, who shot them if they turned and ran. This was the horror of which Ms. Haile and her companions spoke, of mowing down the horde till their Kalashnikovs were too hot to hold.
Hirst adds that the present Ethiopian regime is "a thin democratic facade for a Tigrayan supremacy that was even more extreme than that of the Amharans" under the old Ethiopian military regime. "Tigrayans dominated the administration, security services, police and army. ... It was Oromo peasants who were selected as human minesweepers, and Tigrayan officers who shot them from the rear. Yet the TPLF [Tigrayan People's Liberation Front] showed hardly less contempt for its own people. Local Tigrayan villagers were pressed into that suicidal train, and many Tigrayan soldiers died in tanks." (Hirst, "Ethiopia strikes out for the sea," Guardian Weekly, May 30 1999.) Conscription policies thus overlapped with ethnicity, class, and other variables (notably age), the standard pattern the world over. The result in the Ethiopian/Eritrean conflict is mass killing that, if not gendercide strictly viewed, must still be seen as a profoundly gender-selective slaughter -- one of the worst of the post-World War II era, in fact. This is especially true in that, as with the Iran-Iraq conflict, the Ethiopian/Eritrean war has been confined so far to thinly-populated border areas, and has not swept up large numbers of civilians in the killing -- apart from the young men press-ganged as minesweepers and cannon fodder. (The Eritrean military is the only one in the world that conscripts women into active combat service, but casualties have been much lower on the Eritrean side, as Hirst's account of the Tsorona battle suggests.) (Update: In June 2000, after renewed fighting that saw a rearmed Ethiopia make major gains, the two belligerents agreed to a ceasefire. The border issue, however, remains unresolved.)
Ethiopia
Military branches:
Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF): Ground Forces, Air Force
note: Ethiopia is landlocked and has no navy; following the secession of Eritrea, Ethiopian naval facilities remained in Eritrean possession
Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 14,568,277
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 8,072,755
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$595.9 million (2000 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
4.4% (2000 est.)
Eritrea
Military branches:
Army, Navy, Air Force
Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 893,361
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 555,553
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$520.1 million (2000 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
30.7% (2000 est.)
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which mj is rooting for him, are u talking about his sub sub clan after mj, ofcourse they would they're like his cousins am talking about his laaf not mj as a whole mj waa daad baadan who have differences, we have supported abdulahi yusuf as the leader of somalia, but bringing ethopia into our country is not something we take lightly or we will support. it doesnt matter whos bringing them. this isnt a qabil issue anymore.
have you not listened to the bbc lately most of the mj members of parliament are opposed to the idea not just jamac ali jamac and jini boqor but also an cumer maxamud who was ex somali prime minister.
have you not listened to the bbc lately most of the mj members of parliament are opposed to the idea not just jamac ali jamac and jini boqor but also an cumer maxamud who was ex somali prime minister.
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