ICU's Accomplishments Tops 2006 Good News....

[Koronto91]

The Top Ten Good News Stories Of 2006:

Putting aside for a moment the misery of war that afflicts the Muslim world, we have found some bright spots where good things happened in the Muslim world in 2006.

1. Somalia Tastes A Moment Of Security And, Yes, Prosperity:


For the first time in 15 years, you could walk safely and freely down the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia's largest city, without fear, according to the New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, and Democracy Now. Mogadishu's one million plus residents, accustomed to living in one of the world's most dangerous cities, suddenly found themselves basking in the calm of safety. "Before, women were kidnapped, raped, killed and tortured," said businesswoman Hakima Mohamud Abdi, 52, in late June. "Now we've seen a great change and we're very satisfied." That's because Mogadishu's thuggish warlords and their private armies were finally gone.

Defeating them was the Islamic Courts Union, a network of traditional courts supported by clans and the business community. ICU members had individually established law, order, and security since the late 1990s. Despite the specter of a very bloody conflict on the horizon, life in Mogadishu was intriguing and — compared to the warlording 1990s — fabulous.

With the taxation and corruption that accompanies modern, central governments gone (because the central government itself had vanished), Somali free enterprise and initiative thrived. The new order of law and security had boosted confidence, spurring a construction and business boom. Private schools and colleges opened. Mogadishu University celebrated two Somali firsts: a graduating class of nurses and the launch of an MBA program. Unlike most African countries, which usually have one badly-run government-owned airline, Mogadishu airport offered no less than six private airlines. Without telecom regulation, Somalia reportedly had the best phone and internet service in East Africa. Mogadishu had about a dozen internet cafés. DHL provided international postal service. The ICU cleared Mogadishu's streets of debris and trash, the first time that occurred in over a decade. The UN announced that Somalia had the highest rate of immunization since 1991. And, the full were feeding the hungry. With the deleterious hand of the World Bank absent, Somalia may have had the lowest rate of extreme poverty in Africa — no small feat. Moreover, despite long years of conflict, Somalia still has one of the lowest rates of AIDS in Africa.

Unfortunately, the international community led by the United States predictably acted to quash what they perceived to be a Taliban avatar and Al-Qaeda puppet in Somalia (a perception contributed to by the wayward activities of the ICU's hotheaded youth wing). The ICU itself challenged that view in two letters to Washington. ICU leader Sharif Ahmed insisted to the New York Times that the Taliban was not his model and that, contrary to Western media reports of draconian ICU measures, the ICU supported World Cup soccer. "We are a Muslim people, we want to live in a peaceful way, we want to live with the rest of the world in a peaceful way," Ahmed told the Times. "We are not terrorists and we do not associate with terrorists."

Some Western voices called for engagement with the ICU. "It would be wrong," Mario Raffaelli, the Italian special envoy to Somalia, told the Washington Post, "to target all [of the Islamic Courts Union] as extremists." "The Islamists aren't going away," incoming House Subcommittee on Africa chairman Donald M. Payne (D-NJ), told the New York Times on December 14, "so the sooner we talk to them, the better."

Instead, the last year saw Washington arming and funding Somalia's terrorizing and narco-trafficking warlords (a page from the Afghan strategy book). ICU militiamen defeated the American-backed warlords in June. By December, American general John Abizaid green-lighted Ethiopia to invade Somalia as a proxy. Somalia's brief, fascinating experiment in peace and prosperity, its Prague Spring, had come to a hasty end.

Note: the Ethiopian invasion of Somalia as we went to press forced us to change from the present tense to the past tense. Uncertainty and mayhem have unfortunately returned to much of Somalia.

Source: http://www.eng-forum.com/News/Dec06/301206.htm

[galia]

The UIC was the best thing that happned to somalia, too bad that they are gone and i hope they come back ASAP

[Koronto91]

They will be back when the people are ready to rid themselves of injustice, ignorance & Qabyaalad. Until then, Somalia's fate will continue to be hazy.

Nothing happens without a reason and there are no coincidences in life.

[galia]

I agree with u Koronto91, its up to the somali people what they want, if they want peace and unity they should say NO to qabil and throw away the traitors that use Qabil.

Believe me wen i say that Abdiqeybdid has no respect amongs sacads no more, infact he is on a hit list, we hve distanced ourselfs from that fool.
I suggest other somalis to distance themselves from the fools that claim to represent dem.

[Cilmiile]

Doqonkii Koronto weli ma Daalin Abees buu daba socdaa.

[*Arabman]

Kudos to the Islamic Courts Union.

Allahu Akbar.

[Koronto91]

Enters Cilmiile the drunkard pedophile...

You tired of watching kiddie porn & decided to jump in to my thread?

[Koronto91]

[quote="*Arabman"]Kudos to the Islamic Courts Union.

Allahu Akbar.[/quote]


Long Live Sh. Shariif!

Allahu Akbar.

[Midhisho]

You know what I dont like Cilmiileyar the fag either , but there is only one thing I hate more than faqash like him and thats moryaans hutu's playing good muslims.

I remember the period ICU that the power , everything was so barbaric.
Who would sentence people to be knifed to death by relatives of victims ?
fukn moryaans stay where you are and never show your ugly black ass north of Galkayo .

[Koronto91]

Midhisho,

You obviously have no clue about what you write! Why embarass yourself?

[galia]

Midhisho walahi u r stupid

[Cilmiile]

[quote="Koronto91"]Enters Cilmiile the drunkard pedophile...

You tired of watching kiddie porn & decided to jump in to my thread?[/quote]

Koronto

A Somali wadaad has recently been taken to jail for officiating at the wedding of 40 year old beardo who married a 10 year old baby.

Wahaabi wadaads are the biggest pedophiles and bigamists, Are u sure u want to make these accusations?

As long as Cabdulaahi Yuusuf and Dr Geeddi are in power no Somali girl will be allowed to marry some disgusting old geezer like Koronto's filthy and syphilitic father hero Daalin Abees

Young Somali girls will be wearing khaki pants and yellow shirts like the old Siyaadd uniforms and going to school and train to become doctors and lawyers. They will play basketball, volleyball and football not become the sexual playthings of lecherous bastards like Daalin Abees and the foolish Turki.

Instead of young somali girls being abused by Pedophiles like Daahir Aweys and Xasan Turki you Koronto will be the one who will be abused. You will be taken to Guantanmo and raped in the arse like your Ogaadeen cousin who lost his mind after being repeatedly raped in the ohio jail.

[*Arabman]

Cilmiile, what if you are mistakenly or intentionally convicted of terrorism and sent to Guantanamo or an Ohio penitentiary?

[Koronto91]

Cilmiile,

You are an old fart bag who lives in San Francisco, everyone on this site knows that you are a pedophile and a possible homosexual!

Abdullahi Yusuf & Geedi are both Zenawi's personal bytches, how can bytches defend anyone? When they aren't busy tending to Zenawi's perverted demands, they are busy with getting their hair done & buying short-sleeved suits...

"Wahabi" Islam is here to stay & continue kicking @ss.

We do not tolerate pedophiles, homosexuals, bytches & she-males.

As for anyone sending me to Guantanamo, that is just an old man's wishy-wash.

[galia]

Ciimale shut the fcuk fool, remove that ethiopian guus from ur mouth NIGGER.