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Hey, Abdiwahab: Given your brilliant skills as a writer and your experience in Somalia in the early nineties, why don't you write your memories about those days? I always wanted to hear the story from the Somali point of view. We have Mad Mac on the American/UN side and you in the Somali side. Wouldn't it be great to tell stories about those days in both sides? I'd love to read them

By the way, the cars from the United Nations had written in their doors UNO. And the Somali technicals had written DOS on them? What does that mean? I mean, I found it funny, because UNO in Spanish means ONE, and DOS means in Spanish TWO...

[quote="AbdiWahab252"]Cawar: U mean it belonged to the 9.5 million Somalis.

I was just enjoying my rental. [/quote]

AW...no it belonged to us...thats HG mentality in the classical way...

Thinking that every Land cruiser owner must have somehow stolen from the government...but remmeber there were legitimate business men who earned their money....unlike you who stole it...who am I kidding you stole evrything even from your own pockets.

Cawar: Did I tell u how I met my first USC ?

It was in late one night 1989 in Xamar on the beachside road to Liido. Our vehicle was stopped, a Black Landcruiser VX with government plates (borrowed from my father's minister friend). There was a check point manned by these young men who were wearing SNA uniforms. They were actual USC who had infilitrated Xamar and were conducting campaigns to harass the Afweyne regime. They would steal vehicles to be used in the USC campaign.

One of the men recognized my father's face. He ordered the USC to let the car go but warned my father NOT to travel at night ever again along this road. He ended up being a Sacad cousin of mine who knew my uncle, a Galkacyo elder.

Kamal: I am working on a script for a movie. It will protray life in Somalia during the civil war: (starts off in the wilds of Mudug where the character Abdi is orphaned and joins the USC to the UN incidents to the Makhamaads etc_

"There was a check point manned by these young men who were wearing SNA uniforms. They were actual USC who had infilitrated Xamar and were conducting campaigns to harass the Afweyne regime."


So the USC was killing people in SNA uniforms to make it look like government atrocities?

Abdiwahab. It sounds like great news. I was involved in the early process of production of an European movie about Somalia that finally failed. It was going to be the story of a British-Somali journalist who was killed in the events around 'The Maalinti Rangers'. But the producers soon realised that, after the unfamous 'Black Hawk Down', another movie about Somalia would be a failure. That was the reason I joined S-Net in those days: I wanted to meet someone who knew the story from the Somali side.

Good luck with your script. Is it in great develope by now? It would be great to hear stories here from the Somalis who were involved in those events from 1989-1994...

I'm agree with Mad Mac: khat is really bitter for my taste. I tried three or four times, but I never got high on khat. The only effect was as though I would have drunk a hundred of coups of tea at once: nervous. I prefer Jack Daniel's to relax. Cognac is pretty good for the taste, specially if you mix it with coffee...

Good old days were the days Hawiyee people used polish our shoes

Kamal: Thats too bad. Inshallah, a Somali version will be released in the future with actual video footage of the fighting.

the good old days when I use to punk haze's ass..

Mystic

Great post!

Normally i would agree with you totally: great old days suuucked big time. But there are places in which there was indeed `Great Old Days' Somalia is one - there was indeed great old days there in the 70s and early 80s. Sun, sand, sea, peace, beauty and pride by the bucketload.

Just imagine being a somali kid and knowing without questioning; that you as somali is higher by the sheer birth of somaliness - than anything else that God ever bothered to create - man or beast. Now most Somali kids are ashamed of being Somali arent they?

I saw Iranians acquainatances who also talk nostalgically about their good old days. So I think there are indeed good ol' days in some places. But not in the West.

Here in England we have these old codgers who go on about "the good ol days when the neighbours dropped in for tea and people left their doors open." In fact the neighbours dropped in to steal the cutlery and the doors has to be left open to let the stink out and boy was there stink? Imagine English peasants unwashed ever with no toilets and rotten teeth stuffing their faces with semi-cooked congealed blood called Black pudding and cheap beer; farting through the night in windowless hovels!

No wonder the doors had to be left open!

galol yeah, those were the days allright..

Mystic

You cant reminsce. You are too young!

Here in England we have these old codgers who go on about "the good ol days when the neighbours dropped in for tea and people left their doors open." In fact the neighbours dropped in to steal the cutlery and the doors has to be left open to let the stink out and boy was there stink? Imagine English peasants unwashed ever with no toilets and rotten teeth stuffing their faces with semi-cooked congealed blood called Black pudding and cheap beer; farting through the night in windowless hovels!

No wonder the doors had to be left open!

Awesome!

^^^^ how dare u insult the english ..!!

BTW people when i talk about the good old days, i mean when i was i child when everything was fresh and new and exciting..!!

when their was no such as crime (except the time i stole some walkers crisps at a genral store ) rape, muder in our littel world..!!

have u people really forgot your youth..!!

aah the good old days ........!!!

im sorry if i sound a bit naive...... but who the hell are the usc and sna??