RECONCILIATION MEETING OPENS IN MOQADISHO!!

[fagash_killer]

MOGADISHU, Somalia (Reuters) - Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi opened a reconciliation workshop in Mogadishu on Monday designed to foster peace amid an escalating spate of guerrilla-style attacks in the volatile Horn of Africa nation.

In the latest assault, unknown assailants fired four rockets at Mogadishu port hours before Gedi began the week-long meeting with about 200 traditional leaders, plus peace and women's rights activists.

The pre-dawn rocket attack, which came from a residential area of the coastal city, was the latest in a series of almost daily strikes targeting Somali government installations and the administration's Ethiopian allies.

"Fortunately, the rockets plunged into the sea. No one was hurt and port operations are going on," Abdirahman Mohamed Warsame, in charge of security at the port, told Reuters.

Officials blame remnants of a defeated Islamist movement, which ran most of south Somalia for six months until it was ousted by a government-Ethiopian offensive over the New Year.

Some Islamist fighters have vowed a holy war.

But many Mogadishu residents fear the violence in the capital may also be due to rivalry between warlords who ousted a dictator in 1991, carving Somalia into a patchwork of fiefdoms controlled by militias.

Monday's attack came after a weekend visit by an African Union (AU) team assessing security prior to a planned deployment of peacekeepers in Somalia.

The AU team was at the port on Sunday.

Under Western and Ethiopian pressure to reach out to all parties in Somalia, including moderate Islamists and powerful clans, President Abdullahi Yusuf agreed last week to call a reconciliation conference.

His pledge triggered the release of 15 million euros ($20 million) in European Union funding for AU peacekeepers to Somalia.

Officials said the workshop in Mogadishu will pave the way for the bigger national reconciliation conference.

"I call for peace," Prime Minister Gedi said. "If we work together we can pacify this city. The Somali people's dignity depends on the outcome of this meeting."

In another development, Alamin Kimathi, chairperson of Kenya's Muslim Human Rights Forum, said Kenyan authorities were detaining two Americans among suspects accused of supporting Somali Islamists.

He said one American was of Arab descent while the other was African-American and being held with his three children at a Nairobi police station.

Kimathi said his group's investigations showed the children, two girls and a boy, were between six months and nine years old.

"The situation is very worrying because children should not be in those places," Kimathi told Reuters, adding that representatives from his group had seen the children who looked "malnourished and obviously lacking in comfort."

He said their mother died from malaria after they were arrested near the Kenyan border last month, where suspected Islamists have been intercepted while fleeing Ethiopian troops.

Kenyan police declined comment.

Human rights groups say Kenyan authorities have been making mistakes among the scores of Islamist suspects rounded up since the war, with some denied access to lawyers and medicines.

The various foreign passport-holders arrested also include four Britons and a pregnant Tunisian woman, activists say.

(Additional reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian in Nairobi)

Source: Reuters, Feb 05, 2007

[fagash_killer]

It is a good start and hope for the best especially during the process of reaching compromising results as such for the safety, security, and prosperity for Somalia. The Nation of Somalia can't wait any more they want a working Government that control all of Somalia.

[FAH1223]

lol its a waste of time

somalis can't reconcile sincerely

[kambuli]

I lost all hope although it is harraam to lose hope because Allaah SWT is always here...And he is capable of bringing Somalia to a peaceful country. Having said that, there are so many factors that are obstacles to any peace process:

1. Outside enemy who would love and enjoy to see Somalis killing each other and slaughtering each other. These enemies are but not limited to Ethiopia, countries that love to see a an anarchy Somalia so that they dump their nuclear waste, those that want to control the wealth of our country specially the oil that is sitting there.

2. Human traffickers: Those ruthless gangs that traffic humans for their organs, that is why so many children's where abouts is uncalled for. Even they kidnap young children for prostitution.

3. International Org. and NGO's that benefit only from where chaos is....

4. Those who benefit from the lawlessness..eg those who have private airoports, seaports, wholesalers like medicine where they do not care about expiration date or there is no government to check etc. Weapon dealers..

5. People who see that their existance depend on anarchy and lack of law.

6. Greedy people, who believe that either they should be the clan the president hails from or there should not be any president.

7. Tribalism as usual blinded basically every Somali although I believe some are more blinded than the others...

8. And then there is this factor (some group of Somalis) who do not want to see Mogadisho in peace.....We know who are those but I am not saying who they are...But they spend lots and lots of money to keep Mogadisho in chaos ....

With all these problems we can still make Somalia peaceful if we are human beings Are we?

[fagash_killer]

[quote="kambuli"]I lost all hope although it is harraam to lose hope because Allaah SWT is always here...And he is capable of bringing Somalia to a peaceful country. Having said that, there are so many factors that are obstacles to any peace process:


1. Outside enemy who would love and enjoy to see Somalis killing each other and slaughtering each other. These enemies are but not limited to Ethiopia, countries that love to see a an anarchy Somalia so that they dump their nuclear waste, those that want to control the wealth of our country specially the oil that is sitting there.

2. Human traffickers: Those ruthless gangs that traffic humans for their organs, that is why so many children's where abouts is uncalled for. Even they kidnap young children for prostitution.

3. International Org. and NGO's that benefit only from where chaos is....

4. Those who benefit from the lawlessness..eg those who have private airoports, seaports, wholesalers like medicine where they do not care about expiration date or there is no government to check etc. Weapon dealers..

5. People who see that their existance depend on anarchy and lack of law.

6. Greedy people, who believe that either they should be the clan the president hails from or there should not be any president.

7. Tribalism as usual blinded basically every Somali although I believe some are more blinded than the others...

8. And then there is this factor (some group of Somalis) who do not want to see Mogadisho in peace.....We know who are those but I am not saying who they are...But they spend lots and lots of money to keep Mogadisho in chaos ....

With all these problems we can still make Somalia peaceful if we are human beings Are we?[/quote]

you shouldnt lose hope and its not xaram to lose hope. and you cant only whait for the help of god its just like me saying i wont find a job cuss god will give make me rich no ofcourse not god said if you help yourself i will help you.my north western brothers and djiboutians are one of the few somalis who understood it.

no you are wrong the enemy is not ethiopia but somalis among them selves atleast ethiopia helped us two times and they are helping us again see even if the courts declared jihaad on them. i still remember somalis saying this is the end of somalia somalia will be occupied i dont see a occupied somalia do yo?

3. i agree with you but these guys are just doing their job but who is to blaim them ore somalis who kicked raped destroyed their country ore the international org?

4.maybe you should ask them why

5. yes but these ppl are the real losers and they wont come far

6.lets be honest we all believe that if your uncle was for example tribe x i can almost bet that you wouldnt blast at him as you do now. and you've some others who just look whats the best for their country so i aint got no problems if ppl support their uncle cuss of tribalism but they must be abail to explain why further.

7. i agree with you and check 6

8. i dont agree with you.


but apart of what you wrote you need to look furter than that yes their are ppl who look like that but why give them the change let them believe somalis are just like monkeys they see they do. and im impressed that alot of somalis are learning to accept the things how they are. somalis are finnaly are willing to listen to each other opnion/views etc. and their are those who use to support the courts who support the tfg now cuss they want peace i salute them. cuss we are tired of war and we need to look further we must not look back and if we do so we must know what we did wrong and what can be done better.cuss if we dont do so than we could be back at square one